3:16 AM ET PARIS, France — It’s a Ryder Cup tradition like no other, in Europe at least: to bemoan the host course, to sigh that it is less than world class, to wish that the European Tour were not so economically reliant on the match that it didn’t have to hawk the host venue
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11:24 PM ET ESPN News Services Justin Rose‘s birdie on the final hole Sunday of the Tour Championship gave him the FedEx Cup and the $10 million bonus that goes with it. On Sunday at the Tour Championship, five years removed from his last win and after multiple surgeries and scandals, Tiger Woods summoned his
9:53 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — Denny McCarthy won the season-ending Web.com Tour Championship to earn fully exempt PGA Tour status and a spot in the Players Championship. McCarthy closed with a 6-under 65 for a four-stroke victory over Lucas Glover at Atlantic Beach Country Club. The 25-year-old former Virginia player earned
7:51 PM ET Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Steve Stricker won the inaugural Sanford International on Sunday for his third PGA Tour Champions title of the year, closing with a 3-under 67 for a four-stroke victory. Stricker led wire-to-wire at Minnehaha Country Club after rain limited him to only seven pre-tournament holes. “I’ve never
9:38 PM ET Tiger Woods shot a 1-over 71 for a 2-shot victory Sunday at the Tour Championship in Atlanta, the 80th victory of his PGA Tour career and his first in more than five years. It capped a comeback that even Woods might not have predicted, but the win sent the social webs into
6:03 PM ET Rachel MarcusESPN Editor Close ESPN Editor Joined ESPN in 2013 Maryland native, Syracuse graduate Five years after his last PGA Tour win, Tiger Woods has returned to the top. On Sunday at the Tour Championship, five years removed from his last win and after multiple surgeries and scandals, Tiger Woods summoned his
6:00 PM ET He was bigger than an NFL Sunday, which seems perfectly apropos. In his prime, Tiger Woods was bigger than everything and everyone. Why not win a head-to-head with America’s modern pastime in his return to the winner’s circle as an aging, balding man? Whether you were in Lincoln Financial Field to watch
9:03 PM ET ATLANTA — The coronation could finally occur as Tiger Woods made his way to the 18th green Sunday, a remarkable scene as thousands of spectators engulfed him on his walk to victory while chanting and cheering his name as he was about to put the finishing touches on his 80th PGA Tour
4:24 PM ET ATLANTA — Phil Mickelson never matched par in his four rounds and finished last in the 30-man field at the Tour Championship, a final tuneup for the Ryder Cup next week in France. In fact, four U.S. Ryder Cup team members — Mickelson, Bubba Watson, Patrick Reed and Brooks Koepka — were
12:12 PM ET England’s Tom Lewis shot a final-round 66 to beat Australia’s Lucas Herbert to the Portugal Masters title. Lewis, who picked up his second win on the European Tour, seven years after winning the same event in Vilamoura, started the day three shots behind overnight leader Herbert but started brightly to take control.