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The Florida native arrived in Northern Ireland this week with no clubs and no clothes (got to love airline travel) and just one top-20 finishes so far in 11 starts as a rookie on the LPGA Tour. And when Pano shot a disappointing six-over 76 in Thursday’s opening round at Galgorm Castle, it looked like

Associated Press Aug 19, 2023, 07:00 PM ET OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Scottie Scheffler was feeling good enough with his short game that he was willing to take on a long shot with high risk. Just like everything else Saturday, it worked out just fine for him in the BMW Championship. In wind that gusted

In a matter of moments on Saturday, Neal Shipley was surrounded by hundreds of new friends at Cherry Hills Country Club. Hitting one of the most clutch in the U.S. Amateur will do that. On a tear after coming from 3 down to John Marshall Butler with eight holes to play in the semifinal, Shipley

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Sam Burns, battling for a spot in the Tour Championship and still in the running for the U.S. Ryder Cup team, tied Max Homa’s day-old course record of eight-under 62 on Saturday at Olympia Fields Country Club. He attributed the brilliant bogey-free effort, following two rather mediocre days at the BMW

Associated Press Aug 19, 2023, 07:51 PM ET OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Max Homa experienced the potential for disruption with betting at PGA Tour events when he said a fan yelled in the middle of his 5-foot birdie putt Saturday in the BMW Championship. Homa already was struggling with short putts on a windy day

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Associated Press Aug 18, 2023, 06:17 PM ET BALLYMENA, Northern Ireland — American player Marissa Steen scored 1-under 72 to take a 1-shot lead at the halfway stage of the ISPS Handa World Invitational on the LPGA Tour on Friday. Steen started what was a very gusty day at 2 under, made two bogeys and

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — After missing the cut at the Players in mid-March, Chris Kirk returned home to Georgia in a foul mood. With good reason. It marked the second week in a row without a win on the PGA Tour. No, seriously. He was not happy. Just two weeks after winning the Honda Classic

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — The greens on the North Course at Olympia Fields Country Club are tricky. Or so we hear. In fact, they are so diabolical that Max Homa said that they remind him of the greens at Augusta National, which we all know is the place where three putts hold a convention. We

Associated Press Aug 18, 2023, 07:26 PM ET OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Max Homa was aware of the course record at Olympia Fields, and not just because of how well he was playing Friday in the BMW Championship. He happened to see a video board just as it flashed a message that Chris Kirk was

It seems like everyone at Cherry Hills this week—even Bryson DeChambeau—has taken a crack at the 346-yard, par-4 first with a persimmon wood in honor of Arnold Palmer’s famed shot at the 1960 U.S. Open. But one of the youngest players in the field at the U.S. Amateur showed off his power from a similar

Associated Press Aug 17, 2023, 09:01 PM ET OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Rory McIlroy didn’t mind being in the rough at rain-soaked Olympia Fields, except for having trees and a bunker between him and the 17th green. And even that didn’t matter Thursday in the BMW Championship. McIlroy found the short grass only six times

CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Colo. — It is as if Paul Chang, the unexpected sensation of this week’s 123rd U.S. Amateur at Cherry Hills, has been living in an alternate golf universe. For three years, he pestered longtime University of Virginia head men’s golf coach Bowen Sargent to give him a spot on the team. Never

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — The putting woes Lucas Glover endured for a decade have been well documented by now—and well, they should be given just how beautifully he’s played over the last two months highlighted by his back-to-back victories the last two weeks. British Open champion Brian Harman was able to put a more compelling—and

Associated Press Aug 17, 2023, 03:34 PM ET BALLYMENA, Northern Ireland — Daniel Brown of England shot 7-under 64 to take a two-stroke lead after the first round of the ISPS Handa World Invitational on the European tour on Thursday. In the co-sanctioned LPGA Tour event taking place concurrently, there was a four-way share of

A former associate of Phil Mickelson has alleged Mickelson was involved in a previously unknown money-laundering investigation, according to an excerpt from a new book. In Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk, sports bettor Billy Walters details his relationship with Mickelson. Among the revelations in an excerpt of the autobiography released publicly last week

Aug 16, 2023, 10:30 AM ET Team Europe captain Luke Donald has named Italy’s Francesco Molinari as his fifth and final vice captain for next month’s Ryder Cup at Rome’s Marco Simone Golf and Country Club, the team announced Wednesday. Molinari, who made his debut in the 2010 edition when Europe regained the trophy in

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — There are some PGA Tour players who prefer to not look at a leaderboard during their round. Then there’s Cam Davis, who spent most of his 2023 season eschewing a peek at the FedEx Cup standings. At least he did so until it mattered. Which was, well, recently. Davis is one