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In many respects, it was unfortuante for the players, fans and championship that Gordon Sargent and Nick Dunlap ended up facing off on Wednesday in the first round of match play in the 123rd U.S. Amateur. Two of the best amateurs in world—Gordon Ranked at No. 1 and Dunlap at No. 9—ended up meeting so

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 16, 2023, 02:29 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia As if there wasn’t enough on the line in the final two weeks of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs, a handful of players are still fighting

LIV Golf is set to introduce a transfer window and trade deadline next season, according to a report from Sports Illustrated. The exact setup has yet to be finalized, but apparently, this was a LIV idea from the league’s inception that was scrapped for the time being. More important matters took priority, however, the concept

Aug 15, 2023, 01:30 PM ET Lucas Glover and Rory McIlroy are paired in the first round of the BMW Championship — the penultimate event of the FedExCup Playoffs — at the North Course of Olympia Fields Country Club outside of Chicago. The scramble for positioning at East Lake Country Club, site of the PGA

It doesn’t quite match the lore of Arnold Palmer coming from seven shots down to beat Jack Nicklaus in the 1960 U.S. Open, but Steven Fox and Cherry Hills are linked in the most fascinating way. In 2012, Fox was the 127th-ranked amateur in the world and the longest of long shots to seize the

Earlier this year, Golf Digest Senior Writer Joel Beall approached his editors with an intriguing tip: a golf pro named Scott Power was accused of defrauding the owner and customers of a new golf academy in Georgia. Even more remarkable, Beall learned, was that the most recent case only scratched the surface of Power’s deceptions.

Aug 15, 2023, 06:39 PM ET The 2027 BMW Championship will be played at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, N.J., it was announced Tuesday ahead of this week’s tournament at Olympia Fields Country Club. It will be the tournament’s first visit to the New York metro area. “We’re proud that Liberty can be

In a statement to Golf Digest late last week, Phil Mickelson said he “never bet on the Ryder Cup,” a reponse to an allegation made by legendary gambler Billy Walters. In an excerpt from his upcoming book, “Gambler,” Walters claimed Mickelson entertained the idea of placing a large wager on the U.S. squad ahead of

Aug 14, 2023, 11:48 AM ET Two-time major champion Lilia Vu is the new No. 1 in the women’s world golf rankings. She rose from No. 6 in the latest rankings, released Monday, after her victory Sunday at the AIG Women’s Open. Vu, a 25-year-old from California, overtook Nelly Korda, who dropped to No. 2.

Life seemed so simple last week. It was even simpler two weeks ago. When I undertook the mission of becoming the Joe Lunardi of the Ryder Cup, forecasting who’s in, who’s out, and who’s riding that bubble, I did not anticipate a week like Memphis. The FedEx St. Jude Championship is the first leg of

Following a flurry of four majors over seven weeks, the next biggest deadline on the LPGA’s calendar is finalizing the Solheim Cup rosters ahead of the trip to Finca Cortesín, Andalucía, Spain, on Sept. 22-24. Europe will post its squad after this week’s ISPS Handa World Invitational and the United States will select its team

The 2023 PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup season is down to two events and 50 golfers. After battling the brutal heat and humidity at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee, the surviving players will head to the second leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs this coming week, the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields Country Club outside Chicago.

Delayed by the June declaration that the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund are discussing the possibility of joining forces, the DP World Tour has belatedly announced its 13-month long 2023-24 schedule. In all, the former European Tour will be made up of 44 events in 24 countries across five continents, underlining the

Associated Press Aug 13, 2023, 09:36 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Megan Schofill won the U.S. Women’s Amateur on Sunday at Bel-Air Country Club, beating Latanna Stone 4 and 3 in the 36-hole final. The 22-year-old Schofill, from Monticello, Florida, is a graduate student entering her fifth season at Auburn University. “It’s definitely a dream

LOS ANGELES — When Auburn women’s golf coach Melissa Luellen has a team issue to mull over or an opinion she needs from one of her players, she says she’s got a go-to person in Megan Schofill. The 22-year-old, Luellen says, she is smart, driven, thoughtful and walks the careful line between being confident and

Lilia Vu won the AIG Women’s Open Sunday to collect her third LPGA title this year and her second major championship after winning the Chevron Championship in a playoff earlier this year. Still, she was surprised and called the six-shot victory at Walton Heath “surreal.” The 25-year-old American described it as such because, well, she’d

Associated Press Aug 13, 2023, 01:45 PM ET WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, England — American golfer Lilia Vu won the Women’s British Open to claim her second major title of 2023, taking any potential drama out of the final round by shooting 5-under 67 for a 6-stroke victory on Sunday. The 25-year-old Californian, who also won the Chevron

There’s something apropos about a player being on a heater … in August … in Memphis. That certainly describes what’s going on with Lucas Glover, who before winning last week’s Wyndham Championship was on the outside looking in for the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs. But a victory in Greensboro, N.C., extended the 43-year-old’s season