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12:01 PM ET The remaining events on the PGA Tour’s 2019-20 schedule will take place without spectators because of the coronavirus pandemic. The four tournaments that had yet to announce their intentions did so Monday. The Wyndham Championship — which follows the PGA Championship — announced that it will play its regular-season-ending event (Aug. 13-16)

Two weeks ago at Detroit Golf Club, Bubba Watson, Harold Varner III, Wes Bryan and Jason Day let cameras in on a friendly Wednesday nine-hole match as they prepped for the Rocket Mortgage Classic. At this week’s Memorial Tournament, fans will get to watch another foursome compete in a nine-hole exhibition that includes a charity

The city of La Canada Flintridge sits at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in eastern Los Angeles, a community best known as the site of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and more notoriously, for dangerous wildfires that occasionally roar through the bone-dry hills. Just down the street from the Jet Lab and up the

3:40 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Collin Morikawa never looked like a winner at the Workday Charity Open until he tapped in for par on the third playoff hole, capping off a wild finish Sunday at Muirfield Village. Morikawa trailed Justin Thomas by 3 shots with three holes to play and managed to

Finally, at 18, there was a smile. A tough day, an important day, ended with the kind of validating and satisfying conclusion that means so much to player like MJ Daffue—a player with a lot of heart, little status and no quit in him. For much of Sunday’s final round of the Workday Charity Open,

7:23 PM ET Associated Press STATELINE, Nev. — U.S. Davis Cup captain Mardy Fish won the American Century Championship on Sunday, holding off former Buffalo defensive tackle Kyle Williams a day after a record-setting round. The 38-year-old former tennis player jumped into Lake Tahoe in celebration. “I’ve wanted to play well here for a long

It wasn’t all that easy to find the final-round coverage of the Workday Charity Open, but those who did were treated to an epic Sunday of live golf at one of the premier courses on the PGA Tour. And it all wrapped up just in time to head out and get a few holes in

Golf fans have an intriguing leader board full of bright young stars to gaze at on Sunday at the Workday Charity Open. Justin Thomas, the old man at 27, sits with a two-stroke lead over Viktor Hovland (22) and a three-stroke edge on Collin Morikawa (23) entering the final round at Muirfield Village in Dublin,

6:46 PM ET Associated Press STATELINE, Nev. — Former tennis player Mardy Fish birdied the final five holes Saturday to take a three-point lead over former Buffalo defensive tackle Kyle Williams in the American Century Championship. The celebrity tournament is being played without fans at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course because of the coronavirus pandemic. The

Sunday’s winner of the Workday Charity Open will be a unicorn. When officials at the John Deere Open had to cancel their annual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the PGA Tour threw together a one-time replacement tournament to fill the open spot on the schedule. Workday stepped up to help sponsor the event, and

7:05 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Justin Thomas kept another clean card at Muirfield Village and had a 6-under 66 to turn a three-shot deficit into a two-shot lead Saturday in the Workday Charity Open. Thomas first had to run off a string of birdies to stay within range of Collin Morikawa. And

What has appeared inevitable will soon become official. According to a Golf Channel report, there will be no fans or pro-ams at tournaments for the rest of the PGA Tour season. According to the report, the formal announcement will come Monday. Including this week’s Workday Charity Open, there are 10 events left on the 2019-20

The LPGA season restart can’t happen soon enough for Haley Moore, who is having one heck of a rookie year as a pro golfer even if she’s stuck on just one LPGA start. The 21-year-old’s latest exploits came on the Cactus Tour in Scottsdale when she started the final round of the 54-hole event at

1:40 PM ET Associated Press ATZENBRUGG, Austria (AP) — Miguel Angel Jimenez moved into position to break his own record as the oldest winner of a European Tour event when the 56-year-old shot 7-under 65 to take the second-round lead in the Austrian Open on Friday. Spain’s Jimenez made nine birdies in his first 13

It wouldn’t be a PGA Tour event at Muirfield Village without a few weather delays, and we’ve already had three so far this week in Dublin, Ohio. The two extended delays on Friday have forced players to come back and finish their second rounds on Saturday morning, which should provide some early cut-line drama. Someone

4:30 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Among the lessons Collin Morikawa took away from missing his first cut as a pro was that his reliable cut shot had left him. He found at it Muirfield Village, and suddenly looks as though he’ll be tough to catch at the Workday Charity Open. Morikawa ran

OK, so this €500,000 joint European/Challenge Tour event is far from the biggest deal in his impressive career. But at 56, Vienna-resident Miguel Angel Jiménez leads the Austrian Open at the halfway stage. Already the oldest winner on the Old World circuit, after taking the 2014 Spanish Open title at 50 years and 133 days

Dylan Frittelli had to prepare a little differently than most for Thursday’s opening round of the Workday Charity Open. He stretched and ate breakfast in his hotel room. He also put on his golf shoes there. When he arrived at Muirfield Village Golf Club, he went straight to the driving range. “I felt like Water

8:37 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Collin Morikawa didn’t get rattled by his first missed cut as a pro or his first time playing Muirfield Village. Morikawa finally had a forced weekend off two weeks ago after 22 consecutive made cuts to start his PGA Tour career, three short of the standard set

Collin Morikawa’s pursuit of Tiger Woods’ record for consecutive cuts made to start a pro career came to an end two weeks ago at the Travelers Championship. Now he’s focusing on a bigger goal. Winning for the second time on the PGA Tour in just under 12 months. He’s off to a good start. Morikawa

5:20 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Dylan Frittelli said it was hard not to feel like an outcast Thursday at the Workday Charity Open in a group of three players who tested positive for the coronavirus. But at least he was playing. “It was fun to get out there,” Frittelli said after his

A golf ball bouncing out of the hole happens, even without the aid of a foam spacer. That being said, it’s a jarring sight, and a bad break capable of throwing even the best golfers in the world out of their rhythm. But not Rickie Fowler. During the opening round of the Workday Charity Open,

8:32 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders PGA Tour golf is back in full swing, albeit without the crowds we’re accustomed to. Bryson DeChambeau has been on fire and notched his first win since the season’s restart, finishing 23-under after a final-round 65 to win the Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club last weekend. ESPN.com

The PGA of America and Ryder Cup Europe avoided having “a yawner” of a Ryder Cup, in the words of U.S. captain Steve Stricker, if the two organizations had gone forward with the spectator-less 43rd edition of the matches in September. “A Ryder Cup without fans wouldn’t be much of a Ryder Cup,” Stricker said

Trying to adapt and maintain protocols in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic is a challenge for any workplace, and the PGA Tour is no exception. It has refined some of its rules after it restarted play on June 11, and it also has circumstances arise that require clarification. That situation arose on Wednesday when

12:00 PM ET Spectators heckling Rory McIlroy. Loud, taunting, expletive-filled behavior. Raucousness run amok. Partisanship gone overboard. Ah, the good old days. How much do we crave to have the argument over whether the feverish crowd at Hazeltine during the 2016 Ryder Cup had crossed the line of decorum? Now, there is no line. The

Forget the bragging rights. Forget the satisfaction that comes with victory at nine of the last 12 Ryder Cups over the big, bad Americans and their economically superior circuit. Those relatively fleeting baubles belong to the European players. But for the European Tour—on which the vast majority of those men started their professional careers—things are

6:56 PM ET The decision has loomed for weeks, and the PGA of America will make it official Wednesday when it postpones the Ryder Cup for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. A source who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter told ESPN on Tuesday that the event, scheduled for Sept.

The present belongs to Bryson DeChambeau. Mostly because he is bludgeoning golf courses into submission. Partly for all the affirmation he’s receiving, from his colleagues and himself. And, slightly, from the fact that he is no stranger to confrontation. Whether a bulked-up Bryson is a true force of disruption is a separate conversation; that focus

OK, full disclosure: Bryson DeChambeau’s win last week was a victory for our tour caddie, but a loss for four of our experts who faded him. Just to be clear, our experts were fading the 6-1 price, not Bryson’s chances to win. It’s hard to win golf tournaments, even if you are far and away