Golf

6:34 PM ET Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Steve Stricker followed his plan to perfection Sunday until the final hole, and by then it didn’t matter. He closed with a 3-under 69 for a two-shot victory in the Constellation Furyk & Friends, his fourth PGA Tour Champions title this year. Staked to a three-shot lead,

Oct 9, 2022 Associated Press It took a year longer than he’d hoped for but Jon Rahm is finally a three-time winner of the Spanish Open, matching the achievement of his hero Seve Ballesteros. There was frustration and disappointment after Rahm finished his home tournament last year when he failed in his first attempt to

5:16 AM ET Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand — Former top amateur Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra shot a final-round 69 and won the LIV Golf Invitational-Bangkok by three strokes over Patrick Reed on Sunday. Lopez-Chacarra had a three-round, 19-under total of 197 after the storm-delayed finish on the newly opened Stonehill Golf Club course north of Bangkok. Reed

12:22 AM ET Associated Press CAMARILLO, Calif. — Jodi Ewart Shadoff has played 245 times on the LPGA Tour and never had a better chance at winning as now. She played bogey-free Saturday for a 3-under 69 to keep her four-shot lead in the LPGA Mediheal Championship. Ewart Shadoff picked up two birdies on the

9:26 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Patrick Cantlay came within one putt of a 59 on Saturday, instead matching his low score on the PGA Tour for a share of the lead with 20-year-old Tom Kim going into the final round of the Shriners Children’s Open. If the third round was any indication,

6:14 AM ET Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand — One of the best former amateur golfers in the world is leading after two rounds of the LIV Golf tournament in Thailand. Ex-Oklahoma State player Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra turned professional to play on the LIV series. The two-time first-team All-American was No. 2 in the World Amateur Golf

10:30 PM ET Associated Press CAMARILLO, Calif. — Jodi Ewart Shadoff started out Friday as hot as she finished the day before at the LPGA Mediheal Championship. She finally hit a few bumps, but not before expanding her lead with a 3-under 69. Ewart Shadoff opened with a 64 at The Saticoy Club by making

9:43 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Mito Pereira of Chile led a parade of players from the International team at the Presidents Cup in the Shriners Children’s Open on Friday, making birdie on half of his holes for an 8-under 63 that gave him a one-shot lead. Pereira took care of the par

6:04 AM ET Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand — Richard Bland, Branden Grace and Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra upstaged their more-illustrious opponents on Friday to shoot 7-under 65s and share the lead after the first round of the LIV Golf Invitational-Bangkok. Marc Leishman and Ian Poulter were a stroke behind while Kim Sihwan, Brooks Koepka and Morgan Jediah

9:15 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Tom Hoge wanted to be sure to take advantage of pristine conditions Thursday morning in Las Vegas. He did more than he expected, making two eagles on his way to an 8-under 63 for a one-shot lead in the Shriners Children’s Open. One of the eagles came

10:01 PM ET Associated Press CAMARILLO, Calif. — Jodi Ewart Shadoff went on a run of four straight birdies late in her round Thursday for an 8-under 64, taking a two-shot lead in the LPGA Mediheal Championship. Ewart Shadoff has played 245 times on the LPGA Tour without winning, and she got off to a

9:18 AM ET The Official World Golf Ranking governing board is reviewing LIV Golf’s new alliance with the MENA Tour but said in a statement Thursday that it won’t make a ruling before the start of LIV Golf’s next two events, in Thailand and Saudi Arabia. LIV Golf officials hoped its newly formed partnership with

4:49 PM ET William E. Ricks When it comes to putting, golfer Spencer Levin‘s putting form is a little more unorthodox than most. It even parallels one of Adam Sandler’s iconic movie characters. 1 Related While practicing at the Shriner Children’s Open on Wednesday, Levin showed off a putting grip that looked similar to Happy

11:21 AM ET LIV Golf is forming a strategic alliance with the little-known MENA Tour in hopes of securing Official World Golf Ranking points for its players. The MENA Tour, a feeder circuit that has staged tournaments in the Middle East and North Africa, had been shuttered for more than two years during the COVID-19

5:36 PM ET Associated Press The path for 30 players to reach the PGA Tour starts in the Bahamas next year as part of a Korn Ferry Tour schedule that has the same number of tournaments, nearly $8 million more in prize money and a revamped end of the year. The Korn Ferry Tour released

5:29 PM ET Associated Press Tiger Woods has another loaded field for his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Woods on Tuesday announced 17 players for the 20-man field, and all but four are from the top 21 in the world ranking. Still to be announced is whether the player at No. 1,195 in the

1:23 PM ET ESPN News Services ROME — Whether Tiger Woods makes it to Italy or not for next year’s Ryder Cup, he’ll be an integral member of the U.S. team, captain Zach Johnson said Tuesday at the year-to-go ceremonies. “Given who he is and what he’s all about, I can tell you right now,

8:05 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Whether it was sheer confidence or remarkable resilience, Mackenzie Hughes never doubted he would win the Sanderson Farms Championship. He just never imagined how it would unfold Sunday evening. Hughes had to make six key putts on the final seven holes — four of them for par