It felt like a foregone conclusion when the NCAA Women’s Championship began last Friday that University of Arkansas senior Maria Fassi would win the individual title. Sure, nothing is a given in golf, and there were any number of capable players competing at Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark., in the finale of the 2018-’19
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10:38 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Former Masters champion Mike Weir is headed back to the U.S. Open for the first time in six years as one of 10 players who advanced Monday from the first of 12 sectional qualifiers. Brendon Todd continued his resurgence with rounds of 65-66 at Northwood Club and Bent
After winning a fourth major in eight tries at Bethpage Black, it’s no surprise that Brooks Koepka opened as the betting favorite ahead of next month’s U.S. Open. How much respect he initially got from oddsmakers, though, was eye-opening. So much so that there’s already been a lot of movement at one Vegas sportsbook. RELATED:
8:52 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Helen Alfredsson has won the U.S. Senior Women’s Open by two strokes. Alfredsson shot an even-par 72 at Pine Needles on Sunday to finish at 1-over 285 and earn her first USGA title. The 54-year-old Swede earned $180,000 in prize money for this victory along with
The Ping Blueprint irons created quite the stir when they started showing up on tour ranges late last year as the company’s first forged muscleback design, but now that they’re ready to launch, it’s the second part of that description that should take prominence, not the first. Yes, Ping’s reputation has been built on its
10:15 PM ET FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — The winds were howling, the skies above Bethpage Black were darkening, and yes, the terminator named Brooks Koepka was showing his human frailty in a most alarming way. He was choking. How does one stop choking when everyone is enjoying the spectacle and nobody is willing to offer first
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — At around 2 p.m. on Sunday at Bethpage Black, Harold Varner III could be seen speed walking from the range to the first tee. It was clear he was jacked up, as he should have been. Varner was playing in the final pairing of the 101st PGA Championship alongside Brooks Koepka, a
Brooks Koepka has now won back-to-back PGA Championships. That’s to go along with his back-to-back U.S. Opens. Koepka produced that never-before-produced double despite some unsteady golf down the stretch Sunday at Bethpage’s Black course, but had enough to keeping Dustin Johnson at bay to win by two shots. Although Johnson made a nice run to
7:32 PM ET Associated Press FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Brooks Koepka is turning a public golf course into his private playground in the PGA Championship. Staked to a seven-shot lead, Koepka never let anyone get closer than five shots Saturday as he powered his way to an ideal start and overcame a few sloppy mistakes for
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Jack Miller was beaming like a new proud papa in front of the Bethpage clubhouse, and judging by the endless back-pats and handshakes and attaboys, you’d be forgiven for thinking that was the case. You could even make the argument he was, as his 50-year dream had just come into existence. “I
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