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Associated Press Jul 2, 2023, 05:15 PM ET STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Bernhard Langer won the U.S. Senior Open on Sunday at SentryWorld to break the PGA Tour Champions’ career victory record. Pushing his record as the oldest winner on the 50-and-over tour to 65 years, 10 months, 5 days, the German star broke a

Following his drought-breaking playoff win at the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday, nobody asked Rickie Fowler specifically about the Ryder Cup. But he mentioned it anyway. “One of the end goals was to be a part of the Ryder Cup team and that’s still what we’re focusing on right now,” he said, in response to

Associated Press Jul 2, 2023, 01:14 PM ET SOTOGRANDE, Spain — Talor Gooch won his third LIV Golf League title of the year Sunday when he made a curling 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole at Valderrama for a 4-under 67 and a 1-shot victory over Bryson DeChambeau. Gooch won $4 million for the

The fate of the LIV Golf League remains uncertain as its financial backer, the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, works with the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour to create a for-profit entity that will help handle the commercial aspects of the three circuits. But as LIV proceeds, it might behoove the other two

Associated Press Jul 2, 2023, 12:11 AM ET JASPER, Ind. — Angela Stanford took advantage of Trish Johnson’s late collapse Saturday at Sultan’s Run to win the Senior LPGA Championship. Five strokes back entering the day and four behind playing the final hole, the 45-year-old Stanford birdied the par-4 18th for a 7-under 65 and

Ask Rickie Fowler whether he needs to win the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday and his answer is a version of, “Not necessarily.” He’s contending regularly on the PGA Tour, and after a slump that saw him plummet to 185th in the Official World Golf Ranking, that’s satisfying for right now. But four years removed

Associated Press Jul 1, 2023, 08:05 PM ET DETROIT — Rickie Fowler has put himself in a position to win a PGA Tour title again. He’s hoping to take advantage for a change. Fowler birdied six of his last eight holes Saturday to surge into the Rocket Mortgage Classic lead at 20 under, giving him

The PGA Tour will host a new event in Utah beginning in 2024. In an announcement on Friday, the tour said it is ending a six-decade hiatus from the Beehive State, as the Black Desert Championship is scheduled to launch in the fall of next year. “We are thrilled to partner with Black Desert Resort

Associated Press Jul 1, 2023, 01:42 PM ET SOTOGRANDE, Spain — Bryson DeChambeau made eagle on his final hole at the par-5 17th for an 8-under 63 and a one-shot lead over Talor Gooch on Saturday in LIV Golf-Valderrama. DeChambeau has yet to win against the 48-man fields on the Saudi-backed LIV Golf League, and

At 660th in the Official World Golf Ranking and 210th in the FedEx Cup standings, Andrew Landry is a pretty good professional golfer who hasn’t played good golf for quite some time. That fact doesn’t make him particularly unique. Good golfers struggle. Great ones do, too. Here’s the thing though: If they’re really any good,

Associated Press Jun 30, 2023, 07:45 PM ET DETROIT — Taylor Moore and Taylor Pendrith shared the Rocket Mortgage Classic lead at 13 under Friday, hoping to hold off a veteran trying to end a victory drought and a promising young pro aiming for his first PGA Tour victory. Pendrith shot an 8-under 64 at

After his disappointing finish at the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club two weeks ago, Rickie Fowler could have sulked or taken a mental holiday or even questioned just how much progress he has truly made in what has been a comeback year. Instead, he has just kept the comeback theme going. And going.

Associated Press Jun 30, 2023, 09:13 PM ET STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Bernhard Langer has been able to avoid most of the trouble at SentryWorld in the U.S. Senior Open. He still was far from unscathed Friday in a 3-under 68 that gave him the second-round lead. “Believe it or not, I had two three-putts

In the runup to the U.S. Senior Open at Sentry World, 65-year-old Bernhard Langer didn’t particularly fancy his chances, noting the distance he gives up to younger players on a layout that he said favors the bombers. “They’re going to hit driver, 9-iron [into the greens]. I’m hitting driver, 3-iron, which makes it hard to

Associated Press Jun 29, 2023, 05:53 PM ET SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — As expected, Justin Rose set the pace in the first round of the British Masters with a 7-under 65. Rose, the World No. 31 and top-ranked player in the field, had eight birdies and a solitary bogey at the Belfry on Thursday. The

Dylan Wu was cruising along nicely after four holes Thursday at the Rocket Mortgage Classic when business started to pick up. The second-year PGA Tour pro started on the 10th hole at Detroit Golf Club and bogeyed the 11th hole, then made consecutive birdies on the next two holes to get to one under. On

Associated Press Jun 29, 2023, 08:02 PM ET DETROIT — Taylor Moore and Monday qualifier Peter Kuest shot 8-under 64s to share the first-round lead in the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Thursday, with a slew of players chasing in what’s expected to be a shootout. Dylan Wu had the third albatross on the PGA Tour

First-round leads generally mean little, but specifically can be surprisingly newsworthy, as was the case with Peter Kuest on Thursday. Peter who? Kuest, 25, was a Monday qualifier for the Rocket Mortgage Classic and as such is among the least likely players in the field to make news on Thursday. Yet he had six 3s

Associated Press Jun 29, 2023, 09:21 PM ET STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Retief Goosen got right to the point after the first round of the U.S. Senior Open at punishing SentryWorld. “You got to hit the fairways, otherwise, you’ve got no shot,” the two-time U.S. Open champion said Thursday after a 1-under 70 that left

Seeking to play in his 25th consecutive Open Championship, Sergio Garcia will lead several members of the LIV Golf League in hoping to secure last-minute entry into the field at Royal Liverpool via 36-hole qualifying next week. From major champions like Garcia, Graeme McDowell and Charl Schwartzel, to reserve players like Andy Ogletree and Wade

ESPN News Services Jun 29, 2023, 12:50 PM ET Nobody expects Nick Faldo to deal niceties when asked for thoughts on the LIV Golf League, and he drilled the PGA Tour rival at his latest opportunity Thursday previewing the British Masters. The six-time major winner questioned the circuit’s shift to add emphasis to team play

Amid speculation that LIV Golf’s days are numbered, Phil Mickelson asserts the fledgling circuit is here to stay. Though Mickelson played two weeks ago in the U.S. Open, the six-time major winner declined to speak at Los Angeles Country Club on the proposed deal between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. However,

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJun 28, 2023, 09:17 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia In his first public comments since the PGA Tour’s stunning alliance with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund was announced June 6, six-time

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — In 1985, Golf Digest contributor Tom Callahan, in his guise as the sports guy for Time Magazine, wrote a profile of Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird and Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky. In the piece Callahan told the remarkable tale of how both men, when shown a picture from the previous night’s

Associated Press Jun 28, 2023, 02:48 PM ET CROMWELL, Conn. — Changes will be made to the TPC River Highlands golf course after record-low scoring last week during the PGA Tour’s annual Travelers Championship, tournament officials said Wednesday. Andy Bessette, Travelers’ executive vice president and chief administrative officer, told The Associated Press that officials at

Two executives running the PGA Tour while commissioner Jay Monahan recovers from a medical situation have revealed they anticipate the 53-year-old’s return. On June 13, Tuesday night of U.S. Open week, the tour announced Monahan was “recuperating from a medical situation” and would step back from his duties. That came a week after Monahan stunned

The LIV Golf League hits the halfway point of its 2023 schedule at Real Club Valderrama in Spain this weekend. There are six regular season tournaments remaining, including one in London and four more in the U.S. The individual and team championships will take place in Saudi Arabia on Nov. 3-5. After that, no one

A Pinehurst native now holds a coveted local scoring record. In the first round of the 123rd North & South Amateur on Tuesday, Jackson Van Paris shot a nine-under, 61, setting a new course record at Pinehurst No. 4. He broke the old record, previously held by Jackson Koivun, by two strokes. Van Paris, a

Associated Press Jun 27, 2023, 11:30 PM ET DETROIT — The PGA Tour sought to assure players Tuesday that they will have a say in the tour’s new partnership with the Saudi funders of LIV Golf, with its policy board issuing a statement that noted players would have to approve any final agreement between the

The PGA Tour’s policy board issued a statement Tuesday night following a players meeting in Detroit regarding the proposed deal between the tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, signaling a “new phase” of negotiations have begun while signaling the deal may ultimately not come to fruition. The statement comes a day after the framework