4:15 PM ET Brooks Koepka has captured the PGA of America’s Player of the Year award, edging Rory McIlroy for an honor that is determined with a points system. Koepka also won the award last year. The two-time PGA champion defended his title earlier this year at Bethpage Black and won two other tournaments. McIlroy,
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1:36 PM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN After a two-year qualification period and one last qualifying weekend, 2019 Solheim Cup U.S. captain Juli Inkster decided the two players who would receive her captain’s picks would be players that brought leadership and experience to the team: Solheim Cup veterans Morgan Pressel and Stacy Lewis. On Sunday, after the
10:52 AM ET Just like that, the golf season is over. Four majors and the FedEx Cup in the rearview before the calendar flips to September — this new calendar might take a bit of getting used to. So we look back on the year that was and what comes next. Rory McIlroy or Brooks
9:29 PM ET Associated Press SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — Brandt Jobe rallied from seven strokes down, shooting a final-round 9-under 63 Sunday to win the Boeing Classic for his second PGA Tour Champions title. Jobe finished at 18 under, three shots ahead of Tom Pernice Jr., who shot a final-round 65. Jobe’s come-from-behind victory spoiled a
8:15 PM ET ATLANTA — As much as he later said he enjoyed being part of and witness to history a year ago at East Lake, Rory McIlroy didn’t much relish that final-hole walk. Fans rushing past him. That chanting and singing and hollering for someone else. The fleeting fear of being trampled. It was
7:43 PM ET ATLANTA — For three frenetic minutes on Sunday, at least 14 people searched frantically through fallen leaves and thick kudzu under magnolia trees for Brooks Koepka‘s wayward tee shot on the seventh hole at East Lake Country Club. Someone found a Callaway. Then a TaylorMade. And finally a Titleist, but not the
6:03 PM ET Rory McIlroy walked away the winner of the FedEx Cup, becoming only the second player to win it for the second time. (The other was some guy named Tiger Woods). Last time, in 2016, McIlroy took home a $10 million prize. This year, under a new scoring format that had the players
6:02 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — The crowd rushing to circle the 18th green. The steady chants. It all sounded so familiar to Rory McIlroy at East Lake, with one big difference. On Sunday, it was all for him. One year after he was an overlooked bystander as Tiger Woods celebrated the missing piece
5:52 PM ET Associated Press AURORA, Ontario — Top-ranked Jin Young Ko closed with an 8-under 64 on Sunday to win the CP Women’s Open by five shots over Nicole Broch Larsen. The South Korean pulled away with six birdies on the back nine to finish the tournament at 26-under 262. Defending champion Brooke Henderson
1:21 PM ET Associated Press Erik van Rooyen won his first European Tour title with a final hole birdie at the Scandinavian Invitation Sunday. The South African carded a six-under 64 in the final round at Hills Golf and Sports Club to finish 19 under and a shot ahead of England’s Matt Fitzpatrick (64). “I