Golf

8:10 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Sam Burns prefers to look at what’s next instead of what happened, and that was a big part in how he responded for a 7-under 64 and a share of the lead Thursday in the Valspar Championship, his first time as defending champion. He used the

4:38 PM ET Associated Press HOBBS, N.M. — A 13-year-old was driving the pickup truck that struck a van in West Texas in a fiery collision that killed nine people, National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg said Thursday. The truck’s left front tire, which was a spare tire, also blew out before impact,

7:59 AM ET Nothing about golf on the PGA Tour has been easy the past few weeks. The Arnold Palmer Invitational was challenging, so much so that Rory McIlroy said he left the event “punch-drunk.” The Players was a marathon that stretched into a Monday thanks to wind and rain that made the tour’s marquee

12:49 PM ET The Saudi Arabian-financed breakaway golf league isn’t going away. LIV Golf Investments on Wednesday announced an eight-event series that will start in London in June and will feature four tournaments played in the United States. The LIV Golf Invitational Series will include seven-regular season events and a team championship match-play finale at

6:33 AM ET ESPN News Services A vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest golf team collided head-on with a pickup truck in West Texas, killing multiple people, authorities said. The vehicles collided Tuesday night in Andrews County. Sgt. Steven Blanco of the Texas Department of Public Safety told KWES-TV there were fatalities

9:35 AM ET Associated Press Henrik Stenson is Europe’s choice to be the Ryder Cup captain for the 2023 matches in Italy, with an announcement Tuesday indicating he has decided not to join a Saudi-funded rival league. Stenson was a logical choice for Europe. A former champion at The Open who has won top honors

3:07 AM ET Coming into the final round with a one-shot lead, Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri fell short by a stroke to finish second at The Players Championship at Ponte Vedra Beach. Lahiri (69) needed a birdie on the 18th hole, the 72nd of the tournament, to force a play-off with Cameron Smith of Australia,

7:03 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Cameron Smith was unflappable as ever on a TPC Sawgrass stage that causes so much anxiety. Through 13 holes in the final round at the Players Championship, Smith had only one par. With a 2-stroke lead on the par-3 17th hole and staring at an

7:43 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Around 4 p.m. ET on Monday, after rain started falling again at the Players at TPC Sawgrass, Sepp Straka was the leader in the clubhouse with a 72-hole total of 7 under. For a tournament that stopped and started more than the traffic on state highway A1A,

9:07 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Anirban Lahiri showed up at the TPC Sawgrass in darkness Sunday morning wearing four layers of clothes — with a fifth layer just in case — to cope with near freezing temperatures he never experienced growing up in Bangalore, India. He walked off the course