Golf

1:05 PM ET Associated Press EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Australian golfer Minjee Lee won a sudden death playoff against overnight leader Jeongeun Lee6 to clinch the Evian Championship on Sunday for her first major title. Lee6 had to take a drop shot when her second shot on the first extra playoff hole flew into a pond,

4:28 AM ET Associated Press Spain’s Nacho Elvira continued his fine form to take a six-shot lead into Sunday’s final round at Celtic Manor, Wales on Saturday. The 34-year-old is chasing his maiden European Tour win and carded a 5-under-par 66 to finish Round 3 at 16 under. “I struggled a bit this year. To

8:08 PM ET Associated Press PINEHURST, N.C. — Nicholas Dunlap won the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship on Saturday at The Country Club of North Carolina, beating Cohen Trolio 3 and 2 in the 36-hole final. Dunlap, from Huntsville, Alabama, won three straight holes to take control and finished off Trolio, from West Point, Mississippi, with

7:39 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Cameron Tringale made a short par putt on the treacherous par-5 18th hole at the 3M Open for a 5-under 66 and a one-stroke lead Saturday over Gary Woodland and Maverick McNealy. Tringale, who tied for third last year at the TPC Twin Cities, eagled the par-5

12:35 PM ET Associated Press EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — The day after making golfing history, Jeongeun Lee6 extended her Evian Championship lead to five strokes after a 3-under-par 68 in the third round on Saturday. She’s at 18 under overall and the nearest challenger is teenage American Yealimi Noh at 13 under after carding a 4-under

9:17 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Adam Hadwin missed the weekend cuts in his last three tournaments, continuing a disappointing stretch as he dropped to 120th in the FedEx Cup standings. The 33-year-old Canadian has put himself in position to get back in contention for the playoffs with a strong run at the

4:12 PM ET Spain’s Nacho Elvira ended Day 2 with a two-shot lead over joint overnight leader Vincent Norrman as he carded 67 at the Cazoo Open on Friday. Elvira built upon a superb opening-round 64 to take a solo lead at Celtic Manor. The 34-year-old made six birdies as he set the halfway target

12:07 PM ET Associated Press EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — South Korean golfer Jeongeun Lee6 tied the men’s and women’s major record for the lowest round when she carded a 10-under-par 61 at the Evian Championship on Friday. Her 36-hole score of 127 is also the lowest total in men’s or women’s major history, beating the 128

11:12 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Rickie Fowler‘s improved driving helped him shoot a 5-under 65 on Sunday in the final round of the British Open. Looking for a late push in the FedEx Cup standings, Fowler carried over the strong play Thursday with a 7-under 64 in the first round of the

4:28 PM ET Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke and South Africa’s James Kingston carded an opening-round 65 to share the lead at The Senior Open on Thursday. Clarke failed to make the cut at last week’s 149th Open at Royal St. George’s, but he got off to a quick start at the Sunningdale Old Course in

5:17 PM ET The PGA Tour heads to Minnesota this week for the 3M Open. Matthew Wolff and Michael Thompson are the previous winners of this event, respectively, but will they be a factor this week? Which players are the favorites this time around, who offers good odds and what props are worth considering? Sports

8:09 AM ET SANDWICH, England — Like it did with everything else, COVID-19 turned golf upside down. In 2020, there was no Open. The Masters was in August. The PGA Championship was back in August, where it normally fell before being moved to May the year before. The U.S. Open was in September. Instead of

8:11 AM ET In your head, this should sound like a bad, over-the-top game show host … Hey everybody, it’s the waaaay-too-early major championship predictions for 2022! I’ll give you all the picks that have zero chance of coming true but are great for starting arguments! And what’s the first big one I’m gonna give

1:40 PM ET Associated Press Collin Morikawa is the champion golfer of the year. Morikawa captured The Open on Sunday for his second major title in two years. It was his first time playing The Open, just like it was his first time playing the PGA Championship when he won at Harding Park last year.

9:22 PM ET Associated Press NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — Seamus Power won the Barbasol Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour victory, beating J.T. Poston with a tap-in par on the sixth hole of a playoff. Poston drove into the water that lines the right side of the par-4 18th at Keene Trace and made

10:03 AM ET SANDWICH, England — After making five birdies without a bogey for a final-round 65 at Royal St. George’s — and generally feeling like that is the worst he could have shot, Bryson DeChambeau was left to ponder where all that solid golf was earlier in the week. A tumultuous week at The

4:23 PM ET SANDWICH, England — He waved to the crowd, clapped his show of appreciation and then stepped to the microphone like he’s been giving speeches for years. Collin Morikawa might have called it the “British Open,” but he nonetheless handled the ceremony as coolly as he did Royal St. George’s. Morikawa is just

3:32 PM ET SANDWICH, England — Louis Oosthuizen produced an amazing two months of golf, contending in three consecutive major championships and joining a short list of players to finish top-3 in three of them in a single year. He simply has no hardware to show for it. Oosthuizen, 38, the 2010 Open winning at