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7:13 PM ET DUBLIN, Ohio — Would Tiger Woods show any rust from his five-month layoff? Was Woods truly healthy after dealing with back issues when he last played in a tournament in February? Those were the two biggest questions he faced when he took to Twitter on July 10 to announce he would play

DUBLIN, Ohio — Turns out, Bones still knows what he’s doing. Jim (Bones) Mackay, who spent more than 25 years as Phil Mickelson’s caddie before becoming an on-course analyst with NBC/Golf Channel, decided to dust off the trainers and return to the caddie ranks for the Muirfield Village double. He knew Matthew Fitzpatrick was in

DUBLIN, Ohio — Becoming the No. 1 golfer in the world is a bit like winning the lottery. There’s no bad way to do it. Still, some ways are better than others. Back in 2018, Justin Rose lost in a playoff and became world No. 1 the next day. That was nice, because he played

7:18 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Jon Rahm showed Saturday in the Memorial why he’s one of the most explosive players in golf. With his clubs. A back nine that capped off what he considers one of the best rounds of his career gave Rahm a 4-under 68, turned a four-shot deficit into

Jack Nicklaus, a 73-time PGA Tour winner, earned $5,734,031 during his illustrious tour career. On Sunday, the winner of the tournament that he hosts, the Memorial, will earn a prize money payout of $1.674 million. We’ll help you do the math here: That’s a little more than 29 percent of Nicklaus’ career earnings, for the

8:00 PM ET DUBLIN, Ohio — What a difference a week, some extra-thick grass, more wind and faster greens can make. All that has happened in the week between the Workday Charity Open and the Memorial Tournament, which were played on the same course. There were 16 players who finished more than 10 shots under

After a hectic Friday evening at Muirfield Village, Saturday’s third round of the Memorial Tournament was a bit of a come down. Having no fans certainly plays a part in that, but the U.S. Open scoring conditions made for some grind-it-out golf. For those who appreciate a good pitchers duel in baseball, this was your

Through two rounds of the Memorial Tournament, the top of the leader board is once again littered with some of the top players in world. But the real drama could be found on the cut line on Friday at Muirifield Village, mostly thanks to some guy named Tiger. Now that Woods [and Brooks Koepka] lived

6:25 PM ET DUBLIN, Ohio — Bryson DeChambeau had his worst-ever score on a hole when he had a quintuple-bogey 10 on the par-5 15th hole during the second round of the Memorial Tournament on Friday. To make matters worse, the score took DeChambeau from safely inside the cut line to missing the weekend at

DUBLIN, Ohio — It started off well enough. A beautiful flop shot on his first hole of the day to save par, two perfect swings on his second to reach the par-5 11th in two. It was all going swimmingly for Tiger Woods to start the second round at the Memorial. But nothing kills a

7:58 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Tony Finau figured he was on the right track when he shot 59 at Victory Ranch last week in Utah. That kind of score isn’t happening at Muirfield Village, where the greens are getting firmer by the hour. Finau still took enough confidence from playing with his

DUBLIN, Ohio — Bryson DeChambeau has been the best player on the PGA Tour since the restart from the coronavirus hiatus. He’s made the game look easy, smashing 400-yard drives and beating golf courses into submission. On Friday at Muirfield Village, the golf courses got a little revenge. DeChambeau was already having a wild round,

How tough was Muirfield Village playing on Thursday afternoon? Daniel Berger didn’t even shoot par. While much of the focus was on the red-hot Bryson DeChambeau opening with a one-over 73 at the Memorial, Berger posting the same score was arguably more surprising. The 27-year-old who won at Colonial in the PGA Tour’s restart last

2:30 PM ET The transformation of Bryson DeChambeau is not a new topic. In fact, it’s been the topic since golf returned last month. He’s bigger. He’s stronger. He’s swinging faster. The ball is traveling otherworldly distances. But sometimes you need to hear the numbers and see it happen to really have it set in.

Same course, but different. And significantly so. A week ago, Collin Morikawa opened with a seven-under 65 at Muirfield Village and went on to win the Workday Charity Open at 19 under. Thursday, at the same venue, he struggled to a four-over 76 in the opening round of the Memorial. There were plenty of other

8:33 PM ET DUBLIN, Ohio – Next to play, Tiger Woods. Silence. No roars. No applause. No “Let’s go Tiger” coming from the gallery that would go rows and rows deep with fans trying to get a glimpse as golf’s most famous player stood on the tee box at No. 1. Welcome back to the

NBA star Steph Curry is again in talks to host a PGA Tour event, according to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle. Curry, a two-time MVP for the Golden State Warriors, was in discussion with the tour the past few seasons regarding hosting an event, but due to tight timeframes, both sides were unable

The LPGA Tour’s long wait to restart is finally, almost, over. The LPGA Drive On Championship, set for July 31-July 2 in Toledo, Ohio, will be the first LPGA event played since February. To get ready, Commissioner Mike Whan and his team took cues from what the PGA Tour has done in its five weeks

8:34 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders PGA Tour golf is back in full swing, albeit without the crowds we’re accustomed to. Collin Morikawa outlasted Justin Thomas in a playoff for his first PGA Tour win last weekend at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. None of our experts had Morikawa for the win, but

DUBLIN, Ohio—It’s been five months since Tiger Woods and Joe LaCava did their thing. You might think they’ve been communicating frequently—calling each other, texting, talking shop, staying sharp. “Everyone always says, ‘How’s Tiger doing? How’s he feeling?’” LaCava told Golf Digest and GOLFTV. “I say, ‘No idea. They’re like, ‘Seriously?’ I say, ‘Yeah, he’s off

4:45 PM ET PGA commissioner Jay Monahan said Wednesday that he’s hopeful of having at least some spectators in attendance during tour events before the end of 2020. “I mean, we’re doing everything we can to be prepared to have fans at our tournaments certainly in the final quarter of the year post-Tour Championship,” Monahan

The COVID-19 pandemic has already had a significant effect on this season’s PGA Tour’s schedule, as it has in all sports, and yet more changes could still be coming later this year. On Tuesday night, the Associated Press reported that the tour’s Asia swing likely won’t take place, at least not how it is currently

With less than three weeks until the U.S. Women’s Amateur begins at Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, Md., USGA officials are in a sprint as they prepare for the governing body’s first championship of 2020 in the COVID-19 era. Chief among their tasks: Managing the field and preparing for players’ arrival. Since no qualifiers being

7:23 AM ET This week’s Memorial Tournament marks the sixth week since the PGA Tour’s re-entry following the COVID-19 shutdown. Despite several positive tests and a few protocol modifications, the return of golf has been largely successful. Each tournament has been played as scheduled and both the at-home and on-site testing and screening measures have

The second of back-to-back events at Muirfield Village, the Memorial Tournament is set to have a loaded field including the top nine golfers in the World Ranking, the five players in the FedEx Cup standings, Tiger Woods and Workday Charity Open champion Collin Morikawa. The FedEx Cup top five of Webb Simpson, Justin Thomas, Sungjae

6:36 PM ET This is the 45th year of the Memorial Tournament, and host Jack Nicklaus has made a tradition of waiting behind the 18th green to congratulate the winner with a hearty handshake. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Nicklaus said Tuesday that he will not be changing anything. “I’m going to shake their hand. I

A collegiate standout at Cal, Collin Morikawa turned professional at the 2019 RBC Canadian Open and began his PGA Tour career by making the cut in 22 consecutive events, including a win at the 2019 Barracuda Championship. Since the tour’s re-start, Morikawa has lost in a playoff to Daniel Berger at the Charles Schwab Challenge

This will be a major-like atmosphere in a return to Muirfield Village, following Collin Morikawa’s big-time playoff win over Justin Thomas. What do you do with Morikawa and JT this week? Or Viktor Hovland, who led strokes gained/off-the-tee for an unprecedented third week in a row? There are a lot of answers to get to

7:27 AM ET The coronavirus pandemic shut down golf in mid-March. But Tiger Woods was shut down a month before that. A stiff back kept him out of a host of tournaments he would normally play, such as the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Players. When last we saw Woods, in February at the Genesis

Fans were denied their dream pairing for the first two rounds of the Memorial. But the consolation prize isn’t too shabby. After Brooks Koepka took a not-so-subtle shot at Bryson DeChambeau on Twitter last week, many were hoping to see the two bashers go head-to-head on Thursday and Friday at Muirfield Village. Alas, that heavyweight