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Associated Press Jul 7, 2023, 11:49 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Bailey Tardy picked a good time and a beautiful location to play her best golf. Tardy made eagle on the par-5 sixth hole at Pebble Beach for the second straight day as part of a torrid start to her second round Friday in

PEBBLE BEACH — Bailey Tardy nearly didn’t get into the U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach for one reason—procrastination. She almost didn’t sign up for the final qualifier, saying she had no interest in battling through 36 holes in one day. It took pushing from her mother to sign up. “My mom would tell me

ESPN News Services Jul 7, 2023, 10:35 AM ET Matthew Wolff, who was accused by LIV Golf teammate Brooks Koepka of quitting on the course, said it’s “heartbreaking” that the Smash GC captain would criticize him amid Wolff’s mental health “challenges on and off the golf course.” Earlier this week, Koepka told Sports Illustrated that

The LIV Golf League is back where it all started, returning this week to Centurion Club outside of London, site of the inaugural Invitational a little more than a year ago. Suffice it to say, A LOT has happened since Greg Norman and Company were last here. More than we’ve really got space to summarize

Associated Press Jul 6, 2023, 11:55 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Xiyu Janet Lin and Hyo Joo Kim had rounds that matched the beauty at Pebble Beach, each of them with a 4-under 68 on Thursday to share the lead in the first U.S. Women’s Open held at one of America’s most famous courses.

PEBBLE BEACH — It is the most knee-knocking, white-knuckle shot in all of golf. None other than Jack Nicklaus deemed it the “most dramatic.” And why not? On the eighth hole at Pebble Beach, players stand on an outcropping of land, the Pacific Ocean 70 feet below. In 2022, Jordan Spieth created the most news

Associated Press Jul 6, 2023, 09:06 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Jonas Blixt got hot on the back nine at TPC Deere Run on Thursday, playing his last six holes in 6 under for a 9-under 62 and a 2-shot lead over Grayson Murray in the first round of the John Deere Classic. Murray was

PEBBLE BEACH – Smashing drivers down the center of Pebble’s fairways is crucial to succeeding on the trouble-filled course. Irish amateur Aine Donegan, 21, playing in her first-ever professional tournament at the U.S. Women’s Open, hit 12 of 14 fairways on her way to a three-under-par 69 Thursday, a stroke off the lead. Before the

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 6, 2023, 08:25 AM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Mina Harigae has never seen Pebble Beach like this. Last year’s U.S. Women’s Open runner-up was born in Monterey, California, attended the nearby Stevenson School and has played the course over 50 times. Of the 156 players in this year’s field, Harigae has

File this one under “things professional golf didn’t see coming,” right next to the PGA Tour and LIV Golf joining forces after a bitter battle. At this week’s LIV Golf London event, the Majesticks GC team will debut a digital billboard on the front of their staff bags. Majesticks GC co-captains Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood

M.A. Voepel, ESPN.comJul 5, 2023, 07:12 PM ET Close M.A. Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. SILVIS, Illinois – After leading the Iowa Hawkeyes to their first NCAA women’s basketball championship game, being consensus

Tour pros are no strangers to sponsor logos. Most of the time the prime real estate on tour players (shirts, hats and bags) is taken up by larger companies that are able to shell out some big bucks for a little extra publicity. But this week at the Women’s U.S. Open we’re seeing something different.

Associated Press Jul 5, 2023, 08:29 PM ET Pine Valley will host the Curtis Cup matches for female amateurs in 2034, the first time the course regarded as America’s best will hold an international competition in nearly 50 years. The announcement Wednesday adds to a movement by the USGA to bring its female championships to

Last week more than 350 pages of emails, documents and investment agreements from the PGA Tour were made public by the 15th Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, Florida, with more than a few items in the release spurring headlines and conjuring a public statement from Tiger Woods. Turns out the document release was not

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 5, 2023, 12:15 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — It has been 72 years since the best female golfers in the world played a competitive round at one of the most famous golf courses in the history of the game. The 1951 Weathervane Transcontinental Women’s Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links, won

Last season, the shot of the year belonged to Matt Fitzpatrick, whose 9 iron out of a fairway bunker on the 72nd hole at The Country Club sealed an epic U.S. Open win. This season, another Fitzpatrick may have already locked up shot of the year in July — Matt’s brother Alex. The younger Fitzpatrick,

ESPN News Services Jul 4, 2023, 04:48 PM ET Sergio Garcia‘s quest to play in his 25th straight Open Championship ended Tuesday when he failed to qualify for the season’s fourth major. Playing in a qualifier at West Lancashire Golf Club, Garcia shot a 5-under 67 in the morning round of the 36-hole competition. But

PEBBLE BEACH — The end of Michelle Wie West’s LPGA career is here, 20 years after her first U.S. Women’s Open start at Pumpkin Ridge. The opportunity to tee it up at Pebble Beach has kept Wie West grounded as she contemplates what like will look like beyond playing professional golf. But come Sunday, Wie

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 4, 2023, 09:18 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Michelle Wie West has no problem admitting it: She has thought about her last walk up to the 18th hole at Pebble Beach — the final one of her career — plenty. She has visualized it, dreamt about it, even idealized it. “Gosh,

PEBBLE BEACH — Rose Zhang will no doubt look back at it as a time of joy and innocence, when she and Stanford teammates were among the first women to compete in a college tournament on the Pebble Beach Golf Links. The Cardinal, coming off their national championship the season before, made their 2022-23 season

Charlotte Gibson, ESPNJul 1, 2023, 07:00 AM ET AMARI AVERY IS frustrated. It’s her first hole of the day, and her drive on the par-4 10th hole at Rancho Santa Fe Country Club in California has fizzled barely 150 yards along the right rough. Now she stands behind her golf ball, lodged deep in the

Aldrich Potgieter came up one shot short of Monday qualifying for this week’s John Deere Classic. But the newly turned pro from South Africa has a heck of a story to tell from his 18 holes at Pinnacle Country Club in Milan, Ill. The 18-year-old former British Amateur champion shot a six-under 66 with a

Associated Press Jul 2, 2023, 03:41 PM ET SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — A 40-foot eagle putt sparked a stunning finish from New Zealand’s Daniel Hillier as he won the British Masters on Sunday and secured his place in the British Open. Hillier’s first European tour title was delivered in spectacular fashion when he carded a

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Nelly Korda doesn’t like learning about courses before arriving. She wants to process the course in her own way, with her own eyes, before coming up with a plan of attack. While her team members have scouted out Pebble Beach before their arrival, Korda’s only experience with the historic course before

Jul 3, 2023, 03:54 PM ET Tiger Woods says he never received scripted comments, purportedly prepared by the PGA Tour, that now are part of a federal lawsuit. Multiple outlets reported Monday that the remarks are among 357 pages of emails and other documents included in an antitrust lawsuit involving the PGA Tour filed in

The U.S. Women’s Open makes its much-anticipated debut at Pebble Beach Golf Links this week, the first time the USGA has hosted a women’s championship at the famed course on California’s Monterey Peninsula since the 1948 U.S. Women’s Amateur. It’s one of four visits the Women’s Open is scheduled to make at “the greatest meeting

Jul 3, 2023, 11:57 AM ET WASHINGTON — Two PGA Tour officials have agreed to testify before a U.S. Senate panel next week about the tour’s merger with Saudi-backed LIV Golf, but LIV officials declined to appear, lawmakers said Monday. Ron Price, chief operating officer of the PGA Tour, and board member Jimmy Dunne have

For all of the right reasons, there will be plenty said and written this week about Amy Olson competing in the 78th U.S. Women’s Open. The 30-year-old is 31 weeks pregnant and will traverse on foot the famed Pebble Beach Golf Links. With a few steep climbs along the cliffs, it’s not an easy stroll—about

Associated Press Jul 2, 2023, 03:14 PM ET DETROIT — Rickie Fowler made a 12-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole of the Rocket Mortgage Classic, outlasting Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin two weeks after squandering a chance to win his first major at the U.S. Open. Fowler, 34, got his first PGA Tour

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