Golf

7:26 AM ET This is the week the stars come out on the PGA Tour. And not just the celebrities who will be playing alongside the professionals for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which begins Thursday. No, the three golf courses — Monterey Peninsula Country Club, Spyglass Hill and, of course, Pebble Beach — also

1:00 PM ET Will Zalatoris, who just missed winning his first PGA Tour event last week, has withdrawn from this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am after testing positive for COVID-19, the tour announced Tuesday. Zalatoris, the 29th ranked player in the world, will be replaced in the field by Greg Chalmers. Zalatoris, 25, just missed

6:59 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — A 10-event run called the International Series will form part of this season’s Asian Tour in a Saudi-funded move that could prove to be a threat to golf’s two main tours. The series is being funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and

7:28 AM ET The PGA Tour is beginning to hit its stride, with another stop on the California swing at this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. It’s still January, so there’s a lot of golf left to be played. Many of the sport’s biggest names are just beginning to find their games. Jon Rahm, the

5:58 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Lydia Ko pulled ahead with a birdie on the 15th hole and matched scores with Danielle Kang the rest of the way, closing with a 3-under 69 for a 1-shot victory on a chilly Sunday in the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio. Ko won for the

9:00 AM ET Associated Press Viktor Hovland beat Richard Bland in a playoff to capture the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday after Rory McIlroy missed a chance to win the title in regulation by bogeying the last hole. Hovland claimed his third victory in five events by making birdie from inside 3 feet at the

9:12 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Luke List earned his first PGA Tour victory with a birdie on the first playoff hole at Torrey Pines on Saturday, holding off Will Zalatoris well after sunset to win the Farmers Insurance Open. List began the final round five shots back of leaders Zalatoris and Jason

5:34 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Even as the exams change, Lydia Ko continues to provide the proper answers needed to stay in front at the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio. Ko opened with a 63 when conditions were prime for scoring. When temperatures dipped into the 40s on Saturday and the

10:52 AM ET South Africa’s Justin Harding retained a two-shot lead going into the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic after a 1-under-par 71 on Saturday kept him ahead of four-time major winner Rory McIlroy. The 35-year-old Harding hit a bogey on the eighth hole but recovered with two birdies on the 12th and

9:12 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Will Zalatoris and Jason Day charged past Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas on Friday at Torrey Pines to share the third-round lead at the Farmers Insurance Open. Zalatoris posted the day’s best round with a 7-under 65, and two-time Farmers champion Day shot a 67. They were

7:03 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — A week and a half into the 2022 LPGA Tour season, Danielle Kang has a new home. She has taken up residence at the top of the leaderboard with no indication of leaving. A winner in the season opener in Orlando, Florida, last week, Kang birdied

4:25 PM ET Every person who picks up a golf club has the same dream: A hole-in-one. Shane Lowry and Tommy Fleetwood are both ranked in the top 50 in the world. Lowry has won The Open; Fleetwood has eight professional victories, though he is still searching for his first one on U.S. soil. Both,

1:26 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — Prince Andrew has given up his honorary membership at St. Andrews as he fights allegations of sexual abuse that have led to him retreating from public life. The club in St. Andrews, Scotland, announced the move Friday, two weeks after Andrew was stripped of his honorary military titles

8:00 AM ET In a first for a high-profile ex-professional athlete, North Carolina A&T freshman golfer J.R. Smith — a retired 16-year NBA guard — has signed with Excel Sports for NIL representation, agent Lance Young told ESPN. Smith, 36, is beginning his second semester for the Aggies and his emergence as perhaps the most

8:51 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Top-ranked Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas made the birdies they needed to keep pace on the easier North Course at Torrey Pines on Thursday and shared the lead with hard-charging Adam Schenk after two rounds of the Farmers Insurance Open. Schenk made eight straight birdies to shoot

11:42 AM ET Denmark’s Joachim Hansen took a one-shot lead in the opening round of the Dubai Desert Classic after carding an error-free 65 to finish at 7 under on Thursday. The 110th-ranked Hansen hit four birdies in a row to edge ahead of South Africa’s Justin Harding in second, who was on the 18th

8:26 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Top-ranked Jon Rahm closed with an eagle on the tougher South Course at Torrey Pines for a 6-under 66 on Wednesday, trailing leader Billy Horschel by three strokes after the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open. Horschel shot a bogey-free 9-under 63 on the North Course

9:32 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN The official qualifying tour of the LPGA will now be named the Epson Tour, after a five-year agreement between the LPGA Tour and Epson America Inc. was announced on Wednesday. Formerly known as the Symetra Tour, the circuit enters its 42nd year and will raise entry prize money to $200,000