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Mardy Fish didn’t have the finish he hoped for on Sunday at the 2022 American Century Championship. His Wednesday, however, went a lot better. The former tennis star and current U.S. Davis Cup captain announced he’ll become the latest celebrity golfer to tee it up on the PGA Tour after receiving a sponsor exemption into

1:57 PM ET Rory McIlroy is the consensus favorite to win The Open and the only golfer with odds in the single digits at the majority of sportsbooks, but bettors in the U.S. and abroad can’t resist backing long shot Tiger Woods. At Caesars Sportsbook, McIlroy is 9-1 to win this week at St. Andrews.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers would love nothing more than to be focusing solely on the playing of the 150th Open Championship this week at St. Andrews. It’s a celebration that has been years in the planning, one that had to wait a year to happen thanks to the COVID 19

6:29 AM ET ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — It all comes back to Scotland and St. Andrews on the 150th edition of The Open. It’s a place where the game’s greats bid farewell to this championship. It’s where hopes have been shattered in the Valley of Sin in front of the 18th green, or the “Road

4:35 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau and golf ball manufacturer Bridgestone have agreed to end their sponsorship relationship, the company confirmed to ESPN. The news was first reported by Golf.com, and comes after DeChambeau decided to join the Saudi backed LIV Golf tour. “The PGA Tour is an extremely important part of professional golf, and Bridgestone

There are a couple things you may not know about the 29 Open Championships played at St. Andrews since time immemorial. First, it being only the second course ever to host the Open, it wasn’t until the event’s 13th iteration that it came to St. Andrews—the first 12 were all at Prestwick. Second, despite Tom

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — In Britain, the natives have long been accomplished in the arts of both pomp and circumstance. Ceremony too, as was the case when the University of St. Andrews and the Royal Burgh of St. Andrews Community Council hosted a wee get-together Tuesday to give out five honorary degrees and make Jack

9:01 AM ET ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – Tiger Woods blasted LIV Golf during a news conference at the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews on Tuesday, offering his sharpest criticism to date of PGA Tour players who were lured to the Saudi Arabian-financed circuit by lucrative signing bonuses. In some cases, high-profile players such as

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Tiger Woods is firmly anti-LIV Golf. It comes as no surprise, of course. He’s said so a few times before this week’s Open Championship, and he played an integral role—the integral role?—in building the PGA Tour into what it is today. And yet, given the setting and the context—at the Home

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — The Open celebrates its 150th anniversary at the home of golf this week, and its homecoming at St. Andrews couldn’t have come at a better time for the game. With LIV Golf threatening to splinter the professional tours even more, the drama takes a back seat, at least for a week,

For nearly 60 years, Tommy Jacobs was the answer to an often-cited trivia question: Who is the youngest golfer to play in the Masters? As a semifinalist in the 1951 U.S. Amateur, Jacobs earned an invitation to compete at Augusta National the following April. He was 16 at the time and 17 when he teed

3:41 PM ET ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the PGA Tour’s handling of its players and whether it has engaged in anticompetitive behavior during its ongoing battle with the LIV Golf Invitational Series, a new circuit being financed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The inquiry,

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — You’re going to hear the Old Course referred to as the “Home of Golf” ad nauseum this week. But what does that really mean? Why is this seaside links more special than the rest? What actually happened here to cement its status as the epicenter of this global game? The short

6:27 AM ET The Open is golf’s oldest major, and this year it celebrates its 150th installment. And there is no other place that could possibly happen than at the home of golf — The Old Course at St. Andrews. Get ESPN+ here | Download the app After sitting out the U.S. Open, Tiger Woods

The 150th Open. It’s a span of time that’s difficult to grasp. None of us has any experience of what life was like when Old Tom Morris was stuffing featheries in 1860. Although it’d be fun to tell Old Tom what Branden Grace’s caddie made last week. I recently traveled to St. Andrews ahead of

6:17 AM ET ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Tiger Woods, a 15-time major champion, called St. Andrews his “favorite course in the world” when he announced he’d be playing in the 150th Open after his return to competitive golf at the Masters in April. There’s plenty of reason for Woods to love it. He claimed his

Make sure your alarm clock is working—or whatever you use to get yourself up these days. The Open Championship has arrived, and NBC Sports has coverage from the opening shot each round to the final putt for American golf fans willing to get up early (or stay up late as the case may be for

8:52 PM ET Associated Press STATELINE, Nev. — Tony Romo won the American Century Championship for the third time, beating Mark Mulder and Joe Pavelski with a 5-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff Sunday. Romo also birdied the par-5 18th in regulation to earn three points and match Mulder and Pavelski

10:26 AM ET ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — After Tiger Woods ripped his tee shot down the 18th fairway during a practice round at the Old Course at St. Andrews on Sunday, Justin Thomas followed his ball in the air and said, “Oooh!” When Woods’ ball bounded down the sun-baked fairway and bounced high onto the

The Genesis Scottish Open is the first co-sanctioned event between the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour as part of their strategic alliance announced in November 2020. The spots in the field were split between the two tours and resulted in a field with 14 of the top 15 players in the world competing.

It’s already been an extraordinary year for Ben Griffin. The 26-year-old out of North Carolina earned his first status on the Korn Ferry Tour for the current campaign, and with three second-place finishes on his tab already, he’s in third place in the standings and well on his way to competing fulltime on the PGA

7:16 PM ET ESPN News Services STATELINE, Nev. — Three-time champion Mark Mulder eagled the par-5 16th hole Saturday and scored 25 points to take a three-point lead in the American Century Championship. Mulder, the former major league pitcher who won the golf event three straight times from 2015 to 2017, received six points for

Tiger Woods walked. He waved to fans. He hit some chips and putts. He even did some dog watching on the fairways of St. Andrews’ Old Course. And all of those seemingly ordinary circumstances added up to news for one reason: The greatest golfer of his generation was back at the Home of Golf, visiting

10:52 PM ET Associated Press NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — Max McGreevy completed a 9-under 63 on Saturday to share the second-round lead and had a one-stroke advantage when darkness suspended third-round play in the PGA Tour’s Barbasol Championship. Much of the field began the third round in the evening in sunny conditions after heavy showers hit

GULLANE, Scotland—He’s not leading the Genesis Scottish Open after 54 holes, but at least in one respect, Max Homa is ahead of the field heading into the fourth and final day at the Renaissance Club. That’s one round ahead. After completing a one-over par effort of 71 on Friday, the 31-year old Californian made his

2:16 PM ET MasterCard has paused its endorsement deals with LIV golf tour members Ian Poulter and Graeme McDowell, the company told ESPN. Poulter has had a contract with the global company since 2009 and McDowell since 2011, but because of their association with the controversial tour and suspension from the PGA Tour, MasterCard has

GULLANE, Scotland — He isn’t leading at the halfway stage of the Genesis Scottish Open, but it’s a safe bet that those around him on the leaderboard are paying close attention to Matt Fitzpatrick’s prominent presence. Despite being saddled with the wind-blown “wrong” side of the draw—late/early—the U.S. Open champion is three under par after

7:38 PM ET Associated Press STATELINE, Nev. — T.J. Oshie made a 13-foot eagle putt on the par-5 18th hole to take the first-round lead Friday in the American Century Championship. The Washington Capitals forward received six points for the eagle under the modified Stableford scoring system, giving him 21 for the day at Edgewood

Jordan Spieth makes headlines seemingly everywhere he goes. On Friday at the Genesis Scottish Open, he made them for three distinctly different reasons. One of the events was comical. The other two were not. After an opening-round 68 at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Spieth was in contention and quickly made birdie on the

9:53 PM ET Associated Press NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — Adam Svensson shot a 5-under 67 and had a three-stroke lead in the Barbasol Championship when second-round play Friday at water-logged Keene Trace was suspended because of darkness. Svensson had a 15-under 129 total at Keene Trace, where a mid-day thunderstorm followed dense morning fog. Play was