ATLANTA — A few numbers to consider heading into this year’s reconfigured Tour Championship at East Lake: • There are 11 players who didn’t win a tournament this season who are in the field. By contrast, 22 players who did win, including Masters champion Tiger Woods and Open Championship winner Shane Lowry, aren’t. • Rory
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ATLANTA—Tiger Woods’ media sessions are must-sees because, well, everything Tiger Woods does is must-see. Phil Mickelson’s press conferences are more like college classes, with Professor Phil happy to be at the podium. But when Matt Kuchar is behind the microphone, what manifests is a work of art. There is not enough space on the Internet
2:12 PM ET ATLANTA — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is touting the simplicity of the new format that will decide the FedEx Cup champion, even if it goes outside the conventional playing of a golf tournament. And he’s not making any apologies for major championship winners Tiger Woods and Shane Lowry not being at
Ten months and 46 tournaments later, the PGA Tour season has reached its end, and only 30 players remain. That group will take on East Lake Golf Club this week, site of the Tour Championship since the FedEx Cup Playoffs were conceived in 2007. Only this year it’s going to look a lot different, as
Ian Poulter is one of the greatest performers in Ryder Cup history. But when it comes to trolling Team USA, he’s even better. An avid car collector, Poulter’s prized possessions are his custom Ferraris, but the vehicle sitting in his Orlando driveway that draws the most attention is a 2005 Ford Crown Victoria. It’s not
6:25 PM ET If Tiger Woods is to be a playing captain at this year’s Presidents Cup in Australia, it will mean a complete buy-in from the eight automatic qualifiers on the team and his assistant captains. Woods said Monday that although the final decision remains his, he won’t participate as a player unless that
In what shouldn’t be a shock to anyone, Justin Thomas is favored to win this week’s Tour Championship. After all, he was staked to a two-shot lead before he even arrived in Atlanta. With a three-shot win on Sunday at the BMW Championship, Thomas moved to No. 1 on the FedEx Cup points list heading
8:15 PM ET MEDINAH, Ill. — The field for the Tour Championship is set, and why it is even being called that remains a bit of a mystery. It’s all about the FedEx Cup, the season-ending tournament on the PGA Tour schedule and the culmination of a three-tournament playoff series. So, really, it’s all about
PINEHURST, N.C. — When Andy Ogletree was out in the gloaming at the Georgia Tech golf team’s practice facility last spring, hitting bunker shot after bunker shot against the Atlanta skyline, he could not have known about the precarious spot he’d find himself later that summer, on a sticky Sunday afternoon in the sandhills of
PINEHURST, N.C. — With his victory at the U.S. Amateur on Sunday at Pinehurst Resort, Georgia Tech senior Andy Ogletree earned an automatic spot on the U.S. Walker Cup team that will head to Royal Liverpool in three weeks to take on their Great Britain & Ireland rivals in the biennial matches and try to
8:49 PM ET Associated Press PINEHURST, N.C. — U.S. Amateur champion Andy Ogletree and runner-up John Augenstein headline the United States’ final seven additions to its Walker Cup team. The seven players were announced Sunday night by the USGA following Ogletree’s 2-and-1 victory in the U.S. Amateur at Pinehurst. Joining Ogletree and Augenstein on the
Three years on from his third European Tour victory, Thomas Pieters finally has a fourth, the D+D Real Czech Masters. With a final-round three-under 69 over the Albatross Resort just outside Prague, the 27-year-old Belgian reached 19-under 269 for the week to finish one shot clear of his playing partner, Adri Arnaus of Sweden. Englishman
7:29 PM ET Associated Press ENDICOTT, N.Y. — Monday qualifier Doug Barron had a one-stroke lead in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open when lightning forced the suspension of play late in the second round Saturday. Making his second PGA Tour Champions start after turning 50 last month, Barron was 10 under for the tournament playing
MEDINAH, Ill. – Rickie Fowler is well aware of all that is on the line for him Sunday in the final round of the BMW Championship, but he also is cognizant of all the things that can go wrong if he thinks about it. “How could I possibly execute from shot to shot,” he began,
PINEHURST, N.C. — The exhale was long and well-deserved for Andy Ogletree as he stood to the side of the 17th green at Pinehurst No. 2 late Saturday afternoon. His semifinal match against Cohen Trolio at the U.S. Amateur Championship had been a slog, both players scrambling for pars (and even halving holes with bogeys)
8:11 PM ET MEDINAH, Ill. — Justin Thomas is as perplexed as anyone as to why he hasn’t won in more than a year. Golf is a difficult game, with its share of peaks and valleys, and numerous other players are grabbing their share of victories. So nothing was ever guaranteed. But Thomas had accumulated
MEDINAH, Ill. – The portly and readily jovial man shadowing Rory Sabbatini this week at Medinah Country Club wore a white golf shirt emblazoned with the words “Slovakia Olympic Golf.” He was checking in on his country’s best player, the South African-born Sabbatini, who in December became a citizen of the central European nation. Sabbatini’s
7:55 PM ET MEDINAH, Ill — For a majority of the field at the BMW Championship, only 36 holes remain in their 2018-19 season. This is the second of three FedEx Cup Playoff events, with only 30 players advancing to next week’s Tour Championship in Atlanta. Here are a few of the storylines this weekend
MEDINAH, Ill. – “I just need to make more putts, there’s no doubt about that,” Tiger Woods said Friday at Medinah Country Club, and, boy, truer words were never growled. Woods carded a second consecutive one-under-par 71 on Friday on Medinah’s No. 3 Course when he deserved so much better. The swing looked even more
PINEHURST, N.C. — Austin Squires was Cinderella at Pinehurst Resort, thanks to being just the third No. 64 seed to ever reach the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur Championship. But he had the label stolen away on Friday afternoon by a teenager who probably should have been carrying it all along. Cohen Trolio is 17
8:41 PM ET Associated Press PINEHURST, N.C. — Teenager Cohen Trolio advanced to the U.S. Amateur semifinals by beating Austin Squires 3 and 1 on Friday. The 17-year-old rising high school junior from West Point, Mississippi, won the final three holes of the match — Nos. 15-17 at Pinehurst No. 2 — to end Squires’
MEDINAH, Ill. – When Jim Furyk says that Chicago has been good to him, he’s not exaggerating. Frankly, it’s more of an understatement. Attempting to qualify for next week’s Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta for the first time since 2015 – which he missed because of a wrist injury – Furyk
8:05 PM ET ESPN News Services MEDINAH, Ill. — On the range, Justin Thomas had no idea where the ball was going. Some five hours later, he had a share of the course record at Medinah. Ultimately, all that mattered Thursday in the BMW Championship was taking a good step toward an important goal. Thomas
MEDINAH, Ill. – Tiger Woods had his reasons for feeling rather pleased with his opening round Thursday in the BMW Championship. It’s just that his score wasn’t one of them. Woods weathered 18 holes at Medinah Country Club without incident, but also without a lot of birdies, settling for a one-under-par 71 that left him
PINEHURST, N.C. — John Augenstein came to the Pinehurst Resort with two goals, the second of which was to win the U.S. Amateur. You can only image, then, how important the first one is to the 21-year-old Vanderbilt senior-to-be. “The Walker Cup is just really the peak of amateur golf,” Augenstein said. “It’s the biggest
8:30 PM ET Associated Press PINEHURST, N.C. — Austin Squires advanced to the U.S. Amateur quarterfinals for the second straight year after winning two matches Thursday. The former Cincinnati player beat Stefano Mazzoli in 19 holes in the round of 32, then topped John Pak 2 and 1 in the round of 16 at Pinehurst
PINEHURST, N.C. — If it feels like Brad Dalke has been a much-celebrated amateur golfer for a while now, well that’s because he has. It was August 2010 when he first gained national attention, committing to play college golf at the University of Oklahoma … as a rising eighth grader. Nine years later, with his
2:20 PM ET MEDINAH, Ill. — For the second straight week, Tiger Woods spent most of his pre-tournament pro-am round doing more chatting than playing, electing to not hit full shots on the back nine at Medinah Country Club. But unlike at Liberty National last week, where Woods did the same thing during the pro-am
PINEHURST, N.C. — It took 3 hours, 46 minutes for Austin Squires to play four holes of golf on Wednesday morning/afternoon at the U.S. Amateur Championship. Before you close your browser, rest assured this isn’t another story harping on the ills of slow play. No, this is about something far more wonky. This is a
PINEHURST, N.C. — Austin Squires woke up at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday morning uncertain if his amateur golf career was already over. Thirteen hours later, he was the talk of the 119th U.S. Amateur Championship. The in-between was a crazy odyssey that began by finding out the cutline for match play at Pinehurst Resort had moved