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SCOTTSDALE — Things could have easily gone off the rails for Jon Rahm on Thursday at the WM Phoenix Open. He had all the excuses in the world, too. A late start (frost delay), a rough start (three-putt bogey at No. 1), and un-Arizona-like wind gusts up to 16 mph causing chaos all over the

8:47 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Morning frost gave way to gusting wind Thursday in the WM Phoenix Open, leading to tricky scoring conditions at TPC Scottsdale. “I actually felt the best swing I made of the day was the par-3 seventh, and hit it 20 yards over the green,” top-ranked Rory McIlroy

SCOTTSDALE — There’s a different vibe at major championships. There’s an uncomfortable edge to the place. Every conversation is a little more tense, and even slightly uncomfortable. Players have a job to do, and they know it. That’s not the vibe this week at TPC Scottsdale. “It feels just like another week, to be completely

3:42 PM ET Rory McIlroy is ranked No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking. Spain’s Jon Rahm, who is ranked third, is on his heels and has performed just as well this season. When a reporter asked McIlroy on Wednesday whether he’s still the best player in the world, he didn’t hesitate in answering

CARLSBAD, Calif. — As a kid who grew up in New York and loved golf, Gil Hanse happily anticipated the start of the PGA Tour season and the West Coast Swing. Like many hunkered down in the cold and snow, the tournaments in Hawaii and Southern California stirred in him the soon-to-come sun and warmth

Who does what to headline this year’s WMPO after Harry and Joel’s performance last time around? @feralgolfer Well, whatever they do, I hope it involves a lot less pasty flesh and doughy torso. The ceremonial removal of their polos by Harry Higgs and Joel Dahmen was zany fun, but some things are best not repeated.

2:18 PM ET The LIV Golf League might claim to be “golf but louder,” but there is perhaps no place in the sport more raucous than the par-3 16th hole of the Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale, the site of this week’s WM Phoenix Open. The scene figures to be even more raucous with NFL

SCOTTSDALE — To the surprise of no one, CBS’s new one-hole “mic’d up” segments on each of its last two PGA Tour broadcasts have been a smash hit among ardent and casual golf fans alike. It helps that the first one featured Golf Twitter favorite Max Homa on the 13th hole at Torrey Pines, and

Feb 6, 2023 St. Andrews Links Trust announced on Monday that it will remove stone walkways it had recently added to the sides of the iconic Swilcan Bridge on the 18th hole of the Old Course in Scotland. Photographs had emerged on social media on Sunday of work being done to the paths leading to

Bryson DeChambeau’s 2023 got off to a rough start with a missed cut in Saudi Arabia on Friday. By Monday, he fell to his lowest spot in the Official World Golf Ranking since before he was a PGA Tour winner. DeChambeau is down to No. 102, falling out of the top 100 for the first

New Zealand’s Steven Alker, a long-time journeyman golfer, enjoyed a remarkable career renaissance on the PGA Tour Champions in 2022. The 52-year-old’s dream season included four wins and 18 top-10 finishes in 23 starts, which ultimately earned him the year-end Charles Schwab Cup. On the course, Alker shared that experience with his caddie Sam Workman.

10:42 AM ET As the LIV Golf League prepares to start its second season in Mexico later this month, the circuit being financed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is generating virtually no revenue, according to federal court documents. The LIV Golf League’s attorneys made that admission in a motion filed with the U.S. District

The WM Phoenix Open was already the most highly attended event on the PGA Tour. But the fan frenzy at TPC Scottdale will only increase in 2023, as this year’s tournament is the tour’s first full-field event to have “designated” status, bringing with it stacked field playing for a purse of $20 million with a

Feb 5, 2023 ESPN News Services PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers finally gets his name on the Wall of Champions behind the first tee at Pebble Beach, joining a long list that includes Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. Rodgers and Ben Silverman of Canada held on for a

Over two bright and blustery days in early February, the UCLA and USC women’s golf teams squared off in a match-play duel to see which proud program would claim the inaugural Victory Bell trophy. The Battle for the Bell, as the match was coined, delivered high-caliber golf and a chance to get a deeper look

Attorneys representing the PGA Tour in its lawsuit against LIV Golf are seeking a new, later trial date along with an extension to the document discovery process. The tour’s request, filed Sunday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, cites the additions of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and its governor Yasir

8:40 PM ET On a weekend in which there was no professional (tackle) football to compete with for TV viewers, men’s professional golf seemed to miss its chance. Rain, wind and hail interrupted the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which many of the PGA Tour’s top players skipped ahead of this week’s elevated WM Phoenix Open,

Given the seaside nature of Pebble Beach Golf Links, and the fact that wind and inclement weather seem to always factor heavily into the AT&T Pro-Am each year, you’d think it would be a home away from home for European-born players. Hell, it’s even got “links” in the name. It’s actually been anything but, however.