Golf

9:12 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Will Zalatoris and Jason Day charged past Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas on Friday at Torrey Pines to share the third-round lead at the Farmers Insurance Open. Zalatoris posted the day’s best round with a 7-under 65, and two-time Farmers champion Day shot a 67. They were

7:03 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — A week and a half into the 2022 LPGA Tour season, Danielle Kang has a new home. She has taken up residence at the top of the leaderboard with no indication of leaving. A winner in the season opener in Orlando, Florida, last week, Kang birdied

4:25 PM ET Every person who picks up a golf club has the same dream: A hole-in-one. Shane Lowry and Tommy Fleetwood are both ranked in the top 50 in the world. Lowry has won The Open; Fleetwood has eight professional victories, though he is still searching for his first one on U.S. soil. Both,

1:26 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — Prince Andrew has given up his honorary membership at St. Andrews as he fights allegations of sexual abuse that have led to him retreating from public life. The club in St. Andrews, Scotland, announced the move Friday, two weeks after Andrew was stripped of his honorary military titles

11:04 AM ET South Africa’s Justin Harding took a two-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Dubai Desert Classic after carding a 4-under-par 68 on Friday. Harding had to return to complete his opening round on day two after play was stopped on Thursday due to the fading light at the Emirates Golf Club.

8:51 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Top-ranked Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas made the birdies they needed to keep pace on the easier North Course at Torrey Pines on Thursday and shared the lead with hard-charging Adam Schenk after two rounds of the Farmers Insurance Open. Schenk made eight straight birdies to shoot

11:42 AM ET Denmark’s Joachim Hansen took a one-shot lead in the opening round of the Dubai Desert Classic after carding an error-free 65 to finish at 7 under on Thursday. The 110th-ranked Hansen hit four birdies in a row to edge ahead of South Africa’s Justin Harding in second, who was on the 18th

8:26 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Top-ranked Jon Rahm closed with an eagle on the tougher South Course at Torrey Pines for a 6-under 66 on Wednesday, trailing leader Billy Horschel by three strokes after the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open. Horschel shot a bogey-free 9-under 63 on the North Course

9:32 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN The official qualifying tour of the LPGA will now be named the Epson Tour, after a five-year agreement between the LPGA Tour and Epson America Inc. was announced on Wednesday. Formerly known as the Symetra Tour, the circuit enters its 42nd year and will raise entry prize money to $200,000

7:43 PM ET While some may have questioned Patrick Reed‘s motives during an embedded ball controversy in last year’s Farmers Insurance Open, the defending champion insisted Tuesday that he did nothing wrong. Reed, a nine-time winner on the PGA Tour, declared an embedded ball after taking his second shot on the 10th hole during the

3:33 PM ET Jon Rahm, the No. 1 player in the world, doesn’t regret calling The American Express a “[expletive] putting contest” last week. But Rahm, 27, of Spain, admits had he known his outburst was being caught on camera by a fan’s phone, he would have cleaned up his language. “My reaction? I mean,

12:00 PM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The PGA Tour stops at Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, California, this week for the 2022 Farmers Insurance Open. The event will tee off Wednesday to avoid conflict with the NFL conference championship games Sunday. Patrick Reed won last year’s Farmers Insurance Open by 5 shots over

7:48 AM ET One of the premier events of the early PGA Tour schedule takes place this week. The Farmers Insurance Open, played at Torrey Pines, which hosted last year’s U.S. Open won by Jon Rahm, will gather an elite field. In effort to clear the decks for Sunday’s NFC and AFC championship games, the

7:44 AM ET Dustin Johnson hasn’t won a golf tournament on American soil in 14 months. Justin Thomas has gone more than 10 months without a victory. Rory McIlroy hoisted a trophy in October, but hasn’t finished atop the leaderboard at a major championship in more than seven years. With the PGA Tour boasting a

2:38 AM ET Thomas Pieters sealed his sixth European Tour title with a one-shot victory in a thrilling final round of the HSBC Championship in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. The Belgian carded a level-par 72 in testing conditions at Yas Links to hold off the chasing pack. 1 Related Pieters, 29, finished the tournament on

8:02 PM ET Associated Press LA QUINTA, Calif. — Hudson Swafford thought about his late father Sunday at PGA West in his second victory in The American Express in five years. “I had a couple moments where I looked up and knew that he was following and knew that he was there,” Swafford said. “I

5:29 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Danielle Kang readily admits she, and her golf game, remain a constant work in progress. She spent much of the offseason finding a way to be “comfortable being uncomfortable.” It seems to be working. On a difficult championship test at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club, Kang

4:03 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — Standing on the edge of the 18th green, the Cayman Islands’ Aaron Jarvis had to hold his breath more than once. His round over, Jarvis was participating in interviews as both Mexico’s Santiago De la Fuente del Valle and Argentina’s Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira missed