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Associated Press Mar 17, 2024, 09:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Players on the PGA Tour board negotiating with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund have a meeting planned Monday with the Saudi leader backing rival LIV Golf, something Rory McIlroy said Sunday should have happened long ago. He also said
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Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMar 17, 2024, 06:22 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. — In the first 49 years of the Players Championship, there never had been a repeat winner. Jack Nicklaus couldn’t
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Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMar 16, 2024, 08:48 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. — Wyndham Clark had just regained a share of the third-round lead at the 50th Players Championship on Saturday when
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Associated Press Mar 15, 2024, 09:19 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Jordan Spieth and Adam Scott said the player directors on the PGA Tour board are being encouraged to meet with the Saudi Arabia wealth fund leader behind LIV Golf, a sign that could spark talks of an investment. Golfweek
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Associated Press Mar 16, 2024, 08:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MACAU, China — John Catlin holed a 20-foot eagle putt on Saturday for an 11-under 59 in the International Series Macau, becoming the first player in Asian Tour history with a sub-60 round. Catlin, a 33-year-old Californian with seven worldwide victories, became the fourth
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Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMar 15, 2024, 03:06 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, Florida — A year ago, Wyndham Clark was ranked 116th in the Official World Golf Ranking and had rarely contended in
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Doug Greenberg Mar 11, 2024, 12:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions After several years on the sideline, North Carolina became the 30th state — in addition to Washington, D.C. — to offer legal online sports betting Monday. The basketball-wild jurisdiction gets its online sports betting infrastructure up and running just in time for March Madness.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Associated Press Mar 8, 2024, 07:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ORLANDO, Fla. — Shane Lowry set the target Friday at Bay Hill, and as tough as the course plays, he would not have imagined how much company he would have at the top in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Scottie Scheffler chipped in for eagle
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Associated Press Mar 8, 2024, 08:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Joe Highsmith did his best to create some separation in the Puerto Rico Open on Friday, making a pair of late birdies to get the lead before darkness prevented the rain-delayed second round from being completed. Highsmith, the 23-year-old
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Associated Press Mar 7, 2024, 06:46 PM ET Open Extended Reactions RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Rookie Joe Highsmith shot a bogey-free, 7-under 65 on Thursday to share the early first-round lead with veteran Scott Piercy at the weather-delayed Puerto Rico Open. Play was stopped for nearly two hours in the afternoon because of heavy
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