Golf

8:52 PM ET Associated Press HONOLULU — Two swings were all it took for Hayden Buckley to become another face in a large crowd of contenders to a 2-shot lead Saturday in the Sony Open. On a day when there was an eight-way tie for the lead at one point, Buckley made a pair of

6:57 PM ET Associated Press RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira of Argentina had a record day at Grand Reserve to build a 4-shot lead Saturday in the Latin America Amateur Championship, leaving him one round away from a spot in the Masters and U.S. Open. Fernandez de Oliveira, who missed a

2:58 PM ET Associated Press Continental Europe will take a two-point lead into the final day of the Hero Cup after extending its advantage over Britain & Ireland in the afternoon foursomes on Saturday. The inaugural tournament is giving European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald a chance to assess players under match-play pressure ahead of

12:18 AM ET Associated Press HONOLULU — Chris Kirk in the lead might have been the only shred of normalcy in the Sony Open. Jordan Spieth started Friday with a share of the lead. He walked off the 18th green at Waialae in a minor state of shock after missing the cut. “I felt I

10:11 PM ET Associated Press RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Luis Carrera of Mexico played bogey-free Friday at Grand Reserve for a second straight 5-under 67, giving him a one-shot lead going into the weekend of the Latin America Amateur Championship. Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira of Argentina, among those who missed a playoff by one

12:10 AM ET Associated Press HONOLULU — Jordan Spieth played about the way he expected Thursday, another sign of growing confidence in his game, as he opened with a 6-under 64 and a share of the lead at the Sony Open with Chris Kirk and Taylor Montgomery. Harris English had a 65 on a gorgeous

7:32 PM ET Associated Press RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Mateo Fuenmayor of Colombia opened with a 6-under 66 on Thursday to take a 1-shot lead in the Latin America Amateur Championship. Fuenmayor, a junior at Oregon State, arrived at the Grand Reserve Golf Club having tied for seventh last week in the South American

The PGA Tour’s 2023 calendar started with a bang last week, as Jon Rahm rallied from a 6-shot deficit over the final nine holes to catch Collin Morikawa at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Kapalua, Hawai’i. The tour stays in the islands for one more week at the Sony Open in Honolulu, before starting

8:25 PM ET ESPN News Services KAPALUA, Hawaii — Jon Rahm left Maui with a trophy he wasn’t expecting, all because of a collapse from Collin Morikawa no one saw coming. Rahm started the final round of the Sentry Tournament of Champions seven shots behind. He bogeyed his first hole. He was six shots back

7:19 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan described a landscape Sunday of two rival leagues going down different paths, even as the PGA Tour is still trying to formulate plans for a revamped structure in 2024. “We’re at a point now where it’s product versus product,” Monahan said. He

9:13 PM ET ESPN News Services KAPALUA, Hawaii — Collin Morikawa can make golf look simple. He has a shot in mind and the ball is going where he’s looking. The difference at the Sentry Tournament of Champions is that includes shots on the green. He was particularly effective Saturday on the stretch of scoring

10:43 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii — Winless last year for the first time in his young career, Collin Morikawa is playing as though he wants to put that behind him quickly. Morikawa was dialed in with his irons early and took advantage of some of the scoring holes late in his second round

6:27 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii — A nagging back injury in the Bahamas has turned into something more mysterious for Xander Schauffele, who withdrew from the Sentry Tournament of Champions on Friday and plans to get an MRI to see what’s wrong. Schauffele, the No. 6 player in the world and a three-time

10:57 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii — Jon Rahm is starting to get used to low scoring on the Plantation Course at Kapalua. He can only hope this start leads to a better finish in the Sentry Tournament of Champions. One year after he was 33-under par and still finished second, Rahm birdied three

10:24 AM ET Augusta National Golf Club has invited reigning NCAA Division I men’s champion Gordon Sargent and Kazuki Higa of Japan to compete in the 87th Masters, bringing the field for the April major to 80 players. Sargent, 19, a sophomore at Vanderbilt, birdied the first hole of a four-man playoff in May to

9:33 PM ET Pinehurst Resort, already the site of nine top-quality 18-hole golf courses, is adding No. 10. The North Carolina resort, which has hosted the U.S. Open, U.S. Women’s Open, the PGA Championship and the Ryder Cup in the past, announced Wednesday it will be constructing an additional golf course slated to open when

5:12 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii — Will Zalatoris has gone more than four months since competing because of a back injury. That gave him plenty of time to contemplate a year of close calls capped by his first win, and to learn about how his body works. “Probably more than I think I

10:58 AM ET An amateur golfer from Georgia lived every weekend hacker’s dream when an invitation to the Masters recently showed up in his mailbox. The invitation was actually meant for PGA Tour pro Scott Stallings, who made the Masters field by qualifying for the season-ending Tour Championship in 2022. In a tweet on Tuesday,