7:43 AM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Tiger Woods won’t be playing in this week’s Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. Neither will Phil Mickelson, though he is here and will serve as a non-playing assistant captain for the United States team. Six rookies are giving a face-lift to the American side, which has lost four of
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4:38 PM ET SHEYBOYGAN, Wis. — There’s a plan in place in the event a player contracts COVID-19 and is unable to play in singles Sunday at the Ryder Cup — and it is being called the “COVID Envelope.” Following Ryder Cup rules similar to those in case of an injury, each captain before the
4:07 PM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Team Europe captain Padraig Harrington wants to make sure his players “make it count” at this week’s Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits, and the Irishman has come up with a unique way to remind them of their rare achievement. During a team meeting Monday night, Harrington showed his 12
12:03 PM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Not only does Bryson DeChambeau believe everything will be fine between him and Brooks Koepka this week at the Ryder Cup, he hinted that some sort of collaboration is in the works. DeChambeau, who has had a monthslong feud with Koepka, said Tuesday that he is all about the
9:49 AM ET Tiger Woods is getting in on the latest digital craze, releasing a nonfungible token (NFT) collection through a company co-founded by Tom Brady called Autograph in a collaboration with Upper Deck. Woods is on the Autograph advisory board, along with Tony Hawk, Derek Jeter, Wayne Gretzky, Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka. The
7:44 AM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — First-tee jitters are a thing. But at the Ryder Cup, they escalate to a level that makes for considerable discomfort among professional golfers. They have done this hundreds of times, stuck a tee in the ground to begin competition. The Ryder Cup, though, is different. Perhaps it is because
7:41 AM ET In 2004, when Ryder Cup captain Hal Sutton paired Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods together at Oakland Hills, it was considered bold. Not because it was the No. 2- and No. 4-ranked players in the world playing together in one group, but because Mickelson and Woods had a rivalry that was considered
6:57 PM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — If Brooks Koepka is indifferent about the Ryder Cup, as some of his recent comments might suggest, it is not something that Steve Stricker has seen in his dealings with the golfer. Stricker, the U.S. Ryder Cup captain, said Monday during an introductory news conference at Whistling Straits that
7:37 AM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wisc. — Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau are unlikely to sit together, eat together or chit-chat together this week at the Ryder Cup. But what if they played together? Would the previously derisive “Brooksy” chants from the gallery then be considered complimentary? As silly as all that sounds, that is where
7:33 AM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Rory McIlroy chuckles, somewhat sheepishly, as words from part of his past are played out before him. Call it the naivete of youth, an understandably uninformed take on a subject that he had yet to have the opportunity to fully experience. McIlroy was barely 20 years old when he