6:53 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Taylor Pendrith of Canada got married two weeks ago and wasn’t sure what to expect out of his game. Once the weather cooperated, it proved to be better than ever Friday in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Pendrith ran off five straight birdies at the turn and flirted
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8:00 AM ET Golf icon Greg Norman will put his successful business enterprise aside to become the commissioner of a long-rumored and discussed golf league that hopes to begin play in 2022, and he is seeking to sign players to lucrative guaranteed deals with big-money purses. Norman, 66, announced his association with Liv Golf Enterprises,
6:38 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com During Game 4 of the 1945 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, local businessman William Sianis was thrown out of Wrigley Field after fellow spectators began complaining about the stench of the pet goat he had brought with him into the stadium. As an angered Sianis
6:40 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Brandon Hagy and Chad Ramey avoided the worst of the wind Thursday afternoon, each with a 6-under 65 to share the lead in the Bermuda Championship when the opening round at Port Royal was halted by darkness. For those who started in the morning, it might have
8:10 AM ET Throughout a down period in his career that is now approaching three years, Rickie Fowler managed to maintain an air of positivity, sprinkled with some self-deprecation, while seemingly never allowing for any sort of dark moments to consume him. He approached his slump with hard work, didn’t get impatient by moving on
7:12 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Bernhard Langer became the oldest winner in PGA Tour Champions history Sunday at 64, beating Doug Barron with a 6-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic. The German star thrust both arms in the air after winning for
2:31 PM ET Denmark’s Jeff Winther clinched his first European Tour crown with a one-shot victory at the Mallorca Open, holding his nerve in a closely-fought final round hours after accidentally locking himself in the bathroom earlier on Sunday. Winther began the day with a two-shot lead and recorded a closing 70 to finish at
5:39 AM ET Associated Press BUSAN, South Korea — Jin Young Ko birdied her first playoff hole with fellow South Korean player Hee Jeong Lim to win the BMW Ladies Championship on Sunday. The LPGA Tour said Ko is projected to become world No. 1 with the win, overtaking American Nelly Korda. Ko was No.
5:22 AM ET Associated Press CHIBA, Japan — Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama had three birdies in five holes on the back nine and eagled the 18th for good measure for a 5-stroke victory at the PGA Tour’s Zozo Championship on Sunday. It was Matsuyama’s first PGA Tour win in his native Japan, although he has
3:29 AM ET Associated Press CHIBA, Japan — Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama held on to a one-stroke lead at the PGA Tour’s Zozo Championship on Saturday after a 2-under 68 that included a bogey on his last hole to make things interesting heading into the final round. Matsuyama trailed by a stroke after the first
6:09 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Steve Flesch birdied the par-4 18th hole for a 5-under 67 and a two-stroke lead over Bernhard Langer and Steven Alker on Saturday in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic, the first of three PGA Tour Champions playoff events. Flesch reached 13-under 131 with his second straight bogey-free
3:40 PM ET Associated Press Jeff Winther reclaimed the lead at the Mallorca Open with an 8-under 62 on Saturday. The Dane is two shots clear of Spain’s Jorge Campillo, who had a third-round 64. 1 Related Winther, seeking his first European Tour win, repeated the 62 from his first round after shooting 1-over par
6:09 AM ET Associated Press BUSAN, South Korea — Hee Jeong Lim took a four-stroke lead into the final round of the LPGA Tour’s BMW Ladies Championship after a 7-under 65 Saturday. Lim had a 54-hole total of 18-under 198 on the LPGA International Busan course. Fellow South Korean players Jin Young Ko (67) and
7:50 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Steven Alker shot a 9-under 63 on Friday to take the first-round lead in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic, the first of three PGA Tour Champions playoff events. Alker had a bogey-free round on The Country Club of Virginia’s James River Course, making nine birdies in a
6:21 PM ET Associated Press Bryce Easton was leading the Mallorca Open on Friday when the second round was suspended because of darkness on the Mediterranean island. Easton had a four-shot lead when play was stopped with the South African still to finish the 18th hole. Easton was 4-under on the windy day at the
7:16 AM ET Associated Press BUSAN, South Korea — Hee Jeong Lim shot a 6-under 66 and first-round leader Na Rin An a 69 to leave the South Korean players tied for the lead after two rounds of the LPGA Tour’s BMW Ladies Championship on Friday. Lim and An had 11-under totals of 133 on
2:18 PM ET Denmark’s Jeff Winther carded a superb 8-under-par 62 to claim the lead after the first round of the Mallorca Open on Thursday. Winther, 33, got off to a slow start, struggling to a bogey on the first before making five birdies as he went out in 31. The Dane continued his fine
6:49 AM ET Associated Press CHIBA, Japan — Japanese golfer Hiroshi Iwata shot a 7-under 63 Thursday to take the first-round lead at the PGA Tour’s Zozo Championship. Iwata had a one-stroke lead over Joaquin Niemann and 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama on the par-70, 7,041-yard Narashino Country Club course. Defending champion Patrick Cantlay is