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Scottie Scheffler may have left East Lake without any hardware on Sunday, but he knows he’s at least got a couple trophies coming to him following a fantastic season. While the PGA Tour’s Player-of-the-Year debate will take a bit longer to settle and will likely go to Jon Rahm, Scheffler, the reigning POY already locked

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 28, 2023, 10:24 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia LPGA rookie Rose Zhang will represent the United States when it plays Europe in next month’s Solheim Cup in Spain. Zhang and four other players, Jennifer Kupcho,

Rickie Fowler isn’t old, but he’s old enough to recall the days before the PGA Tour’s wraparound season began in the fall of 2013. At first, there were mixed reviews. The 34-year-old remembers a funny but frustrating moment two years into the experiment, in the early portion of the 2015-16 schedule. “I think I went

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 28, 2023, 08:30 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — Another tumultuous season on the PGA Tour has come and gone. Editor’s Picks 1 Related Norway’s Viktor Hovland won the Tour Championship at East Lake

Stacy Lewis filled out the remainder of the 12-player U.S. Solheim Cup team roster with three captain’s picks on Monday morning. In trying to put together an American squad to win in Europe for the first time since 2015, Lewis leaned on two veterans in Angel Yin and Ally Ewing, both having played twice previously,

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 27, 2023, 07:38 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — When Oklahoma State golf coach Alan Bratton was recruiting Viktor Hovland in 2015, he remembers Hovland telling him that he couldn’t wait to get to

Playoffs again, anyone? Megan Khang and Jin Young Ko faced off in the eighth playoff of the LPGA season after both finished at nine under par at Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club in Vancouver, B.C., to settle the CPKC Canadian Women’s Open. Here is how the Massachusetts native walked away after a closing two-over 74

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 27, 2023, 07:30 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — When Keegan Bradley returned home from his first Ryder Cup appearance in 2012, he couldn’t open his suitcase following the Europeans’ stunning 14½-13½ victory at

ATLANTA — Consistency or potency? The two-horse race for the PGA Tour’s 2023 Player of the Year honor will essentially come down to those criteria as tour members cast their votes after the Tour Championship. Does Scottie Scheffler, who won the WM Phoenix Open and the Players Championship while amassing 17 top-10 finishes in 23

Associated Press Aug 27, 2023, 01:06 PM ET VYSOKY UJEZD, Czech Republic — English golfer Todd Clements came through a bunched field Sunday to win the Czech Masters for his first European tour title after shooting a bogey-free 9-under 63 to seal a 1-stroke victory. Compatriot Matt Wallace could have forced a playoff at the

Viktor Hovland’s six-shot lead heading into the final round of the Tour Championship would seem to suggest a sleepy Sunday awaits in Atlanta. Indeed, most golf fans anticipate the 25-year-old Norwegian will make one more successful loop at East Lake, be crowned the FedEx Cup champion, take home the $18 million bonus and close out

ATLANTA — It’s unlikely an ice bath will cool Viktor Hovland down, but that’s how he planned to spend Saturday night. As the city’s heat index reached 106, Hovland’s play at East Lake was nearly as hot. He tapped in for a 66 just after 8 p.m.—the late finish due to a 75-minute weather delay—and

Associated Press Aug 26, 2023, 09:16 PM ET ATLANTA — Viktor Hovland delivered another sterling performance, this time starting from the top, allowing him to pull away Saturday in the Tour Championship with a 4-under 66 that gave him a 6-shot lead going into the final round of the PGA Tour season. That leaves the

Rohn Stark, a former All-Pro NFL punter and obsessed golfer who is making his U.S. Senior Amateur debut this week, is the designated organizer of “Da Game”—a decades-old weekly money match among his many golfing friends on Maui. Lucky are they to regularly play at the island’s two most vaunted tracks, Kapalua and Kaanapali. Stark,

Let’s take Jon Rahm at his word. The Masters champion spoke out Friday at the Tour Championship, arguing essentially that too much attention is paid to how much money is on the line at East Lake Golf Club this week—and by extension in pro golf overall. “It’s one of the things that frustrates me about

Associated Press Aug 25, 2023, 10:06 PM ET VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Megan Khang had five straight birdies in a back-nine burst and shot a 6-under 66 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead in the CPKC Women’s Open at challenging Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club. After playing the first 10 holes in 1 under,

Rory McIlroy opened the Tour Championship with an even-par 70 and proclaimed he was “over the moon” with that result, considering his lower back was seizing up for a couple of days. On Friday, he was three shots better with a 67 at East Lake and, remarkably, finds himself only six shots off the pace

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 25, 2023, 07:34 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — After squandering a big lead in the opening round of the Tour Championship, world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler bounced back in a big way

ATLANTA — When you start an adjusted scoring tournament two shots behind the World No. 1 golfer, you can’t afford to waste shots. Especially around the greens. Tour Championship co-leader Viktor Hovland knows that, and with a vastly improved short game, he’s saved par seven of the eight times he’s missed a green at the

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 24, 2023, 06:58 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — While Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley and others posted low scores in Thursday’s opening round of the Tour Championship, Rory McIlroy only could manage an even-par

A judge has partially denied a request from the New York Times to unseal documents pertaining to the litigation battle between the PGA Tour, LIV Golf and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. On June 16—the same day the PGA Tour and LIV Golf filed a motion to dismiss LIV’s antitrust lawsuit and the tour’s countersuit,

Associated Press Aug 24, 2023, 10:46 PM ET VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Yuka Saso had a big second nine to shoot a 6-under 66 and take the first-round lead Thursday in the CPKC Women’s Open, while Canadian star Brooke Henderson struggled while playing in glasses for the first time on the LPGA Tour. Even par

ATLANTA — At 2 p.m. local time on Thursday at the Tour Championship, World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler had a two-shot lead. Two hours later, he had a five-shot advantage at East Lake. But by the end of the day, he was, somehow, one shot behind. “I’m obviously pretty frustrated,” the Texan put it mildly.

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 24, 2023, 06:53 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — If two-time major champion Collin Morikawa was trying to make a final impression on U.S. Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson in this week’s Tour Championship,

JoAnne Carner does it again. The 84-year-old legend who won 43 LPGA titles during her Hall of Fame career, shot eight-over 80 Thursday during the first round of the U.S. Senior Women’s Open at Waverley Country Club in Portland, Ore. She topped it off with a birdie on her last hole, the par-3, 123-yard ninth

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 24, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — The 2022-23 PGA Tour FedEx Cup season comes to an end this week at East Lake Golf Club. There’s still plenty to settle this weekend,

ATLANTA — In 130 days, the landscape of professional golf’s two major tours could look drastically different. That’s if a framework agreement between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund goes through on Dec. 31, which commissioner Jay Monahan is confident it will. But those changes will at least have

ATLANTA — Easier to follow, but not the best. That’s the verdict on the Tour Championship’s staggered start five years into the current version. In 2019, the PGA Tour introduced a handicapping system to structure the leaderboard for the 30 players who qualified for the FedEx Cup finale at East Lake. A quick reminder, FedEx

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 23, 2023, 11:39 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — Scottie Scheffler came within one stroke of winning the FedEx Cup last season, and he’ll start the opening round of Thursday’s Tour Championship with a

The U.S. Solheim qualification has unsettled spots remaining, with five of its nine automatic qualifying spots still on the line. This week’s CPKC Women’s Open marks the final chance for players to earn their way onto the team instead of relying on Captain Stacy Lewis to use one of her three picks on them to