7:43 PM ET While some may have questioned Patrick Reed‘s motives during an embedded ball controversy in last year’s Farmers Insurance Open, the defending champion insisted Tuesday that he did nothing wrong. Reed, a nine-time winner on the PGA Tour, declared an embedded ball after taking his second shot on the 10th hole during the
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3:33 PM ET Jon Rahm, the No. 1 player in the world, doesn’t regret calling The American Express a “[expletive] putting contest” last week. But Rahm, 27, of Spain, admits had he known his outburst was being caught on camera by a fan’s phone, he would have cleaned up his language. “My reaction? I mean,
12:00 PM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The PGA Tour stops at Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, California, this week for the 2022 Farmers Insurance Open. The event will tee off Wednesday to avoid conflict with the NFL conference championship games Sunday. Patrick Reed won last year’s Farmers Insurance Open by 5 shots over
7:48 AM ET One of the premier events of the early PGA Tour schedule takes place this week. The Farmers Insurance Open, played at Torrey Pines, which hosted last year’s U.S. Open won by Jon Rahm, will gather an elite field. In effort to clear the decks for Sunday’s NFC and AFC championship games, the
7:44 AM ET Dustin Johnson hasn’t won a golf tournament on American soil in 14 months. Justin Thomas has gone more than 10 months without a victory. Rory McIlroy hoisted a trophy in October, but hasn’t finished atop the leaderboard at a major championship in more than seven years. With the PGA Tour boasting a
2:38 AM ET Thomas Pieters sealed his sixth European Tour title with a one-shot victory in a thrilling final round of the HSBC Championship in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. The Belgian carded a level-par 72 in testing conditions at Yas Links to hold off the chasing pack. 1 Related Pieters, 29, finished the tournament on
8:02 PM ET Associated Press LA QUINTA, Calif. — Hudson Swafford thought about his late father Sunday at PGA West in his second victory in The American Express in five years. “I had a couple moments where I looked up and knew that he was following and knew that he was there,” Swafford said. “I
5:29 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Danielle Kang readily admits she, and her golf game, remain a constant work in progress. She spent much of the offseason finding a way to be “comfortable being uncomfortable.” It seems to be working. On a difficult championship test at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club, Kang
4:03 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — Standing on the edge of the 18th green, the Cayman Islands’ Aaron Jarvis had to hold his breath more than once. His round over, Jarvis was participating in interviews as both Mexico’s Santiago De la Fuente del Valle and Argentina’s Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira missed
2:35 PM ET Associated Press LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — The flag of the Cayman Islands will fly at Augusta National in April after Aaron Jarvis made birdie on the final hole Sunday for a 3-under 69 and a one-shot victory in a tense ending to the Latin America Amateur Championship. The victory means Jarvis,
2:17 AM ET Associated Press KA’UPULEHU-KONA, Hawaii — Miguel Angel Jimenez is off to another great start on the PGA Tour Champions in Hawaii. Jimenez, the cigar-smoking, free-spirited Spaniard, birdied the par-4 18th hole in regulation for a 6-under 66 and then beat Steven Alker on the second playoff hole to win the season-opening Mitsubishi
8:46 PM ET Associated Press LA QUINTA, Calif. — Lee Hodges and Paul Barjon took advantage of a late tee time Saturday to miss the worst of a windy day and share the third-round lead in The American Express. “It was tough early and it kind of died on our back nine a little bit,”
4:06 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic – On Saturday, after Gabriel Morgan Birke shot 2-under 70 to enter the final day of the Latin America Amateur Championship tied for sixth and three shots off the lead, the 24-year-old Chilean wasn’t ready to go to the beach at Casa de Campo just yet.
10:57 PM ET Associated Press KA’UPULEHU-KONA, Hawaii — Ernie Els was on his way to a big lead until a double bogey slowed his momentum Friday. He wound up with a 4-under 68 and was part of a three-way tie for the lead in the PGA Tour Champions season opener. Vijay Singh had a late
5:22 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — Santiago De la Fuente del Valle is a name that, as the 20-year-old Mexican amateur puts it, feels straight out of a telenovela. De la Fuente’s story, too, seems like it was put together by a room of writers. It begins in a town in
1:25 PM ET Scott Jamieson maintained his one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the HSBC Championship in Abu Dhabi after carding a two-over-par 74 on Friday, while Rory McIlroy and Collin Morikawa kept themselves in contention to make it through to the weekend. Overnight leader Jamieson entered round two at 9 under but moved
8:03 PM ET Associated Press LA QUINTA, Calif. — Patrick Cantlay shot a 10-under 62 in perfect weather and turf conditions Thursday at La Quinta Country Club for a share of the first-round lead with rookie Lee Hodges in The American Express. Cantlay played the first seven holes in 7 under, making an eagle on
5:17 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — Abel Gallegos couldn’t hide his smile. As the defending champion of the Latin American Amateur Championship held his opening news conference Wednesday, Gallegos knew everyone wanted to talk about what had changed since he won the 2020 tournament in Mayakoba that granted him a spot