Golf

Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 02:33 PM ET GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy — A large fire in a temporary hospitality structure at the Marco Simone club outside Rome that hosted the Ryder Cup last weekend was quickly brought under control, organizers of golf’s biggest team event said Thursday, adding that nobody was injured “A fire was

Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 01:45 PM ET ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Peter Uihlein, Sebastian Söderberg and Adri Arnaus shot 8-under 64s to share the first-round lead at the Dunhill Links Championship on Thursday as three of Europe’s Ryder Cup-winning team returned to action with solid starts at the European tour event. The tournament is

Oct 5, 2023, 12:55 PM ET The U.S. Open will return to The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., in 2038, the USGA announced Thursday. The historic venue outside Boston previously hosted the U.S. Open in 1913, 1963, 1988 and 2022. The 2038 U.S. Open will be held at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts in

Oct 5, 2023, 08:00 AM ET ESPN will televise the inaugural season of TGL presented by SoFi, the new golf league set to begin play in 2024, as part of a multiyear agreement announced Thursday morning. The league, which is the brainchild of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy along with golf executive Mike McCarley, will

Oct 4, 2023, 11:47 PM ET Peter Malnati hasn’t been shy when it comes to sharing his opinions since joining the PGA Tour policy board, but he found himself choosing his words very carefully when speaking about Lexi Thompson on Tuesday. Thompson, who owns 11 career LPGA victories, was given an exemption for next week’s

Oct 4, 2023, 01:23 PM ET LIV Golf chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan is participating in this week’s DP World Tour event in Scotland. Al-Rumayyan, 53, will compete in the pro-am portion of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St. Andrew’s. The participation of the governor of Saudia Arabia’s Public Investment Fund in a European tour event

Michael Collins, ESPN Senior WriterOct 4, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Senior writer/video talent for ESPN.com Worked for several players as PGA Tour caddie Former stand-up comedian Lexi Thompson is set to become the fifth woman ever to tee it up against the men on the PGA Tour. Thompson, 28, accepted a sponsor invitation to

Oct 3, 2023, 09:24 AM ET Rory McIlroy said not having the “big personalities” of LIV golfers Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter at the Ryder Cup allowed others to step into leadership roles and gave younger players room to grow at the tournament. Garcia, Westwood and Poulter were absent from Europe’s victory over

Oct 2, 2023, 06:51 PM ET Xander Schauffele, an automatic qualifier for the United States team at the 2023 Ryder Cup, could have been removed from the squad in a contract dispute, his father told the Times of London. The golfer wanted to make three amendments to the player participation and benefit agreement but was

Associated Press Oct 1, 2023, 08:14 PM ET ROGERS, Ark. — Hae Ran Ryu completed a wire-to-wire run to her first LPGA Tour title, a three-shot victory Sunday at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship. The 22-year-old rookie from South Korea had four birdies and an eagle in her last nine holes at Pinnacle Country Club