6:02 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Lexi Thompson has some U.S. Open experience on her bag this week at Champions Golf Club, along with an entirely new set of metrics and vocabulary. Air density. Ground force. That comes from Tim Tucker, the caddie for U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau. Thompson is between caddies at
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HOUSTON—Sean Foley has taken on his share of reclamation projects (see: Woods, Tiger and Willett, Danny, among others). Now the man with the Bob Marley verse “None but ourselves can free our mind” tattooed on his arm, is in the midst of another one: Lydia Ko. Just five years ago, Ko was a tour de
1:08 PM ET Associated Press Andrea Lee has withdrawn from the U.S. Women’s Open after testing positive for the coronavirus. Lee, 22, tested negative in a pre-arrival test by the USGA last week in Dallas while playing an LPGA Tour event. She traveled to Houston and tested positive, with mild symptoms. The U.S. Women’s Open,
HOUSTON — LPGA rookie Andrea Lee has tested positive for COVID-19 and withdrawn from this week’s U.S. Women’s Open, the USGA announced on Wednesday morning. Lee, a 22-year-old from Hermosa Beach, Calif., took a pre-arrival test last week in Dallas, where she played in the Volunteers of America Classic, and tested negative. Upon arriving at
It was already the best weekend of Drew Mathews’ life, even before the final putt dropped. The then-28-year-old financial systems analyst at Lockheed Martin—a former mini-tour player—had just married his sweetheart, Amanda, and driven their entire wedding party from his home in Florida to Nashville and back. The wedding festivities had prevented Mathews from watching
7:19 PM ET PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Emiliano Grillo made birdie on half of the holes Friday on his way to an 8-under 63 that gave him a four-shot lead going into the weekend at the Mayakoba Golf Classic. The second round was delayed by one hour by heavy rain in the morning, and
HOUSTON—At just 25 years old, Jin Young Ko has already accomplished a lot in her career. In only two-plus years on the LPGA, she’s won a half-dozen titles, including two majors, captured last season’s money title and Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average on her way to being named player of the year, and
6:56 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Emiliano Grillo steadied himself with a pair of birdies over the last six holes Saturday for a 3-under 68, giving the Argentine a one-shot lead going into the final round of the Mayakoba Classic. Tom Hoge, without a win in his PGA Tour career, birdied
Woods spoke in detail about the upcoming event for the first time since the announcement, telling Golf Digest that entering the event was a joint decision and emphasizing the most important thing in Charlie’s development as a golfer: keeping it fun. “He’s a little on the chirpy side, just like I am,” Woods said, confirming
HOUSTON — Lexi Thompson will have a familiar figure on her bag at this week’s U.S. Women’s Open. Tim Tucker, who caddies for Bryson DeChambeau on the PGA Tour, will be looping for Thompson at Champions Golf Club. Brett Falkoff, who is the agent for both DeChambeau and Thompson, confirmed the news first reported by
7:14 AM ET The 151st British Open Championship will be played at Royal Liverpool in 2023 and the 2024 tournament will be at Royal Troon, golf’s governing body the R&A said on Monday. The 149th Open Championship was scheduled to be held at Royal St George’s from July 16-19 this year before it was cancelled
Tiger Woods’ Hall of Fame induction will have to wait. The ceremony for Woods, who was elected into the World Golf Hall of Fame in March, was supposed to take place in 2021. However, the World Golf Foundation announced Monday the celebration is delayed until 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic. “Moving the ceremony back
5:54 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Viktor Hovland says his nerves are a jangled mess when he gets into contention. It sure didn’t look that way at the Mayakoba Golf Classic, where he captured another PGA Tour title with another big putt at the end. Hovland saved par with a splendid
There was no press conference or social-media announcement, but last month marked the end of an incredible golf career. During his three-plus decades at Digest, Guy came to know virtually every great golfer of the past century—from Mickey Wright to Arnold Palmer to Tiger Woods—and we don’t mean over Zoom, or at a pre-tournament press
Not since 2001 has there been a year in which the golf world was so profoundly impacted by something “outside the ropes” as 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic. From the moment late in the evening of Thursday, March 12, when a stunned Jay Monahan, commissioner of the PGA Tour, announced the cancellation of the Players
6:07 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas – Angela Stanford won her home LPGA Tour event in front of her parents, closing with a 4-under 67 for a two-stroke victory Sunday in the Volunteers of America Classic. “I just haven’t had many chances to win in front of them. So to finally do it,
The final putt is usually the image we remember from a victory, especially when it’s a must-make for birdie. Viktor Hovland now has two of those on his PGA Tour résumé, the first coming last February in Puerto Rico, the second coming on Sunday in Mexico. Two birdie putts, two winning fist pumps, two huge
9:45 AM ET Former Ryder Cup player Peter Alliss, who won 31 tournaments in his career before a successful stint as a commentator in which he was referred to as the “voice of golf,” has died at the age of 89, the European Tour said on Sunday. Englishman Alliss, who was inducted into the World