4:04 PM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Nobody had to say it for him. Tiger Woods said it himself. His game was not ready for The Open. “It’s not quite as sharp as I’d like to have it right now,” he admitted earlier in the week. That much was clear in Thursday’s first round. He
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9:42 PM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Tiger Woods all but told us this would happen. Just the other day, he said that the Masters had taken a ton out of him, that his game was not particularly sharp, and that he needed to shape his golf ball more convincingly than he had been. Oh,
4:17 PM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Tiger Woods did not try to mask the physical issues that plagued him during the first round of The Open at Royal Portrush on Thursday, giving a grim assessment of a situation that is appearing to be more the norm these days than at any time since he
5:40 PM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Brooks Koepka briefly had a share of the first-round lead at the 148th Open Championship on Thursday, and he’s only 2 shots behind leader J.B. Holmes after firing a 3-under 68. It has become an all-too-familiar sight for the rest of the field, which can’t feel great about
1:26 PM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — The eyes of a nation were upon him, despite Rory McIlroy‘s contention that he was just part of the show, not the center of attention, treating it like any of the other Opens played over the past dozen years. A raucous, packed grandstand of spectators greeted him as
12:56 PM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Former Open champion David Duval made a 14 on his way to a score of 91 that also saw him make a triple bogey and a quadruple bogey during the first round at Royal Portrush. Included in the 14 was a two-stroke penalty for playing the wrong ball
Things have gotten interesting for 2018 Open Championship runner-up Kevin Kisner. His caddie, Duane “Dewey” Bock, injured his right calf while walking to the driving range on Wednesday. So Kisner’s swing coach, John Tillery, is on his bag for the opening round of The Open at Royal Portrush. “We’re going to go have fun,” Kisner
6:27 AM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Rory McIlroy‘s start in the Open Championship in his native Northern Ireland couldn’t have been much worse. McIlroy, the favorite to win the 148th Open Championship at Royal Portrush Golf Club, hit his tee shot on the first hole out of bounds and ended up with a quadruple-bogey
1:39 PM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Rory McIlroy started his opening round of the 148th Open Championship with a quadruple-bogey on the first hole and finished with a triple-bogey on the 18th at Royal Portrush Golf Club. In between, it was an agonizingly frustrating day for the four-time major winner in the first Open
6:44 PM ET Associated Press MIDLAND, Mich. — Canadians Brooke Henderson and Alena Sharp shot a 5-under 65 in alternate-shot play Wednesday to take the first-round lead in the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, the LPGA Tour’s first-year team event. Henderson and Sharp had seven birdies and two bogeys at Midland Country Club. “We really