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Viktor Hovland captured the FedEx Cup in dominating fashion on Sunday. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) ATLANTA — Exactly five weeks from now, the United States and Europe will be dueling through the singles matches of the Ryder Cup. If there’s any justice in the golf world, Viktor Hovland and Xander Schauffele will go head-to-head in that

Jon Rahm prefers to play events like this week’s Tour Championship for the trophy, not the money. That’s true even when the grand prize is a massive $18 million. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) ATLANTA — The last-place finisher at this year’s Tour Championship will earn more for four days’ work than the average American will earn

Getty Images A season that began last September with more than 150 hopeful PGA Tour members wraps this week at the 2023 Tour Championship with the game’s 30 best players still eligible to win the FedEx Cup Playoffs and the $18 million share that comes with finishing atop Sunday’s leaderboard. Those golfers ascend upon East

India’s Anirban Lahiri continued his fine run as he opened the inaugural St Andrews Bay Championship with a superb 6-under 66 that gave him a share in the six-way lead, which also included compatriot Veer Ahlawat, on the first day in St Andrews, Scotland. Lahiri, who was second in Liv Series and then third last

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Rory McIlroy plays the fourth hole during the first round of the TOUR Championship on Thursday at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images) ATLANTA — Rory McIlroy grimaced his way through a session at the East Lake Golf Club driving range like he was a weekend hacker trying to get

Yahoo Sports Chiefs-Lions recap: What’s real and what’s fake? + Burrow & Bosa contracts Jason Fitz, Charles Robinson and Charles McDonald kick off the inaugural episode of Zero Blitz by recapping an exciting start to the NFL season, where the Detroit Lions managed to hold off the depleted Kansas City Chiefs for a big victory.

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 24, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — The 2022-23 PGA Tour FedEx Cup season comes to an end this week at East Lake Golf Club. There’s still plenty to settle this weekend,

Brooks Koepka narrowly missed earning an automatic bid to join the U.S. team in the Ryder Cup this fall, something that seemed almost impossible initially after his jump to LIV Golf last year. Koepka was just barely knocked out of the top six in the Ryder Cup standings last week. He finished seventh, only 29

ATLANTA — This time last year, Rory McIlroy rode into the Tour Championship as the PGA Tour’s white knight, fending off the evil hordes of LIV Golf and Saudi Arabian wealth with a driver and a pure heart. What a difference a year makes. In July, the PGA Tour and LIV’s Saudi backers leaped into

Getty Images When it comes to updating the PGA Tour’s framework deal with the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, commissioner Jay Monahan was long on words but short on answers in a 45-minute session with the media on Tuesday ahead of the Tour Championship at East Lake. Monahan was asked question after question about the

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 21, 2023, 10:00 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia There’s just one more week to go in the FedEx Cup playoffs and eight days left before U.S. Ryder Cup team captain Zach Johnson announces his six

Max Homa and his caddie yelled at the “probably drunk” fan after Homa sank his putt on Saturday at the BMW Championship. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images) Max Homa lit up a fan standing near the 17th green at Olympia Fields Country Club on Saturday afternoon. Homa was just about to putt near the end of his

Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri shot a fine 3-under 68 in the final round but failed to find as many birdies as he deserved to finish third at the International Series England. The 36-year-old had earlier finished second at the International Series in Vietnam. Lahiri, who carded 70-69-69 in his first three rounds, finished at 8-under

Viktor Hovland set a new course record on Sunday at the BMW Championship. (Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Viktor Hovland’s back nine at Olympia Fields Country Club on Sunday was absolutely incredible. It was the round of his life, which lifted him to the win at the BMW Championship and put him in a

USATSI The field has been trimmed to 50 players, but the stakes have intensified as players travel to the 2023 BMW Championship at Olympia Fields Country Club. Returning to the site of the epic playoff between Jon Rahm and Dustin Johnson in 2020, the BMW Championship will once again serve as the penultimate event of

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 16, 2023, 02:29 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia As if there wasn’t enough on the line in the final two weeks of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs, a handful of players are still fighting

Yasir Al-Rumayyan at a LIV Golf event. (Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images) A U.S. senator is demanding that the governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the financial foundation of LIV Golf, comply with a congressional request for testimony and information. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, chair of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has