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After more than a decade, we’ve become numb to news of golf course closings. Still, some hit harder than others. Dartmouth College in New Hampshire announced on July 9 it would be shuttering Hanover Country Club, along with the elimination of five varsity athletic teams, including men’s and women’s golf. President Philip Hanlon announced the

DUBLIN, Ohio — Bryson DeChambeau is forcing golf to reconsider its rules. It might sound dramatic, but it’s demonstrably true. After he averaged 350 yards off the tee and won the Rocket Mortgage Classic two weeks ago, R&A chief Martin Slumbers was asked the most en vogue question in golf: What are your thoughts on

3:53 PM ET Tiger Woods hasn’t been this big of a long shot at the Memorial Tournament-an event he’s won five times–in a long time, and bettors can’t get enough of him. Woods is set to return to the PGA Tour this week after a five-month layoff initially caused by a stiff back and extended

DUBLIN, Ohio — Things are going extremely well, and Bryson DeChambeau is a little surprised. When you put on 40 pounds and fundamentally change the way you play golf, there’s supposed to be some lag time. Some time to adjust to your new body, your new swing. Even Tiger Woods dealt with these barren mid-transformation

9:12 AM ET Associated Press ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Golf organizers fixed an oversight Wednesday by agreeing to move the pandemic-postponed Curtis Cup so that it doesn’t conflict with the Solheim Cup. The Curtis Cup was to be held this year at Conwy Golf Club in Wales until the coronavirus pandemic led to a series

If you believe in the golf gods (and most of us golfers do), then you must know the golf-gambling gods are real, too. Early on in Sunday’s final round of the Workday Charity Open, the Golf Digest betting panel seemed destined to hit a fourth winner in a row in Viktor Hovland. Similar to our

Tiger Woods will play golf for the first time in more than five months this week when he competes in the Memorial Tournament. Not literally, of course—Woods has been practicing at home in South Florida, and we saw him play a fun round in the rain with some famous quarterbacks in May. But anyone who

6:36 PM ET This is the 45th year of the Memorial Tournament, and host Jack Nicklaus has made a tradition of waiting behind the 18th green to congratulate the winner with a hearty handshake. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Nicklaus said Tuesday that he will not be changing anything. “I’m going to shake their hand. I

DUBLIN, Ohio — The media had its first chance to talk to Tiger Woods in five months. The questions were … diverse. What have you been reading? Was postponing the Ryder Cup the right move? Should golf do away with rakes in bunkers? Thoughts on the Black Live Matter movement? There were even a few

6:27 AM ET ESPN.com Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print The following is a list of global sports leagues and events that have been impacted by the coronavirus crisis and the estimated start or resumed dates from the respective leagues. This list and the dates are subject to change. Status: No change/rescheduled | Postponed

Two weeks ago at Detroit Golf Club, Bubba Watson, Harold Varner III, Wes Bryan and Jason Day let cameras in on a friendly Wednesday nine-hole match as they prepped for the Rocket Mortgage Classic. At this week’s Memorial Tournament, fans will get to watch another foursome compete in a nine-hole exhibition that includes a charity

Fans were denied their dream pairing for the first two rounds of the Memorial. But the consolation prize isn’t too shabby. After Brooks Koepka took a not-so-subtle shot at Bryson DeChambeau on Twitter last week, many were hoping to see the two bashers go head-to-head on Thursday and Friday at Muirfield Village. Alas, that heavyweight

5:33 PM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Tiger Woods will be accompanied by two of golf’s biggest names when he returns to the PGA Tour at this week’s Memorial. Woods will play with Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka in the opening two rounds at Muirfield. Other featured groups announced Monday are:

Scoring has been stronger in the tour’s return and Morikawa and JT finished at 19-under, a higher than usual number than what we’re used to seeing at Muirfield Village. The course is expected to play a little tougher this week, as tournament officials will be letting the rough grow, using new tee boxes on a

6:00 AM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com Here’s what you might have missed over the weekend … Things are happening. NBA players are in the bubble. Baseball players are in Spring Training 2.0. There are 17 days until the first NBA games and 10 days until MLB’s Opening Day. We’re close. Let’s not jinx anything. We’re so

The city of La Canada Flintridge sits at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in eastern Los Angeles, a community best known as the site of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and more notoriously, for dangerous wildfires that occasionally roar through the bone-dry hills. Just down the street from the Jet Lab and up the

DUBLIN, Ohio—Golf is perhaps the ultimate game of inches. Centimeters, really. Had Collin Morikawa’s two-foot putt on the 18th green at Muirfield Village hit the rim of the cup just a fraction farther left, it would have spun out, and Justin Thomas would be holding the trophy, and the stories would all be about Morikawa’s

7:23 PM ET Associated Press STATELINE, Nev. — U.S. Davis Cup captain Mardy Fish won the American Century Championship on Sunday, holding off former Buffalo defensive tackle Kyle Williams a day after a record-setting round. The 38-year-old former tennis player jumped into Lake Tahoe in celebration. “I’ve wanted to play well here for a long

Chase Seiffert had a 15-minute stretch of shots on Sunday that shouldn’t get buried in the hoopla around the studs in the final group. A 28-year-old PGA Tour rookie who played his college golf at Florida State with Brooks Koepka and Daniel Berger, Seiffert was on the cusp of contention midway through the final round

6:46 PM ET Associated Press STATELINE, Nev. — Former tennis player Mardy Fish birdied the final five holes Saturday to take a three-point lead over former Buffalo defensive tackle Kyle Williams in the American Century Championship. The celebrity tournament is being played without fans at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course because of the coronavirus pandemic. The

Sunday’s winner of the Workday Charity Open will be a unicorn. When officials at the John Deere Open had to cancel their annual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the PGA Tour threw together a one-time replacement tournament to fill the open spot on the schedule. Workday stepped up to help sponsor the event, and

Justin Thomas still hasn’t made a bogey this week at Muirfield Village Golf Club. Is there any wonder then that Thomas, always among the leaders in birdies on the PGA Tour, leads by two over Viktor Hovland going into the final round of the Workday Charity Open? Here are our five takeaways from Saturday’s round.

7:05 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Justin Thomas never looked to be in a hurry. Not when he stepped to the first tee Friday trailing by 13 shots. Not when he was simply trying to keep up with Collin Morikawa on Saturday in the Workday Charity Open. And after turning a three-shot deficit

The Workday Charity Open is the first of back-to-back events at Muirfield Village, and will see seven of the top 15 players in the world competing in the Columbus, Ohio, suburb of Dublin this week. The event replaces the John Deere Classic, which was on the PGA Tour schedule before COVID-19 setbacks forced its cancelation;

1:40 PM ET Associated Press ATZENBRUGG, Austria (AP) — Miguel Angel Jimenez moved into position to break his own record as the oldest winner of a European Tour event when the 56-year-old shot 7-under 65 to take the second-round lead in the Austrian Open on Friday. Spain’s Jimenez made nine birdies in his first 13

The LPGA season restart can’t happen soon enough for Haley Moore, who is having one heck of a rookie year as a pro golfer even if she’s stuck on just one LPGA start. The 21-year-old’s latest exploits came on the Cactus Tour in Scottsdale when she started the final round of the 54-hole event at

It wouldn’t be a PGA Tour event at Muirfield Village without a few weather delays, and we’ve already had three so far this week in Dublin, Ohio. The two extended delays on Friday have forced players to come back and finish their second rounds on Saturday morning, which should provide some early cut-line drama. Someone

4:30 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Among the lessons Collin Morikawa took away from missing his first cut as a pro was that his reliable cut shot had left him. He found it at Muirfield Village and suddenly looks as though he’ll be tough to catch at the Workday Charity Open. Morikawa ran

Golf fans’ eyes were always going to be fixated upon Charlie Woods. Such is the inescapable reality for the only son of arguably the greatest player to ever swing a club. The fascination reached a new level earlier this year, when a clandestine video was posted to social media showing the younger Woods hitting a

8:37 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Collin Morikawa didn’t get rattled by his first missed cut as a pro or his first time playing Muirfield Village. Morikawa finally had a forced weekend off two weeks ago after 22 consecutive made cuts to start his PGA Tour career, three short of the standard set