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7:55 PM ET MEDINAH, Ill — For a majority of the field at the BMW Championship, only 36 holes remain in their 2018-19 season. This is the second of three FedEx Cup Playoff events, with only 30 players advancing to next week’s Tour Championship in Atlanta. Here are a few of the storylines this weekend

PINEHURST, N.C. — Austin Squires was Cinderella at Pinehurst Resort, thanks to being just the third No. 64 seed to ever reach the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur Championship. But he had the label stolen away on Friday afternoon by a teenager who probably should have been carrying it all along. Cohen Trolio is 17

8:41 PM ET Associated Press PINEHURST, N.C. — Teenager Cohen Trolio advanced to the U.S. Amateur semifinals by beating Austin Squires 3 and 1 on Friday. The 17-year-old rising high school junior from West Point, Mississippi, won the final three holes of the match — Nos. 15-17 at Pinehurst No. 2 — to end Squires’

MEDINAH, Ill. – “I just need to make more putts, there’s no doubt about that,” Tiger Woods said Friday at Medinah Country Club, and, boy, truer words were never growled. Woods carded a second consecutive one-under-par 71 on Friday on Medinah’s No. 3 Course when he deserved so much better. The swing looked even more

MEDINAH, Ill. – When Jim Furyk says that Chicago has been good to him, he’s not exaggerating. Frankly, it’s more of an understatement. Attempting to qualify for next week’s Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta for the first time since 2015 – which he missed because of a wrist injury – Furyk

8:05 PM ET ESPN News Services MEDINAH, Ill. — On the range, Justin Thomas had no idea where the ball was going. Some five hours later, he had a share of the course record at Medinah. Ultimately, all that mattered Thursday in the BMW Championship was taking a good step toward an important goal. Thomas

PINEHURST, N.C. — John Augenstein came to the Pinehurst Resort with two goals, the second of which was to win the U.S. Amateur. You can only image, then, how important the first one is to the 21-year-old Vanderbilt senior-to-be. “The Walker Cup is just really the peak of amateur golf,” Augenstein said. “It’s the biggest

8:30 PM ET Associated Press PINEHURST, N.C. — Austin Squires advanced to the U.S. Amateur quarterfinals for the second straight year after winning two matches Thursday. The former Cincinnati player beat Stefano Mazzoli in 19 holes in the round of 32, then topped John Pak 2 and 1 in the round of 16 at Pinehurst

MEDINAH, Ill. – Tiger Woods had his reasons for feeling rather pleased with his opening round Thursday in the BMW Championship. It’s just that his score wasn’t one of them. Woods weathered 18 holes at Medinah Country Club without incident, but also without a lot of birdies, settling for a one-under-par 71 that left him

Slow play came to the forefront at the Northern Trust after video of Bryson DeChambeau’s “deliberate” approach to analyzing a tricky 70-yard shot went viral. DeChambeau strongly defended himself, and after the tournament said he was going to do everything he could to play faster so that he could be a good example for the

2:20 PM ET MEDINAH, Ill. — For the second straight week, Tiger Woods spent most of his pre-tournament pro-am round doing more chatting than playing, electing to not hit full shots on the back nine at Medinah Country Club. But unlike at Liberty National last week, where Woods did the same thing during the pro-am

PINEHURST, N.C. — Austin Squires woke up at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday morning uncertain if his amateur golf career was already over. Thirteen hours later, he was the talk of the 119th U.S. Amateur Championship. The in-between was a crazy odyssey that began by finding out the cutline for match play at Pinehurst Resort had moved

8:04 PM ET Associated Press PINEHURST, N.C. — Austin Squires beat qualifying medalist Brandon Wu 2 up on Wednesday on the first day of match play at the U.S. Amateur. Squires, a former Cincinnati player who lost to eventual champion Viktor Hovland in the quarterfinals last year at Pebble Beach, was the last player to

PINEHURST, N.C. — It took 3 hours, 46 minutes for Austin Squires to play four holes of golf on Wednesday morning/afternoon at the U.S. Amateur Championship. Before you close your browser, rest assured this isn’t another story harping on the ills of slow play. No, this is about something far more wonky. This is a

MEDINAH, Ill. — It appears as if BMW is staying on as title sponsor of the PGA Tour’s second FedEx Cup Playoff event. According to a report in Wednesday’s Chicago Tribune, BMW is set to pull a U-turn after indicating it would end its long-running sponsorship of the tournament that formerly was the Western Open

10:32 AM ET MEDINAH, Ill. – After a weekend of acrimony over slow play that included criticism from his peers, Bryson DeChambeau said he will “do my very best to improve my pace,” in an Instagram post. DeChambeau, a five-time PGA Tour winner whose unique approach to the game includes single-length iron, came under fire

MEDINAH, Ill. — Tiger Woods went through the paces of a full itinerary Tuesday afternoon at Medinah Country Club. But only a small part of it was devoted to preparation for this week’s BMW Championship, the second of three PGA Tour events in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Having withdrawn from last week’s Northern Trust after

2:37 PM ET MEDINAH, Ill. — Tiger Woods arrived at Medinah Country Club on Tuesday afternoon, signaling his intention to play in the BMW Championship this week. Woods withdrew last Friday from the Northern Trust with a mild oblique strain after shooting 75 in the opening-round of the first FedEx Cup playoff event. The golfer