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ATLANTA — In the face of LIV Golf potentially luring away more golfers, the PGA Tour is implementing several new measures to guarantee its top players will stay and compete together on a regular basis in 2023. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, speaking on Wednesday at the Tour Championship, revealed a series of significant changes

8:00 AM ET ATLANTA — The winner of this week’s season-ending Tour Championship, which starts Thursday at East Lake Golf Club, will take home an $18 million bonus. The top 29 players in the FedEx Cup Playoffs points standings will compete for the top prize, after Will Zalatoris, who was third in the standings, had

Almost from its inception in 1994, the Presidents Cup has strained to find relevance. Modeled as a familiar multi-day, United States-versus-World team match-play event, it could not compete with the historic importance or intensity of the Ryder Cup, particularly because a series of European wins in the mid-1980s altered the complexion of a clash that

5:34 PM ET Associated Press Cameron Young and Sahith Theegala are among eight players who can make plans for Kapalua even if they don’t win this year. Kapalua has been the winners-only start to the year on the PGA Tour since 1999, and Wisconsin-based Sentry Insurance has made sure it will stay that way for

ATLANTA — It’s not quite there yet. That’s the consensus from the players at East Lake who are taking part in the fourth year of the Tour Championship’s staggered start format. In 2019, the PGA Tour introduced a handicapping system to structure the leaderboard for the 30 players who qualified for the FedEx Cup finale

7:36 PM ET Attorneys representing the PGA Tour have asked a federal judge to unseal certain details of contracts that were signed by its former players who defected to the rival LIV Golf circuit earlier this year. In a court filing submitted Tuesday to federal judge Beth Labson Freeman of the Northern District of California,

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy announced on Tuesday that they have formed a technology-focused company that will venture into “progressive approaches to sports, media and entertainment.” Their company is called TMRW Sports (pronounced as “tomorrow”) and former NBC Sports president Mike McCarley is a co-founder and will be the CEO. The announcement, via press release,

7:30 AM ET ATLANTA — A memorable PGA Tour season filled with Tiger Woods’ return and the emergence of rival LIV Golf Invitational Series comes to an end this week, when the Tour Championship starts Thursday at East Lake Golf Club. There is plenty at stake for the 30 players who advanced to the season-ending

For all the banter this summer about rapidly rising prize money payouts in professional golf, it remains hard to wrap your head around about what’s on the line this week at the Tour Championship. The winner on Sunday at East Lake Golf Club will earn $18 million for his victory. Let’s repeat this: $18 million.

Aug 21, 2022 Associated Press ENDICOTT, N.Y. — Padraig Harrington won the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open on Sunday for his second PGA Tour Champions victory of the year. Harrington closed with a 5-under 67 at En-Joie Golf Club for a 3-stroke victory over Mike Weir and Thongchai Jaidee. “Unusual for me, no drama, no real

WILMINGTON, Del. — I wasn’t planning on attending FedEx II, even though it was a home game. From my house in Philadelphia to the front gate of the Wilmington Country Club is an hour in the usual traffic. (Insert electronic voice: You are still on the fastest route.) But we had been away on a

3:56 PM ET Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan are among the star athletes who will be featured in the upcoming release of the PGA Tour 2K23 video game on Oct. 14. 2K announced on Monday that the iconic game is back, featuring Woods on the cover and in the game. Fans will be able to

6:32 PM ET Associated Press PARAMUS, N.J. — A tough road led to the sweetest finish for Sam Bennett in the U.S. Amateur. Even with so many top stars who either didn’t qualify or got knocked out in the opening round, Bennett had to face the rest of the best, match after match, to get

The story that’s told this week on our Local Knowledge podcast is among golf’s most tragic. Yet, chances are, you’ve never even heard of it. In the 1930s and 1940s, Marion Miley was a notable young female golfer. This was a time when the women’s amateur game had a sizeable national following, people looking for

6:49 PM ET Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. — One good break. One great shot. That’s what it took Sunday for Patrick Cantlay to win the BMW Championship for the second straight time with a finish that was nothing like last year’s except for his clutch moments. One other difference: The victory didn’t give him the

WILMINGTON, Del. — The man who is forever expressionless licked his lips, breaking his stone-cold stare because stoicism wouldn’t suffice for what he just did. Patrick Cantlay’s tee shot that was supposed to stay safe did not, leaving him with a mean, uphill approach from a bunker with the ball above his feet and edging

PARAMUS, N.J. — From the moment he arrived in New Jersey, Sam Bennett seemed a little miffed. He was wondering why nobody was talking about him in the lead-up to the 122nd U.S. Amateur, which, let’s be honest, may have been a subjective opinion. Perceived slights are much different than actual ones. But, after Bennett

7:30 PM ET ESPN.com Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print The FedEx Cup playoffs started with 125 players. After the first event, the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the field was cut to 70 players. After this week’s BMW Championship, won by the event’s defending champion, Patrick Cantlay, only 30 players advance to the season-ending

Tom Weiskopf, winner of the 1973 Open Championship, whose talents translated from a star-crossed playing career to critical success as a golf course designer, died in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Friday, according to multiple sources close to the family. Weiskopf was 79 and had been battling pancreatic cancer since being diagnosed with the disease in late

11:56 AM ET Associated Press Tom Weiskopf’s golf skill went far beyond his 16 victories on the PGA Tour and his lone major at Royal Troon in the Open Championship. He was outspoken and accurate in the television booth and found even greater success designing golf courses. Weiskopf died Saturday at his home in Big

PARAMUS, N.J. — Sam Bennett was in jail. Actually, being behind bars might have been preferable. In full control of his semifinal match against Dylan Menante at the U.S. Amateur, Bennett suddenly found himself tied on the 17th hole at Ridgewood Country Club when his tee shot came to rest in some fescue, directly behind

8:44 PM ET Associated Press PARAMUS, N.J. — Texas A&M senior Sam Bennett won his third straight match against a player from the top 10 in the amateur world ranking, this one Saturday getting him into the U.S. Amateur championship match with a 1-up victory over Dylan Menante. All five of Bennett’s matches at Ridgewood

6:56 PM ET Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. — Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele went from being teammates to close friends and now seem to be inseparable on the PGA Tour, so the final round of the BMW Championship might have the feel of one of their countless practice rounds. Except for the stakes. Cantlay holed

WILMINGTON, Del. — The vagaries of match play have nothing on the FedEx Cup. Adam Scott, Aaron Wise and Scott Stallings are among a pack of six within three shots of the Patrick Cantlay’s lead at Wilmington Country Club, where a strong Sunday leads to a win and all the goodies that would come with

Listen, we’re willing to say what others might not. Rules controversies are golf fans’ guilty pleasure. Mind you, no one is rooting for anything bad to happen to any individual golfer, but when something emerges in a pro golf event—bad drop, squirrely lie, equipment malfunction, etc.—there is sick satisfaction out of a good ol’ fashion

10:33 AM ET Associated Press Play was suspended for the day at the Czech Masters after the course was flooded following heavy rain on Saturday. Only 10 players were able to start the third round at the Albatross Golf Resort near Prague. 1 Related “The continued rainfall we have experienced means that, despite the strenuous

WILMINGTON, Del. — He is one of those players, with his sweet swing and good looks and forever cool temper, that can make this ridiculous game look ridiculously easy. Through 34 holes that’s what Adam Scott was doing to Wilmington Country Club, surmounting a three-stroke lead over the field as he stood on the tee

8:10 PM ET Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. — Adam Scott felt he was playing well enough that he should start seeing some better scores at some point. That moment appears to have arrived at just the right time. Scott put together another tidy round Friday except for one hole — a double bogey on the

How often have you heard the cliche half-sentence “if the season ended today…”? Probably over a thousand times if you’re a sports fan of a certain age, and we’re about to hit you with it again, because cliche or not, we’re very much at the precipice of a few big outcomes, and with just six

6:48 PM ET Associated Press ENDICOTT, N.Y. — Darren Clarke, Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh shared the lead at 7-under 65 on Friday in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open, with four more major champions right behind at En-Joie Golf Club. Padraig Harrington and Duffy Waldorf followed at 66, and Ernie Els, Mike Weir, Y.E. Yang