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Associated Press Aug 17, 2023, 09:01 PM ET OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Rory McIlroy didn’t mind being in the rough at rain-soaked Olympia Fields, except for having trees and a bunker between him and the 17th green. And even that didn’t matter Thursday in the BMW Championship. McIlroy found the short grass only six times

CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Colo. — It is as if Paul Chang, the unexpected sensation of this week’s 123rd U.S. Amateur at Cherry Hills, has been living in an alternate golf universe. For three years, he pestered longtime University of Virginia head men’s golf coach Bowen Sargent to give him a spot on the team. Never

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — The putting woes Lucas Glover endured for a decade have been well documented by now—and well, they should be given just how beautifully he’s played over the last two months highlighted by his back-to-back victories the last two weeks. British Open champion Brian Harman was able to put a more compelling—and

Associated Press Aug 17, 2023, 03:34 PM ET BALLYMENA, Northern Ireland — Daniel Brown of England shot 7-under 64 to take a two-stroke lead after the first round of the ISPS Handa World Invitational on the European tour on Thursday. In the co-sanctioned LPGA Tour event taking place concurrently, there was a four-way share of

A former associate of Phil Mickelson has alleged Mickelson was involved in a previously unknown money-laundering investigation, according to an excerpt from a new book. In Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk, sports bettor Billy Walters details his relationship with Mickelson. Among the revelations in an excerpt of the autobiography released publicly last week

Aug 16, 2023, 10:30 AM ET Team Europe captain Luke Donald has named Italy’s Francesco Molinari as his fifth and final vice captain for next month’s Ryder Cup at Rome’s Marco Simone Golf and Country Club, the team announced Wednesday. Molinari, who made his debut in the 2010 edition when Europe regained the trophy in

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — There are some PGA Tour players who prefer to not look at a leaderboard during their round. Then there’s Cam Davis, who spent most of his 2023 season eschewing a peek at the FedEx Cup standings. At least he did so until it mattered. Which was, well, recently. Davis is one

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