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The deserved good vibes continued for Camilo Villegas on Friday with the 38-year-old from Colombia shooting a six-under 66 to stay within two of the lead entering the weekend at the RSM Classic. In July, Villegas suffered an unthinkable loss when his 22-month-old daughter Mia succumbed to brain cancer. Now he is playing on with

With St. Simons Island just three hours south of Augusta, Ga., plenty of Masters competitors will be making the trip to compete in the RSM Classic, the second-to-last PGA Tour event of the calendar year. Each of the previous seven winners of the tournament at Sea Island Golf Club will be playing this week, including

6:38 PM ET Associated Press BELLEAIR, Fla. — Breakthrough winners in their last starts, Sei Young Kim and Ally McDonald were on top again Friday in the Pelican Women’s Championship. The second-ranked Kim, making her first start since winning the KPMG Women’s PGA a month and half ago at Aronimink for her first major title,

In recent years, golf’s governing bodies have relaxed some of the game’s rules, including those regarding the signing of an incorrect scorecard when you didn’t know you’d committed a penalty. What hasn’t changed, though, is a player still has to sign his/her scorecard. Unfortunately, one LPGA Tour pro found this out the hard way on

6:21 PM ET Associated Press BELLEAIR, Fla. — Women’s Open winner Sophia Popov left top-ranked playing partner Jin Young Ko and everyone else behind Thursday in the Pelican Women’s Championship. Popov shot a 6-under 64 in windy conditions to take a 2-stroke lead over Ashleigh Buhai, with Ko 8 shots behind after a 72 in

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — The most remarkable thing about Rory Sabbatini, in the year 2020, is that he doesn’t wake up each morning with a crippling identity crisis. The 44-year-old, who shot 65 to finish his opening round of the RSM Classic just a shot off the lead, is a one-man melting pot. He’s

Through 18 holes of the RSM Classic, there are a handful of intriguing names at the top of the leader board, including England’s Matt Wallace, eternal nice guy Peter Malnati and 2011 PGA champion Keegan Bradley. The harsh reality: No one outside of their family members will be rooting for them the rest of the

5:47 PM ET Associated Press ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Trying to move on from a devastating summer of losing his child, Camilo Villegas made a 10-foot birdie putt on his final hole Thursday for a 6-under 64 and a share of the lead with Matt Wallace in the RSM Classic. Villegas and Wallace each

You recently put the new Titleist Pro V1x in play. But you don’t feel the need to endlessly fiddle around when changing golf balls, do you? The last time they had a new ball I put it straight in [the bag] and did well, and the same happened here. They gave me a few dozen

8:35 AM ET Associated Press Tiger Woods still has one tournament left this year that might feel as big as any to him. The PNC Championship announced Thursday that Woods will play with 11-year-old son Charlie in the tournament that has paired major champions with their sons since 1995, the year before the 44-year-old Woods

The news on Thursday wasn’t so much that Tiger Woods will play one more tournament in 2020. It’s who his partner will be in that event. Woods announced that he and his 11-year-old son, Charlie, will team up in next month’s PNC Championship, an exhibition that features 20 major championship-winning golfers competing alongside a family

What the newly created Stephens Cup lacks in history it makes up for in anticipation. On Wednesday, organizers unveiled plans for the collegiate tournament, named after late Augusta National chairman Jack Stephens and set to debut Oct. 17-20, 2021. In the process, they left a great first impression when listing the courses scheduled to host

2:30 PM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour now has three players who have tested positive for the coronavirus during the RSM Classic at Sea Island. Kramer Hickok and Henrik Norlander each received positive tests and have withdrawn from the event in Georgia. Hickok got into the tournament as an alternate after Bill Haas tested

PGA Tour officials sent a letter to tour players on Tuesday alerting them of a new policy that goes into place this week at the RSM Classic. Through local rules at each tournament, competitors now will be permitted to use percussive-therapy devices for recovery purposes during a round. “Use of a recovery device should not

Tiger Woods left the grounds at Augusta National on Sunday afternoon without his green jacket, knowing all too well that he might not ever have the opportunity to take it with him again. Oh, it will always be there for him in the Champions Locker Room, waiting for his next visit, whether it’s a friendly

When the PGA Tour announced its 2020-’21 schedule in September, the calendar featured a few venues the circuit had never visited, including much-ballyhooed Shadow Creek in Las Vegas. That trend will continue for at least one week in 2022. On Tuesday, tour officials announced that the BMW Championship, the second leg of the FedEx Cup

It will be easier to get over the disappointment that the Masters is over when we turn on our TVs and see the beautiful sights from Sea Island Resort this week for the RSM Classic. The tournament has one of its best fields in its history, and with just two more events left in 2020,

1:58 PM ET Associated Press ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Bill Haas has tested positive for the coronavirus and has withdrawn from the PGA Tour’s RSM Classic this week at Sea Island. Haas, who had received a sponsor exemption, is the 16th player to test positive since the PGA Tour returned from the COVID-19 pandemic

The USGA announced the official 156-player field for the 2020 U.S. Women’s Open, and it’s the strongest contingent that any major has seen in 2020. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, players have faced the difficult decision as to whether or not they want to travel to compete in tournaments. Several top-ranked LPGA Tour players who

1:40 AM ET Jonathan SelvarajESPN Towards the end of the final round of the PGTI Players Championship in Chandigarh last week, Karandeep Kochhar came under unexpected pressure. He had led the field from the start and had gone into the final round with a four-shot lead. However, a course record 10-under from Sunit Chowrasia had

Whether or not you won big at the Masters with your DraftKings or FanDuel lineups, DFS golf players have a few more opportunities to take some cash home before the PGA Tour takes a break before 2021. This is the 24th consecutive week of golf on the PGA Tour—we’ve been spoiled since golf’s return in

Rory McIlroy wasn’t able to join the elite group of players who have won golf’s career Grand Slam, but another rare slam was completed on Sunday at the Masters. Claude Harmon III joined his father, Butch, David Leadbetter, Hank Haney, Pete Cowen and Jack Grout as the only coaches to have worked with players as

7:00 AM ET Multiple contributors AUGUSTA, Ga. — This Masters was different. It had to be. The tournament was being held in November for the first time. There were no patrons on the grounds. We share what stood out most to us over seven surreal days at Augusta National: Less quiet, please So much is

Dustin Johnson finished his 2020 campaign—no offense to the RSM or Mayakoba Classics, but we’re guessing the green jacket tour won’t go through there—by finishing in the top two in six of his last seven tournaments. The final one of those, of course, being a Masters win in which he broke or tied nine different

1:04 PM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com For Tiger Woods at the Masters, what a difference a year makes. At the 2019 tournament, Woods saw those around him near the top of the leaderboard lose balls in the water at the par-3, 12th hole. With that, Woods would go on to win the tournament and his fifth

The 84th Masters hasn’t disappointed as the tournament heads into the weekend. After a marathon two days at Augusta National, a packed leader board heading into Saturday’s third round included for the first time in major championship history the No. 1, 2 and 3 ranked players in the world tied for first place. How Dustin

AUGUSTA, Ga.—The grounds crew had a problem. Someone woke the wind from a three-day slumber to let it know a Masters was afoot and it responded in kind, kissing Augusta National with breezes that rained pine needles across the property. Picturesque as this poetry-in-motion meeting of leaf and sky and land proved it be, it

2:24 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — In his preparations for the Masters, Bryson DeChambeau imagined that Augusta National Golf Club was a par-67 course, instead of the actual 72, because he was mashing the ball so far off the tee. Here was DeChambeau’s reality on Sunday: he finished 2-under 286, which was 15 shots behind

Masters career money leaders1: Tiger Woods, $9,494,1362: Phil Mickelson, $8,018,0373: Jordan Spieth, $4,561,1564: Bubba Watson, $3,931,8555: Adam Scott, $3,635,2776: Justin Rose, $3,622,5157: Ángel Cabrera, $3,473,3578: Lee Westwood, $3,386,8159: Sergio Garcia, $3,223,53010: Fred Couples, $2,734,52111: Vijay Singh, $2,541,30512: Ernie Els, $2,486,84313: José María Olazábal, $2,480,38314: Rickie Fowler, $2,395,30015: Charl Schwartzel, $2,349,56316: Jason Day, $2,284,84817: Retief Goosen,

5:51 PM ET The attention when this first-ever fall Masters began was on Tiger Woods, who was trying to defend a title won 19 months ago at Augusta National. It also found its way to Bryson DeChambeau, who came into the year’s final major with a plan to try to overpower the place. And, of