9:08 AM ET Milwaukee Brewers slugger Christian Yelich, world No. 1 golfer Brooks Koepka and the Philadelphia Eagles’ offensive line are among the athletes featured in the final print edition of ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue. The magazine hits newsstands on Sept. 6, its final appearance in print after 21 years. ESPN announced in April
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I just received the Bob Jones Award. It’s the biggest honor there is in golf. When you’re given an award by the USGA that goes out only once a year, you know it’s special. The presentation was during the week of the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. Accepting the award and speaking after Gary Player
On Tuesday afternoon Tiger Woods announced that he underwent surgery on his knee. Woods said he had arthroscopic procedure last week during the Tour Championship on his left knee to repair minor cartilage damage. “I’m walking now and hope to resume practice in the new few weeks,” Woods said. “I look forward to traveling and
1:17 PM ET Tiger Woods underwent arthroscopic knee surgery last week but still expects to play in Japan in October. Woods announced Tuesday that the surgery was to repair minor cartilage damage in his left knee. “I’m walking now and hope to resume practice in the next few weeks,” Woods said in a statement posted
ATLANTA — The PGA Tour season is over. The next one starts in two weeks. So much for the offseason. “I am tired, but we have the opportunity to play for $15 million [for the FedEx Cup], which is a ridiculous amount of money,” Bryson DeChambeau said ahead of last week’s Tour Championship. “It’s a
4:15 PM ET Brooks Koepka has captured the PGA of America’s Player of the Year award, edging Rory McIlroy for an honor that is determined with a points system. Koepka also won the award last year. The two-time PGA champion defended his title earlier this year at Bethpage Black and won two other tournaments. McIlroy,
Rory McIlroy got the best of Brooks Koepka on Sunday. A day later, Koepka returned the favor. The PGA of America announced Koepka as its Player of the Year Monday afternoon, edging McIlroy for the honors. The PGA uses a year-long points formula to determine its winner, with tournament victories, official money standings, and scoring
It is a personal testament, really, that this argument is being had at all. We thought we grasped the magnetism Rory McIlroy holds over the sport, cultivating a rapport with fans and media unique among his peers. But perhaps we even underestimated that scope, because here we are. “Here” being the idea that McIlroy, fresh
1:36 PM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN After a two-year qualification period and one last qualifying weekend, 2019 Solheim Cup U.S. captain Juli Inkster decided the two players who would receive her captain’s picks would be players that brought leadership and experience to the team: Solheim Cup veterans Morgan Pressel and Stacy Lewis. On Sunday, after the
After securing his first Korn Ferry Tour victory and earning a ticket to the PGA Tour, Matthew NeSmith struggled to maintain his composure as he thanked his family and his fiancée, Abigail, for their support. “It’s been a long road,” said the 25-year-old from North Augusta, S.C., his voice quivering after he shot a final-round
9:29 PM ET Associated Press SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — Brandt Jobe rallied from seven strokes down, shooting a final-round 9-under 63 Sunday to win the Boeing Classic for his second PGA Tour Champions title. Jobe finished at 18 under, three shots ahead of Tom Pernice Jr., who shot a final-round 65. Jobe’s come-from-behind victory spoiled a
Fred Couples is a Seattle native who learned the game at a local muny, Jefferson Park Golf Course, where most summer days he and a friend would sneak on through a hole in the fence to avoid paying green fees they couldn’t afford. The citizens, had they been aware, would have forgiven him. But has
ATLANTA — Ever wonder how players spend their time between rounds when weather upends their normal routine? The answer, at least in the case of Rory McIlroy, might surprise you. Especially given the stakes on Sunday at the Tour Championship, with the winner walking off with $15 million. Most of the field had to finish
11:34 AM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Brooks Koepka got up-and-down for birdie from behind the 18th green to complete a bogey-free Sunday morning at the Tour Championship and set up a wild finish for $15 million in the FedEx Cup. Koepka had two bogeys in five holes of the third round when it was
ATLANTA — Lightning strikes during Saturday’s Tour Championship have left multiple fans injured. Two lightning strikes happened at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta at 4:45 p.m. ET, one hitting a maintenance area and another striking a fan zone near the 16th tee box. Debris from that strike injured at least four people. NBC Sports
10:12 PM ET Associated Press SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — Fred Couples made a hole-in-one in a round of 9-under 63 on Saturday and built a five-shot lead after two rounds of the Boeing Classic, his hometown tournament that he is trying to win for the first time. Couples made the ace on No. 9, using a
After making a quadruple-bogey 9 on Magna Golf Club’s 14th hole on Thursday at the CP Women’s Open, Lee-Anne Pace withdrew from the event, citing a back injury that’s been plaguing her throughout the season. This is news that would have gone completely unnoticed if not for one peculiar wrinkle involving the inaugural Aon Risk
ATLANTA—Despite an abundance of room at the East Lake range, what with the 30-player field bestowing ample space, Brooks Koepka, Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas packed in like New York subway passengers toward the right side of the practice area on Friday. Their routines vary, as do their swings and trajectories and conversations with gathered
8:36 PM ET ATLANTA — The detractors are plenty, and for seemingly good reason. The new and — allegedly — improved Tour Championship that really isn’t a tournament but will decide the FedEx Cup champion has a few issues that maybe — just maybe — could be excused if the players atop the leaderboard continue
ATLANTA – When Justin Thomas teed off in Thursday’s opening round of the Tour Championship and saw that he was already 10-under par and had a two-stroke lead on the leader board, there was no getting around the weirdness of it. “It’s just so odd looking over and seeing 10 under,” he said. “I would
3:28 PM ET Associated Press GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Henrik Stenson rolled in six straight birdies around the turn in his 8-under 62 in the second round of the Scandinavian Invitation, leaving the Swede two strokes off the lead held by Matthew Fitzpatrick Friday. Stenson tapped in for the ninth birdie of his round at No.
Former University of New Mexico athletic director Paul Krebs has been indicted by a grand jury on seven felony counts for funneling school resources to a personal golf trip to Scotland. Krebs was charged in February through a criminal complaint with several felonies related to the 2015 trip. A grand jury indictment was filed in
9:41 PM ET Associated Press AURORA, Ontario — Annie Park shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead in the opening round of the CP Women’s Open. Defending champion Brooke Henderson and fellow Canadian Anne-Catherine Tanguay were one shot back along with top-ranked Jin Young Ko, Pajaree Anannarukarn and Nicole Broch Larsen.
ATLANTA – Welcome to Brooks Koepka’s world, where he’s a four-time major winner, the world’s best golfer and the barer of all. Literally. On Wednesday night, Koepka released the first image of himself in the buff for ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue. The reaction from his peers a day later? “I’ve been asked to do
Roger Maltbie recently described the scene surrounding Tiger Woods’ 2018 Tour Championship win as “beautiful pandemonium” in Golf Digest’s oral history of the momentous event. But in that chaos, there was also a beautiful moment between the legendary golfer and the beloved NBC on-course reporter. RELATED: Golf Digest’s My Shot with Roger Maltbie Shortly after
8:00 AM ET The full 2019 Body Issue experience launches on Sept. 4. In the meantime, check out 10 years of Body archives. In the sports world, every hour of every day, we are inundated with the assertion that this shot, this showdown — this heroic triumph or humiliating defeat — will become a permanent
The 2019 U.S. Amateur didn’t end the way Cole Hammer had hoped. A three-putt bogey on the first hole of a 27-for-3 playoff to get into match play at Pinehurst Resort bounced the 19-year-old rising sophomore at the University of Texas from the championship. Thankfully for Hammer, however, it didn’t cost him another prize. On
12:38 PM ET ATLANTA — Rory McIlroy is among those who remain a bit skeptical about the PGA Tour’s format for the season-ending Tour Championship that will determine the winner of the FedEx Cup. While saying Wednesday that he understands many of the reasons for the new format, he also said “come back to me
ATLANTA—One of the tour’s premier talents walked East Lake in anonymity Wednesday afternoon. Hard to do, given there are just 30 players at this shindig. When he passed a group of fans, necks strained to see the name on the bag, followed by a common chorus of whispers. Who’s that? … that’s not Hideki, right
9:01 PM ET ATLANTA — Justin Thomas found it difficult holding a six-shot lead heading into the final round of the BMW Championship on Sunday, knowing he was expected to win with such a big advantage. He prevailed — but not before feeling the pressure of the lead being cut to two strokes on the