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Danny Lee thought he was done with winning. The New Zealander had played 11 seasons on the PGA Tour, keeping his card in nine while battling injuries. He never fulfilled the potential he promised when, in a 12-month span, he overcame Tiger Woods’ record as the youngest winner of the U.S. Amateur (in 2008) and

8:32 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Ernie Els kept making birdies no matter how he gripped the putter Sunday, and it carried him to a 6-under 65 to win the Hoag Classic and deny Bernhard Langer a chance at setting the career victory mark on the PGA Tour Champions. Els started the

Season 2, Episode 2 of the LIV Golf League takes place this weekend at The Gallery Golf Club in Tucson with the usual pomp and circumstance we’ve got to expect from the upstart Saudi-backed circuit. The field in the no-cut 54-hole event is the customary 48 players. And the prize money payout continues to be

1:27 PM ET Associated Press ST. FRANCIS BAY, South Africa — Matthew Baldwin claimed his first title on the European tour in style Sunday by storming to a seven-shot victory at the SDC Championship in South Africa. Baldwin finished with a 4-under 68 on the St. Francis Links course for 18 under overall as his

7:37 PM ET Associated Press MARANA, Ariz. — Marc Leishman opened with an eagle and held it together in the middle of his round for a 5-under 66 on Saturday, giving him a two-shot lead over Sergio Garcia going into the third and final round of LIV Golf Tucson. Leishman said he had fallen into

The quirky tradition at Valspar Championship of players and caddies creating their own names and phrases on the back of the looper bibs is well-documented. We had a post earlier this week about Max McGreevy brilliantly roasting himself with “Mr. 89” after he shot 89 in the second round of last week’s Players Championship. Another

7:56 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Adam Schenk looked as though he and everyone else would get passed by Jordan Spieth on Saturday at the Valspar Championship. When a wild and windy round finished, Schenk was still the player everyone was chasing. Schenk hit his approach to the 18th hole to 5

If this year’s Valspar Championship is a harbinger of what non-designated events will be like on the PGA Tour, we have three words: Sign. Us. Up. With a cramped leaderboard that includes enough players with a life-changing opportunity, a course stubborn enough to make par matter (at a not-obscene 7,340 yards), and enough star power

After a number of defeats in its litigious battle against the PGA Tour, LIV Golf has earned a win. Last month a federal magistrate judge ruled that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and its governor can be deposed and must produce documents in the ongoing antitrust lawsuit and countersuit between the tour and LIV. However,

2:51 PM ET Associated Press ST. FRANCIS BAY, South Africa — Kristian Krogh Johannessen and Matthew Baldwin shared the lead at the SDC Championship in South Africa on Saturday when the third round was suspended because of fading light. The pair had moved to 11 under par through 13 holes when players were called off

It has been a great year to be a caddie on the PGA Tour (or LIV, for that matter). If Ted Scott (Scottie Scheffler) and Adam Hayes (Jon Rahm) have standard deals with their players, they are each approaching $1 million in earnings, and we haven’t even played the year’s first major. All “I’d take

7:32 PM ET Associated Press MARANA, Ariz. — Marc Leishman holed a series of long birdie putts and even a few big putts for par to post a 6-under 65 for a one-shot lead Friday in the LIV Golf League in the high desert of Arizona. The second LIV Golf event of the season is

The PGA Tour’s rank-and-file members lead the Valspar Championship, but starpower is lurking. Through two rounds at Innisbrook’s Copperhead Course outside of Tampa, Adam Schenk stands at seven under after shooting two-under 69 on Friday and leads Kramer Hickock (68) by one stroke. At two behind are Ryder Cuppers Jordan Spieth (69) and Tommy Fleetwood

7:57 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Adam Schenk is playing for the 10th consecutive week on the PGA Tour and finally seeing some good results, making enough putts Friday for a 2-under 69 that gave him a 1-shot lead going into the weekend at the Valspar Championship. Schenk had four birdies, all

It’s a Masters ad that begins predictably enough with a Jim Nantz voiceover, but then what follows is something you thought you’d never see produced by Augusta National Golf Club. A tradition unlike any other? How about a Masters promo like no other? There is a caddie gnome in his white overalls. There is a

In all levels of caddieing, there are a few very simple rules to live by: keep up, shut up and do not, under any circumstances, lose one of your players’ clubs. In a country club setting, the third rule sometimes, understandably, gets broken. On the PGA Tour? Unheard of. Or at least, that’s what we

8:02 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Ryan Brehm turned a good round into a memorable one Thursday, making a hole-in-one on the par-3 17th hole at Innisbrook for a 5-under 66 that led to a three-way share of the lead at the Valspar Championship. Stephan Jaeger also had a 66, while Adam

The late golf writer Charles Price said it best: Augusta National was never the most revolutionary golf-course design in America, but it certainly was the most evolutionary. Of course, it was evolution sped up considerably by man. The moment the inaugural tournament concluded in 1934, club officials were assessing ways to improve their Georgia peach. They

It has not been Ryan Brehm’s year, and that’s putting it lightly. If you remove his one good week, a T-14 at the Honda Classic, you’re left with 14 missed cuts in 16 starts. Not much has gone right for the reigning Puerto Rico Open champion. The beauty of golf, though, is that it can

3:59 PM ET Associated Press ST. FRANCIS BAY, South Africa — David Ravetto and Kristian Krogh Johannessen carded 5-under 67s at a windy St. Francis Links course Thursday to share the clubhouse lead in the first round of the SDC Championship in South Africa. France’s Ravetto picked up six birdies and just one bogey and

On top of the world for a remarkable 131 weeks, Rose Zhang is now the all-time leader for the longest consecutive streak at No. 1 in the Women’s Amateur Golf Rankings. The record became official on Wednesday, with Zhang passing current LPGA Tour star Lydia Ko, who had held the mark of 130. Zhang’s streak

6:18 AM ET ESPN News Services Proposed rule changes that would limit how far players can drive the ball at elite golf tournaments would be detrimental to the sport, two-time major winner Justin Thomas said. “You’re trying to create a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist. To me, it’s just so bad for the

8:08 AM ET Rickie Fowler is set to become the latest golfer to join TGL, the tech-infused golf league being fronted by Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. Fowler, who is ranked 59th in the Official World Golf Ranking, becomes the 12th player to commit to joining the league, which is

Perhaps the only appropriate way to celebrate winning the Players Championship and its $4.5 million prize is to enjoy a few casual rounds of golf on a certain well-known course where you’ve also had success. That’s what Masters champion Scottie Scheffler did the last two days when he stopped at Augusta National Golf Club on

Four-year LPGA Tour veteran Maria Fassi created the foundation Fassi’s Friends in 2021 to introduce golf to both disabled and non-disabled kids for free. The road to forming the foundation started at the 2014 Mexican Amateur Championship when Fassi witnessed one of the most impactful swings of her life. Fassi’s disabled cousin, Josefina Gomez, who

2:30 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler finally decided on his menu when he hosts the Masters Club dinner, and it wasn’t a big surprise — meat, fish and chocolate chip cookies. Scheffler said he would serve steak and cheeseburger sliders with family-styled side dishes. He said he isn’t big

Beefed up and swinging his driver with wild abandon, Bryson DeChambeau led the most recent charge to get the most distance humanly possible out of a golf ball. So it will surprise exactly no one that he is vehemently opposed to the proposed rollback of the golf ball that was announced by the USGA and

Following the whopping Players Championship purse of $25 million last week, the largest in the history of the PGA Tour, is appears like this week’s Valspar Championship is getting lost in the shuffle. However, that should not be the case. Top 15 players like Justin Thomas, Matt Fitzpatrick and Jordan Spieth are at Innisbrook Resort,

Does Scottie Scheffler have the X-factor to carry the PGA Tour further? @PeteKnot In a word, no. He’s a wonderful human being and clearly a spectacular golfer but Scheffler does not ooze charisma and there’s not much dramatic tension in his story: nice guy wins. I think he’s a fun supporting character to have around

2:05 PM ET The United States Golf Association and the R&A are proposing a new rule that would allow tours and tournaments the option to require elite men’s players to use a golf ball that will be tested under modified launch conditions to curtail how far it is hit. The new rules, which will not