9:40 PM ET ESPN News Services CHARLESTON, S.C. — Lightning struck a large tree near the Country Club of Charleston clubhouse Friday during a weather delay at the U.S. Women’s Open. Fans, players and staffers were mostly cleared of the course when a large, explosion-like sound echoed through the common area where people took shelter
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6:10 PM ET Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Scott Parel matched the course record with a 9-under 63 on Friday to take a two-shot lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ Principal Charity Classic. Parel tied the Wakonda Club mark set by Billy Andrade in 2016. Chris DiMarco shot 65, Andrade was at 66, and
8:54 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Japan’s Mamiko Higa shot the lowest round in a U.S. Women’s Open debut, a bogey-free 6-under 65 that gave her a one-shot lead Thursday over American amateur Gina Kim and Germany’s Esther Henseleit. The 25-year-old Higa tied for the third-lowest round in U.S. Women’s Open history. Helen
8:47 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Curiosity got the best of Bud Cauley when he was given a video that illustrated the sequence of a crash he doesn’t remember. The night after he missed the cut at the Memorial last year, Cauley was a passenger in the back seat of a car that
8:09 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Swing coach Hank Haney has been suspended from the SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio channel because of saying on his show that a Korean would probably win the U.S. Women’s Open and that he couldn’t name six players on the LPGA Tour. He then said he would go
8:40 PM ET DUBLIN, Ohio — It has been an interesting year for Matt Kuchar, who found himself in the middle of another rules issue Thursday at the Memorial Tournament — and on the losing end of an argument. Kuchar’s tee shot on the par-17th hole at Muirfield Village ended up on the edge of
7:18 PM ET DUBLIN, Ohio – Bryson DeChambeau has become known for his unique scientific approach to playing golf, which not only includes single-length irons but taking in all manner of variables before hitting a shot. It has led to pace of play issues that Brooks Koepka called out earlier this year and saw DeChambeau
7:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Ryan Moore opened with five birdies in seven holes and never missed a fairway after the first one, posting a 7-under 65 for his best start in his 14th appearance at the Memorial. He was one shot ahead of Jordan Spieth, who chipped in for birdie, chipped in for
4:29 PM ET DUBLIN, Ohio — The battle continues, but it is one that marches forward, one swing at a time. That is not to say Jordan Spieth will not suffer more along the way. But the progress is real, the results positive. For the better part of 18 months, nearly back to Spieth’s last
2:32 PM ET DUBLIN, Ohio — Without doing much, Tiger Woods managed to do enough Thursday during the first round of the Memorial Tournament to shoot under par and stay in touch with leader Ryan Moore, while giving himself something to build on. Playing just his second tournament since winning the Masters but coming off