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8:05 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders PGA Tour golf is back and is coming off what turned out to be another close finish. Dustin Johnson emerged as the champion at The Travelers, finishing one shot ahead of Kevin Streelman. The tour next heads to Detroit Golf Club for the Rocket Mortgage Championship. Which players are

The Bryson DeChambeau Show heads to the Motor City for this week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic. It’s a new event for the PGA Tour star, but it’s played on a golf course designed by one of the game’s old masters. Not that DeChambeau seems too worried. At his pre-tournament press conference at Detroit Golf Club, the

5:52 PM ET Chad Campbell on Tuesday became the sixth PGA Tour player to test positive for COVID-19. Campbell was tested in the pre-tournament screening before the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit, according to the PGA Tour. “While the positive test result is unnerving, I am incredibly grateful to be asymptomatic and feel physically well

All kidding aside, we are RED hot. Two of our experts, Pat Mayo and Brandon Gdula, were on Dustin Johnson at 28-1 last week, a number that looks increasingly absurd given how DJ looked like his former World No. 1 self at the Travelers Championship (click below to listen to our conversation with Mayo, in

Four more players have tested COVID-19 positive at PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour tournament sites this week. On Tuesday the PGA Tour announced Chad Campbell has withdrawn from the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit. Campbell, 46, was listed as the tournament’s first alternate. In a statement, Campbell said that while the positive test is

10:26 AM ET The Rocket Mortgage Classic announced Monday PGA Tour players Bubba Watson, Harold Varner III, Jason Day and Wesley Bryan will participate in a nine-hole match Wednesday to benefit the tournament’s charity initiatives. Watson and Varner III will take on Day and Bryan in a friendly match at Detroit Golf Club to raise

This is only the second year of this event, so the lack of course history also creates another wrinkle. Expect plenty of birdies, as Detroit Golf Club was the seventh easiest course on the PGA Tour last season. Below, you’ll find my favorite value plays for DraftKings and FanDuel, as we have a fourth straight

3:48 PM ET Harris English on Monday became the fifth PGA Tour player to test positive for the coronavirus, learning the results at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit. English did not play last week’s Travelers Championship and traveled Monday to the event, where he was required to take a COVID-19 test prior to getting

When Dustin Johnson won the Travelers Championship on Sunday, he did so having shot a career-best 61 along the way. That’s saying something for a player whose résumé is already full of so many achievements it will likely land him in the World Golf Hall of Fame. A week earlier, Webb Simpson finished his four

It is not a major championship by the popular definition, but the PGA Professional Championship is a major from the club professionals’ perspective, and it is the latest victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. The PGA of America announced on Monday that it has canceled the PGA Professional Championship, rescheduled for July 19-22 at the Omni

4:38 PM ET Associated Press Monday marked the 10th day of self-isolation for Nick Watney, the minimum required for PGA Tour players who test positive for the new coronavirus. He said he is feeling good except for some minor fatigue, perhaps brought on by a major case of boredom, and except for the distinction of

The USGA announced Monday that it is moving the U.S. Open and its media properties to NBC starting this August. The announcement ends a six-year relationship with FOX. According to a USGA statement, the 2020 U.S. Open’s shift in dates from June to September proved problematic for FOX, which has commitments to the NFL, MLB

5:23 PM ET CROMWELL, Conn. — Nothing about the PGA Tour’s return was ever going to be easy. If that wasn’t clear before, this week at the Travelers Championship quickly brought back the reality of just how complicated playing golf is going to be each and every week. Perhaps two quiet weeks after a three-month

Just when we all started getting used to watching the U.S. Open on Fox Sports, the USGA’s marquee championship looks like it’s about to move to a new broadcast home. Or should we say move back to an old home. The Associated Press reported on Sunday night that the U.S. Open will return to NBC

Dustin Johnson is making the final round of the 2020 Travelers Championship as dramatic as it could be with his decision-making down the stretch on Sunday. First, DJ pulled his tee shot out of bounds at the par-5 13th hole, leading to a bogey. After a bounceback birdie, the 20-time PGA Tour winner continued to

5:05 PM ET Associated Press CROMWELL, Conn. — Brendon Todd and Dustin Johnson each shot career-low 61s at the Travelers Championship on Saturday, leaving Todd with a 2-stroke lead over the 2016 U.S. Open champion. The 34-year-old Georgian, playing a couple of holes behind Johnson, had a chance at the tournament’s second 60 of the

Low scores are the norm at the Travelers Championship; TPC River Highlands is, after all, where the lone 58 in PGA Tour history was shot (Jim Furyk, 2016). Yet through three rounds of the 2020 Travelers in Cromwell, Conn., the numbers have been even lower than usual. Thursday’s scoring average of 68.532 was the lowest

4:37 PM ET CROMWELL, Conn. — Phil Mickelson entered Saturday’s third round as the sole leader of the Travelers Championship. A shot at his first victory in his first event since turning 50 years old 11 days ago seemed like a real possibility. After a less-than-stellar 71 in Saturday’s third round, and with a leaderboard

Nick Watney didn’t feel sick, and that was the problem. He’d risen early and played the first round of the PGA Tour’s RBC Heritage on June 18 and was a bit worn out. But he went to bed that night feeling OK, and it wasn’t until he got up on Friday that he sensed something

CROMWELL, Conn.—Golf is a beautiful question, because it allows for multiple equations to produce the same answer. On Saturday at TPC River Highlands, that answer was 61. The formulas were Brendon Todd and Dustin Johnson. Our apologies for reducing players to precepts. Yet the only commonality between these two figures is that they’ll be playing

12:13 PM ET CROMWELL, Conn. — In the aftermath of seven withdrawals related to the coronavirus at this week’s Travelers Championship, the PGA Tour on Saturday implemented a new policy that will prohibit players from coming on property while waiting for their first test result in a new city. Beginning at next week’s Rocket Mortgage

Through 36 holes, the Travelers Championship leader board is littered with big names, and Phil Mickelson stands alone at the top. Close behind are the likes of Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau. It’s going to be an exciting weekend. Unfortunately, inclement weather is in the forecast for this afternoon in Cromwell,

8:19 PM ET CROMWELL, Conn. — Matt Wallace stepped out of the cart, grabbed his bag and walked the 5 feet to the first tee at TPC River Highlands. He still had six minutes before his tee time. He could have waited six hours. No one else was coming. “It’s just me today,” he said

CROMWELL, Conn.—Matt Wallace was on the first tee and he didn’t know what to do. The starter had announced Wallace’s name, which has been standard these past three weeks despite no fans to announce the name to, and he had struck a beauty of a baby fade to the right-center of the fairway. He put

Phil Mickelson was between two banks and a hard place, but got huge help from the rules on Friday in the Travelers Championship. Tied for the lead, with a second straight strong round going, Lefty chose a long iron on the tee of the tight, 400-yard 17th at TPC River Highlands. He pushed his tee

12:24 PM ET CROMWELL, Conn. — Denny McCarthy tested positive for the coronavirus and has withdrawn from the Travelers Championship on Friday along with Bud Cauley, who was paired with McCarthy during Thursday’s first round. “I was feeling pretty tired and sore after the round yesterday but didn’t think much of it because I had

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7:41 PM ET Associated Press CROMWELL, Conn. — Mackenzie Hughes shot a career-low 60 Thursday to take the first-round lead at the Travelers Championship as the PGA Tour tried to switch its focus back to golf amid growing concerns about the coronavirus. Hughes, a 29-year-old Canadian, had a chance to shoot the 12th sub-60 round

There was a brief moment yesterday when, if we’re being honest, panic may have gotten the better of us. News dropped that additional players were withdrawing from the Travelers Championship due to COVID-19 concerns, and the Tour called an impromptu press conference with commissioner Jay Monahan, and the whole thing had a very Players-like feeling

CROMWELL, Conn. — There was a dad on the right side of the first hole. At least, it seemed like a dad, had to be a dad, for this was a dad-like thing to do and he was receiving “Dad, stop doing what you’re doing” looks from those around him. But being a dad means