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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.

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

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

Impatience has become the hallmark of this iteration of the next generation in professional golf, represented by a trio of players determined to prove that the future already has arrived. Collin Morikawa, 22, emphasized the point previously made by Matthew Wolff by birdieing the final three holes at Montreux Golf & Country Club in Reno

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

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Making the cut in a PGA Tour event will get a little harder in the 2019-’20 season. The PGA Tour policy board recently approved changes that will reduce the number of players who advance to play the final 36 holes of a tournament from the top 70 and ties to the top

The 36-hole final of the U.S. Girls’ Junior on Saturday was a mismatch on paper, but another matter altogether on the golf course. Ultimately, the prohibitive favorite, Lei Ye of China prevailed, but by the thinnest of margins over Jillian Bourdage. The match came down to the final putt on the final hole at SentryWorld

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

5:23 PM ET ESPN News Services LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — Englishman Paul Broadhurst birdied two of the last three holes Saturday to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Senior Open Championship. Broadhurst had four birdies and a bogey in his third-round 3-under 67 in wet conditions at Royal Lytham &

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

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Twitter can take on a nasty tone. Max Homa, one of the more active PGA Tour players on the medium, is of course no stranger to that. Following Homa’s 74 in the opening round of the World Golf Campionships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, the social media mob reared its dark side when some

9:07 PM ET Associated Press RENO, Nev. — Tom Hoge topped the Barracuda Championship leaderboard with 21 points Friday when second-round play at Montreaux Golf and Country Club was suspended for the day after a long delay because of lightning and heavy rain. Hoge scored eight points in the second round, finishing with five birdies

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs are still two weeks away, but another season-long prize will likely end up being determined at this week’s World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. The inaugural Wyndham Rewards competition is slated to wrap up at next week’s regular season finale, the Wyndham Championship, with the top-10

3:27 PM ET ESPN News Services Taking advantage of an earlier start time to get ahead of bad weather, Mi Hyang Lee surged to a 4-under 67 on Friday to take a one-shot lead into the weekend at the Evian Championship. The 37th-ranked Lee was at even through 15 holes on the day before a