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AUGUSTA, Ga. — It’s never easy being a golf coach. You stand outside the ropes, living and dying with shots, and sometimes even trying as hard as you might to create some kind of telepathy with a player to build them up or save them from themselves. Anne Walker has had plenty of those days

8:47 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Injured Stanford golfer Rachel Heck was watching the opening rounds of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur on TV at her parents’ home in Memphis, Tennessee, earlier this week. When Cardinal teammate Rose Zhang grabbed what seemed like a commanding 5-shot lead after 36 holes, Heck knew she had to

AUGUSTA, Ga. — In the end, the balance of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur came down to a golfer with no expectations entering the week against a player who had the world on her shoulders before the first tee shot was struck. Rose Zhang, the top-ranked amateur in the world, prevailed. Barely. Zhang, 19, squandered

10:36 AM ET The Masters returns this year to the gorgeous Augusta National grounds in Georgia. We’ll see PGA Tour players competing against LIV golfers this time around, with past champions such as Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Phil Mickelson, Charl Schwartzel and defending champion Scottie Scheffler looking to compete for another title. Here’s everything you

The Masters is one of the most thrilling events in sports. The Sunday charges resulting in enthusiastic roars are unlike anything else in golf. But as they say, the game always wins. And with that, every so often, comes a Masters Sunday that perhaps didn’t turn out as special as it could have (I refuse

At peace with himself, his game, his move to LIV Golf and his appearance in Netflix’s “Full Swing” series, Brooks Koepka showed some promise that he can contend in next week’s Masters after a hot start to LIV Golf’s Orlando tournament Friday. The four-time major winner, who has battled injuries to patella tendons in both

10:33 PM ET Associated Press PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — Ruoning Yin had the low round of her LPGA Tour career, a 7-under 64 on Friday to share the 36-hole lead with Hyo Joo Kim at the DIO Implant LA Open. Yin, a 20-year-old from China in her second year on the LPGA Tour, turned

Nick Faldo didn’t stay away from the television booth for very long. He’s expected to make his return next week at Augusta National, one of the places that he loves most. Eight months after retiring from CBS Sports and Golf Channel, saying he would never return for another full-time gig, the Telegraph reported that the

1:08 PM ET Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — Corey Conners birdied four of his final five holes Friday for an 8-under 64 to finish with the lead after the weather-delayed first round at the Valero Texas Open. Conners, the winner here in 2019, took a 2-shot advantage over Patrick Rodgers with the second round getting

Tiger Woods hasn’t officially said he’ll play in next week’s Masters, but on Thursday he gave golf fans a glimpse of the swing we can expect to see at Augusta National. Woods was in West Palm Beach for the opening of The Park, a new public golf course. And the 15-time major champ seemed very

EVANS, Ga. — The drama was decidedly not at the top of the leaderboard in the second round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Rose Zhang took care of that on Thursday at Champions Retreat by shooting her second straight record round, a seven-under-par 65 that put in the lead and five shots clear of

10:27 PM ET Associated Press PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — Mi Hyang Lee shot a 6-under 65 in her first LPGA Tour event of the year for a 1-stroke lead in the opening round of the DIO Implant LA Open on Thursday. Lee, a 30-year-old South Korean who has slipped to 378th in the world,

EVANS, Ga. — As Anna Davis stood near the scoring area at Champions Retreat on Thursday afternoon, her demeanor was one of quiet resignation. Minutes earlier, she had signed for a second-round score of even-par 72 at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, and with a four-over total 148, the reigning ANWA champion would not be

1:08 PM ET ESPN News Services El Cardonal, a Tiger Woods-designed course in Mexico, will be the site of the World Wide Technology Championship this fall, the PGA Tour said Tuesday. The PGA Tour’s agreement with Mayakoba, which was designed by LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman, ended after 2022. Mayakoba hosted LIV Golf’s 2023 season-opener

A South African teen won a prestigious junior tournament by 21 shots on Wednesday. And no, that’s not a misprint. Twenty. One. Shots. Introducing Daniel Bennett, who won the 2023 Nomads South Africa Boys Under 19 Stroke Play Championship in one of the game’s most dominant victories on record. Oh, and by the way, the

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5:11 PM ET Associated Press EVANS, Ga. — Rose Zhang lived up to her billing as the best female amateur in the world by playing bogey-free and handling the par 5s at Champions Retreat on Wednesday for a 6-under 66 to take a one-shot lead in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. For the last two

EVANS, Ga. — The pressure seems to build and build for Rose Zhang. She has been the No. 1-ranked women’s amateur golfer for more than two and a half years, and following a freshman season at Stanford in which she won the NCAA individual title while leading the Cardinal to the team win, the native