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On Friday, after nabbing a share of the halfway lead at the BMW PGA Championship on the European Tour, Matthew Fitzpatrick made headlines with his comments on Bryson DeChambeau and the recent distance explosion in professional golf. “I’m biased because I’m not quite the longest,” said the 26-year-old Fitzpatrick, currently ranked No. 20 in the

It’s quite a combination, quite the relationship. There is something about Wentworth and Shane Lowry that just fits. Since his first appearance in the BMW PGA Championship in 2010, the Open champion has played 40 competitive rounds over the Burma Road course. In 29 of those, Lowry has shot a score of par or better,

2:24 PM ET British Open champion Shane Lowry and local favourite Matthew Fitzpatrick both fired seven-under-par 65s in the second round of the BMW PGA Championship to share the lead at the halfway stage on Friday. The duo, who were tied for third after matching opening rounds of 67 on Thursday, went 12-under for the

Ahead of celebrating her 50th birthday on Friday, Annika Sorenstam took time to talk to Golf Digest and reflect on what was one of the greatest golf careers of all time. In her 26-year professional career, she won 90 worldwide tournaments, 72 of those on the LPGA Tour, 10 of them majors. She was player

9:57 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Bryson DeChambeau put on another power display Thursday and it worked just as well as when he won the U.S. Open. In his first start since winning at Winged Foot last month, DeChambeau had two-putt birdies on all three of the par 5s and two of the

The PGA Tour’s super season rolls on in Las Vegas this week with the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin. Can you take a wild guess at who is leading the tournament? Yup, it’s big, bad, bulky Bryson DeChambeau, a former winner of the event. Will he ever lose again? We’re half-kidding …

A PGA professional died Wednesday after a tree fell onto his golf cart. According to Great Barrington (Mass.) police, neighbors reported a cart with a tree laying on top of it at Wyantenuck Country Golf Club after a storm went through the area. When police arrived they found Tom Sullivan, Wyantenuck’s club professional, besides the

7:00 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN Shortly after graduating from Stanford in 2016, Georgia native Mariah Stackhouse finished 21st at the LPGA Qualifying Tournament. In her 2017 rookie season, the four-time All-American for the Cardinal became the seventh African American player to qualify for the LPGA Tour. In the 70 years of the LPGA, there have

The missing link in the United States Golf Association’s quest to take its championships to every corner of the country has been Alaska, which it finally will be able to check off its list in 2022 with the playing of the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur there. The USGA made the announcement on Wednesday, scheduling the

6:05 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau apparently believes he isn’t hitting the ball far enough, so he has been working on an equipment change ahead of next month’s Masters. DeChambeau, who is making his first start since he won the U.S. Open last month at Winged Foot at this week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, said

Bryson DeChambeau is making his first start since winning last month’s U.S. Open this week at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. Lest anyone think he’s been relaxing and enjoying the spoils of his first career major. He’s already working on plans for the next one. On Wednesday, DeChambeau revealed that he plans to unveil

1:00 PM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN It’s October, and still golf major season. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the LPGA Tour shifted its schedule — including when and how many majors will be played. The major schedule was condensed to four tournaments, compared to the regular slate of five, with the third major of the season

At No. 9 in the world he’s the highest-ranked player in the field. But his elite status on another list is currently providing the biggest motivation for Patrick Reed. At Wentworth just outside London for the European Tour’s so-called flagship event, the $7 million BMW PGA Championship, the former Masters champion has crossed the Atlantic

This is not meant to take anything away from Bryson. But because the 2020 U.S. Open champ outplayed Wolff over those final nine holes, he now has all the hype—and odds to win of more than triple Wolff’s at this week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. That doesn’t seem right. Our experts Pat Mayo and

5:19 PM ET Tony Finau has withdrawn from this week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open after testing positive for COVID-19, the PGA Tour announced Tuesday. “Earlier today, I received a positive result for Covid-19 under PGA TOUR on-site testing protocols and have begun a period of self-quarantine to protect others around me,” he wrote on

Let’s begin with a statement we can all agree on: Winning a major championship is harder than winning a regular tour event. Presumably, it requires more experience to win a major since the more experience you have, the more likely you’ll be able to handle the nerves and pressure as you play those final holes

12:19 PM ET The Latin America Amateur Championship, whose winner gets an automatic invitation to the Masters and The Open, has been canceled for 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The event, which is sponsored by the USGA, the R&A and the Masters and has been played since 2015, was scheduled for Jan. 14-17

Almost without interruption, it’s been going and growing for more than six decades. These days, it is a $7 million tournament held annually on one of Britain’s most famous courses. And in normal times what is now the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth boasts a strength of field commensurate with that elite status. But what

Bryson DeChambeau will be making his first start since his U.S. Open triumph at this week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. A start that will serve as a Winged Foot rematch of sorts. DeChambeau, who won the Shriners two years ago, will be paired with Matthew Wolff and Cameron Champ for the first two rounds

5:28 PM ET Associated Press GALLOWAY, N.J. — Mel Reid of England seized control with a run of birdies around the turn and finished strong Sunday for a 4-under 67 and a two-shot victory in the ShopRite LPGA Classic for her first LPGA Tour title. Reid’s only mistake on the back nine was a bogey

For 13 weeks now, exactly one-quarter of this year like no other, the European Tour has been hosting post-lockdown tournaments. And things have not been easy for golf’s second-biggest circuit. With the exception of last week’s Scottish Open and this week’s BMW PGA Championship, both $7 million Rolex Series events, the prize money available to

3:17 PM ET Associated Press Englishman Aaron Rai needed only one playoff hole to beat compatriot Tommy Fleetwood and win the Scottish Open for his second European Tour title on Sunday. Fleetwood (67) birdied the last hole of regulation to match Rai’s total of 11 under par, but then missed from three feet for par

Because he hadn’t had a “PGA Tour” win since the 2017 Masters, Sergio Garcia’s Sanderson Farms Championship win felt like it came out of nowhere. In reality, the Spaniard had won three times since putting on the green jacket, all three victories coming on the European Tour (2017 and 2018 Andalucia masters, 2019 KLM Open). 

While Bryson DeChambeau is in the midst of perhaps changing the metrics of golf through evermore distance, Sergio Garcia is making a case for the mystical properties of darkness. Garcia, apparently, has seen the light by playing tournament golf with his eyes wide shut and lending credence to the philosophy of that sage golfer of

8:11 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Sergio Garcia had gone just more than a year since his last victory, which felt even longer considering he failed to make the FedEx Cup playoffs and fell out of the top 50 in the world for the first time since 2011. One week, and two big

For much of the afternoon, it looked as though Peter Malnati had done enough to claim his second Sanderson Farms Championship, or at least done enough to earn a spot in a playoff. However, Sergio Garcia, who had not won on the PGA Tour since the 2017 Masters, was able to fend off Malnati with

6:27 PM ET Associated Press GALLOWAY, N.J. — Mel Reid gave herself another chance for her first LPGA Tour victory. Two weeks after missing an opportunity in Portland, the 33-year-old Englishwoman shot a 5-under 66 on Saturday to take the lead into the final round of the Shoprite LPGA Classic. In Portland, Reid closed with

It was, amidst much doom, gloom and precipitation, a thing of beauty. Hitting shots the old-fashioned way, Tommy Fleetwood somehow manufactured a two-under-par 69 in vile conditions on Saturday to sit two shots off Robert Rock’s lead at the end of day three of the Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club. It was, quite simply

The Sanderson Farms Championship has been a beacon of hope for the winless on the PGA Tour—in each of the last six years a first-time champion has been crowned at the event. That could change on Sunday with veterans like Sergio Garcia, Brandt Snedeker, Keegan Bradley and Charley Hoffman all in contention on what is

9:12 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss — Sergio Garcia squeezed his eyes shut on the 18th green, not as he stood over his putt but when he saw it stop one turn short of dropping for another birdie. No matter. He played bogey-free Saturday in the Sanderson Farms Championship for a 6-under 66, and