12:52 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — The LPGA Tour has two new tournaments in Florida as part of a 2020 schedule that features a record $75.1 million in prize money and 500 hours of television, huge gains from a decade ago. Sixteen of the 33 tournaments have prize money of at least $2
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6:57 PM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN NAPLES, Fla. — Standing on the ninth tee at the Miramar Golf Country Club in New Taipei City, Taiwan, earlier this month, five-time LPGA winner and eight-year veteran Jessica Korda, 26, started crying. Just moments before tears started to roll down Korda’s face, one of her final pairing partners, South
9:01 AM ET France’s Mike Lorenzo-Vera continued his good form to card a 69 and take a three shot lead at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai on Friday, while England’s Tommy Fleetwood edged closer to being named Europe’s No. 1. Lorenzo-Vera entered the day with a one shot lead and got off
5:54 PM ET Associated Press ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Webb Simpson birdied seven of his last 10 holes at the Plantation Course on Thursday for a 7-under 65 and the first-round lead in the RSM Classic, the final PGA Tour event of the year. The top-ranked player in the field at No. 12, Simpson
4:43 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Sei Young Kim made a 12-foot eagle putt on the 17th hole to pull away from the pack with a 7-under 65 for a two-shot lead Thursday after the opening round of the season-ending CME Globe Tour Championship. At stake is the richest prize ever in women’s
5:04 PM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN NAPLES, Fla. — Missed cut. Another missed cut. And another missed cut. It was the end of August, and LPGA rookie Cheyenne Knight, 22, was rethinking everything. After bogeying the final two holes to miss the cut at the Cambia Portland Classic, she knew that her LPGA eligibility would be
8:52 AM ET p=””> World No. 96 Mike Lorenzo-Vera carded the lowest opening round in tournament history at the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai. Photo by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images France’s Mike Lorenzo-Vera overcame a lung infection to shoot the lowest-ever round at the DP World Tour Championship on Thursday, while Bernd Wiesberger stayed in pole position
11:10 AM ET Brooks Koepka will miss next month’s Presidents Cup due to a knee issue that he originally addressed with stem cell treatment. Tiger Woods has already chosen Rickie Fowler to replace Koepka on his 12-man team that will play an International squad at Royal Melbourne in Australia beginning Dec. 12. “Today, I am
11:02 AM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Mike Whan pulled the LPGA Tour out of a deep hole when he took over as a commissioner nine years ago, and he’s not finished yet. Whan has signed what the LPGA described only as a long-term contract extension that keeps him in charge as women’s golf
4:48 AM ET The Hong Kong Open golf tournament has been postponed after violence from anti-government protests escalated this week, the Asian Tour and European Tour said on Wednesday. In October, tournament organisers said they would press on with the competition despite ongoing social unrest in the city. “Regretfully the European Tour, in conjunction with