6:33 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — The Park family — No. 2-ranked Inbee Park and her husband and caddie Gi — led the way after the opening round of the HSBC Women’s World Championship on Thursday. Park birdied two of her final three holes in a bogey-free round for an 8-under 64 and a
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8:04 PM ET Associated Press CARROLLTON, Texas — Savannah Barker and Alexa Saldana won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-ball Championship on Wednesday, surviving a 20-hole match in the semifinals and then pulling away late in the final at Maridoe Golf Club. Barker and Saldana won six of the last eight holes, finishing with a birdie
7:45 PM ET Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Omar Uresti built such a big lead that even a 4-over 76 on Wednesday didn’t keep him from winning the Professional National Championship and earn another trip to the PGA Championship. Uresti, a former PGA Tour player, had a 7-shot lead going into the final
12:39 PM ET PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Paul Casey is unsure how all of his peers will handle the situation, but he said he’s happy that the PGA Tour has instituted a policy that will allow him to forgo COVID-19 testing if he is fully vaccinated. The 43-year-old, who is the two-time defending champion of
6:13 AM ET Coming off last week’s team event in Louisiana, the PGA Tour returns to traditional play this week for the Valspar Championship. Paul Casey won the last two times the event was played, in 2018 and 2019, at Innisbrook in Palm Harbor Florida. Which players are the favorites this time around, who offers
2:17 PM ET ESPN News Services Tyrrell Hatton is the fourth player to have to withdraw from the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook because of a positive test for the coronavirus. Hatton is the No. 8 player in the world ranking, making him the highest-ranked player to test positive on the PGA Tour since world No.
4:30 PM ET PALM HARBOR, Fla. – A day after he qualified for his first PGA Tour event and saw an emotional video go viral in which he told his father about the feat, Michael Visacki still had difficulty grasping the reality of his situation. A long-time mini-tour player who said he’s logged some 170,000
2:17 PM ET Associated Press Sepp Straka has withdrawn from the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook after testing positive for the coronavirus. Straka is the third player to test positive this week. Will Gordon and Brice Garnett withdrew after a positive test on Monday. This is the fourth PGA Tour event since golf resumed in June
6:22 PM ET Associated Press Will Gordon and Brice Garnett have tested positive for the coronavirus and have withdrawn from the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship this week in Palm Harbor, Florida. That brings the number to 12 players who have tested positive since the start of the year. That total does not include Jim Herman,
7:07 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, La. — Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman outlasted Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel to win the Zurich Classic in a playoff that capped a tight and tense final round Sunday. Smith and Leishman won with a par on their second trip up the par-5 18th after Oosthuizen pushed his