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Associated Press Jul 12, 2023, 01:14 PM ET GULLANE, Scotland — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan returns to work next week, and some top players believe he has to regain their trust after leaving members in the dark over an about-face deal with the Saudi Arabia wealth fund behind LIV Golf. “I’d say he has

PINEHURST, N.C. — Kipp Popert came to the 18th tee at Pinehurst No. 6 with the men’s U.S. Adaptive Open well in hand, two shots ahead of last year’s winner Simon Lee, but that advantage evaporated at the exact moment when he launched a drive down the right side, watched it roll into the trees,

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 12, 2023, 01:51 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Like many golf fans around the world Tuesday, Scottie Scheffler watched the Senate hearing regarding the PGA Tour’s planned alliance with the DP World Tour and Saudi

For all the discussion of where golf’s going and who’s behind the wheel, there’s no question the DP World Tour’s been relegated to the backseat. The circuit’s fate was a bargaining chip in professional golf’s schism; Saudi Arabia viewed it as an avenue into the sport’s ecosystem, the PGA Tour deemed its European counterpart as

ESPN News Services Jul 12, 2023, 06:32 AM ET The Open is increasing its purse to $16.5 million, with the winner next week at Royal Liverpool getting $3 million. The total prize fund was $14 million a year ago. Cameron Smith, who won at St. Andrews, earned $2.5 million. The second- and third-place finishers at

Once again, the PGA Tour will co-sanction the Genesis Scottish Open with the DP World Tour, with an almost even split of golfers from the two tours competing this week at The Renaissance Club in Gullane, Scotland. It’ll be a challenging links test for some of the best golfers in the world, as the course

Jul 11, 2023, 05:19 PM ET After consecutive weeks appearing near the top of the leaderboard, Peter Kuest has been rewarded with special temporary membership to the PGA Tour after earning enough “non-member” FedEx Cup points to pass the threshold. Kuest, 25, was a standout golfer at BYU but had nowhere to play when he

The first U.S. Women’s Open played at Pebble Beach Golf Links was expected to be a big win in raising exposure and awareness for the female side of the game, and the television numbers confirm that it was a success. Allisen Corpuz’s steady handed play Sunday led to a three-stroke victory as she broke away

Jul 11, 2023, 10:08 AM ET PGA Tour officials pushed to oust Greg Norman as the CEO and commissioner of the LIV Golf League during its negotiations with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which proposed that Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy own LIV teams, according to documents released by

According to documents released by a Senate investigative subcommittee during Tuesday’s hearing on the proposed deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund, an Augusta National membership for Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of the PIF, was among the potential proposals. In addition, another proposal featured Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy being given

Associated Press Jul 9, 2023, 07:48 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Sepp Straka won the John Deere Classic on Sunday with a final-round 9-under 62 that could have been much better, making double bogey on the final hole but taking the title by two shots when Brendon Todd and Alex Smalley were unable to catch

GULLANE, Scotland — News flash: Links golf in the British Isles is different. Different from the norm on the PGA Tour that is. Where most events in the U.S. involve shots that are played mostly through the air, across the pond the bounce and roll of the ball after it lands are typically also parts

Jul 10, 2023, 09:55 PM ET Before 2023, Ruoning Yin, Lilia Vu and Allisen Corpuz had a combined zero LPGA victories to their name. Now, they rank fourth, fifth and sixth in the world, respectively, after splitting the first three majors of the women’s golf season. Corpuz rocketed from No. 29 to No. 6 in

In prepared remarks for Tuesday’s Congressional hearing on the proposed deal between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Senator Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) will assert the new alliance shows how a “brutal, repressive regime can buy influence–indeed even take over–a cherished American institution simply to cleanse its public image.” A copy of the

Jul 10, 2023, 10:16 AM ET The LIV Golf League’s season-ending team championship will be played at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami for the second straight year. LIV Golf League officials announced Monday that the $50 million team championship will be played Oct. 20-22 at Trump National Doral, which is owned by former

For a figure like Young Tom Morris, there’s always a threat that time will leave him a little colorless—nothing more than a name you vaguely recognize, but with all but the most prominent details (“he won some Open Championships, right?”) washed out with history. He didn’t live into his 80s like his father, Old Tom…in

Associated Press Jul 9, 2023, 08:33 PM ET Former AT&T chairman Randall Stephenson resigned from the PGA Tour’s policy board over concerns about the tour’s proposed partnership with Saudi Arabia’s national wealth fund, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The PGA Tour confirmed the resignation in a memo to its members, referring to Stephenson’s “exemplary service”

PEBBLE BEACH — On the Monterey Peninsula, and particularly at Pebble Beach Golf Links, everything just feels better when the sun shines. The changing shades of blue and green in the water are more stunning. The sand on the beach looks whiter, the grass on the course greener. For the first two days of the

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 9, 2023, 09:04 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — In the same week that Honolulu native Michelle Wie West bid goodbye to the women’s game, another Honolulu product, Allisen Corpuz, stepped up at Pebble Beach to win the U.S. Women’s Open — the first ever played at the legendary course — for

Randall Stephenson, a former AT&T executive and an influential voice in professional golf, resigned from his position on the PGA Tour’s policy board over the weekend, citing “serious concerns” with the tour’s proposed deal with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Stephenson’s resignation, which was first reported by the Washington Post, has been confirmed by Golf

Jul 9, 2023, 03:35 PM ET Playing in his final event before defending his Open Championship later this month, Cameron Smith survived a closing bogey on Sunday to win the LIV Golf event at Centurion Club in London. The Australian shot 3-under 68 to finish at 15 under, one stroke ahead of American Patrick Reed

There was a time, of course, when Matteo Manassero’s career trajectory was steeply upward, the word “prodigy” hardly doing the Italian justice. Certainly, the notion that the lad from Verona, who won four times on what’s now the DP World Tour by age 20, would today be competing on the second-tier Challenge circuit would have

Associated Press Jul 8, 2023, 07:04 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Brendon Todd scrambled for par on the par-4 18th to take a 1one-stroke lead Saturday in the John Deere Classic, holing a 12-foot putt after drawing an awkward stance near a fairway bunker. Todd had a 5-under 66 in breezy conditions to reach 16-under

PEBBLE BEACH — When you name your child after something as big as the U.S. space program, the expectations would seem to be as high as the moon. Jinichi and Norumi Hataoka welcomed their daughter into the world in 1999 and dreamed as big as any parents could. “They both wanted her to accomplish something

Associated Press Jul 8, 2023, 10:02 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Neither the wind at Pebble Beach nor the stage of a U.S. Women’s Open could stop Nasa Hataoka, who delivered the best round in the toughest conditions Saturday for a 6-under 66 and a one-shot lead. Hataoka not only posted the low score

The nature of an important looming two-week stretch abroad means the 2023 John Deere Classic doesn’t boast the most stout field on the PGA Tour’s schedule. But that doesn’t mean the action itself isn’t compelling. Coming into the final round, there are a few interesting storylines at stake. With the biggest names in golf resting

Associated Press Jul 7, 2023, 09:24 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Cameron Young shot a 7-under 64 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead halfway through the John Deere Classic and put himself into position to erase an unwelcome distinction from his PGA Tour resume. Young was at 13-under 129 at TPC Deere Run, with

PEBBLE BEACH — The 78th U.S. Women’s Open, in another first this week, moves to six hours of primetime coverage on NBC for the third round Saturday. With rookie Bailey Tardy holding a two-shot lead at seven under, here are seven storylines to follow at Pebble Beach: How will the final pairing handle the pressure?

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 8, 2023, 12:25 AM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — There was no other way it could have ended. After a gloomy week at Pebble Beach, where Michelle Wie West struggled to find the bottom of the cup, the 30-foot par putt on the 18th green — the final one of her career

PEBBLE BEACH — Michelle Wie West and her caddie and husband Jonnie West approached the bunker fronting the 18th green at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Friday evening and found her ball in a wet and nearly plugged lie. It wasn’t the way they’d envisioned the one-time star and face of women’s golf finishing up