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6:22 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. – Matt Kuchar and Harris English took a five-stroke lead Saturday in the QBE Shootout, opening and closing with long birdie runs for an 11-under 61 in modified alternate-shot play. “I feel like our games really fit this format well,” English said. “He does a lot of stuff

With all due respect to the rest of our annual Newsmakers list, no one made more headlines in 2020 than Bryson DeChambeau. From important happenings on the course to the mundane off of it, golf’s biggest lightning rod constantly kept fans talking. To that end, we’ve put together a list of 101 things that happened

It’s the final tournament on the LPGA Tour in 2020, with 72 golfers getting ready to play in Naples, Fla., after a chilly U.S Women’s Open in Houston. The field is competing for the biggest winner’s check in women’s golf at this week’s CME Group Tour Championship: $1.1 million. But players are eyeing more than

7:08 AM ET Tiger Woods‘ early prowess as a golfer and the influence his father, Earl, had on his development are legendary. It is the stuff of books and movies, and the 15-time major champion himself has long cited his dad’s encouragement as a big factor in his success. Earl, an Army veteran, had access

After an exciting Monday finish at the U.S. Women’s Open, the spotlight stays on women’s golf for a second straight week as the LPGA Tour gets set to host its 2020 season finale, the CME Group Tour Championship. However, it will do so without two of this year’s four major champions competing in the event

9:00 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN Seconds after Amy Olson’s birdie putt on the 18th hole of the final round of the 75th U.S. Women’s Open dropped, she pumped her right fist in the air, then picked up her golf ball out of the cup and raised her head toward the sky. On Monday, standing next

It’s fair to say that 2020 encapsulated the entire Dustin Johnson Experience. When things are going good for Johnson—which is often—he can make this impossible game look impossibly easy. Even so, Johnson’s career has partially been defined not for what it is, but for what it is not, particularly at the majors. Just when the

There are a few gaps, five tournaments and/or venues still need to be confirmed and the number of Rolex Series events has gone down to four, but the 2021 European Tour schedule, formally revealed on Tuesday, contains a minimum of 42 events in 24 countries. As many as 18 tournaments that were either postponed or

2:09 PM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — The number of Rolex Series events on the European Tour has been reduced from eight to four for the 2021 season, with each having a prize fund of at least $8 million. The changes were announced Tuesday as the tour revealed its schedule for next season,

Punctuated Equilibrium (n) — the hypothesis that evolutionary development is marked by isolated episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change The idea of punctuated equilibrium, which Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge first posited in 1972, is that evolution, in fact, does not happen steadily on some uniform, predictable trajectory.

3:08 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — A Lim Kim made her first U.S. Women’s Open appearance a memorable one Monday, closing with three straight birdies to tie the record for the largest comeback and win the biggest event in women’s golf. And in the final major of this pandemic-disrupted year in sports, she won

The smile was so obviously there, even if we couldn’t see it. During A Lim Kim’s remarkable run of three straight birdies to end the final round and seize the U.S. Women’s Open title, the slight crinkles around her eyes revealed her happiness, because the rest of her face was covered with the mask she

A Lim Kim wore a mask all week at the U.S. Women’s Open at Champions Golf Club in Houston. Although the mask was an admirable bit of safety, it also seemed fitting as she stole the title with a trio of birdies to finish off a final-round 67 on Monday, winning by one over Jin

6:09 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. – Matt Kuchar and Harris English broke a bunch of their own QBE Shootout records in a runaway victory Sunday at Tiburon Golf Club. Kuchar and English became the first team to win the event three times, finished at 37-under 179 to break the mark of 34 under

Tiger Woods’ expectations have softened—age, and injuries, and a bout with the chipping yips will have that effect. Despite what he may say at press conferences, Woods no longer expects to contend every time he tees it up. He wants to, but it’s no longer a baseline. Because Woods doesn’t just need his game to

3:31 PM ET Englishman Lee Westwood was crowned Europe’s number one golfer for the third time in his career with a second-placed finish on Sunday behind compatriot Matthew Fitzpatrick, who won the European Tour’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship. Westwood won the Harry Vardon Trophy again 20 years after he first lifted it, with a

HOUSTON—When Amy Olson resumes her pursuit of a U.S. Women’s Open title on Monday morning, she’ll do so with a heavy heart. On Saturday night, Olson’s father-in-law, Lee Olson, died suddenly and unexpectedly. The news was first reported by Golfweek and confirmed to Golf Digest by the LPGA on Olson’s behalf. Olson’s husband Grant, who

HOUSTON—Given the way the rest of 2020 has gone, it seems fitting the outcome of the year’s final golf major would have to wait another day. After play in the fourth round was suspended on Sunday by rain and dangerous thunderstorms, the 75th U.S. Women’s Open at Champions Golf Club was pushed to a Monday

2:52 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — The latest U.S. Women’s Open on the calendar will last one more day because of relentless rain that drenched Champions Golf Club and forced the USGA to suspend the final round until Monday. Hinako Shibuno of Japan, who had a one-shot lead as she goes for a second

HOUSTON—Lexi Thompson made headlines earlier this week at the U.S. Women’s Open for employing Bryson DeChameau’s caddie, Tim Tucker. Thompson missed the cut. But there’s another PGA Tour caddie—Dave Stone, who normally loops for Bo Hoag—carrying a bag this week at Champions Golf Club, and he could be on the verge of being a part

6:54 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Hinako Shibuno passed a big test Saturday in a classic U.S. Women’s Open that put a premium on par, keeping the lead with a 3-over 74 going into a final round at Champions Golf Club that figures to be the toughest of all. Shibuno led by 4 shots

Players sounded off Saturday at the U.S. Women’s Open after playing a setup some deemed unfair. Breezy and wet conditions stretched out an already hearty Champions Golf Club. Coupled with an array of pins in tucked positions and mud accumulating on golf balls, the field turned in a 74.7 scoring average in Round 3, with

The U.S. Women’s Open is considered the most prestigious event in women’s golf. It’s only fitting, then, that the championship, being played this week for the 75th time, has a purse that reflects its status. For the second straight year, the USGA is awarding a $5.5 million prize money payout to the golfers competing in

6:02 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Kevin Na and Sean O’Hair teamed to shoot a 16-under 56 in the scramble format Friday to take the first-round lead in the QBE Shootout. Na and O’Hair had two eagles and 12 birdies on the Tiburon Golf Club’s Gold Course. O’Hair won the unofficial PGA Tour

HOUSTON—Only once in the 74 editions of the U.S. Women’s Open has an amateur won the tournament. That was in 1967, when Catherine Lacoste built a five-stroke lead through 54 holes, then shot a final-round 79 and held on by two at The Homestead. (In comparison, it has happened eight times in the men’s game,

5:30 PM ET HOUSTON — Hinako Shibuno can do without the “Cinderella” nickname, just not the smile. That was bright as ever Friday as the Japanese star posted a 4-under 67 and opened a 3-shot lead going into the weekend of the U.S. Women’s Open. Shibuno’s lone mistake on a damp, soft day at Champions

HOUSTON—Megan Khang enters this weekend at the U.S. Women’s Open in a tie for third and just four strokes off the lead of Japan’s Hinako Shibuno. A victory would be the first of her career after she turned pro five years ago. That’s hardly the most incredible part of her story. To say that the

The 78-year-old former Open Championship winner experienced sharp pain in his stomach in late November while working with his course design company in Scottsdale on the reopening of Troon Country Club. He followed up with doctors at home in Montana, where CT scans revealing a legion in his pancreas. Weiskopf went for more tests at

12:38 PM ET American Patrick Reed carded a superb eight-under-par 64 in the second round to take a two-shot lead over Matthew Fitzpatrick at the European Tour’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai on Friday. After an opening round of 70 on Thursday that left him three shots behind overnight leader Victor Perez, 2018

Golf is more compelling with rivalries. The same can be said for controversies. Not that we are particularly rooting for the latter, but how can we look away when strange and dubious and questionable occurrences are tossed at our spikeless shoes? That’s right. We can’t. We found inspiration from the ANA Inspiration. Many popped off