10:35 PM ET The question hung in the air all week: What would the 2020 PGA Championship, the first major in 13 months and first without fans, look and feel like? On Thursday, we got the answer. “It’s just different,” Tiger Woods said. “That’s probably the only way to say it.” Different, but still intriguing.
Golf
10:05 PM ET ESPN News Services PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan, who has a deep history in golf, experienced a first at San Francisco’s Harding Park golf course on Thursday. The Tour’s top executive was struck by an errant tee shot by Matthew Fitzpatrick. “One hop off the shoulder,” Monahan said. Monahan, who is serving
6:54 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau snapped the head off his driver on the seventh hole at TPC Harding Park during the PGA Championship on Thursday afternoon after hitting his tee shot and bending over to pick up his tee. While he was leaning on the club, the head became detached, and the long-hitting golfer was
8:28 PM ET Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. — Top-seeded teenager Rachel Heck opened a big lead early and then had to hang on to beat Therese Warner in 18 holes to advance to the second round of the U.S. Women’s Amateur on Thursday. The Women’s Amateur has not been kind to the medalists, with four
8:33 PM ET As he has aged, Tiger Woods has built a bridge to the crowds he spent most of his prime ignoring. The galleries always loved him, and Woods decided in his latest act that he would finally love them back. He was never going to be Arnold Palmer, who made sure every fan
8:16 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Martin Kaymer arrived in San Francisco with minimal expectations. Unlike many of his peers in professional golf, he has played very little in the last few months. In Germany, he wasn’t allowed. So Kaymer helped his father build a terrace at the family home. His clubs lay dormant as
8:08 PM ET Associated Press SYLVANIA, Ohio — Fresh off her victory at Inverness, Danielle Kang attacked a more receptive golf course Thursday in the Marathon Classic and opened with a 7-under 64 to share the lead with Lydia Ko. Kang went six months without playing because of the COVID-19 pandemic and said she was
6:28 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — A good bit of firepower stepped onto the 10th tee early Thursday morning at TPC Harding Park to begin the PGA Championship, but after Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas and Rory McIlroy were introduced via microphone by the starter, they were met with silence. This is the new normal in
4:42 PM ET Associated Press WARE, England — Cormac Sharvin of Northern Ireland shot a course-record 8-under 63 Thursday to take a one-shot lead after the first round of the English Championship. Sharvin played in the final group and made three straight birdies from the 14th to move past a group of six players in
4:32 PM ET Tiger Woods had not opened a major championship with a round in the 60s since 2014, when he started The Open with a 69 at Royal Liverpool. On Thursday, in the first round of the PGA Championship, it didn’t look as if this was going to be the day he broke the