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7:40 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Amy Olson got back to under par with one swing, an 8-iron for a hole-in-one on her seventh hole Thursday, and kept right on going until she had a 4-under 67 and a one-shot lead in the U.S. Women’s Open. On a perfect day, the scores made it

HOUSTON — Cristie Kerr first had to overcome the physical pain of three dislocated ribs, among other bumps and bruises. Then there’s the emotional scarring. “We were both thrown from the cart, and I just I can’t remember,” Kerr said Thursday at Champions Golf Club before choking up as she recounted the harrowing moments of

The lack of fans at pro golf tournaments has made it tough for players to know when they’ve hit some incredible shots in 2020. Often golfers rely on the fans to let them know with blind approach shots and the like where their ball actually winds up. Especially when it winds up in the hole.

9:00 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN A day after Dustin Johnson slipped on the green jacket at Augusta National to commemorate his November win at the Masters, the U.S. Women’s Open Twitter handle posted a reminder: There’s more major golf to be played in this strange 2020 season. Accompanied by a video featuring Lexi Thompson, Annika

How do you recap a golf year unlike any other? In birdies? Bogeys? Trophies? COVID tests? All reasonable suggestions and perfect jumping-off points for other end-of-year lists. But sports are about people. So for this list, we’re going to re-live this most strange year through people’s words. From Torrey Pines to Augusta, from Kobe to

6:02 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Lexi Thompson has some U.S. Open experience on her bag this week at Champions Golf Club, along with an entirely new set of metrics and vocabulary. Air density. Ground force. That comes from Tim Tucker, the caddie for U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau. Thompson is between caddies at

HOUSTON—Sean Foley has taken on his share of reclamation projects (see: Woods, Tiger and Willett, Danny, among others). Now the man with the Bob Marley verse “None but ourselves can free our mind” tattooed on his arm, is in the midst of another one: Lydia Ko. Just five years ago, Ko was a tour de

What’s the Scottish saying? Nae wind, nae rain, nae golf. Whoever first uttered that phrase probably didn’t account for the wind blowing 40 mph. Those were the conditions on a brutally windy day Monday at Rustic Canyon, which hosted the Southern California Golf Association’s Tournament of Club Champions. The 18-hole stroke-play event is open to

1:08 PM ET Associated Press Andrea Lee has withdrawn from the U.S. Women’s Open after testing positive for the coronavirus. Lee, 22, tested negative in a pre-arrival test by the USGA last week in Dallas while playing an LPGA Tour event. She traveled to Houston and tested positive, with mild symptoms. The U.S. Women’s Open,

Before we begin, one housekeeping note: There is an argument to be made that not a single good thing has come out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many people have lost loved ones, many people have lost their livelihoods and many people are understandably struggling with their mental health during this depressing time in history. In

7:24 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Yealimi Noh closed with a double bogey Saturday in the Volunteers of America Classic, dropping the 19-year-old American into a tie with major champions Inbee Park and So Yeon Ryu with one round left. Two strokes ahead after a birdie on the par-5 17th, Noh took

It was already the best weekend of Drew Mathews’ life, even before the final putt dropped. The then-28-year-old financial systems analyst at Lockheed Martin—a former mini-tour player—had just married his sweetheart, Amanda, and driven their entire wedding party from his home in Florida to Nashville and back. The wedding festivities had prevented Mathews from watching

Woods spoke in detail about the upcoming event for the first time since the announcement, telling Golf Digest that entering the event was a joint decision and emphasizing the most important thing in Charlie’s development as a golfer: keeping it fun. “He’s a little on the chirpy side, just like I am,” Woods said, confirming

9:45 AM ET Former Ryder Cup player Peter Alliss, who won 31 tournaments in his career before a successful stint as a commentator in which he was referred to as the “voice of golf,” has died at the age of 89, the European Tour said on Sunday. Englishman Alliss, who was inducted into the World

HOUSTON — Lexi Thompson will have a familiar figure on her bag at this week’s U.S. Women’s Open. Tim Tucker, who caddies for Bryson DeChambeau on the PGA Tour, will be looping for Thompson at Champions Golf Club. Brett Falkoff, who is the agent for both DeChambeau and Thompson, confirmed the news first reported by

6:07 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas – Angela Stanford won her home LPGA Tour event in front of her parents, closing with a 4-under 67 for a two-stroke victory Sunday in the Volunteers of America Classic. “I just haven’t had many chances to win in front of them. So to finally do it,

Tiger Woods’ Hall of Fame induction will have to wait. The ceremony for Woods, who was elected into the World Golf Hall of Fame in March, was supposed to take place in 2021. However, the World Golf Foundation announced Monday the celebration is delayed until 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic. “Moving the ceremony back

One of the most over-used words in sports is unique. The word means one of a kind and there just aren’t that many things—or people—that are unique. Alliss is in the World Golf Hall of Fame not because he was a very good player (which he certainly was) but because he was absolutely brilliant as

7:14 AM ET The 151st Open Championship will be played at Royal Liverpool in 2023 and the 2024 tournament will be at Royal Troon, golf’s governing body the R&A said on Monday. The 149th Open Championship was scheduled to be held at Royal St George’s from July 16-19 this year before it was cancelled due

Not since 2001 has there been a year in which the golf world was so profoundly impacted by something “outside the ropes” as 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic. From the moment late in the evening of Thursday, March 12, when a stunned Jay Monahan, commissioner of the PGA Tour, announced the cancellation of the Players

5:54 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Viktor Hovland says his nerves are a jangled mess when he gets into contention. It sure didn’t look that way at the Mayakoba Golf Classic, where he captured another PGA Tour title with another big putt at the end. Hovland saved par with a splendid

In what has been arguably one of the oddest years in golf, and a trying one in the everyday sense, immense kudos to Viktor Hovland for accomplishing the implausible. He changed the way we think of 2020. He won his first in February at the Puerto Rico Open. He birdied the last to do it.

The way things are going, the world of golf is going to have to get used to spelling Christiaan Bezuidenhout. Seven days on from winning last week’s Alfred Dunhill Championship, the 26-year-old South African added his national title to an already burgeoning resume with victory in the South African Open at Sun City. In what

4:19 PM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Annika Sorenstam was elected president of the International Golf Federation on Thursday, replacing the outgoing Peter Dawson. Sorenstam, a 72-time winner on the LPGA Tour and former No. 1, will take up the position on Jan. 1. The Swede was elected during the IGF’s virtual board meeting

On Thursday at the Mayakoba Golf Classic, Justin Thomas shot arguably his worst round in three months, a one-over 72 that put him in an early hole. But if you ask him, Friday’s four-under 67, a five-shot improvement to make the cut, was far more frustrating. “I very easily could have shot 62 yesterday,” said

6:56 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Emiliano Grillo steadied himself with a pair of birdies over the last six holes Saturday for a 3-under 68, giving the Argentine a one-shot lead going into the final round of the Mayakoba Classic. Tom Hoge, without a win in his PGA Tour career, birdied

After a week off, the PGA Tour returns for its final event of 2020, the Mayakoba Golf Classic presented by UNIFIN. The event will be headlined by past FedEx Cup winner Justin Thomas and four-time major champ Brooks Koepka. Last year’s Mayakoba victor, Brendon Todd, also will return to defend his title. Including Todd, eight

Cristie Kerr has competed in the U.S. Women’s Open every year since 1998. But the 2007 winner’s status for next week’s championship at Champions Golf Club in Houston is unclear after Golfweek reported that she was involved in a golf cart accident on Friday. Kerr, 43, was set to play in the second round of

10:22 AM ET Frenchman Antoine Rozner claimed his maiden European Tour title in his rookie season by winning the Golf in Dubai Championship by two shots at the Jumeirah Golf Estates on Saturday. The 27-year-old fired seven birdies and a landed a superb eagle on the par-five 13th hole to go ahead, before signing off

By Brooks Koepka standards, 2020 was not a good year for Brooks Koepka. For anybody else, four top 7s, including one at the Masters, plus a legitimate chance to win the PGA Championship, would be a pretty solid output in 16 starts. Not so much for the four-time major winner. “I don’t know if I