2:52 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — The latest U.S. Women’s Open on the calendar will last one more day because of relentless rain that drenched Champions Golf Club and forced the USGA to suspend the final round until Monday. Hinako Shibuno of Japan, who had a one-shot lead as she goes for a second
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Patrick Reed’s bid to make history as the first American to be recast as “European No. 1” came up short at the DP World Tour Championship. Starting in a three-way tie for the lead on Sunday that would have been enough to see Reed win the season-long Race to Dubai title, the former Masters champion
Players sounded off Saturday at the U.S. Women’s Open after playing a setup some deemed unfair. Breezy and wet conditions stretched out an already hearty Champions Golf Club. Coupled with an array of pins in tucked positions and mud accumulating on golf balls, the field turned in a 74.7 scoring average in Round 3, with
6:54 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON – Hinako Shibuno passed a big test Saturday in a classic U.S. Women’s Open that put a premium on par, keeping the lead with a 3-over 74 going into a final round at Champions Golf Club that figures to be the toughest of all. Shibuno led by four shots
HOUSTON—Amy Olson’s week at the U.S. Women’s Open began with a hole-in-one in the opening round. It was just the second that she’s made in competition. Now she hopes it ends with something that’s been even more elusive: a victory—in a major no less. Making the 147th start of her career this week, the 28-year-old
6:02 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Kevin Na and Sean O’Hair teamed to shoot a 16-under 56 in the scramble format Friday to take the first-round lead in the QBE Shootout. Na and O’Hair had two eagles and 12 birdies on the Tiburon Golf Club’s Gold Course. O’Hair won the unofficial PGA Tour
The crowds are back on the European Tour. Well, one at least. While there are a few spectators—“corporate guests”—roaming the premises at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, the most congested spot on the Earth Course at the Jumeirah Golf Estates is the leader board. With one round to play in the Old World
HOUSTON—Only once in the 74 editions of the U.S. Women’s Open has an amateur won the tournament. That was in 1967, when Catherine Lacoste built a five-stroke lead through 54 holes, then shot a final-round 79 and held on by two at The Homestead. (In comparison, it has happened eight times in the men’s game,
5:30 PM ET HOUSTON — Hinako Shibuno can do without the “Cinderella” nickname, just not the smile. That was bright as ever Friday as the Japanese star posted a 4-under 67 and opened a three-shot lead going into the weekend of the U.S. Women’s Open. Shibuno’s lone mistake on a damp, soft day at Champions
HOUSTON—Megan Khang enters this weekend at the U.S. Women’s Open in a tie for third and just four strokes off the lead of Japan’s Hinako Shibuno. A victory would be the first of her career after she turned pro five years ago. That’s hardly the most incredible part of her story. To say that the
12:38 PM ET American Patrick Reed carded a superb eight-under-par 64 in the second round to take a two-shot lead over Matthew Fitzpatrick at the European Tour’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai on Friday. After an opening round of 70 on Thursday that left him three shots behind overnight leader Victor Perez, 2018
The 78-year-old former Open Championship winner experienced sharp pain in his stomach in late November while working with his course design company in Scottsdale on the reopening of Troon Country Club. He followed up with doctors at home in Montana, where CT scans revealing a legion in his pancreas. Weiskopf went for more tests at
Perhaps more than any other sport, golf went on just fine without fans when it made its return in June. In fact, at times it seemed like a better viewing experience without the galleries, particularly at the Masters, where we got to see angles and corners of Augusta National usually hidden by the mass of
7:40 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Amy Olson got back to under par with one swing, an 8-iron for a hole-in-one on her seventh hole Thursday, and kept right on going until she had a 4-under 67 and a one-shot lead in the U.S. Women’s Open. On a perfect day, the scores made it
HOUSTON — When Amy Olson turned pro in 2013, many expected that she’d be the next star on the LPGA Tour. That included Olson. There was good reason: In college, Olson won 20 tournaments while at North Dakota State, breaking Juli Inskter’s NCAA record of 17 titles. Seven years later, the 28-year-old is still looking
9:00 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN A day after Dustin Johnson slipped on the green jacket at Augusta National to commemorate his November win at the Masters, the U.S. Women’s Open Twitter handle posted a reminder: There’s more major golf to be played in this strange 2020 season. Accompanied by a video featuring Lexi Thompson, Annika
Jamie Donaldson isn’t the first-round leader at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. That honor belongs to France’s Victor Perez. But the 45-year-old Donaldson’s opening two-under-par 70 over the Earth Course at the Jumeirah Golf Estates has him only three shots back, tied with, amongst others, Race to Dubai leader Patrick Reed and inside
How do you recap a golf year unlike any other? In birdies? Bogeys? Trophies? COVID tests? All reasonable suggestions and perfect jumping-off points for other end-of-year lists. But sports are about people. So for this list, we’re going to re-live this most strange year through people’s words. From Torrey Pines to Augusta, from Kobe to