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Golf sure is full of surprises. Even though we’re not really supposed to be surprised when fill-in-the-blank puts his name on the leaderboard—and then, more astonishingly, decides to keep it there. We are talking about professionals here, right. So we’ll only raise one eyebrow at Scott Piercy’s play through 36 holes of the 3M Open.

8:37 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Scott Piercy shot a 7-under 64 on Friday at TPC Twin Cities to take a three-stroke lead in the 3M Open. Piercy had a 13-under 129 total. The four-time PGA Tour winner opened with a 65 on Thursday in windy conditions. Emiliano Grillo was second after a

Bernhard Langer has enjoyed a long and lucrative career from producing an economy of strokes, so it was somewhat startling to see him take two with one swing in the second round of the Senior British Open on Friday. Yes, he double-hit a short chip shot. Langer, 64, was a few paces off the ninth

4:59 PM ET Associated Press Paul Waring retained his two-shot lead at the Cazoo Classic on the European tour by shooting 2-under 70 in the second round on Friday. Grant Forrest, Jens Dantorp and Julien Guerrier all shot 69 and were Waring’s nearest challengers at Hillside near Liverpool in northwest England. Daan Luizing (68) was

We’ve seen some final-hole meltdowns before, but this is one of the most bizarre and heartbreaking. Ryan Werre held a two-shot lead at the Alberta Mid Amateur Championship on Thursday until a brutal bad break caused him to tumble down the leaderboard—and climb up a tree. All the way up. Werre’s risky second shot on

2:29 PM ET Charles Barkley has acknowledged meeting with LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman about a possible broadcasting role while pushing back at what he called “selective outrage” toward the Saudi-funded series. Barkley could receive a LIV offer from Norman after they met in Atlanta on Wednesday, but the Basketball Hall of Famer told the

There was a distinct difference between the morning and afternoon waves Thursday at TPC Twin Cities. Ten of the 14 best first-round scores came from the early wave, while only Tony Finau, Emiliano Grillo, Patton Kizzire and Robert Streb were able to crack that upper echelon in the afternoon. Finau bogeyed the first hole with

7:25 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Scott Piercy shot a 6-under 65 to share the 3M Open lead with Sungjae Im after a windy first round Thursday. Tony Finau was two strokes back, with three near misses of birdie putts over his last four holes, along with Brice Garnett, Doug Ghim, Emiliano Grillo

The best golfer from the Land of the Rising Sun struggled mightily in the Land of 10,000 Lakes on Thursday. In particular, with one lake. Hideki Matsuyama deposited an entire sleeve of golf balls into a body of water on the par-5 18th hole at TPC Twin Cities. The 2021 Masters champ got wet off

5:59 PM ET Associated Press GLENEAGLES, Scotland — Playing with a new set of golf clubs after his own ones failed to arrive from the United States, Glen Day never expected to be a contender at the Senior British Open this week. Imagine his surprise, then, at taking a share of the lead after the

Admittedly, this is a decidedly odd public service, but this has been a decidedly odd year in golf. And so we proceed: our inaugural Fire Pit Collective ranking of the four men’s Grand Slam events. The Year in the Majors, FPC-style. First place: the British Open at the Old Course, St. Andrews, Scotland, July 14-17,

PINEHURST, N.C. — Simon Lee rarely speaks in complete sentences. Diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum at 3 years old, he has a difficult time making eye contact, and for reporters who interviewed him during the week at the inaugural U.S. Adaptive Open, he often turned to this mother and coach for encouragement before

7:34 AM ET Henrik Stenson will no longer serve as the European captain at the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome, with the Swedish golfer announcing Wednesday that he will join LIV Golf. In a statement posted to Twitter on Wednesday, Stenson wrote that LIV Golf officials had worked with him to ensure that he could

LIV Golf announced Wednesday that Charles Howell III, Jason Kokrak and Henrik Stenson have filled the three remaining spots in its upcoming event at Trump Bedminster. Kokrak and Stenson are far from surprises. Kokrak has been a Golf Saudi ambassador and a past participant in the Saudi International, and told Golf Digest’s Daniel Rapaport earlier

3:44 PM ET Longtime PGA Tour players Jason Kokrak and Charles Howell III have joined LIV Golf, the new circuit announced Wednesday. Kokrak, ranked 36th in the Official World Golf Ranking, has three victories on the PGA Tour, including the Houston Open in November. His departure had been anticipated for months; he has been an

Have a wee think about this one: In the long history of professional golf, what constitutes the best-ever finish to a tournament by the eventual winner? There are many contenders, Cameron Smith’s 64 at St. Andrews on Sunday to win the 150th Open joining the list. Some could point to Charl Schwartzel’s four straight closing

9:53 AM ET Associated Press The World Golf Hall of Fame is leaving Florida and returning to North Carolina, where it will be part of the USGA’s campus at Pinehurst and have two induction ceremonies during the U.S. Open weeks in 2024 and 2029. The move will involve relocating some of the artifacts that have

PINEHURST, N.C. — If you’re a golfer in a USGA event and Hilary Cronheim gets her precious gloves out, you know you’ve done something special. Cronheim is the director of the USGA Museum, and you may have seen her on TV during the recent U.S. Open showing off the clubs used by Francis Ouimet in

4:36 PM ET ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Each time Rory McIlroy ventured out of his hotel room in St. Andrews, Scotland, this week, he could see the big yellow scoreboard above the first and 18th holes at the Old Course. At the start of the final round of the 150th edition of The Open on

PINEHURST, N.C. — They have heard it more times than they’d like to admit. “Get off the green with your cart!” That’s the reality of paraplegic people who play golf and require a modified vehicle to enjoy the game. To putt, they have to drive onto the green, and for most golfers, that might be

11:47 AM ET Associated Press Billy Andrade has been selected to receive the Payne Stewart Award this year, which has become one of the highest honors for PGA Tour players. The award honors Stewart, who died in a plane crash in October 1999, the year he won the U.S. Open. It is given to players

Cameron Smith’s win at St. Andrews made him the Champion Golfer of the Year. It might not have happened, though, if he hadn’t pulled off one of the greatest pars of all time. By now, you’ve certainly seen it. Many times. After missing the 17th green with his approach, the Aussie found himself in a

9:34 PM ET Associated Press TRUCKEE, Calif. — Chez Reavie won the Barracuda Championship on Sunday, holding on in the breezy final round of the PGA Tour’s lone modified Stableford scoring event for his third tour title. Six points ahead entering the day, Reavie had a six-point round for a one-point victory over Alex Noren

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — At 6.45 a.m. on Sunday, just hours before the start of the final round of the 150th Open, Andrew Thomson, son of the late, great Peter Thomson, spread some of his father’s ashes across the Old Course. The Australian icon triumphed at the 1955 Open at St Andrews—one of five Opens

8:39 AM ET ESPN News Services Former Masters champion Sergio Garcia said he intends to quit the DP World Tour after joining the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series, adding that he no longer feels loved on his home European circuit. Garcia, who resigned his PGA membership to play in the LIV series, will be ineligible for

The 63-year-old analyst and on-course reporter for NBC Sports and Golf Channel is expected to become an analyst for LIV Golf, which has six events remaining on its 2022 schedule. Feherty was host of his eponymous “Feherty” show on Golf Channel from 2011-2021 and was part of NBC’s coverage of the 150th Open Championship last

5:52 PM ET The Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational Series is set to add another big name — this one outside the playing ropes. David Feherty is leaving NBC and is expected to join the breakaway tour as an analyst for eight to 10 tournaments annually, the New York Post reported Monday, citing sources. Feherty, known

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Noted fisherman Cameron Smith reeled in Rory McIlroy for the biggest catch of his life, delivering a final round for the ages with a 64 at the Old Course. There is so, so much to discuss. Here are 18 parting thoughts from The 50th Open. 1: We start, as always, with

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Golf’s major season ended with Australia’s Cameron Smith winning the 150th edition of The Open and lifting the Claret Jug at St. Andrews on Sunday. Smith became the sixth straight player in his 20s to win a major and the second consecutive first-timer. Matt Fitzpatrick picked up his first at the

Chez Reavie is not the best player at the club of which he is a member in Scottsdale, Ariz., which is not necessarily a demerit, given that Jon Rahm, among other PGA Tour players, is a member. He proved as such on Sunday when he won the Barracuda Championship, his third PGA Tour victory. Reavie,