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Matthew Wolff, K.H. Lee and Danny Lee have withdrawn from the Open Championship, which begins Thursday at Royal St. George’s. They will be replaced in the field by Andy Sullivan, Antoine Rozner and Troy Merritt. K.H. Lee, who won his first PGA Tour event at the AT&T Byron Nelson in May, will miss the year’s

7:15 PM ET Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Nev. — Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz eagled the par-5 18th hole Saturday to take a two-point lead over Vinny Del Negro into the final round of the American Century Championship. Smoltz had a 26-point round at Edgewood Tahoe in the modified Stableford scoring event for

Scott Brown was born in Augusta, Ga., but the 10-year vet has never played the Masters. He’s damn close to making that dream a reality. Brown made nine birdies on Saturday for an eight-under 63, a performance that moved him from middle of the pack to near the top of the board in the John

2:48 PM ET England’s Matt Fitzpatrick and Belgian Thomas Detry shared the lead after the third round of the Scottish Open on Saturday, with world number one Jon Rahm breathing down their necks heading into the final day at the Renaissance Club. Fitzpatrick rolled in six birdies and dropped two strokes in his round of

The Symetra Tour took another step in paving the road to the LPGA Tour Saturday morning. Along with French Lick Resort, Symetra announced a three-year contract beginning in 2022 to create the French Lick Resort Stroke Play Championship at the Pete Dye Course. It’s the largest tournament purse ($335,000) and winner’s check ($50,250) in Symetra’s

Golf fans typically have a take-it-or-leave-it attitude when it comes to the American Century Championship. While the most prestigious of the events on the celebrity circuit—“their major” as some veterans of the ACC refer to it—it’s a little like trying to say RC Cola tastes the same as Coke and Pepsi when comparing the event

9:24 PM ET Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Nev. — Hall of Fame hockey player Mike Modano holed out from 205 yards on the par-5 18th Friday for the first albatross in American Century Championship history and a share of the first-round lead with John Smoltz. After managing nine points on nine pars on the

The PGA Tour’s best feel-good story got even better on Friday. And if Willie Mack III keeps this up through Sunday, it could be the makings of a Hollywood script. For a second consecutive week, the 32-year-old made a cut at a PGA Tour event. And while many tour pros are given the label “journeyman,”

7:08 AM ET Connor O’Halloran A fan was ejected from the Scottish Open on Friday after removing a club from Rory McIlroy‘s bag and taking some practice swings. The spectator walked up to McIlroy on the 10th tee at the European Tour event at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick before removing a club from

It’s not going to be the same, certainly not what we have become used to. How could it be? When Royal St. George’s hosts its 15th Open Championship next week, golf’s oldest major can’t possibly replicate what was once, pre-pandemic, the norm. “It is easy to say we sound like curmudgeons here,” says Mike Woodcock,

When your day job is working for Jack Nicklaus, chances are you are too busy focusing on your responsibilities to devote much time to keeping your game in decent shape, let alone have it polished for a major championship. It’s also probably a good career move, too. So it says something about the respective talents

8:50 PM ET Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — Billy Andrade and Stephen Ames shot 5-under 65s on Thursday to share the first-round lead in the U.S. Senior Open. Andrade had five birdies and no bogeys on an Omaha Country Club course that dried out after the sun broke through and the wind came up in

On a Sunday evening 18 years ago, a golfer wearing an orange shirt and a bewildered smile gripped the claret jug as if it was handed to him by mistake. Playing in his first major, Ben Curtis outlasted a group of established stars at Royal St. George’s to win the Open Championship by a stroke,

1:30 PM ET Associated Press Kevin Na has withdrawn from the British Open next week at Royal St. George’s because of the international travel requirements getting to England. He was replaced in the field by two-time major champion Martin Kaymer. 1 Related “It was a tough decision, but for my family and me it is

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — Many things have two sides. Coins come to mind. Then there are arguments, although they often enough involve multiple points of view. And in professional golf there are always winners and losers, the latter routinely and overwhelmingly outnumbering the former on a weekly basis. Twice Andrea Pavan has known the pleasure

Eleven months ago, the LPGA Tour returned to northwest Ohio in its first steps back from the COVID-19 schedule break. It created the LPGA Drive On Championship at Inverness Club in Toledo, and then played the Marathon LPGA Classic in Sylvania. As the tour makes its first trip back to the Marathon since returning to

6:53 PM ET Associated Press BUENOS AIRES — Argentinian golfer Angel Cabrera, a former Masters and U.S. Open champion, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on charges he assaulted his former partner. A court in the province of Cordoba, 500 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, convicted the 51-year-old of assaulting, threatening and harassing

Angel Cabrera was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on charges he assaulted his former partner. A court in the province of Cordoba, Argentina convicted Cabrera of assaulting, threatening and harassing Cecilia Torres Mana, who was Cabrera’s partner between 2016 and 2018. In the trial Cabrera denied any wrongdoing. He will serve the sentence

11:25 PM ET Tom Van Haaren Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers defeated Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady 3 and 2 in “The Match” on TNT on Tuesday. The four played in the charity match at picturesque The Reserve Golf Course at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Montana. It was the fourth version of “The Match,”

Gamblers never dwell on results. Win or lose, there’s always game or tournament to focus on. But when you cash a triple-digit golf outright ticket, it’s worth some quick reflection. Brandon Gdula of numberFire/FanDuel, one of the members of our Golf Digest betting panel, nailed Cam Davis’ victory last week—at 100-1! We’ve predicted a couple

During a conference call on Monday, Aaron Rodgers said he hadn’t played much golf since last summer. Maybe nine rounds, total. Given how serious Phil Mickelson takes these things, and how much Tom Brady wanted to avenge his first loss with Lefty, Brady and Phil were the obvious pick based off this information. Apparently, Rodgers

8:18 PM ET Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady are taking on Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers in an 18-hole match, raising money for My Brother’s Keeper and Feeding America. This is the fourth version of The Match and, as we’ve seen in the past, the trash talk is out in force. It’s just an exhibition,

The club was founded in 1887 and has hosted 14 Open Championships—the 15th is scheduled for July 15-18. Yet the most famous encounter on these hard, fast fairways is a work of fiction. The 1959 novel Goldfinger is the seventh in the series of 14 Bond books by English author Ian Fleming. Fifty pages are

7:38 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — Cam Davis won the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title when Troy Merritt missed a 6-foot par putt on the fifth hole of a playoff. Davis missed putts to win on each of the playoff holes. The 26-year-old Australian left 6- and 18-foot

Joey Chestnut’s Hot Dog eating prowess is not the extent of our gluttonous made-for-TV contest options this week. The Match is back—with Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers challenging Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady on Tuesday at The Reserve at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Mont. Phil brings his 2-1 record in these matches into Tuesday,

Last week was not a good week for Phil Mickelson. It started when The Detroit News ran a story saying that a local gambler had stiffed Mickelson on a $500,000 debt almost 20 years ago, the facts coming from the transcript of a 2007 trial involving local gamblers unsealed in 2018. Mickelson didn’t deny the

8:54 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Jin Young Ko closed with seven straight pars for a 2-under 69 and a one-shot victory Sunday in the Volunteers of America Classic, her first start since losing the No. 1 world ranking. Ko sank her shoulders when she made her par putt from just outside

There are golfers who haven’t played a round in months and would be jittery if the starter even dared take a peek at their swing on the first tee. Imagine what it’s going to feel like for NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers on Tuesday in his debut in The Match 4, the made-for-TV event teaming Rodgers

7:48 AM ET They have been talking about this for weeks, mostly with social media back-and-forth, but at last, Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady will take on Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers on Tuesday. This is the fourth iteration of the match, a series which began with Tiger Woods and Mickelson playing winner-take-all against each

Seventy. Seven. Straight. Holes. That’s how long Joaquin Niemann went without a bogey on the PGA Tour, a streak that goes back to the 14th hole the previous Sunday at the Travelers Championship. Niemann tied for 36th in that event. After 72 bogey-free holes at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Niemann was tied for first, putting