8:11 PM ET MEDINAH, Ill. — Justin Thomas is as perplexed as anyone as to why he hasn’t won in more than a year. Golf is a difficult game, with its share of peaks and valleys, and numerous other players are grabbing their share of victories. So nothing was ever guaranteed. But Thomas had accumulated
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7:29 PM ET Associated Press ENDICOTT, N.Y. — Monday qualifier Doug Barron had a one-stroke lead in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open when lightning forced the suspension of play late in the second round Saturday. Making his second PGA Tour Champions start after turning 50 last month, Barron was 10 under for the tournament playing
7:11 PM ET Associated Press MEDINAH, Ill. — Justin Thomas opened with five straight birdies, added a pair of eagles and shattered the course record at soft, vulnerable Medinah with an 11-under 61 to take a six-shot lead into the final round of the BMW Championship. Thomas hit 5-wood to 2 feet for an eagle
6:41 PM ET Associated Press PINEHURST, N.C. — John Augenstein and Andy Ogletree advanced to the U.S. Amateur final Saturday at Pinehurst No. 2. Augenstein beat William Holcomb V 3 and 2, and Ogletree topped teenager and fellow Mississippian Cohen Trolio 3 and 1. They will meet Sunday in a 36-hole final split over two
4:33 PM ET MEDINAH, Ill. — Tiger Woods played perhaps his best round of golf since winning the Masters, shooting a bogey-free 5-under-par 67 on Saturday at Medinah Country Club. But he’s still a long way from qualifying for next week’s Tour Championship, meaning he’ll need another low round on Sunday — and probably some
2:06 PM ET Associated Press VYSOKY UJEZD, Czech Republic — Thomas Pieters birdied the final hole to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Czech Masters on Saturday. Two shots off the lead after the second round, the Belgian had a strong start on the front nine. He recovered from a bogey
8:41 PM ET Associated Press PINEHURST, N.C. — Teenager Cohen Trolio advanced to the U.S. Amateur semifinals by beating Austin Squires 3 and 1 on Friday. The 17-year-old rising high school junior from West Point, Mississippi, won the final three holes of the match — Nos. 15-17 at Pinehurst No. 2 — to end Squires’
7:55 PM ET MEDINAH, Ill — For a majority of the field at the BMW Championship, only 36 holes remain in their 2018-19 season. This is the second of three FedEx Cup Playoff events, with only 30 players advancing to next week’s Tour Championship in Atlanta. Here are a few of the storylines this weekend
7:17 PM ET Associated Press MEDINAH, Ill. — Hideki Matsuyama rode a hot putter to a record score at Medinah, making five birdie putts from 15 feet or longer for a 9-under 63 that gave him a one-shot lead going into the weekend at the BMW Championship. He also took a big step toward keeping
7:17 PM ET Associated Press ENDICOTT, N.Y. — Miguel Angel Jimenez birdied three of the final six holes Friday for a 7-under 65 and a share of the first-round lead with Monday qualifier Doug Barron in the PGA Tour Champions’ Dick’s Sporting Goods Open. Jimenez had eight birdies and a bogey at En Joie Golf