When your dad is David Frankel, an Academy Award and Emmy Award winning director, it’s got to be tough to make a name for yourself. Jake Beber-Frankel appears to be well on his way to doing just that, but it’s not the movie business he’s chosen as his path. The 17-year-old from Miami, Fla., chose
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8:22 PM ET Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. — Jake Beber-Frankel, the 17-year-old son of Academy Award-winning director David Frankel, followed his record 10-under 60 with a 65 on Thursday in the Boys Junior PGA Championship to break the 54-hole mark. Beber-Frankel, from Miami, had an 18-under 192 total at Keney Park Golf Course to shatter
A 29-year-old man was arrested on Monday for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman and urinating in the aisle of a plane while drunk. Multiple reports out of London have identified the man as European Ryder Cupper Thorbjorn Olesen. Both The Independent and The Sun say Olesen, 29, was on a British Airways flight from Memphis
5:19 PM ET Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The LPGA Tour’s CP Women’s Open will return to British Columbia next year. Golf Canada has announced the LPGA Tour’s lone Canadian stop will be at the Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club, Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 2020. It marks the first CP Women’s Open in the province
Patrick Rodgers has endured a season of torture. But unlike a lot of his peers who showed up at this week’s regular season-finale, the Wyndham Championship, fighting for their playing status next year, Rodgers doesn’t have to worry about that. But that hasn’t made things easy on the former Stanford All-American. First, he fired weekend
During the opening round of last week’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, a fan yelled “Get in the bunker!” as Ian Poulter’s ball was in the air on approach to the 18th green at TPC Southwind. Poulter took exception, pointed out the fan to security and had the spectator removed from the course. Two days earlier,
10:24 PM ET Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. — Jake Beber-Frankel, the 17-year-old son of Academy Award-winning director David Frankel, shot a 10-under 60 on Wednesday for the lowest score in the history of the Boys Junior PGA Championship. Beber-Frankel, from Miami, closed with a par on the ninth hole at Keney Park Golf Course, missing
To casual golf fans, the Wyndham Championship may seem like any ordinary PGA Tour stop. But for quite a few players in the field this week at Sedgefield Country Club there is no more important tournament of the year. It’s the last chance for tour pros to secure their place inside the top 125 on
12:50 PM ET After wanting to get away from golf and needing rest following a missed cut at The Open Championship, Tiger Woods on Wednesday committed to playing in the first two events of next month’s FedEx Cup Playoffs. Woods announced he is committed to playing next week at The Northern Trust at Liberty National
Time is running out for those trying to qualify for the Solheim Cup in September. American and European players have just two more events to solidify a spot: this week’s AIG Women’s British Open and the CP Women’s Open (Aug. 19-25) for Team USA, and the AIG Women’s British Open and the Ladies Scottish Open
Golf is not the only professional sport that features official contests among players “of a certain age,” by which I mean those who have passed their competitive prime and entered the autumn of their years. If you’re a tennis fan, you can watch John McEnroe play in barnstorming exhibitions, and you can see similar matches
3:42 AM ET Defending Champion Georgia Hall has revealed she had her replica version of the British Open trophy stolen from her car two months ago. Hall, who claimed her only major victory to date with victory on home soil at the Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club last year, had her replica version
Collin Morikawa is one of a number of outstanding young players coming to the PGA Tour in the last few months, along with 3M Open winner Matthew Wolff, Justin Suh and Viktor Hovland. Like Wolff, Morikawa is a TaylorMade staffer and also like Wolff, he is now a PGA Tour winner, having captured his first
4:37 PM ET ESPN News Services Lexi Thompson is not off to the best start during the LPGA Tour’s back-to-back majors in Europe. She missed the cut at the Evian Championship with rounds of 77-72, and then criticized course conditions that led to bad breaks in an Instagram post in which she concluded, “I’m actually
The PGA Tour heads to Greensboro, N.C., this week for the Wyndham Championship, otherwise known as the tour’s regular-season finale. The event, which is back at Sedgefield Country Club for a 12th straight year, represents one final chance for many tour pros looking to crack the top 125 in the FedEx Cup Standings, thus earning
Callaway CEO and President Chip Brewer released a statement defending Xander Schauffele in the wake of Schauffele’s driver failing a random test for spring-like effect, the so-called characteristic time or CT test, conducted the week of the British Open. While Brewer’s statement strongly supported Schauffele, it laid the blame solely on his company (“We provide
10:58 AM ET Associated Press LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — Bernhard Langer beat Paul Broadhurst by two shots to win the Senior British Open on Sunday for his record-extending 11th senior major title. Starting three shots off the overnight lead held by Broadhurst, the 61-year-old German fired a 4-under 66 to finish at 6-under 274
Lexi Thompson had a rough experience at last week’s Evian Championship. Her start to the Women’s British Open isn’t much better. Thompson, who sounded off about course conditions following a missed cut in France, accidentally left her passport in her golf bag, according to a Golf Channel report. Thompson’s clubs were with 40 other players’
10:58 AM ET The 2019-20 PGA Tour schedule will include 49 FedEx Cup tournaments — three more than this season – and an open date during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The current season ends with the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta on Aug. 22-25. The 2019-20 season begins two
The tenor of the PGA Tour’s regular-season finale has always has been a little off-pitch. Chalk it up to post-major lethargy, that most stars watch from the sidelines or that the playoff field has mostly been set, but the importance of what’s at stake at the Wyndham Championship has not resonated to the common fan.
Welcome to the Dew Sweeper, your one-stop shop to catch up on the weekend action from the golf world. From the professional tours, trending news, social media headlines and upcoming events, here’s every golf-related thing you need to know for the morning of July 29. Brooks wins in Memphis, locks up POY It was billed
8:39 PM ET Associated Press RENO, Nev. — Collin Morikawa birdied his last three holes Sunday to win the Barracuda Championship, making him the second recent college alumni to win on the PGA Tour this summer. Morikawa closed with seven birdies against no bogeys in the modified Stableford scoring system, giving him 14 points at
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Brooks Koepka and Rory McIlroy playing in the final pairing Sunday at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, one shot separating the No. 1 and No. 3 golfers in the world, had all the promise of a heavyweight superfight. Instead, it was over about as fast as Mike Tyson-Leon Spinks. Trailing by a
1:59 PM ET Associated Press EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Jin Young Ko clinched her second major title of the season, firing a final round 4-under 67 in the rain Sunday to win the Evian Championship by two shots with a 15-under total of 269. Winner of the season’s first major, the ANA Inspiration in April, Ko
Hyo Joo Kim lost the Evian Championship on the 14th hole. Her tee ball at 14 in the final round on Sunday wedged into the lip of the bunker, and her attempt to chop it out left her with another bunker shot, this time from one of her footprints in the sand. The next shot
Scott Piercy opened with a nine-under 62 on Thursday at the 3M Open, highlighted by a back-nine 30 that featured six birdies. “Last couple weeks, the U.S. Open and RBC [Canadian Open], I started off the U.S Open well, but it was kind of smoke and mirrors and a hot putter,” said Piercy, who struggled
11:39 PM ET Associated Press RENO, Nev. — Troy Merritt scored five points with a 53-foot eagle putt on the par-5 18th on Saturday to take a two-point lead in the Barracuda Championship, the PGA Tour’s only modified Stableford scoring event. Merritt had an 18-point round for a 37-point total at Montreaux Golf and Country
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Big Game Brooks vs. Rory the Resilient. Sunday’s final round of the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational isn’t to decide a major championship. But it is a major opportunity — especially for the 30-year-old Northern Irishman. “It is exciting,” said McIlroy, who leads Koepka by a stroke through 54 holes at
3:23 PM ET ESPN News Services Tom Watson will not take part in the U.S. Senior Open or the Senior Open Championship after this year, he announced Saturday. “I can’t compete against these guys anymore,” said Watson, a three-time Senior Open champion and five-time winner of the Open Championship during his Hall of Fame career.
Jin Young Ko is tied for third, four shots off the lead at the Evian Championship after three rounds. The most impressive section of her third-round 66 was the five-hole stretch starting at 12. She went birdie-bogey-birdie-bogey-birdie. Each time she made a mistake, she was able to overcome it and correct it on the next