9:45 PM ET Associated Press DALY CITY, Calif. — Long-hitting Anne van Dam of the Netherlands two-putted for birdie on the par-5 18th for a 5-under 67 and a share of the first-round lead Thursday with South Koreans So Yeon Ryu and Eun-Hee Ji in the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship. The 23-year-old van Dam bogeyed two
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Steve Stricker knew something was up on Wednesday night when someone asked him on Twitter if he was doing OK, and when his parents called him wondering what was happening. By the following morning, a bizarre story out of North Carolina had emerged in which the U.S. Ryder Cup captain had been promised as the
While most 14-year-olds are worried about trying to make their school’s JV squads, Yang Kuang is trying to make the cut in a European Tour event. And after one day, he’s in pretty good shape. The Chinese phenom fired a one-under-par 71 at the Volvo China Open, putting him in position to play the weekend
9:34 AM ET Tiger Woods is set to celebrate his Masters victory by visiting the White House and President Donald Trump on Monday, according to multiple reports. 2 Related The reports say Trump will host a ceremony honoring Woods, who won his 15th major championship last month and fifth green jacket. The day after the
Megan Furtney and Erica Shepherd are both only 18, yet they had competed in a combined 15 USGA championships heading into this week’s U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball. The pair won’t start playing college golf at Duke until the fall, so to call them “veterans” doesn’t feel right. Let’s go then with “experienced,” which showed on
7:37 PM ET Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Megan Furtney and Erica Shepherd atoned for a semifinal loss a year ago by winning the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball on Wednesday with a strong start and a steady finish at Timuquana Country Club. Furtney and Shepherd, high school seniors who plan to play for Duke next
Defending NCAA champion Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Arizona State, Wake Forest, Vanderbilt and Texas earned top seeds when the NCAA men’s golf committee announced on Wednesday the 81 teams and 45 individuals to play in the six NCAA Men’s Regional tournaments May 13-15. The Cowboys enter the postseason having won five team titles in the 2018-’19
Have you caught your breath yet from a thrilling 2019 Masters? You have? Good, because it’s time to move on. Gone is the two-month gap between majors that used to exist, thanks to the PGA Championship’s move to May. And the former fourth major couldn’t have had better timing as the focus of the sports
1:13 PM ET Spain’s Jorge Campillo birdied two of his last three holes to claim a maiden success on the European Tour with a two-shot victory in the Hassan II Golf Trophy at the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam in Rabat on Sunday. Campillo, who had six runner-up finishes before finally claiming a win in
The PGA Tour heads to Charlotte, N.C. this week for the Wells Fargo Championship, held at Quail Hollow Club. The Wells Fargo is always one of the marquee non-major events on the schedule due to the strength of the field and the golf course, which hosted the 2017 PGA Championship and is set to host
12:43 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Harold Varner III was rooting as hard as anyone for Tiger Woods to close out his recent Masters victory, knowing how much it would mean to Woods but also to a close friend who is battling colon cancer. Varner revealed Tuesday at the Wells Fargo Championship that he had
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Tiger effect spans multitudes. Take this story from Harold Varner III. The year was 2004 and Varner was a wide-eyed 13-year-old when Tiger Woods played his first Wells Fargo Championship (then the Wachovia Championship). “Pissed, so mad,” laughed Varner on Tuesday, recalling the time Woods blew past him as he tried
The Washington D.C. area lost its spot on the PGA Tour’s regular-season rotation with the axing of the Quicken Loans National. But according to the Washington Post’s Barry Svrluga, golf will be returning to the nation’s capital in short order. On Tuesday Svrluga broke the news on Twitter that the Wells Fargo Championship, annually played
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