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Jon Rahm arrived at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, on Tuesday with a second major championship victory and a new green jacket. The new Masters champion admits it’s going to be difficult to refocus after a marathon week at Augusta National Golf Club. That’s life in the new era of designated events on the PGA

HILTON HEAD ISLAND — The plan was well intended. Increase the purses, get the top golfers playing together more often and the PGA Tour could ward off the threat of LIV Golf. That was August, when commissioner Jay Monahan revealed the schedule of 12 designated events worth $20 million. But the outcome, through last week’s

10:52 AM ET The PGA Tour released details of its new fall schedule, which will consist of seven tournaments from mid-September to late November with $56.6 million in purses. Winners of the seven events will earn a two-year tour exemption and entry into the 2024 Sentry Tournament of Champions, Players Championship and the majors. Winners

The PGA Tour revealed on Wednesday its plan for a re-imagined fall season that includes seven events already familiar to players/fans and will determine who keeps their PGA Tour cards for the following year. Beginning this year, only the top 70 players off the FedEx Cup points list at the end of the regular season

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — A little context, please. That was the message from Patrick Cantlay when asked Tuesday about accusations of his slow play at the Masters. Social media was ablaze Sunday with criticism of Cantlay’s pace of play at Augusta National when he was paired in the second-to-last group with Viktor Hovland. Some

9:44 AM ET Will Zalatoris, who finished in the top 10 of three of four majors last season and pulled out of the Masters just before the start of this year’s event, will miss the rest of the golf season after having a procedure on his back, he said Monday. “After careful consideration and seeking

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — By now, it’s common knowledge Jordan Spieth invests his entire life into every shot he hits. The-three time major winner was even willing to risk said life at last year’s Pebble Beach Pro-Am when he hit a 7-iron from the edge of a cliff on the eighth hole. On Tuesday

11:34 AM ET The final-round Masters showdown between eventual victor Jon Rahm and LIV Golf’s Brooks Koepka was the most-watched golf telecast on any network in five years, CBS said on Tuesday. The telecast, during which Rahm came back from a 2-shot deficit on Sunday to win his second major and reclaim the world No.

Jon Rahm’s stellar Sunday play led to a four-shot victory at the 2023 Masters and sucked out any potential drama down the closing stretch. That didn’t keep the tournament from drawing monster TV ratings. The final round averaged drawing 12.06 million viewers, which was up 19 percent from Scottie Scheffler’s win in 2022, according to

Almost 12 full years after the death of Seve Ballesteros, the mystique of the Spanish legend lives on, and you didn’t have to listen to CBS’ Masters broadcast on Sunday for very long to hear his name: This was was the 40th anniversary of his second victory at Augusta, April 9 would have been his

10:15 AM ET Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Paolo Uggetti AUGUSTA, Ga. — The 87th edition of the Masters delivered all of the storylines we wanted to see at Augusta National Golf Club this past

Sam Bennett’s heart said one thing. His legs screamed another. In the end, his tired body won out over his wanting mind. The reigning U.S. Amateur champion who made a huge splash in the Masters last week by contending into the weekend said on Sunday night that he’d like to compete on Monday in the

1:55 PM ET World No. 3 Rory McIlroy withdrew from this week’s RBC Heritage, the PGA Tour announced Monday. The tournament begins Thursday at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, S.C. No reason was specified for the 33-year-old Northern Ireland star’s withdrawal. McIlroy missed the cut at last week’s Masters after carding a 5-over

Masters fatigue isn’t a documented medical condition, but it’s one many tour pros who have spent weeks prepping to play in the year’s first men’s major say they suffer from after competing in the whirlwind of Augusta National. Perhaps that is the case for Rory McIlroy, who the PGA Tour announced on Monday had withdrawn

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jose Maria Olazabal, the second Spaniard to win the Masters after the late, great Seve Ballesteros, recognized the poetry in his protégé Jon Rahm triumphing at Augusta National on Sunday. The final round of the 87th Masters came on April 9, meaning Ballesteros, a five-time major champion, would have been celebrating his

7:47 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — On the day Seve Ballesteros would have celebrated his 66th birthday — and in the week of the 40th anniversary of his second Masters victory — a fourth Spanish champion was crowned at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday. Jon Rahm, who started the day 4 strokes behind Brooks

Sunday at the Masters tends to bring it, and that will likely be the case on this Easter Sunday 2023, if only for the wall-to-wall golf that’s awaiting players and fans alike. The forecasted rains on Saturday came … and came … and came. To the point where the third round had to be called

7:21 AM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods, who looked to be in serious pain during a rain-filled day at the Masters on Saturday, withdrew before play resumed at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday morning. Woods, 47, was limping badly as he played many of the first eight holes of the third round in