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3:48 AM ET Overnight leader Lucas Herbert opened up a two-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Irish Open, carding 67 in the second round on Friday to go 13 under at the Mount Juliet Estate in Thomastown. Having carded an 8-under-par 64 on Thursday to set the clubhouse target, the Australian was three

With the constant cheers that echoed around Phil Mickelson on Friday at Detroit Golf Club, you wouldn’t have known that a day earlier he had all but said he was going to abandon the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Mickelson, appearing in his first Rocket Mortgage, was miffed on Thursday when a story in The Detroit News

The reporters wanted to make the angle work, and Max Homa just kept shooting them down. Homa won his first PGA Tour event in February on one of his favorite golf courses in the world, Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles. Riviera is tight and lined with eucalyptus and sycamore trees. This week’s venue for

10:25 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Matilda Castren shot a 5-under 66 after a six-hour storm delay Friday to take the lead in the suspended second round of the Volunteers of America Classic. With the start of play delayed by lightning and rain, the 26-year-old former Florida State star from Finland had

Sungjae Im and Si Woo Kim have dropped out of the Open Championship in order to focus on the Tokyo Olympics, the R&A announced Friday afternoon. Im and Kim will represent South Korea at the golf competition in the Summer Games, scheduled to begin at the end of the month. While a handful of stars

12:20 AM ET Associated Press DETROIT — Davis Thompson, in his third PGA Tour event as a professional, is leading the Rocket Mortgage Classic. He’s not excited about that fact. Yet. “Sounds good on Sunday,” Thompson said after matching a Detroit Golf Club record with a 9-under 63 to take the early first-round lead. “It’s

Annika Sorenstam will be one of three women to accept membership at Pine Valley Golf Club, the club announced in an email to its membership early Friday morning, ending Pine Valley’s 108-year history as a male-only club. Sorenstam, a 10-time major champion and 72-time winner on the LPGA Tour, will be joined by highly accomplished

Outspoken PGA tour veterans like Kevin Kisner and Joel Dahmen often talk about how shocking it is to see how good young players are almost immediately after college. Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland and Matthew Wolff served as the prime examples over the last two seasons. There are plenty of others we could name too, including

12:35 AM ET ESPN News Services Phil Mickelson entered the Rocket Mortgage Classic this week in Detroit for the first time in the event’s three-year history, but he said on Thursday it will be his last appearance. Mickelson said he won’t return because of a story published this week by The Detroit News, which obtained

A lefty with a flair for the dramatic made a Houdini-like birdie on Thursday at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. You have any guesses as to who this mystery person might be? OK, you caught us, it’s definitely Phil Mickelson, but in this particular case it was also Bubba Watson. How is that possible? We’ll explain. 

12:36 PM ET Michael Collins Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer/video talent for ESPN.com Worked for several players as PGA Tour caddie Former stand-up comedian Tom VanHaaren Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan DETROIT — Bryson DeChambeau and caddie Tim Tucker are taking a break, DeChambeau

Sports-management agency SPORTFIVE is expected to announce Thursday its acquisition of Chicago-based golf event management firm Global Golf Management, Golf Digest has learned. The deal, confirmed by both parties, expands the SPORTFIVE golf-event portfolio, part of its recent strategy to grow its golf business beyond player representation and its own event management position. Terms were

Despite a number of player dropouts and, let’s be honest, a severe lack of buzz, golf remains a full go for the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Those that will make the trip, however, seem quite excited, as they should be considering it could be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Captain America himself Patrick Reed won’t be

2:33 PM ET A representative for Phil Mickelson took issue with a Detroit News report that linked the golfer to an alleged mob bookie in a 2007 trial. Mickelson, 51, is playing in the Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Country Club for the first time. The story published Tuesday reported Mickelson’s ties to a bookie

Angela Stanford returns to defend her Volunteers of America Classic title as a bit of a lone veteran ranger. Over the last decade on the LPGA Tour, only four victories came from players over 40 years old. Stanford, now 43, is responsible for two of those—at Old American Golf Club last year and the 2018

9:00 AM ET Coming off a marathon playoff won by Harris English at the Travelers, the PGA Tour now heads to Detroit for the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Bryson DeChambeau enters as the defending champion. Which players are the favorites this time around, who offers good odds and what props are worthwhile this week at Detroit

Twitter is an odd place to start this story, but this is an odd story and that’s where it started. I was on my living room couch listening to an office-wide teleconference, which is to say I was aimlessly scrolling through social media, when this popped into my feed: “Billy Mayfair Reveals Autism Spectrum Disorder

As any bettor knows, there’s no such thing as a sure thing—particularly when it comes to gambling on the PGA Tour. The fields are so deep with talent week to week: It makes our job as golf prognosticators quite challenging. This week, though, is not a difficult week to make a pick. Our experts have

12:44 PM ET A London-based bettor won more than $1.36 million this week on a $15.50 bet, and it all came down to a 35-1 long shot battling in one of the longest playoffs in PGA Tour history. The bet — a six-leg parlay or accumulator as they are known in the United Kingdom —

Byeong Hun An’s Twitter handle is usually a delightful stop of self-deprecation. On Tuesday, it was one of aggravation, and it wasn’t pointed at himself. The PGA Tour released tee times for this week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic, and the sheet showed An in the first pairing, 6:45 a.m., in Round 1. A fan noticed that

6:26 PM ET Associated Press JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — First came the tears when Nelly Korda hugged her older sister and didn’t want to let go. That was followed by the spray of champagne on the 18th green to celebrate a day that will be hard for her to top even at age 22. With