10:41 PM ET ESPN staff Australia’s golfing stars have been joined by their PGA and European Tour colleagues from across the globe in paying tribute to Jarrod Lyle. The 36-year-old Australian passed away in Torquay, Victoria, on Wednesday night (AEST), after a long battle with cancer. He had entered into palliative care last week. Lyle
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2:15 PM ET ST. LOUIS — Jim Furyk can defer a decision on Tiger Woods and the Ryder Cup for a few more weeks, but the U.S. captain admitted Wednesday he was surprised the 14-time champion discussed being part of the team as a player back in January. That is when Furyk asked Woods to
4:49 PM ET ST. LOUIS — Heavy rains and thunderstorms limited Tiger Woods to just five holes of practice on Tuesday at Bellerive Country Club as he prepares for this week’s PGA Championship. A day earlier, it was his choice to not play at all, which furthers the theory he was not quite right physically
4:04 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Grammy Award winner Darius Rucker and World Golf Hall of Famer Beth Daniel were named honorary chairs of next year’s U.S. Women’s Open at the Country Club of Charleston. The tournament will take place from May 30-June 2. Rucker and Daniel are both Charleston natives. Rucker was
1:12 PM ET ST. LOUIS — A key figure on so many European Ryder Cup teams, Sergio Garcia finds himself well outside of an automatic qualifying place for the 2018 squad and the subject of surprising debate about whether captain Thomas Bjorn should make him an at-large pick. Garcia, 38, who won his first major
7:39 AM ET ST. LOUIS — The plight of Tiger Woods in 2018: Not even 10 days ago, he held the lead in a major championship with eight holes to play before eventually tying for sixth, raising hopes that victory was imminent and making him a heavy favorite to win at Firestone, where he was
10:20 AM ET For the last time, the PGA Championship will be the year’s last major. Next year, it moves up to May, making it second in the major batting order, falling after the Masters. The 100th PGA Championship, held this week at Bellerive, won’t be short on drama. We take a look at the
9:42 PM ET Associated Press RENO, Nev. — Andrew Putnam won the Barracuda Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, holding off Chad Campbell by four points in the modified Stableford scoring event. Putnam closed with a 22-foot birdie putt from off the front of the green on the par-5 18th when a
7:25 PM ET AKRON, Ohio — Like he has done so many times before, Tiger Woods fired an iron shot toward the 18th hole at Firestone Country Club on Sunday, with thousands of cheering spectators watching him convert the birdie putt. Unfortunately for Woods, he was doing that while the leaders of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
7:48 PM ET AKRON, Ohio — The last time Justin Thomas won a golf tournament, he was calling out rowdy spectators in the gallery and getting more attention for that controversial move than for capturing the Honda Classic. That win was five months ago, not that big of a deal in the overall scheme of