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3:36 PM ET ATLANTA — The 30 players who are competing in the Tour Championship at East Lake this week are playing for $45 million in FedEx Cup bonus money, with $15 million going to the winner. And PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said Wednesday that he anticipates no reduction in purses going forward as

The destination: Winged Foot Golf Club, site of the U.S. Open in two weeks. The 25-year-old Spaniard had some time on his hands with the Tour Championship scheduled for Friday-Monday thanks to the Labor Day weekend. And since he’d never been to Winged Foot, rather than fly home to Scottsdale then go to Atlanta, it

8:08 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders Jon Rahm won in stunning fashion last week, holing a 66-foot putt in a playoff with Dustin Johnson, who drained a 45-footer to force extra holes. Fantasy analyst Anita Marks hit on her Rahm pick at 9-1 odds. The FedExCup playoffs now shift to Atlanta, where 30 golfers will

The good news for golf fans: The fun doesn’t stop this week. Eleven more weeks of golf, running into a November Masters, follow this one. And if you’re trying to predict the action, you’re in the right place. Golf Digest’s expert panel has predicted 14 of the winners on the PGA Tour this season, including

With other PGA Tour events in Asia this fall being moved to the United States because of the coronavirus pandemic, next up in the decision-making process was the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai, China, scheduled for Oct. 29-Nov. 1. That call came on Tuesday, with the tour announcing it is canceling the tournament for 2020. In

6:36 PM ET Francesco Molinari is the only player among the top 50 in the world who has yet to return to competitive golf since the coronavirus pandemic shutdown, and he has withdrawn from the U.S. Open in two weeks. But the Italian star, who won The Open in 2018 and was the 54-hole leader

Hello. We are thrilled to hear you have taken up the sport. Our game is one of endless joy and incessant frustration. If that sentence doesn’t come off as a paradox, congrats, you’re in the right place. Let us begin with an apology. We wanted to write this sooner, as golf has been inundated with

9:19 PM ET Associated Press The Zozo Championship is moving from Japan to California this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, making it the anchor of a West Coast Swing in the fall portion of the schedule that is certain to attract strong fields. The $8 million tournament will be played Oct. 22-25 at Sherwood

The USGA announced Monday 16 players have been added to the 2020 U.S. Open field. The USGA’s flagship event, which will be comprised solely of exempt players due to the cancellation of local and sectional qualifying in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, bestowed exemptions to the top five point earners from the three-event Korn Ferry

Last weekend’s BMW Championship was lucky number 13 for tournaments played since the PGA Tour’s restart, counting the PGA Championship. To cap off a wild final round at Olympia Fields, Jon Rahm buried a 66-foot putt for birdie on the first extra hole, ending the hopes of back-to-back FedEx Cup Playoff wins for Dustin Johnson,

9:44 AM ET For the record, Tiger Woods finished 63rd in the FedEx Cup standings, his 2019-20 season coming to an end Sunday at the BMW Championship, where he failed to qualify for this week’s Tour Championship. That means he won’t be able to play for the $45 million in FedEx bonus money that is

In a PGA Tour season where terms like “things are fluid” and the “new normal” have become part of the lexicon thanks to COVID-19, there’s something ironic about the fact that the upcoming FedEx Cup Playoffs incorporate almost no changes for 2020. What makes that so is that since their inception in 2007, the Playoffs

8:14 PM ET Associated Press OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Even with so few people around, Jon Rahm could hear from the other side of the Olympia Fields clubhouse that Dustin Johnson had made a 45-foot birdie on the final hole to force a playoff Sunday in the BMW Championship. Resilient as ever, Rahm went out

Dustin Johnson pointed upwards. If the raised finger left any doubt, he punctuated it with an undercut. Gunslingers are reserved by nature; for Johnson, this was the personal equivalent of Hulk Hogan ripping his shirt in the middle of the ring. But the moment called for such an outburst, Johnson dropping a 45-foot, double-breaker, how’d-he-do-THAT

7:50 PM ET Butch Dill-USA TODAY Sports Tiger Woods is done. His season is over. But 30 players are still chasing the $15 million prize that comes with winning the FedEx Cup. Here is the full list of those advancing to the season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake and where they will start the week

Jon Rahm is known for letting his temper get the best of him. At the BMW Championship, however, the Spaniard stayed calm after a major mental mistake and brushed off a 43-foot bomb by Dustin Johnson on the final hole with a 66-footer of his own on the first playoff hole to win the BMW

Standing 3 down through four holes in the 18-hole final of the 117th Women’s British Amateur, Aline Krauter had reason to be nervous on Saturday at West Lancashire near Liverpool. Ranked 71st in the world, the 20-year-old from Germany had played well in her two seasons to date at Stanford but had yet to claim

7:04 PM ET ESPN News Services OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Dustin Johnson says his game feels similar to last week when he had the easiest of his 23 career victories. It just doesn’t look that way at the BMW Championship. Every par at Olympia Fields is hard work, and Johnson played the final 13 holes

It’s been a quarter century since a player won a tournament on the PGA Tour (non-major division) at even par, a mark that could be in jeopardy come Sunday at the BMW Championship. Though predicted overnight night rains never came at Olympia Fields, scoring was once again difficult for Saturday’s third round. Through 54 holes,

7:13 PM ET OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Golf might have to take a backseat momentarily for Rory McIlroy, even if $15 million is on the line. McIlroy revealed Saturday that he and his wife, Erica, are expecting their first child any day now. “We’re about to be parents very soon, so we’re obviously super excited,”

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Last week, after his seventh consecutive finish outside the top 10, Rory McIlroy spoke about struggling to find a spark in this new, fan-less normal. Golf didn’t seem like the most important thing in the world. Perhaps we now know one reason why. According to comments made by Golf Channel’s Steve

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Sometimes, golf taunts. Tiger Woods couldn’t buy a putt all day. When he needed them to drop, they wouldn’t, and he slid well down the leader board at the BMW Championship. And then, when the round was already lost, a long-distance putt found the bottom. Of course. Woods holed a 37-footer

8:36 PM ET OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Not even a 37-foot putt to save par on the final hole could fix Tiger Woods‘ disastrous round — or get him to stop and talk to the media — on Friday. Woods continues to sputter his way along since returning to the PGA Tour last month, and

“I think the test is what’s helped me focus and concentrate because if you lose focus out there for one second,” McIlroy said Friday at the BMW Championship, where he shares the lead at one under with Patrick Cantlay. “Just one lapse in concentration can really cost you around here.” Here’s more on McIlroy and

Cameron Champ addresses social justice issues as PGA Tour plays on Cameron Champ had the word “equality” written on the right side of his Nike hat and wore a black Nike shoe on his left foot and a white Nike shoe on his right with the words “Papa Champ, Black Lives Matter and Breonna Taylor.”

They were supposedly playing the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields on Thursday. The proceedings, however, came a lot closer to resembling a U.S. Open, with the world’s best, at times, looking like average hacks, and “good bogey” being said in all seriousness. For golf fans hoping for a little less red on the leader board

The driver off the deck is one of the most fun shots in golf. Well, to watch, at least. For us weekend hackers, it’s probably best to adhere to a strict do-not-try-this-at-home policy. The best players in the world, though, are actually capable of pulling off this high risk/reward shot. Last week, we even saw

8:50 PM ET OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — There was not a lot of talk publicly from players — including Tiger Woods — about possibly skipping the first round of the BMW Championship on Thursday, potentially joining others in the sports world who are boycotting games this week as a form of protest of racial injustice.

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — The latest flashpoint in this summer of civil unrest lies just 90 miles north of Olympia Fields. Kenosha, Wis., is a city of nearly 100,000 people, on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, a manageable drive up I-94 from the host course for this week’s BMW Championship. It’s where Jacob Blake

10:22 AM ET Tiger Woods is attempting to play back-to-back events for the first time this year, hoping to make next week’s 30-man Tour Championship field — which would mean three straight tournaments for the first time since 2018. It is not an easy task, as lack of play and so-so results in 2020 have