News

With all due respect to the rest of our annual Newsmakers list, no one made more headlines in 2020 than Bryson DeChambeau. From important happenings on the course to the mundane off of it, golf’s biggest lightning rod constantly kept fans talking. To that end, we’ve put together a list of 101 things that happened

6:22 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Matt Kuchar and Harris English took a 5-stroke lead Saturday in the QBE Shootout, opening and closing with long birdie runs for an 11-under 61 in modified alternate-shot play. “I feel like our games really fit this format well,” English said. “He does a lot of stuff

The lineup of major championship venues in 2021, aside from the traditional stop in Augusta, Ga., is not what most would be inclined to describe as inspirational. It’s not that the scheduled host courses—operative word being scheduled—are devoid of redeeming qualities. You certainly can’t complain about their respective global coordinates adjacent to water. It’s just

In addition to Tiger having his longtime caddie Joe LaCava by his side, Charlie will have Joe LaCava Jr. on his bag during the two-day PNC Championship, which begins Saturday at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando. Woods and his 11-year-old son will team together for the first time in the event formerly known as

7:08 AM ET Tiger Woods‘ early prowess as a golfer and the influence his father, Earl, had on his development are legendary. It is the stuff of books and movies, and the 15-time major champion himself has long cited his dad’s encouragement as a big factor in his success. Earl, an Army veteran, had access

It’s fair to say that 2020 encapsulated the entire Dustin Johnson Experience. When things are going good for Johnson—which is often—he can make this impossible game look impossibly easy. Even so, Johnson’s career has partially been defined not for what it is, but for what it is not, particularly at the majors. Just when the

2:09 PM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — The number of Rolex Series events on the European Tour has been reduced from eight to four for the 2021 season, with each having a prize fund of at least $8 million. The changes were announced Tuesday as the tour revealed its schedule for next season,

There are a few gaps, five tournaments and/or venues still need to be confirmed and the number of Rolex Series events has gone down to three, but the 2021 European Tour schedule, formally revealed on Tuesday, contains a minimum of 42 events in 24 countries. As many as 18 tournaments that were either postponed or

9:00 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN Seconds after Amy Olson’s birdie putt on the 18th hole of the final round of the 75th U.S. Women’s Open dropped, she pumped her right fist in the air, then picked up her golf ball out of the cup and raised her head toward the sky. On Monday, standing next

After an exciting Monday finish at the U.S. Women’s Open, the spotlight stays on women’s golf for a second straight week as the LPGA Tour gets set to host its 2020 season finale, the CME Group Tour Championship. However, it will do so without two of this year’s four major champions competing in the event

Punctuated Equilibrium (n) — the hypothesis that evolutionary development is marked by isolated episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change The idea of punctuated equilibrium, which Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge first posited in 1972, is that evolution, in fact, does not happen steadily on some uniform, predictable trajectory.

3:31 PM ET Englishman Lee Westwood was crowned Europe’s number one golfer for the third time in his career with a second-placed finish on Sunday behind compatriot Matthew Fitzpatrick, who won the European Tour’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship. Westwood won the Harry Vardon Trophy again 20 years after he first lifted it, with a

HOUSTON—In a year in which the COVID-19 pandemic dominated headlines, it was perhaps fitting that in the final major championship of 2020 another one would be written by a player wearing a mask all week, even as she played, at the U.S. Women’s Open. “Every time I practice, I usually wear a mask, so I’m

3:08 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — A Lim Kim made her first U.S. Women’s Open appearance a memorable one Monday, closing with three straight birdies to tie the record for the largest comeback and win the biggest event in women’s golf. And in the final major of this pandemic-disrupted year in sports, she won

Despite this being her first U.S. Women’s Open, Hinako Shibuno has not (yet) succumbed to the pressure of being the 54-hole leader during Monday’s final round. This was never more apparent than at the par-5 fifth hole, where she bladed her third shot over the green. There Shibuno faced an extremely difficult chip, her ball

Tiger Woods’ expectations have softened—age, and injuries, and a bout with the chipping yips will have that effect. Despite what he may say at press conferences, Woods no longer expects to contend every time he tees it up. He wants to, but it’s no longer a baseline. Because Woods doesn’t just need his game to

6:09 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. – Matt Kuchar and Harris English broke a bunch of their own QBE Shootout records in a runaway victory Sunday at Tiburon Golf Club. Kuchar and English became the first team to win the event three times, finished at 37-under 179 to break the mark of 34 under

I’m not worried about Charlie Woods. What he’s got, he’s got. Those Tiger genes aren’t going away. Just as good, there seems to be no Daddy Dearest pushing him to be something he doesn’t want to be. Tiger knows the pain that can come with fame, and so far he’s made it clear that it’s