Golf

Field Level Media Mar 14, 2024, 05:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Tom Kim withdrew from The Players Championship eight holes into his opening round at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. on Thursday. The PGA Tour said Kim’s withdrawal was due to an unspecified illness. It came as Kim was 5-over par following

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMar 14, 2024, 03:37 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — World No. 2 golfer Rory McIlroy had just taken the lead at 8-under in the first round of the

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMar 13, 2024, 10:29 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — With TV ratings falling so far this season, four-time major champion Rory McIlroy said Wednesday that he wants the

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 Mar 13, 2024, 08:20 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Just when it seemed the narrative surrounding men’s professional golf might return to the course with the arrival of

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMar 12, 2024, 05:54 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – If golf fans are upset that the best players in the world aren’t playing in the same events such

Associated Press Mar 12, 2024, 07:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Bernhard Langer is missing the Masters for only the second time in 40 years because of an Achilles tendon tear from playing pickleball. This was supposed to be the final Masters for the two-time champion from Germany. But he

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMar 12, 2024, 12:48 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund are “accelerating” and that he still

Associated Press Mar 12, 2024, 11:40 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Patrick Reed has not missed a major since he first became eligible for them at the 2014 Masters, a streak that now is in peril with the PGA Championship two months away. The PGA of America sent out its

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMar 12, 2024, 07:43 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — On a sizzling Sunday at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, in late May, Scottie Scheffler had just

Field Level Media Mar 11, 2024, 04:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Scottie Scheffler will begin his defense at the Players Championship paired alongside fellow Americans Rickie Fowler and Justin Thomas for the first two rounds. Coming off a dominating victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, where he beat the entire field by 2 strokes

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMar 11, 2024, 07:50 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The PGA Tour finally got what it wanted at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill this past week

Associated Press Mar 10, 2024, 08:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TUCSON, Ariz. — Joe Durant took advantage of Stewart Cink‘s back-nine meltdown to win the Cologuard Classic on Sunday for his fifth PGA Tour Champions victory, closing with a 4-under 67 to beat three players by 2 strokes. The 59-year-old Durant rebounded from a

ESPN News Services Mar 10, 2024, 06:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ORLANDO, Fla. — Scottie Scheffler became the No. 1 player in golf with his sublime tee-to-green game. He got hot with the putter Sunday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational and was simply unstoppable. Scheffler made every important putt to build a three-shot lead

Associated Press Mar 10, 2024, 07:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Brice Garnett holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the fourth playoff hole Sunday to win the Puerto Rico Open in his first tournament of the year, sending him to The Players Championship next week and giving him PGA Tour

Mar 10, 2024, 02:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Matteo Manassero carded a final-round 66 to claim his first victory on the DP World Tour in 11 years with a 3-shot win at the Jonsson Workwear Open on Sunday. Manassero is back on the tour for the first time in five years, having lost his

Associated Press Mar 10, 2024, 06:50 AM ET Open Extended Reactions HONG KONG — Abraham Ancer regained just enough of the composure that helped him pull out to a five-stroke lead after two rounds to beat Cameron Smith and Paul Casey in a playoff and win the inaugural LIV Golf tournament in Hong Kong on

Associated Press Mar 9, 2024, 07:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ORLANDO, Fla. — Scottie Scheffler was 6 shots behind, losing ground and nearly losing his cool on another tough day at Bay Hill. What saved him was his putter — yes, his putter — that allowed him to end Saturday with a share of

Associated Press Mar 9, 2024, 06:15 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SANYA, China — Lydia Ko and Bailey Tardy each shot 6-under 66s on Saturday and joined Sarah Schmelzel, who finished with a 69, to top the leaderboard after the third round of the Blue Bay LPGA on China’s southern island of Hainan. Ruixin Liu