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Aug 15, 2023, 06:39 PM ET The 2027 BMW Championship will be played at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, N.J., it was announced Tuesday ahead of this week’s tournament at Olympia Fields Country Club. It will be the tournament’s first visit to the New York metro area. “We’re proud that Liberty can be

Aug 15, 2023, 01:30 PM ET Lucas Glover and Rory McIlroy are paired in the first round of the BMW Championship — the penultimate event of the FedExCup Playoffs — at the North Course of Olympia Fields Country Club outside of Chicago. The scramble for positioning at East Lake Country Club, site of the PGA

Aug 15, 2023, 11:16 AM ET Norwegian Viktor Hovland became the third member of Team Europe’s Ryder Cup roster on Tuesday, joining Jon Rahm and Rory McIlory on captain Luke Donald‘s team. “My man!! Welcome to the party! 3 down, 9 to go,” Donald wrote in a social media announcement. Ranked No. 5 in the

Aug 14, 2023, 11:02 AM ET The DP World Tour announced its schedule for the 2024 season Monday, with 44 tournaments set to take place in 24 countries and a combined record prize fund of nearly $150 million. The schedule consists of five premium events in Dubai, Scotland, London, Abu Dhabi and back to Dubai

Aug 14, 2023, 11:48 AM ET Two-time major champion Lilia Vu is the new No. 1 in the women’s world golf rankings. She rose from No. 6 in the latest rankings, released Monday, after her victory Sunday at the AIG Women’s Open. Vu, a 25-year-old from California, overtook Nelly Korda, who dropped to No. 2.

The 2023 PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup season is down to two events and 50 golfers. After battling the brutal heat and humidity at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee, the surviving players will head to the second leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs this coming week, the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields Country Club outside Chicago.

Associated Press Aug 13, 2023, 09:36 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Megan Schofill won the U.S. Women’s Amateur on Sunday at Bel-Air Country Club, beating Latanna Stone 4 and 3 in the 36-hole final. The 22-year-old Schofill, from Monticello, Florida, is a graduate student entering her fifth season at Auburn University. “It’s definitely a dream

Associated Press Aug 13, 2023, 08:57 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Lucas Glover made three big putts just to stay in the game and then hit the most important shot — on dry land in a playoff — to beat Patrick Cantlay on the first extra hole and win the FedEx St. Jude Championship on

Associated Press Aug 12, 2023, 08:22 PM ET Lucas Glover shot 4-under 66. He has the 54-hole lead in the FedEx St. Jude Championship. He has made only two bogeys going into the final round. Such is the state of his game that he said he needed time to think about all the things that

Associated Press Aug 12, 2023, 08:08 PM ET BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Cam Smith birdied three of his last four holes Saturday for a 4-under 67 that allowed him to pull away from Phil Mickelson and build a four-shot lead in LIV Golf-Bedminster. Mickelson also had a 67, one of his best rounds of the year

Associated Press Aug 12, 2023, 03:11 PM ET WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, England — Lilia Vu moved into position to become the first American this century to win multiple women’s majors in the same year. She’s got company atop the leaderboard in home favorite Charley Hull at the Women’s British Open. The final major of the year came

Associated Press Aug 11, 2023, 08:06 PM ET BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Cameron Smith bounced back from his worst finish of the year with a 5-under 66 on Friday, giving him a one-shot lead over Charles Howell III at LIV Golf-Bedminster. Smith finished 35th last week at The Greenbrier. He had never been to the Trump

Associated Press Aug 11, 2023, 07:25 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Sloppy mud one day, broiling heat the next. Lucas Glover is playing his best golf no matter the conditions on the ground or in the air, posting a 6-under 64 on Friday for a 1-shot lead over Jordan Spieth in the FedEx St. Jude

Associated Press Aug 11, 2023, 04:06 PM ET WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, England — Ally Ewing, seeking her first major title, is running away with the Women’s Open championship thanks to precise driving and a red-hot putter. The No. 39-ranked Ewing rolled in six birdies in her first 11 holes at Walton Heath and shot 6-under 66 on

Associated Press Aug 10, 2023, 08:06 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Jordan Spieth kept a clean card and clean pants, even without having to roll them up to his calves on a rain-soaked course. He opened with a 7-under 63 on Thursday for a 1-shot lead in the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Spieth chipped in

ESPN News Services Aug 10, 2023, 04:48 PM ET Collin Morikawa has pledged $1,000 per birdie he makes in the FedEx Cup playoffs to aid recovery in Maui, where wildfires killed at least 36 people and active recovery missions continue Thursday. Most of the village of Lahaina was destroyed, and surrounding communities were devastated. The

Associated Press Aug 10, 2023, 03:39 PM ET WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, England — The United States is seeking its third female major champion of 2023 at the AIG Women’s Open this week. Few would have predicted Ally Ewing would be leading the charge. Ewing made eagle from 5 feet at the par-5 16th to leapfrog a five-way

David Purdum, ESPN Staff WriterAug 10, 2023, 09:07 AM ET Close Joined ESPN in 2014 Journalist covering gambling industry since 2008 Phil Mickelson bet more than $1 billion on football, basketball and baseball over the past three decades and even allegedly attempted to place a $400,000 wager on Team USA in the 2012 Ryder Cup