Golf

7:03 AM ET ESPN Sports Betting The PGA Tour this week heads to Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. for the Wyndham Championship. The field is missing some of golf’s most prominent names, including Tony Finau, who just won in back-to-back weeks, but there are still plenty of solid contenders to choose from. Kevin Kisner

4:53 PM ET Associated Press Webb Simpson will be on his home course of Quail Hollow in September for the Presidents Cup but without clubs. Simpson and Steve Stricker have been added as assistant captains for Davis Love III. They will be joining Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson and Fred Couples as assistants for the

2:50 PM ET PGA Tour players have one last chance to get themselves into the FedEx Cup playoffs, and it comes this week at the Wyndham Championship. The top 125 in the standings will advance to next week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship. The top 70 then advance to the BMW Championship. And finally, the top

6:07 AM ET Team Europe’s Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald has said he is unsure if LIV Golf players will be allowed to feature in next year’s event but said he is committed to picking the strongest 12-man team to challenge the United States. Donald, 44, replaced Henrik Stenson as captain on Monday after the

10:52 PM ET Tiger Woods turned down an offer between $700 million and $800 million to join the LIV Golf Invitational Series, LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman confirmed in an interview that aired Monday night. Norman, appearing on an episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, said LIV Golf approached Woods, a 15-time major champion, before he

Aug 1, 2022 With the PGA Tour facing perhaps its greatest threat ever from the LIV Golf Invitational Series, it announced a 2022-23 schedule on Monday that includes a record $428.6 million in prize money in official events and another $145 million in bonuses, including $75 million for the FedEx Cup. The 2022-23 schedule, which

10:50 AM ET Former Masters champion Sergio Garcia was one of the first golfers to join the LIV series, resigning his PGA Tour membership immediately after joining the new tour. The 42-year-old has since weathered the controversy — and sometimes criticism — that has followed. Garcia spoke over Zoom last week about when he first

8:21 PM ET Associated Press BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Henrik Stenson‘s decision that cost him the European Ryder Cup captaincy paid large and immediate dividends Sunday when he won the LIV Golf Invitational event at Bedminster and picked up more than $4 million for three days’ work. Staked to a 3-shot lead going into the third

6:40 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — Tony Finau has changed the conversation about him in less than a calendar year. Finau ran away with the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday at Detroit Golf Club to become the first player in three years to win consecutive PGA Tour events in the regular season. He closed

11:59 AM ET Associated Press American Sean Crocker held off a spirited challenge from Eddie Pepperell to claim his first European tour title with a wire-to-wire victory in the Hero Open on Sunday. Crocker carded a final-round 68 at Fairmont St Andrews to finish 22-under par and a shot ahead of Pepperell, who had piled

10:00 PM ET Associated Press BANDON, Ore. — Wenyi Ding became the first male Chinese winner in U.S. Golf Association history Saturday, beating Caleb Surratt 3 and 2 in the U.S. Junior Amateur final at Bandon Dunes. Ding, 17, was 8-up with eight holes to play in the 36-hole match, lost five straight, then halved

8:35 PM ET Associated Press BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Henrik Stenson overcame a double bogey on his third hole Saturday with a long eagle putt and enough birdies for a 2-under 69 at windy Trump National Bedminster and a 3-shot lead over Dustin Johnson in the LIV Golf Invitational. Two weeks ago, Stenson had just missed

2:23 PM ET Associated Press Lydia Ko was joined by Celine Boutier at the top of the leaderboard after day three of the Women’s Scottish Open on Saturday. France’s Boutier shot a 5-under-par 67 — five birdies on the front nine — to make up four shots on the New Zealander, who could manage only

8:11 PM ET Associated Press BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Henrik Stenson had a happy return to golf after being removed as European Ryder Cup captain, making eight birdies in his LIV Golf Invitational debut at Bedminster for a 7-under 64 to share the 18-hole lead with Patrick Reed. Phil Mickelson‘s return to the area wasn’t entirely

7:55 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — Taylor Pendrith grew up getting breaks from golf, putting the clubs away each winter in Canada. That may have helped him when he had to miss nearly four months of competition due to a painful injury earlier this year. Pendrith shot a 7-under 65 on Friday to take

3:04 PM ET Associated Press ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — American golfer Sean Crocker retained his 1-stroke lead at the Hero Open after shooting 6-under 66 in the second round of the European tour event on Friday. The star of Day 2, however, was Ewen Ferguson after the Scot made 11 birdies — including seven in

6:30 AM ET Former world No. 1 Luke Donald has said he “would love” to be named captain of Team Europe for the 2023 Ryder Cup and has said that he would see the role through, unlike LIV Golf rebel Henrik Stenson. Stenson was stripped of the captaincy last week, hours before the Swede announced

7:31 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — Tony Finau sent an approach from 250 yards soaring over trees and onto the seventh green at Detroit Golf Club, going for the reward and ignoring the risk with a difficult shot. The way he has been playing over the past week, it made a lot of sense.