Golf

ESPN News Services Dec 19, 2024, 11:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Nick Dunlap, who became the first player to win as an amateur and a professional in the same season, has been named the PGA Tour’s Rookie of the Year for the 2024 season. The 20-year-old American was selected for the Arnold Palmer Award

The massive, 64-foot-high TGL screen. (Yahoo Sports) PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — The first thing you notice when you walk into the SoFi Center, the site of the soon-to-debut TGL indoor golf league, is the screen that covers one side of the arena is huge. Like, five-stories-high huge. Big enough that even you could probably

Tiger Woods returns to the golf course and spotlight this week alongside his son, Charlie, at the PNC Championship at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Florida. The final silly-season event is a fan-favorite and the return of Team Woods raises the bar to a different level. Woods hasn’t played since the Open Championship this summer —

Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler had no trouble with Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images for The Showdown) The PGA Tour wins this round against LIV Golf. Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy topped Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in the latest version of “The Match,” which was rebranded this time

Associated Press Dec 17, 2024, 12:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The PGA Tour, flush with a $1.5 billion investment from private equity and still negotiating with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf as a minority investor, is hiring a CEO for the first time who will work alongside Commissioner Jay Monahan. Monahan made the

Crypto bros and golf fans, rejoice! Two and a half years after LIV Golf split from the PGA Tour in a theatrical splash of attitude and cash, the golf world remains as divided as ever, with two sets of stars running on parallel tracks. The game’s best only cross over four times a year, at

The Bobby Nichols-Fiddlesticks Charity Foundation announced the 23rd annual Nichols Cup charity events and the pro-am golf tournament will be on Feb. 14-17 at Fiddlesticks Country Club to support local abused and at-risk children. The 2025 four-day fundraising theme is “Brighter Horizons,” symbolizing a future full of potential and support for local children and a

Starting in 2025 at Bethpage Black, members of the United States Ryder Cup team will be paid to play. The PGA of America announced Monday morning that it will provide a “stipend” for players, in addition to increasing the amount it designates for each player’s charitable donations. The PGA of America will increase the amount

ESPN News Services Dec 15, 2024, 10:54 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MALELANE, South Africa — Shaun Norris of South Africa won the Alfred Dunhill Golf Championship at Leopard Creek Country Club on Sunday after a final-round 67 gave him a 13-under-par total of 275 and a one-shot victory. It was a second win on

Nelly Korda, the top-ranked female golfer in the world and the 2021 Olympic gold medalist, recently switched drivers and is competing this week at the Grant Thornton Invitational alongside partner Daniel Berger using a yet-to-be-released TaylorMade Qi35 driver. Korda, who on Monday was named by the LPGA Tour as its Rolex Player of the Year,

Associated Press Dec 13, 2024, 11:16 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MALELANE, South Africa — Marcus Kinhult of Sweden shot a 4-under 68 to take a three-shot lead after the second round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship on Friday. Kinhult entered the day tied for second place after a 65 in the opening round at

A modern version of The Skins Game is returning to Thanksgiving week. Pro Shop, the new golf media company led by “Full Swing” executive producer Chad Mumm, on Thursday announced a deal with the PGA Tour that brings back The Skins Game for the first time since 2008. It will be held on Black Friday

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterDec 10, 2024, 06:10 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler, whose seven victories on tour this past season were the most since Tiger Woods in 2007, won the

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, given how dominant his season was, but Scottie Scheffler made even more PGA Tour history on Tuesday. Scheffler officially won his third straight Player of the Year award, the Tour announced on Tuesday night. He is now the first golfer since Tiger Woods nearly two decades ago

A week after saying he wasn’t sure when he’d be able to return to competitive golf, Tiger Woods announced on Tuesday that he will take part in the PNC Championship later this month alongside his son Charlie. “I’m very excited to head back to the PNC Championship next week with Charlie,” Woods said in a

A driver off the deck and a 3-wood off a tee. One shot was simply to make the cut. Another was to win a major. Every shot tells a story, and there were plenty of them in 2024. Not all of them belong to Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele, the two players who stood above

Associated Press Dec 8, 2024, 05:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NASSAU, Bahamas — Scottie Scheffler returned from a two-month break and nothing changed. He won the Hero World Challenge on Sunday with a 9-under 63 to tie the tournament record at Albany Golf Club and win by six shots. Scheffler, the first player since

SUN CITY, South Africa (AP) — American golfer Johannes Veerman claimed his second title on the European tour after winning the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa by one shot following a bogey on the 72nd hole by home favorite Aldrich Potgieter on Sunday. Veerman had finished his final round of 3-under 69 about an