7:21 PM ET Associated Press GALLOWAY, N.J. — Nasa Hataoka birdied two of the last three holes for a 4-under 67 and a one-stroke lead Friday in the Shoprite LPGA Classic. Hataoka. the 21-year-old Japanese player with three LPGA Tour victories, birdied the par-4 16th and par-5 18th to get to 11-under 131 at Seaview’s
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1:52 PM ET Associated Press NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — Australian golfer Lucas Herbert carded seven birdies and one bogey in a 6-under 65 to lead the Scottish Open by one shot on Friday going into the weekend. Herbert contemplated quitting the game as he struggled during the middle of the 2019 season, but finds himself
9:00 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Defending champion Sebastian Munoz found happy memories Thursday at the Sanderson Farms Championship. Munoz nearly holed a wedge on his opening hole as part of his fast start, ran in four straight birdies on the back nine and wound up with an 8-under 64 to share of
7:03 PM ET Associated Press GALLOWAY, N.J. — Lauren Stephenson holed out from the rough from 137 yards for eagle on the par-4 14th and shot an 8-under 63 on Thursday for a share of the Shoprite LPGA Classic lead with Mi Hyang Lee. Stephenson, the 23-year-old former Clemson and Alabama player in her second
12:35 PM ET Associated Press ABERDEEN, Scotland — Paul Lawrie is making his 620th appearance on the European Tour at the Scottish Open this week. It also will be his last. The 1999 British Open champion is quitting the tour after the tournament at The Renaissance Club because of problems with his back. Lawrie will
6:29 PM ET The Hong Kong Open will be postponed until next year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the organisers of the golf tournament said on Wednesday. The event, which is organised by the European and Asian Tours, was due to be held at the Hong Kong Golf Club at the end of November.
8:00 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders Hudson Swafford won last week’s event in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and the tour next heads to Jackson, Mississippi, for the Sanderson Farms Championship, where Sebastian Munoz is the defending champion. Who is underrated, and whom should you fade? What bets and props are worth a look? Sports betting
9:20 PM ET Associated Press Dustin Johnson leads the top five players in the world who have committed to play the CJ Cup at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, the start of a two-week stretch of relocated Asia events that includes Tiger Woods returning to California. The CJ Cup typically is held in South Korea,
6:44 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Hudson Swafford lost control of the tournament without ever losing any confidence he could hit the right shot when it counted. Standing in the 13th fairway Sunday in the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship, he had a four-shot lead. Walking off the 15th green,
9:46 AM ET A Tiger Woods backup putter from 2001 sold at Golden Age Golf Auctions early Sunday morning for $154,928, which is believed to be the most a putter of this caliber has ever sold for. The putter is a Scotty Cameron Newport II produced for Woods as a backup to the putter he
9:07 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Adam Long went from trying to hit a fairway to a course so open it’s hard to miss. He went from grinding over pars to pouring in birdies. One week after he toiled to a tie for 13th at Winged Foot in the U.S. Open,
6:44 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — A hornet sting early and a bunch of birdies late carried Hudson Swafford to a 5-under 67 on Friday for a two-shot lead going into the weekend of the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. Joining him in the final group will be Sean O’Hair,
7:29 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Tyler McCumber was the only player to reach 8 under par Thursday in the Caribbean breeze until he dropped a shot on his 17th hole and fell into a four-way lead in the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. Sepp Straka was the only one
5:49 PM ET Mark Calcavecchia played golf Thursday, which seems simple enough, as he is a professional golfer. But this was different. Much different. It was the first time he teed it up since testing positive three weeks ago for COVID-19. The PGA Tour Champions player decided he felt well enough to venture out to
8:19 AM ET The European Tour has scrapped plans to allow a limited number of fans to attend the Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club in East Lothian next month due to the tightening of COVID-19 restrictions in the U.K.. The Tour planned to allow 650 spectators per day for the Rolex Series tournament, which
7:42 PM ET Tiger Woods announced his commitment to next month’s Zozo Championship at Sherwood Country Club, where he will be the defending champion of an event that has moved from Japan to Thousand Oaks, California, this year amid to the coronavirus pandemic. Woods, 44, won the event over Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama last year at
7:35 AM ET Their relationship might seem a bit peculiar, but clearly Tiger Woods sees something in Bryson DeChambeau that might amuse, entertain, intrigue — or all of the above. They are frequent practice-round partners, and it is not often that someone whom Woods does not care to have in such settings steps into that
2:34 PM ET Associated Press MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Mike Davis spent the last decade running the USGA, where he set up golf courses to provide an extreme test for elite players and searched for solutions to increasing distance. Now he wants to build golf courses, a lifelong passion. Davis announced Tuesday he will retire as