12:10 PM ET Associated Press INCHEON, South Korea — Two-time major champion So Yeon Ryu closed with an even-par 72 to win the Korea Women’s Open on Sunday in her first tournament in four months because of the coronavirus pandemic. Ryu won for the first time since the Japan Women’s Open in 2018, and it
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8:28 AM ET Editor’s note: This story was originally published June 16, 2019. PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Everyone has that magical place, the spot their eyes need to see or their foot needs to step just once before they take in their last breath. I need to peer over the rim of the Grand Canyon.
6:53 PM ET Associated Press HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — The PGA Tour’s return to competition has brought together the strongest fields of the year on courses that have not been overly punishing, and the result is the same. It’s another free-for-all at the RBC Heritage. Webb Simpson practically had to apologize for a 3-under
6:08 PM ET ESPN News Services ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Chris Kirk won the Korn Ferry Tour’s King & Bear Classic on Saturday at World Golf Village, a year after taking a leave of absence from the PGA Tour for personal reasons. “It gives me a deeper sense of appreciation and gratitude for everything. I’m
6:08 PM ET HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – Were it not for a wrist fitness tracker that gauges respiratory levels, Nick Watney would not have approached PGA Tour medical personnel to seek a coronavirus test that came back positive and forced him to withdraw from the RBC Heritage. Both Sergio Garcia and Rory McIlroy said
5:41 PM ET HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — As illnesses go, Nick Watney likely proceeded like someone who simply was not at his best. He certainly was not violently ill Friday when he showed up at Harbour Town Golf Club. And despite warm, humid temperatures, he felt well enough to attempt to play the second
3:19 PM ET Associated Press Michelle Wie West now has a little one of her own. The former U.S. Women’s Open champion announced on Instagram that she and her husband, Golden State Warriors executive Jonnie West, are parents of a daughter born Friday. “Kenna baby, I have waited my entire life to meet you,” Wie
11:21 AM ET HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — The PGA Tour announced Saturday that 11 people who were in contact with Nick Watney were administered initial COVID-19 tests and all the results came back negative after the golfer on Friday became the first player to test positive for the virus. The PGA Tour did not
7:50 PM ET ESPN News Services HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Webb Simpson and Bryson DeChambeau were trading birdies with vastly different games, and Rory McIlroy ran off enough birdies to make the cut Friday at the RBC Heritage. Simpson got the last word, with a 6-foot birdie on his final hole at No. 9
4:06 PM ET HILTON HEAD, S.C. — Nick Watney became the first player on the PGA Tour to test positive for COVID-19 and withdrew before the second round of the RBC Heritage after learning of his positive test on Friday. Now the hope is that Watney did not spread the virus to others. Watney, 39,