News

Admit it, as you’re waking up on Friday morning and tuning into the second round of the Open Championship, you’re probably wondering to yourself Was Thursday’s first round just a dream? Did pre-tournament favorite Rory McIlroy really make an 8 on the opening hole en route to a 79? And Tiger Woods shot a 78?

7:30 PM ET Associated Press NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — J.T. Poston shot a 10-under 62 on Thursday to take the first-round lead in the PGA Tour’s Barbasol Championship. Poston birdied six of the first eight holes at rain-softened Keene Trace, bogeyed the par-3 ninth and added five more birdies on the back nine for his lowest

The PGA Tour Player Handbook has a section titled “Conduct Unbecoming a Professional.” But what about conduct becoming a professional? It does not address that, but that’s OK. David Duval did so in the wake of his 20-over par 91 in the first round of the British Open at Royal Portrush in Portrush, Northern Ireland,

1:26 PM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — The eyes of a nation were upon him, despite Rory McIlroy‘s contention that he was just part of the show, not the center of attention, treating it like any of the other Opens played over the past dozen years. A raucous, packed grandstand of spectators greeted him as

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — It took one swing for Rory McIlroy’s Open Championship to go sideways on Thursday—and start a heated debate about a very golf-wonky subject. McIlroy’s highly anticipated start at Royal Portrush was marred when the Northern Irishman pulled his tee shot on the first hole of the Dunluce Course, an uphill, 421-yard

6:44 PM ET Associated Press MIDLAND, Mich. — Canadians Brooke Henderson and Alena Sharp shot a 5-under 65 in alternate-shot play Wednesday to take the first-round lead in the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, the LPGA Tour’s first-year team event. Henderson and Sharp had seven birdies and two bogeys at Midland Country Club. “We really

The British Open isn’t a place you’d expect a three-time major champion to make a major equipment change. Jordan Spieth, however, was so taken with Titleist’s new T100 irons during a test session at Scioto Country Club during the Memorial Tournament that he is putting a set of the irons (4-iron through 9-iron along with

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — If you build it, they will come. The R&A’s Johnnie Cole-Hamilton wasn’t quite familiar with the prominent line from the American movie “Field of Dreams,” and swears there were no voices whispering in his head over the last four months as he watched the transformation of Royal Portrush from classic links

9:01 AM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Twenty years after playing Royal Portrush for the first time as a 10th birthday present from his father, Rory McIlroy is trying to fully grasp the reality of a tiny country hosting a major championship so near his boyhood home, while also figuring out how to win it.

There has been (rightful) puzzlement about why Matthew Wolff isn’t in the field at this week’s British Open. Our article on Monday explains—or, at least, tries to explain—why this is the case. But another PGA Tour rookie who has been even more impressive than Wolff since turning pro following the conclusion of the college golf

1:39 PM ET Associated Press PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Phil Mickelson received a crystal award Tuesday at The Open Championship. One of the hallmarks of Mickelson’s career is playing for so long at a consistently high level, and the Official World Golf Ranking board honored him for a feat that might be as remarkable as

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — All’s well that ends well for Tiger Woods, who on Tuesday said the R&A had given his TaylorMade M5 driver the seal of approval ahead of this week’s Open Championship. As it did a year ago at Carnoustie, the governing body decided to test the drivers of a handful of players,

The 2019 Open Championship is the rare golf tournament where Tiger Woods might not be the biggest story. Instead, Rory McIlroy, the hometown kid and betting favorite, has grabbed most of the headlines early in the week at Royal Portrush. But is it too much for the four-time major champ to handle? And does a

1:42 PM ET Associated Press For the second straight year, Dustin Johnson received a trophy at The Open Championship. Johnson won the Mark H. McCormack Award again for spending the most weeks at No. 1 in the world in 2018 (35 weeks). He joins Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy as the only player to win

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Tiger Woods accomplished his goal, winning the Masters in April for his 15th career major championship and first in over a decade. The price has proven to be a steep one, though. “It took a lot out of me,” Woods said Tuesday of his victory this spring at Augusta National. “That