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ATLANTA — Easier to follow, but not the best. That’s the verdict on the Tour Championship’s staggered start five years into the current version. In 2019, the PGA Tour introduced a handicapping system to structure the leaderboard for the 30 players who qualified for the FedEx Cup finale at East Lake. A quick reminder, FedEx

The U.S. Solheim qualification has unsettled spots remaining, with five of its nine automatic qualifying spots still on the line. This week’s CPKC Women’s Open marks the final chance for players to earn their way onto the team instead of relying on Captain Stacy Lewis to use one of her three picks on them to

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 23, 2023, 12:52 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — As Brooks Koepka awaits a decision on whether he will be chosen for the U.S. Ryder Cup squad, world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler and

ATLANTA — In 130 days, the landscape of professional golf’s two major tours could look drastically different. That’s if a framework agreement between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund goes through on Dec. 31, which commissioner Jay Monahan is confident it will. But those changes will at least have

Aug 22, 2023, 11:52 AM ET PGA Tour golfer Erik Compton is facing domestic battery and robbery charges in Florida. Police said they arrested Compton, 43, at his home in Miami on Saturday after an argument with his wife. According to Miami-Dade police, Compton and his wife were having a verbal dispute when she began

Thirty players, 72 holes, $18 million to the winner. These are stakes at this week’s Tour Championship, where the FedEx Cup champion will be crowned at East Lake Country Club in Atlanta as the PGA Tour culminates its 2022-23 season. Rory McIlroy is looking to become the first player to win back-to-back FedEx Cup titles.

To the winner goes the spoils. But the spoils that come with winning this week’s Tour Championship … well they’re the spectacular variety. Yep, that’s the payday that will go to the champion on Sunday at East Lake Golf Club. Officially, the money on the line this week in Atlanta is not tournament prize money,

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 22, 2023, 12:21 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — Even though a PGA Tour spokesperson said the tour has not seen an increase in spectators attempting to distract golfers for betting purposes, Jon Rahm

ATLANTA — The framework agreement between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has consumed so much of commissioner Jay Monahan’s schedule that there has been no spare time to actually play golf. He didn’t tee up during 33 days of medical leave he took to deal with anxiety, nor since his July

David Purdum, ESPN Staff WriterAug 21, 2023, 11:40 AM ET Close Joined ESPN in 2014 Journalist covering gambling industry since 2008 The PGA Tour said Monday that it has not seen an uptick in spectators attempting to distract golfers — potentially for betting purposes — since legal sports gambling began spreading around the nation. A

Three down, three to go. TGL, the new tech golf league created by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy announced Monday that its third of six teams will be based in Atlanta and owned by Arthur Blank, owner of the football’s Atlanta Falcons and soccer’s Atlanta United. The first season of what is being billed as

PGA Tour player Erik Compton was arrested over the weekend on felony and misdemeanor domestic violence charges. According to officials from the Miami-Dade police department, Compton and his wife were having a verbal argument on Aug. 19 at their house in Miami when Compton’s wife took out a cellphone and began recording. Compton allegedly took

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 21, 2023, 10:00 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia There’s just one more week to go in the FedEx Cup playoffs and eight days left before U.S. Ryder Cup team captain Zach Johnson announces his six

If you studied the BMW Championship leaderboard around noon on Friday—like a true Ryder Cup nut—everything seemed perfectly clear for the Americans. The five players at Olympia Fields who seemed to have the inside track for a captain’s pick were all (literally all) ahead of the three players outside the bubble, and you could imagine

Michael Rothstein, ESPN Staff WriterAug 21, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Michael Rothstein is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Rothstein covers the Atlanta Falcons. You can follow him via Twitter @MikeRothstein. Arthur Blank is now the owner of a third professional sports franchise — this time, a golf team. Blank will become owner

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — As he navigated the short staircase to the podium for his post-round press conference Sunday at the BMW Championship, Viktor Hovland tripped slightly, caught himself and laughed at his own clumsiness. It was about the only misstep he made during a record-setting afternoon defined by one of the most remarkable feats

It is a moment that will eventually be lost to time. When Nick Dunlap’s U.S. Amateur victory at Cherry Hills Country Club is recalled in the decades to come, the conversation will turn to him matching Tiger Woods as the only men to win both the U.S. Junior and U.S. Amateur. Considering there have been

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 20, 2023, 07:40 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka is going to need help to compete for the United States in the upcoming Ryder Cup in Italy. Koepka, who left the