4:37 PM ET SANDWICH, England — Bryson DeChambeau stepped to the first tee Friday and tried his best to show his self-deprecating side. He pulled out a 4-iron — not the evil, no-good driver that caused worldwide headlines the day before — then played to the crowd as he was booed. The more those fans
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11:21 AM ET SANDWICH, England — The results have not been great since Phil Mickelson won the PGA Championship but he was cautiously optimistic and making another run at The Open. Instead, Mickelson walked off Royal St. George’s on Friday afternoon and was getting ready to head home to California. A 10-over-par 80 on Thursday
9:33 AM ET SANDWICH, England — These are unusual times, so it should probably just be accepted by now that what is not normal will prevail. Such as Collin Morikawa, playing in his first Open Championship and having never played any kind of links golf prior to last week, holding the early second-round lead at
11:36 AM ET Tyrrell Hatton has never been shy about showing his emotions. On Friday, that was clear. After missing a putt at The Open, Hatton walked toward the hole and flipped off a member of the gallery. The middle-finger salute was caught on camera during the broadcast and was in plain sight as he
10:33 AM ET Associated Press The rough at Royal St. George’s has claimed its first victim in Will Zalatoris. The Masters runner-up withdrew from The Open with a back injury after opening with a 69. Zalatoris said the shot he tried to hit out of thick grass on the 15th hole Thursday sent a tingle
11:01 PM ET Associated Press MIDLAND, Mich. — Thai sisters Ariya Jutanugarn and Moriya Jutanugarn shot an 11-under 59 in best-ball play Thursday to take a two-stroke lead in the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational. The Jutanugarns had a 14-under 126 total at rainy Midland Country Club after opening with a 67 on Wednesday in
9:18 PM ET Associated Press NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — Brian Stuard shot an 8-under 64 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead in the suspended first round of the PGA Tour’s Barbasol Championship. Play was suspended twice in the afternoon because of rain and lightning, with 30 players unable to finish before dark. After dropping a
6:34 PM ET Another round at a major championship, another night when South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen goes to bed as the leader. Oosthuizen took advantage of Royal St. George’s friendlier-than-expected conditions in the first round of The Open on Thursday to take a one-shot lead with a 6-under 64. Will Oosthuizen finally close the deal
5:01 PM ET Associated Press SANDWICH, England — Louis Oosthuizen put those runner-up finishes in the last two majors out of mind and soared to the top of the leaderboard Thursday, giving The Open a familiar feel. Normalcy returned to the wind-swept links at Royal St. George’s in other ways, too. The roars and cheers
5:10 PM ET SANDWICH, England — The mean-spirited among us prefer to see white caps on the English Channel, umbrellas breaking in half, waterproofs as the preferred clothing. If the wind wants to howl at a reasonably high rate, that would be good, too. That is Open weather. The kind that both showcases — and