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1:58 PM ET Associated Press FARSO, Denmark — Bernd Wiesberger will take a one-stroke lead into the final round of the Made in HimmerLand event on the European Tour as he seeks to defend the title in Denmark. The Austrian golfer shot a 3-under 68 on Saturday to reach 14 under overall. Sweden’s Alexander Bjork

The 2014 U.S. Women’s Open at Pinehurst No. 2 had more than its share of intrigue. For the first time in history, the USGA staged the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open back-to-back at the same venue. And after Martin Kaymer’s impressive but drama-free eight-shot win in the first week, the women fashioned a more

Nobody will ever mistake the Charles Schwab Challenge for the Open Championship, but inclement weather in Texas this week made “the draw” quite important, at least for Jason Kokrak. Kokrak teed off late on Thursday and early on Friday, posting a pair of five-under 65s to reach 10 under for the tournament. The CJ Cup

10:42 PM ET Associated Press TULSA, Okla. — Mike Weir opened a 4-stroke lead Friday in the Senior PGA Championship with a 5-under 65 on a tough Southern Hills layout that baffled most of the players. That moved the Canadian front-runner to 7 under through 36 holes, with Steve Stricker (68), Rocco Mediate (69) and

Erik Compton’s heart rate soared during the opening round of the Charles Schwab Challenge on Thursday. Normally, the 41-year-old averages a little more than100 beats per minute each week on the Korn Ferry Tour; at Colonial, the average rose past 140 beats. “You’re playing for different stuff out here,” Compton said. “It’s no offense to

7:56 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Phil Mickelson kept hearing congratulatory words as he made his way around Colonial, and there was a huge roar from the crowd when the PGA Championship winner made a long putt to finish his round. Jordan Spieth kept making birdies in the same group. Spieth shot

Kay Cockerill, a native of Northern California and, at the time, the reigning U.S. Women’s Amateur champion, attended her first U.S. Open in 1987, when she was a 22-year-old spectator watching at The Olympic Club’s Lake Course. Her memories of the championship, faded a bit with time, return as slightly abstract images in her mind.

You’d think a walk-off hole-in-one to win a match/playoff in an elite professional tournament would be high on the list of “very rare occurrences” in golf. In March, Sergio Garcia pulled off the feat at the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship, making an ace in a playoff against Lee Westwood to advance out of the group

9:39 PM ET Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Danielle Kang and Lizette Salas set up a showdown Friday for a spot in the final 16 in the LPGA Match Play. First, they planned to watch “Friends: The Reunion” together. “Of course,” Salas said. “There’s a reunion,” Kang added. “We have matching ‘Friends’-like doors,

Much like a microwave, Jordan Spieth (and his putter) knows how to reheat and reheat quickly. Of course, that wasn’t quite the case during his prolonged slump. There was no heating or reheating during that Ice Age, but coming off a woeful putting week at Kiawah, Spieth quickly bounced back at Colonial. It’s the latest

11:21 AM ET Tiger Woods is in a familiar place: extensive rehabilitation. That was the gist of his comments in a brief interview with Golf Digest, the first he has done since being involved in a serious one-car crash in Southern California on Feb. 23 that left him hospitalized for nearly a month. “This has

The phrase “all publicity is good publicity” is not universally true. Let’s say we learned tomorrow that a professional golfer was caught on camera stealing food from an orphanage. There’s no silver lining there, no material benefit to the fact that this player’s name was being mentioned often on digital platforms. It would be comprehensively

It is a cliché in sports, the best team on paper, but in the case of the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship that Mississippi won on Wednesday, the paper proved to be prescient. It was written by Ole Miss’s Julia Johnson in advance of her freshman year in 2017. Her written goals were to become the

2:48 PM ET Joe DeMartinoESPN Editor Close General Editor Joined ESPN in 2006 Massachusetts native, Northwestern graduate Very few people on Earth can understand or relate to what it’s like to be an NFL quarterback. Even fewer know what it’s like to actually be good at the job. Only a handful know the experience of

LAS VEGAS — The LPGA Tour’s return to match play as an official event had a dramatic and controversial start on Wednesday. With a birdie on the 18th hole, four-time Solheim Cup veteran Carlota Ciganda of Spain thought she’d won her opening group-play match over American Sarah Schmezel. But in the scoring area at Shadow

11:05 AM ET Fresh off his victory at the PGA Championship, Phil Mickelson didn’t wait long to get involved in another high-profile golf match involving celebrity quarterbacks — and Bryson DeChambeau. Mickelson, who captured his sixth major title on Sunday to became the oldest major champion at age 50, will be part of a July

The Match”—the made-for-TV events with Phil Mickelson taking part as one of the headliners each time—will return for a fourth time, Turner Sports announced on Wednesday, with a July 6 match slated for The Reserve at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Mont., on TNT. Mickelson—the 2021 PGA champion and a two-time winner in this format—will pair

7:23 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Gile Bite Starkute holed a 30-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the first extra hole and Arizona, which grabbed the last qualifying spot, stunned top-seeded Stanford in the quarterfinals of the NCAA women’s golf championship. Stanford earned the No. 1 seed with a 13-shot victory over

You’re in the right place if you want sympathy for not betting Phil Mickelson last week. Join the club. Of course, who could’ve seen Phil’s historic PGA Championship victory coming . . . and we were all so happy for him. But as a historic 200-1 longshot, well, we’ll be kicking ourselves for eternity for

The Charles Schwab Challenge was the first PGA Tour event to return after last year’s COVID hiatus. It’s back again in 2021, this time in its usual May spot in the calendar. Coming off the high of the PGA Championship, this upcoming tournament will feature a loaded field including the “new” oldest major champion even,

1:56 PM ET Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. Magic Johnson vs. Larry Bird. Mark McGwire vs. Sammy Sosa. Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. Brooks Koepka

PGA of America Seth Waugh has apologized for the lack of crowd control at the conclusion of the PGA Championship. As the final pairing of Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka approached the 18th green at Ocean Course on Sunday evening, fans went through ropes and past security to run up to the green with the

7:10 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Perhaps Phil Mickelson‘s ability on a golf course, the body of work he has established over more than three decades in the public eye, have gotten lost or diminished the past few years. That is why this PGA Championship, so unlikely because it made him the oldest major

It is an unwritten, though not unavoidable, decree in school hierarchy that freshmen need to know their place. So it is that Stanford freshman Rachel Heck has spectacularly affirmed that her place is atop leader boards. Heck, 19, from Memphis, Tenn., concluded the individual part of her remarkable freshman season by winning the NCAA Division

This is the week where it all started. The 2020 Charles Schwab Challenge was the first event back post-COVID-19, and we were never so happy to have professional golf back. We had an exciting result, too, with Daniel Berger edging Collin Morikawa in a playoff—and Xander Schauffele being there until the end. We’ll hope for

11:39 AM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson was so focused on the task at hand Sunday that it was understandable he might not have had time to grasp all the various things he accomplished with his PGA Championship victory. Perhaps that is part of the reason for his success at the Ocean Course.

The last time Phil Mickelson appeared on the cover of Golf Digest was July 2019, and the title of the story was “Built to Last: It’s time to recognize the genius of Phil’s swing.” The surprise win at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am spurred us to take another crack at investigating what exactly made Mickelson

9:46 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson loves the banter, loves the competition, loves golf. That would seemingly be a pre-requisite for greatness, but is hardly a common trait among the elite. It’s why careers fade away, why glory is fleeting. Lefty never lost that passion, which is why he on Sunday at

Less than an hour after Phil Mickelson made it official and became the oldest golfer ever to win a major with his triumph at the 103rd PGA Championship, the contemporary who would be most widely considered his nemesis during his professional career took a moment to give Lefty his due. Woods was just one of

We’ve been blessed as golf fans with some amazing final rounds at majors in recent memory. The palpable anticipation on Sunday at the 2021 PGA Championship ranks up there with any other, as 50-year-old Phil Mickelson has the chance to become the oldest major champion in our sport’s history (Julius Boros winning the 1968 PGA