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Associated Press May 4, 2023, 09:45 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — World No. 1 Nelly Korda and Lilia Vu rallied on the back nine to help the United States earn a split of its first two matches against China on Thursday at the International Crown team event. “It was pretty much a grind, but then

SAN FRANCISCO — Sweeping defined the opening day of the return of the International Crown following a five-year hiatus, to TPC Harding Park. Australia, Thailand, and Sweden all won both of their matches Thursday, earning not just two points but key tiebreakers over their opponents heading into the final two days of fourball. Here’s what

SAN FRANCISCO — Experience delivered for sisters Ariya and Moriya Jutanugarn on the first day of the International Crown. In a match against Japan’s Nasa Hataoka, 15th in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings, and Hinako Shibuno, 39th in the world rankings, the Jutanugarn tandem won 2 up in a closely contested battle at TPC Harding.

Associated Press May 4, 2023, 07:52 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A little time away from golf paid off for birthday boy Rory McIlroy. The world’s third-ranked player shot a 3-under 68 at the Wells Fargo Championship on Thursday in his first tournament since missing the cut at the Masters, leaving him three shots behind

Last week, the PGA Tour announced that the two tours feeding the Korn Ferry Tour—PGA Tour Latinoamerica and PGA Tour Canada—are merging to form PGA Tour Americas in 2024. The schedule will look relatively similar: an early year swing through South and Central America and a summer swing through Canada, but top players will be

Baxter Holmes, ESPN Senior WriterMay 4, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Close Baxter Holmes (@Baxter) is a senior writer for ESPN Digital and Print, focusing on the NBA. He has covered the Lakers, the Celtics and previously worked for The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. A COOL BREEZE blows outside the empty Cleveland Cavaliers‘ downtown

CHARLOTTE — You could be forgiven for thinking that Rory McIlroy put the PGA Tour in a bit of a pickle when he opted to skip the RBC Heritage to rest and reset after a disappointing Masters. That was the second designated event he missed in 2023, one more than is allowed for any player

And so it goes on. In the wake of the DP World Tour’s arbitration-hearing victory over LIV Golf last month, four long-standing members—Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood, Richard Bland and Ian Poulter—have resigned from the Old World Circuit. All four were in breach of the tour’s tournament release regulation and so were liable to the sanctions

9:33 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Another week, another designated event on the PGA Tour. The Wells Fargo Championship returns to Quail Hollow Club this week, after a one-year hiatus while the club prepares to host the 2023 Presidents Cup. As a designated event on the revamped PGA Tour schedule, the tournament will have a

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9:00 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Asked to describe his disappointment about missing the cut at the Masters, after he entered the first major championship of the season as a favorite in early April, Rory McIlroy offered a blunt two-word answer: “It sucked.” “It sucked. It sucked,” McIlroy said Tuesday, during his first meeting with

CHARLOTTE — When Rory McIlroy shot five under on the back nine in Wednesday’s practice round at Augusta National in April, he allowed himself a thought that he knew he should never have: This is going to be my best Masters ever. For a player who has registered seven top-10s at the Augusta National, including

Annika Sorenstam is ready to give the U.S. Women’s Open another go, saying she just couldn’t pass up an opportunity to play at Pebble Beach. The 72-time LPGA winner and 10-time major champion accepted a special exemption into the Women’s Open July 6-9, making it her 17th appearance in the championship. The USGA made the

5:11 PM ET The Houston Open is officially returning to the spring portion of the PGA Tour schedule and will be played March 28-31 in 2024, tournament organizers announced Tuesday. The PGA Tour had previously announced that the longtime tour stop would be moved back to the spring next year after it wasn’t included in

With another surgery sidelining Tiger Woods for the foreseeable future, his longtime caddie Joe LaCava has reportedly made a move that will keep him employed for the foreseeable future. At the Zurich Classic of New Orleans just two weeks ago, LaCava looped for Steve Stricker, a good buddy of Woods’ who LaCava jumped at the

3:32 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Talor Gooch became the first player to win back-to-back LIV Golf titles after a playoff hole victory against Sergio Garcia at the LIV Singapore tournament at Sentosa Golf Club on Sunday. Gooch and Garcia shadowed each other for most of the opening two rounds and the final round

If nothing else, it’s an appropriate venue. Around five months before the Marco Simone Country Club just outside Rome hosts the 44th Ryder Cup, the venue for this week’s Italian Open is doubling as the site of the latest meeting of the DP World Tour’s tournament committee. Led by the chairman, former Ryder Cup player

Keeping busy isn’t something Annika Sorenstam has struggled to do since she stepped away from her Hall of Fame career on the LPGA Tour back in 2008. In the ensuing years, she made an impact on the game through her Annika Foundation, as an entrepreneur and as president of the International Golf Federation, among numerous