Golf

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 13, 2023, 09:07 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia If Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund had its way, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy would partially own and captain teams in the LIV Golf League once the

Associated Press Jul 12, 2023, 01:14 PM ET GULLANE, Scotland — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan returns to work next week, and some top players believe he has to regain their trust after leaving members in the dark over an about-face deal with the Saudi Arabia wealth fund behind LIV Golf. “I’d say he has

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 12, 2023, 01:51 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Like many golf fans around the world Tuesday, Scottie Scheffler watched the Senate hearing regarding the PGA Tour’s planned alliance with the DP World Tour and Saudi

ESPN News Services Jul 12, 2023, 06:32 AM ET The Open is increasing its purse to $16.5 million, with the winner next week at Royal Liverpool getting $3 million. The total prize fund was $14 million a year ago. Cameron Smith, who won at St. Andrews, earned $2.5 million. The second- and third-place finishers at

Jul 11, 2023, 05:19 PM ET After consecutive weeks appearing near the top of the leaderboard, Peter Kuest has been rewarded with special temporary membership to the PGA Tour after earning enough “non-member” FedEx Cup points to pass the threshold. Kuest, 25, was a standout golfer at BYU but had nowhere to play when he

Jul 11, 2023, 10:08 AM ET PGA Tour officials pushed to oust Greg Norman as the CEO and commissioner of the LIV Golf League during its negotiations with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which proposed that Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy own LIV teams, according to documents released by

Jul 10, 2023, 09:55 PM ET Before 2023, Ruoning Yin, Lilia Vu and Allisen Corpuz had a combined zero LPGA victories to their name. Now, they rank fourth, fifth and sixth in the world, respectively, after splitting the first three majors of the women’s golf season. Corpuz rocketed from No. 29 to No. 6 in

Jul 10, 2023, 10:16 AM ET The LIV Golf League’s season-ending team championship will be played at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami for the second straight year. LIV Golf League officials announced Monday that the $50 million team championship will be played Oct. 20-22 at Trump National Doral, which is owned by former

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 9, 2023, 09:04 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — In the same week that Honolulu native Michelle Wie West bid goodbye to the women’s game, another Honolulu product, Allisen Corpuz, stepped up at Pebble Beach to win the U.S. Women’s Open — the first ever played at the legendary course — for

Associated Press Jul 9, 2023, 08:33 PM ET Former AT&T chairman Randall Stephenson resigned from the PGA Tour’s policy board over concerns about the tour’s proposed partnership with Saudi Arabia’s national wealth fund, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The PGA Tour confirmed the resignation in a memo to its members, referring to Stephenson’s “exemplary service”

Associated Press Jul 9, 2023, 07:48 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Sepp Straka won the John Deere Classic on Sunday with a final-round 9-under 62 that could have been much better, making double bogey on the final hole but taking the title by two shots when Brendon Todd and Alex Smalley were unable to catch

Jul 9, 2023, 03:35 PM ET Playing in his final event before defending his Open Championship later this month, Cameron Smith survived a closing bogey on Sunday to win the LIV Golf event at Centurion Club in London. The Australian shot 3-under 68 to finish at 15 under, one stroke ahead of American Patrick Reed

Associated Press Jul 8, 2023, 10:02 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Neither the wind at Pebble Beach nor the stage of a U.S. Women’s Open could stop Nasa Hataoka, who delivered the best round in the toughest conditions Saturday for a 6-under 66 and a one-shot lead. Hataoka not only posted the low score

Associated Press Jul 8, 2023, 07:04 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Brendon Todd scrambled for par on the par-4 18th to take a 1one-stroke lead Saturday in the John Deere Classic, holing a 12-foot putt after drawing an awkward stance near a fairway bunker. Todd had a 5-under 66 in breezy conditions to reach 16-under

Associated Press Jul 8, 2023, 04:06 PM ET HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, England — British Open champion Cameron Smith overcame a pair of bogeys at the start to post a 4-under 67, giving him a three-shot lead at LIV Golf-London on Saturday. Smith is playing his final event ahead of his British Open title defense in two

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 8, 2023, 12:25 AM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — There was no other way it could have ended. After a gloomy week at Pebble Beach, where Michelle Wie West struggled to find the bottom of the cup, the 30-foot par putt on the 18th green — the final one of her career

Associated Press Jul 7, 2023, 11:49 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Bailey Tardy picked a good time and a beautiful location to play her best golf. Tardy made eagle on the par-5 sixth hole at Pebble Beach for the second straight day as part of a torrid start to her second round Friday in

ESPN News Services Jul 7, 2023, 10:35 AM ET Matthew Wolff, who was accused by LIV Golf teammate Brooks Koepka of quitting on the course, said it’s “heartbreaking” that the Smash GC captain would criticize him amid Wolff’s mental health “challenges on and off the golf course.” Earlier this week, Koepka told Sports Illustrated that