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Associated Press Aug 12, 2023, 08:22 PM ET Lucas Glover shot 4-under 66. He has the 54-hole lead in the FedEx St. Jude Championship. He has made only two bogeys going into the final round. Such is the state of his game that he said he needed time to think about all the things that

MEMPHIS — Lucas Glover usually likes to unwind at night on the road with a good book, but after his second-round 64 propelled him into the lead on Friday at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, he capped off the evening in style. Well, he had style in mind. He did his laundry. The PGA Tour

Associated Press Aug 12, 2023, 03:11 PM ET WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, England — Lilia Vu moved into position to become the first American this century to win multiple women’s majors in the same year. She’s got company atop the leaderboard in home favorite Charley Hull at the Women’s British Open. The final major of the year came

MEMPHIS – Among the infinitesimal number of factors large and small that might encroach on a golfer’s ability to post a score, we can now add a member of the Lepidoptera order of flying insects. We’re referring to a moth that was drawn to a Rose, subgroup Justin, at just the wrong time, which in

Associated Press Aug 11, 2023, 07:25 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Sloppy mud one day, broiling heat the next. Lucas Glover is playing his best golf no matter the conditions on the ground or in the air, posting a 6-under 64 on Friday for a 1-shot lead over Jordan Spieth in the FedEx St. Jude

MEMPHIS — Perhaps the coolest day Andrew Argotsinger ever had on a golf course was serving as caddie for his brother, Danny, in last year’s U.S. Open qualifier in Columbus, Ohio, where they were paired with PGA Tour player Andrew Putnam. Now it’s the second coolest day of his life. On Friday at TPC Southwind,

Associated Press Aug 11, 2023, 08:06 PM ET BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Cameron Smith bounced back from his worst finish of the year with a 5-under 66 on Friday, giving him a one-shot lead over Charles Howell III at LIV Golf-Bedminster. Smith finished 35th last week at The Greenbrier. He had never been to the Trump

MEMPHIS — This Lucas Glover fellow is hot. Riding the wave hot. Hitting on all cylinders hot. Maybe U.S. Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson should take a look at him hot. On a steamy day in the city known as the “Home of the Blues,” Glover was red-hot, a carryover from his impressive victory last

Associated Press Aug 11, 2023, 04:06 PM ET WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, England — Ally Ewing, seeking her first major title, is running away with the Women’s Open championship thanks to precise driving and a red-hot putter. The No. 39-ranked Ewing rolled in six birdies in her first 11 holes at Walton Heath and shot 6-under 66 on

The weekend has arrived at the AIG Women’s Open as Ally Ewing holds a five-stroke lead at 10 under par after 36 holes. American compatriot Andrea Lee, U.S. Women’s Open runner-up Charley Hull, and Japan’s Minami Katsu form the closest chase group at five under. Chevron Championship winner Lilia Vu put herself in contention for

David Purdum, ESPN Staff WriterAug 10, 2023, 09:07 AM ET Close Joined ESPN in 2014 Journalist covering gambling industry since 2008 Phil Mickelson bet more than $1 billion on football, basketball and baseball over the past three decades and even allegedly attempted to place a $400,000 wager on Team USA in the 2012 Ryder Cup

MEMPHIS — All hail Jordan Spieth, who just gave every golf enthusiast a lifetime hall pass. It turns out, ladies and gentlemen, that a surefire way to play better golf is to play more golf. Who knew? If it’s good enough for a three-time major winner, then it’s good enough for the rest of us.

Associated Press Aug 10, 2023, 08:06 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Jordan Spieth kept a clean card and clean pants, even without having to roll them up to his calves on a rain-soaked course. He opened with a 7-under 63 on Thursday for a 1-shot lead in the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Spieth chipped in

MEMPHIS — The restaurant in Lahaina, Hawaii, has long been out of business, but now the building that housed the Morikawa Restaurant is gone, too. Wednesday’s deadly wildfires that decimated Front Street at the popular tourist destination on Maui and killed at least 36 people hit Collin Morikawa harder than many people looking on from

Associated Press Aug 10, 2023, 03:39 PM ET WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, England — The United States is seeking its third female major champion of 2023 at the AIG Women’s Open this week. Few would have predicted Ally Ewing would be leading the charge. Ewing made eagle from 5 feet at the par-5 16th to leapfrog a five-way

TADWORTH, England — Perhaps only the pot bunkers on the Old Course at St. Andrews are comparable. Or the rough at what used to be called a “traditional” U.S. Open. But maybe nowhere in golf is the penalty for missing fairways more severe than at Walton Heath. It’s the heather. Or calluna vulgaris, to give

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 9, 2023, 04:39 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, who respectively finished first and second in last season’s FedEx Cup playoffs, arrived at this week’s FedEx St. Jude

At No. 2 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and already a selection for the U.S. Walker Cup team competing next month at St. Andrews, Michael Thorbjornsen would have been among the favorites next week to contend at the U.S. Amateur at Cherry Hills. Instead the 21-year-old rising senior at Stanford announced on Wednesday that

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 9, 2023, 05:09 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia One last major championship. One last shot at glory for women’s professional golfers this season. The final major championship of the 2023 season, the AIG Women’s Open,

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — In Phil Mickelson’s words, he’s “thrown himself into the fire” plenty over the past two years while LIV Golf emerged as a breakaway to the PGA Tour. With the Ryder Cup just over a month away, Lefty doesn’t want to cop more heat for telling U.S. captain Zach Johnson who to select

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 9, 2023, 12:57 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia MEMPHIS, Tenn. — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said Wednesday that he took a monthlong leave of absence from his position because of anxiety that resulted in

MEMPHIS — “A work in progress.” That’s how PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan described his biggest challenge to date. He was referring to himself. Monahan on Wednesday revealed that anxiety-induced “mental and physical health challenges” precipitated his decision to take a leave from his day-to-day duties with the tour for slightly more than a month.

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 8, 2023, 08:19 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia MEMPHIS, Tenn. — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan met with about 25 players at TPC Southwind on Tuesday, his first such meeting since he returned from a

MEMPHIS — The new pressure point on the PGA Tour starts at 50. It is the new 125. It’s the thing to play for because it enables a tour player to play in more things worth playing for. The stakes at this week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship have changed this year. Only the top 70

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 8, 2023, 04:46 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The closing stretch to another tumultuous season in men’s professional golf is finally here. Since the start of the PGA Tour’s last wraparound schedule

MEMPHIS — Jay Monahan presided over his first player meeting on Tuesday at the FedEx St. Jude Championship since returning from a voluntary absence, and while the 90-minute gathering was poorly attended and little new information was delivered, several players agreed that it was simply good to see the PGA Tour commissioner back at work.

Aug 8, 2023, 11:49 AM ET Jon Rahm is No. 1 in the FedEx Cup playoff standings as he prepares to tee up in Memphis this week, and the Spaniard is betting on himself in the St. Jude Championship. “Yes, we’re competing against each other, but it’s not really head-to-head like in pretty much every

MEMPHIS — The claret jug owns a hallowed place in the annals of golf. It just doesn’t belong on Kelly Harman’s kitchen counter. But it appears that she has had to make allowances for domestic tranquility. “My wife has asked me to move it several times, and it’s like, ‘no, that’s a hard no, it’s

In a move that could have significant implications for the USGA and R&A proposal to roll back golf ball distance at the elite level, the World Alliance of PGAs has asked the governing bodies to indefinitely halt its march toward the changes. In a memo obtained by Golf Channel and signed by PGA of America

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 7, 2023, 04:48 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia The PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup regular season in 2024 will include 36 tournaments from January through August, including four majors, the Players Championship and eight signature events,