4:08 PM ET Associated Press Scotland’s Calum Hill took full advantage of favourable conditions to claim a narrow lead after the opening round of the Scottish Open at Fairmont St Andrews on Thursday. In the second group out at 7.20 am, Hill carded a 9-under-par 63 to finish a shot ahead of Northern Ireland’s Jonathan
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12:37 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Justin Thomas sat in the chair, exhaled, then did his best to keep his eyes open. He might have simply said the media questions he fielded were putting him to sleep. But he didn’t have the energy for humor. A long stretch of golf across the globe was taking
5:05 AM ET Indian golfer Aditi Ashok carded a flawless five-under 66 in the second round of the women’s competition at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics on Thursday. The 23-year-old rolled in five birdies, which included three in her last four holes, on yet another steamy day at Kasumigaseki Country Club to lie tied-second on nine-under
4:01 AM ET Associated Press KAWAGOE, Japan — Already with her first major title and the No. 1 ranking, Nelly Korda took a big step toward a gold medal Thursday with a 9-under 62 that tied an Olympic record and gave her a four-shot lead. Still to be determined was how much golf was left
9:57 PM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN Lexi Thompson had a new caddie on her bag for the second round of the women’s golf tournament at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday: Drew Hinesley. Hinesley, who was in Tokyo working with NBC, took over because Thompson’s regular caddie, Jack Fulghum, suffered from heat exhaustion and dehydration during the
7:54 PM ET Associated Press HARRISON, N.Y. — Defending champion Rose Zhang tumbled out of the U.S. Women’s Amateur in the first-round of match play Wednesday, with qualifying medalist Rachel Kuehn one of seven of the top eight seeds to fall. Elle Nachmann, a sophomore from Boca Raton, Florida, who carries a 4.0 GPA in
4:13 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — With recent concern over the Delta variant of the coronavirus and an increase in positive cases around the country, the PGA Tour this week reimplemented an indoor mask policy for all individuals, but stopped short of resuming its COVID-19 testing. Two weeks ago, the Tour stopped the practice of
1:27 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A positive COVID-19 test kept Bryson DeChambeau from competing in the men’s Olympic golf tournament and still has him searching to regain energy as he competes in this week’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. But DeChambeau, 27, said he does not regret his decision to not get vaccinated for the
2:22 PM ET The women’s Olympic golf tournament could be shortened to 54 holes due to an approaching tropical storm set to hit Kasumigaseki Country Club on Friday, with a golf official saying the hope is that players will be notified before the third round if a change is made. The scheduled 72-hole event is
7:47 AM ET Charlotte S Gibson Aditi Ashok, 23, might not be a household name or winner on the LPGA Tour quite yet. But back home in India, she’s a top-ranked woman golfer, two-time Olympian and current second-place holder in Tokyo. In her first round of the women’s golf tournament at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,