Golf

7:12 PM ET Annika Sorenstam has entered this year’s U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles in North Carolina. The USGA said Thursday that Sorenstam filed her entry to compete in the June event, which will mark her first time playing in the Open since 2008. The 51-year-old Sorenstam ended a 13-year retirement last year when
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3:04 PM ET Associated Press BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A devastating fire Thursday swept through the iconic clubhouse at Oakland Hills Country Club, the suburban Detroit golf course that is one of Michigan’s most exclusive clubs and the site of many professional tournaments. Flames ripped through the roof at the sprawling, multistory clubhouse in Bloomfield
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2:23 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Even though the Saudi Arabian government has been accused of myriad human rights violations by watch groups around the world, Phil Mickelson says he is willing to get involved with a Saudi-financed breakaway golf league to have leverage with the PGA Tour. “They’re scary motherf—ers to get involved with,”
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6:16 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Rory McIlroy is tired of talking about the proposed Saudi-backed Super Golf League, which may or may not strip the PGA Tour of a handful of its best players. “Not-so-super league,” McIlroy said, under his breath, when asked during a news conference at Riviera Country Club on Wednesday about
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6:49 AM ET ESPN betting analysts The PGA Tour makes its final stop on the West Coast swing for the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California. Max Homa is the defending champion, but Jon Rahm enters as the favorite in a star-studded field. Which players are the favorites this time around?
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2:54 PM ET PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Collin Morikawa, winner of two of golf’s past seven major championships, said he is committed to playing on the PGA Tour after listening to an offer from organizers of the Saudi-backed Super Golf League. “I’m all for the PGA Tour,” Morikawa said Tuesday, during a news conference ahead
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4:27 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Bryson DeChambeau says he isn’t done playing on the PGA Tour. After reports surfaced Monday that DeChambeau told players at the Saudi International earlier this month that he wasn’t playing in any more PGA Tour events, he released a statement on Twitter in which he disputed saying that. “There
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7:08 AM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — Eduardo Romero, the Argentine golfer who won European Tour events over three decades, has died. He was 67. The tour announced Romero’s death on Monday, without giving any more details. Nicknamed “El Gato” (The Cat), Romero was best known for winning eight titles on the tour
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7:47 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottie Scheffler outlasted Ryder Cup teammate Patrick Cantlay on the third hole of a playoff Sunday in the WM Phoenix Open, making a 25-foot birdie putt that had just enough momentum to tumble in. Cantlay missed an 11-foot birdie try after Scheffler holed his putt. Scheffler birdied
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8:24 AM ET Associated Press Ryan Fox secured the biggest title of his career by winning the Ras Al Khaimah Classic by five shots on Sunday. It was the 211th-ranked New Zealander’s first victory in a 72-hole format on the European tour. His only other title was in a Super 6 tournament in 2019 that
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8:51 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — With around 200,000 fans packing firm and fast TPC Scottsdale on another sunny, 80-degree day in the Valley of the Sun, Sahith Theegala overcame a double bogey on the par-4 second to shoot a 69 and remain atop the WM Phoenix Open leaderboard. “What a day,” Theegala
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1:08 AM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Charley Hoffman expressed his displeasure with the PGA Tour on Friday night after a rules issue cost him a penalty stroke on a drop in the second round of the WM Phoenix Open. In a lengthy Instagram post, Hoffman criticized the Tour’s rules officials, who he thinks aren’t held
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