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The PGA Tour’s 2020-’21 regular-season finale takes place this week—as surreal as it seems to say it—at the Wyndham Championship. And with it, tour pros have one final tournament to earn enough points to finish in the top 125 and qualify for the FedEx Cup Playoffs, which begin at The Northern Trust on Aug. 20.

BANDON, Ore.—Aman Gupta was having a moment. Or four. “Over there weed whacking,” he would later joke. In his quarterfinal U.S. Amateur Championship match against Michael Thorbjornsen on Friday, Gupta hooked his drive into the knee-high fescue on the par-4 third hole at Bandon Dunes, and once he found the ball, he examined his lie

7:55 PM ET Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. — Tom Hoge maintained a share of the lead Friday at the Wyndham Championship, this time alongside Si Woo Kim, Talor Gooch and Billy Horschel. Hoge, tied for the first-round lead with Harold Varner III and Roger Sloan, kept in front with a steady 2-under 68 to get

Tom Hoge shares the lead heading into the weekend at the Wyndham Championship, which brings to mind a humorous exchange from the one time Tiger Woods played the event five years ago and was paired with the 31-year-old. Reporter: Tiger, this is probably unfair but have you ever heard of Tom Hoge? Do you know

5:03 PM ET Segundo Oliva Pinto said he called caddie Brant Brewer on Thursday night to forgive him after a mistake on the 18th hole that cost him his round of 16 match in the U.S. Amateur at Bandon Dunes. “He was in tears, heartbroken about what happened,” Pinto told ESPN on Friday. “I posted

Tiger Woods announced via social media Friday that he will compete next week in The Northern Trust at TPC Boston, the first event of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs. When asked about his schedule last week at the PGA Championship, after finishing T-37 at TPC Harding Park, Woods would not say when he was

BANDON, Ore.—Stewart Hagestad pushed his cell phone across the conference table in the Bandon Dunes Golf Course clubhouse. On his screen was the text he’d received at 5 a.m. on Thursday, a couple of hours before his Round of 32 match in the U.S. Amateur Championship. “Unbelivable,” Hagestad said with quiet exasperation. “You’ve got to

10:49 PM ET ESPN News Services Tyler Strafaci is moving on at the U.S. Amateur, and he has the caddie for his opponent to thank. Strafaci, a Georgia Tech star, was all square with Argentina’s Segundo Oliva Pinto entering the 18th hole of their round of 16 match Thursday at Bandon Dunes in Bandon, Oregon.

BANDON, Ore. — To be eliminated from a critical match in the U.S. Amateur Championship due to a rules violation is brutal. To be ousted for something you had no direct hand in falls in its own category of cruelty. Such was the unenviable circumstance of Segundo Oliva Pinto on Thursday in the Round of

4:31 PM ET Associated Press Danielle Kang started her bid for a third straight win on the LPGA Tour with an even-par 71 in the first round of the Ladies Scottish Open on Thursday, leaving the American four shots off the clubhouse lead held by Nicole Broch Larsen. The American golfer bounced back from bogeys

CBS Sports and Golf Channel won Sports Emmys this week for their work in their respective fields. CBS Sports was honored with the Outstanding Live Sports Special Award for its coverage of the 2019 Masters. Commentator Nick Faldo joked the prize was captured for the silence shared between he and Jim Nantz following Tiger Woods’

BANDON, Ore. — It is one thing for a friend to say he has your back when there’s nothing to be gained or lost. It is quite another to trust him with the very thing that means the most to you. Michael Thorbjornsen is doing that this week in the 120th U.S. Amateur Championship. The

10:28 PM ET Associated Press BANDON, Ore. — Qualifying medalist Wilson Furr advanced to the second round of match play in the U.S. Amateur on Wednesday, beating China’s Aaron Du 6 and 4 at Bandon Dunes. Furr, a 22-year-old rising Alabama senior from Jackson, Mississippi, will face Vanderbilt’s Harrison Ott. Ott beat Mississippi State’s Ford

BANDON, Ore.—Matthew Sharpstene couldn’t help but notice. It was as if he was suddenly cast in a reality television show. Just as his tense, back-and-forth U.S. Amateur match on Wednesday with last year’s runner-up, John Augenstein, reached a critical point, the Golf Channel cameras showed up. In all of his years in golf, the 21-year-old

3:40 PM ET Among the many things Tiger Woods will remember about his 2019 Masters victory is the noise ringing in his ears, the constant chanting of his name as he marched toward history, and the seemingly unending sounds of joy as he putted out for his 15th major championship victory. Imagine all of that

That the Masters will be held in November without patrons was disappointing news, but hardly a surprise. The PGA Tour, PGA of America, USGA and LPGA Tour had all come to the same conclusion that it’s not yet time to hold pro golf tournaments with spectators as COVID-19 cases continue to rise around the country.

BANDON, Ore.—Put together 264 golfers of closely matched skill sets. Have them play 36 holes to whittle the collection to just 64. Both the odds and logic say you’re going to get a bunch of them trying to squeeze through a bottleneck to safety. It’s the beauty of the USGA’s format for the U.S. Amateur,

10:47 PM ET Associated Press The LPGA Tour has confirmed the 2020 Buick LPGA Shanghai has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. China’s government last month announced all international sports events in the country would be canceled until the end of the year, and organizers of the Oct. 15-18 women’s golf tournament made the

After an absolutely thrilling (and profitable) week at TPC Harding Park, we can expect a huge letdown this week at the Wyndham Championship. Right? Get your conventional wisdom out of here. We’re right back at it this week at Sedgefield Country Club, where the field is noticeably strong. During a normal year, this event would

12:20 PM ET Associated Press Justin Thomas shot only one round in the 60s at the PGA Championship at Harding Park, tied for 37th and lost the No. 1 ranking that he had held all of one week. The week wasn’t a total loss. Thomas has played so well this year, with a PGA Tour-best

While most golf fans were focused Sunday on the PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park, another tournament 630 miles north was playing out with its own bit of major championship intrigue. Lee Hodges’ two-stroke victory at the WinCo Foods Portland Open didn’t just earn him his first career Korn Ferry Tour title. The 25-year-old Alabama

While many of the world’s top players will be taking a much needed breather after an absolutely incredible nine-week stretch since the PGA Tour returned, others will be feeling the heat at this week’s Wyndham Championship, the final tournament before the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs. Arguably the most polarizing man in golf, Brooks

Aug 9, 2020 SAN FRANCISCO — After a final-round 67 that finally saw him make a few putts at the PGA Championship, Tiger Woods tried to look at the positives of a healthy week in chilly San Francisco and the days ahead as he prepares for the FedEx Cup playoffs and the U.S. Open. “I

The USGA announced Monday it is again pushing back its release of equipment research topics to its Distance Insights Report. The project, a joint study with the R&A on the effects of distance increases on the game, was initially released in February. Its primary finding was clear: Gains need to be curbed. A next phase

9:19 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — The process Tiger Woods goes through to play competitive golf is not outlined in detail, but it understandably involves more than a few toe touches and casual swings on the driving range. Woods is typically awake hours before his tee time, getting in a warm-up workout and visiting with

In just a moment, we’ll contextualize “The Drive” in more concrete, analytical terms, but first, your author would like to share a short exchange between a dozen golf fans who were following Sunday’s drama at the PGA Championship in an online chat room. While names have been removed to protect the innocent, lunatic typos have

Almost an hour passed Sunday afternoon during the final round of the PGA Championship with Brooks Koepka notably absent from television coverage, and when he finally did appear, he was crouching behind his ball on the sixth green while playing partner Paul Casey was stroking a long putt. Then CBS cut away before Koepka attempted

9:10 PM ET Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — The shot will be remembered as one of the best under pressure that hardly anyone witnessed. It made Collin Morikawa a major champion Sunday in a thrill-a-minute PGA Championship that not many will forget. Morikawa hit driver on the 294-yard 16th hole that was perfect in flight

Brooks Koepka perused the leaderboard Saturday night as he prepared for his PGA Championship three-peat and made a blunt statement about Dustin Johnson’s major record. Koepka noted that he trailed Dustin Johnson, the 54-hole leader, by two strokes going into the final round, and that he wasn’t exactly scared of DJ, having won “only” one

3:51 PM ET Andy Sullivan held off a spirited challenge from Spain’s Adrian Otaegui to lift his fourth European Tour title at the English Championship on Sunday. Englishman Sullivan started the day five shots clear at the top of the leaderboard but his advantage was cut to three as Otaegui carded five birdies on the