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While investigating ways to kill the golf-less hours recently, I was informed that Pebble Beach offers four different live video feeds on the course, covering the first tee, 17th green, 18th green and putting green. In better days, I would not deign to spend my precious time watching low-context, low-quality footage of amateurs playing golf

8:42 PM ET In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and cancelations of several tournaments, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is forgoing his salary, several executives are taking pay cuts and all of the tour’s employees are seeing their pay frozen to 2019 levels, a PGA Tour source confirmed to ESPN. Monahan, who became commissioner

The lack of face masks in the United States, and the world, is one of the major challenges associated with the spreading of the coronavirus. Medical professionals need them, as do members of the general population who are either infected or at high risk of contracting the coronavirus. To help with the shortage, two golf

8:40 AM ET PALM HARBOR, Fla. — The conditions are pristine, and there are plenty of golfers who are taking advantage, enjoying the pure, slick greens — maybe not so much the thick Bermuda rough. The Copperhead Course at the Innisbrook Resort still looks primed to host the best golfers in the world, but obviously

Ryan Porter drags on a cigar from his porch. A former mini-tour player, Porter is contemplative as he puffs into the cool March evening. His house sits a par 5 away from the shores of Narragansett Bay. His beloved course is even closer. “I’ve made it from my driveway to the Met’s parking lot and

With the PGA Tour season on pause due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, Byeong Hun An is stepping up his YouTube game. Just don’t expect him to talk about one particular aspect of his golf game. The 28-year-old is tied for second on tour this season with five top 10s, but he’s a notoriously bad

11:12 AM ET Associated Press The first player under the PGA Tour umbrella has tested positive for the new coronavirus after returning home to South Africa from playing a developmental tour event in Mexico. The PGA Tour says Victor Lange made his only PGA Tour Latinoamerica start in the Estrella Del Mar Open in Mazatlan,

This is the first installment of our Masters Rewatch series, in which we watch and recap the last 23 final rounds of the Masters while we’re working from home due to the coronavirus. What better way to get your Masters fix while in quarantine than by firing up YouTube and remembering all the stuff you

Like most businesses during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, golf clubs are trying to figure out how to maintain elements of their operation while still protecting the safety of their employees and members. As a board member and a past president of a small private club in Connecticut, I’ve been a part of a series of

Golf’s utility beyond competition and camaraderie is its contribution to sanity. What would we do without the rub of the green? It allows us to weather the bad bounces in golf—in life, too—for which we may or may not be responsible, though in Haley Moore’s case, she unequivocally deserved better. Moore, who because of her

For Australia’s Lukas Michel, it was going to be a month-long trip of a lifetime. When the 26-year-old U.S. Mid-Amateur champion left his Melbourne home March 11 for the United States he was looking forward to playing in a pair of amateur events along with taking his hard-earned place in the Masters. Not any more,

4:21 PM ET Let the speculation begin — or continue. It’s only been a few days since Augusta National announced it would be postponing the 2020 Masters due to the coronavirus pandemic. And the club is in the process of shutting down its operations this week. So how far the leaders of the Masters have

The PGA Tour is expanding the cancellation of its tournaments for another four weeks, extending through the AT&T Byron Nelson that is scheduled for May 7-10, multiple sources have confirmed to Golf Digest. Also, the PGA Championship, scheduled for May 14-17 at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, has been postponed. Members of the Tour’s

As the PGA Tour announced the cancellation of four more tournaments, the PGA of America said that it is postponing its PGA Championship and the European Tour remained on hiatus, there’s little certainty to when the men’s major golf tours will return to action as concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic continue to grow. With essentially

5:37 PM ET The PGA Championship became the second major championship to announce it is postponing its tournament while the PGA Tour on Tuesday announced that four more tournaments through May 10 have been canceled. The PGA Championship, scheduled for May 14-17 at Harding Park in San Francisco, will look for a later date, according

With 14 championships to conduct in 14 cities across the country, the U.S. Golf Association has a myriad of decisions to make as the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact much of society around the world, including, of course, the cancelation or postponement of sporting events. Those decisions are coming, likely soon, but as of Tuesday

5:20 AM ET Dilip Tirkey, former Indian hockey captain and one of only four men in the sport with over 400 caps, laughs when asked if earning a partial card for the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) for 2020 has made him put representing India in two sports at the Olympics as a realistic

With the game in a state of shutdown almost worldwide, it’s a safe bet that no member of professional golf’s elite is feeling very happy right now. But few are quite as frustrated by this unprecedented state of affairs as Lee Westwood. Only a handful of players have shown better form over the last few

If promises come in the form of tickets sold and distributed, the European Tour is making no commitments to its supporters about any tournaments in the future. In a letter to the tour’s email base on Monday, Chief Executive Keith Pelley said the tour was suspending ticket and hospitality sales for all the events it

4:36 PM ET Three days after announcing that the Masters Tournament would be postponed indefinitely, Augusta National will close the club to members later this week, the club confirmed to ESPN. The home of the Masters traditionally closes for the summer months in late May and re-opens in mid-October. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, club

A day after releasing new Masters odds with an important caveat, Las Vegas’ largest sports book offered new lines on the golf calendar’s second major championship—with two important stipulations. Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook made the Masters move as it braced to refund all the bets it had taken on the year’s first major, which has

7:54 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Rory McIlroy is fine with PGA Tour’s decision to continue playing golf without spectators, but called for all players and caddies to be tested for the coronavirus and said that if any one tests positive “we need to shut it down.” McIlroy, the No. 1-ranked player in

Before starting the process of breaking down the grandstands and infrastructure at the Valspar Championship, tournament officials snapped photos of the veritable ghost town. It was a bit of a funereal gesture, or perhaps something like a routine investigative measure at the scene of a crime. All that was missing was the chalk outline. The

While golf, like most professional sports in the United States, is on hold as communities respond to the COVID-19 virus, one of its more talked about subplots in 2020 resurfaced on Sunday. If the Premier Golf League is to get off the ground when sports do resume, and stand as a potential competitor to the

4:03 PM ET ESPN News Services Brooks Koepka said Sunday he has no interest in the Premier Golf League, another setback to a league promising guaranteed money and a team concept that now won’t have the top two players in the world. “I am out of the PGL. I’m going with the PGA Tour,” Koepka

As the saying goes, “The House always wins.” But that assumes sporting events will always go on. Of course, that’s not the case right now with the Coronavirus pandemic causing cancelations and postponements of most athletic contests. For Las Vegas sports books, the timing couldn’t have been worse. According to the Los Angeles Times, Nevada

9:37 PM ET ESPN News Services PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Fans scattered around the ninth green saw Hideki Matsuyama finish with a 25-foot eagle putt to tie the course record and take the lead at The Players Championship. Spectators filled the theater around the dynamic 16th and 17th holes at the TPC Sawgrass to

In the dizzying string of press conferences, announcements and cancellations in golf this week as the COVID-19 pandemic was declared a national emergency by President Donald Trump, there were many questions surrounding the game still to be answered. Not the least of which: When might it be safe enough for the pro tours to start

Chris Marchini is the general manager of the Golf Galaxy in Pittsburgh, and like a lot of us, golf is his passion and his escape from the stresses of everyday life, stresses that no doubt are at a new level in the wake of fears brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Nothing can make him

9:43 AM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Rory McIlroy awoke early Friday morning ready to go through his routine to prepare for the second round of the Players Championship. With a scheduled 8:46 a.m. tee time, he had gone to bed early Thursday evening – and missed the text from the PGA Tour that