6:21 PM ET Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Brooks Koepka had three birdies in a four-hole stretch on the front nine and cruised to a three-stroke victory in the FedEx St. Jude Invitational on Sunday for his first World Golf Championships title. Playing with Rory McIlroy in their first final-group pairing, the top-ranked Koepka closed
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1:59 PM ET Associated Press EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Jin Young Ko took advantage of a friend’s bad luck to win her second major title of the season on Sunday and reclaim the No. 1 spot in the women’s world golf rankings. Ko fired a 4-under 67 in the rain-swept final round to win the Evian
1:59 PM ET Associated Press EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Jin Young Ko clinched her second major title of the season, firing a final round 4-under 67 in the rain Sunday to win the Evian Championship by two shots with a 15-under total of 269. Winner of the season’s first major, the ANA Inspiration in April, Ko
11:39 PM ET Associated Press RENO, Nev. — Troy Merritt scored five points with a 53-foot eagle putt on the par-5 18th on Saturday to take a two-point lead in the Barracuda Championship, the PGA Tour’s only modified Stableford scoring event. Merritt had an 18-point round for a 37-point total at Montreaux Golf and Country
6:02 PM ET Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Rory McIlroy shot an 8-under 62 on Saturday at the FedEx St. Jude Invitational to take a one-stroke lead over Brooks Koepka at the World Golf Championships event. McIlroy, who missed the cut by a stroke last week in the Open Championship on his home turf in
5:39 PM ET Associated Press STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Lei Ye of China won the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship on Saturday, beating Jillian Bourdage of Tamarac, Florida, 1 up in the 36-hole final at SentryWorld. The 18-year-old Ye, an incoming freshman at Stanford, won the par-4 35th hole with a birdie and matched Bourdage with
5:23 PM ET ESPN News Services LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — Englishman Paul Broadhurst birdied two of the last three holes Saturday to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Senior Open Championship. Broadhurst had four birdies and a bogey in his third-round 3-under 67 in wet conditions at Royal Lytham &
3:23 PM ET ESPN News Services Tom Watson will not take part in the U.S. Senior Open or the Senior Open Championship after this year, he announced Saturday. “I can’t compete against these guys anymore,” said Watson, a three-time Senior Open champion and five-time winner of the Open Championship during his Hall of Fame career.
12:56 PM ET Hyo Joo Kim shot a 6-under-par 65 to take a one-shot lead over Sung Hyun Park as South Korean players took a stranglehold on the Evian Championship in the third round in France on Saturday. Despite making two bogeys in her opening four holes, Kim steadied with birdies at the fifth, seventh
9:07 PM ET Associated Press RENO, Nev. — Tom Hoge topped the Barracuda Championship leaderboard with 21 points Friday when second-round play at Montreaux Golf and Country Club was suspended for the day after a long delay because of lightning and heavy rain. Hoge scored eight points in the second round, finishing with five birdies