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10:41 AM ET Michelle Wie West, who was the youngest player to ever qualify for an LPGA event at age 12, plans to step away from competitive golf after next week’s U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles in Southern Pines, North Carolina, she told Golfweek in a story published Thursday. Wie West, 32, said she

Michelle Wie West will step away from the LPGA, according to a report from Golfweek. Beth Ann Nichols writes that Wie West will play in next week’s U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles in Southern Pines, N.C., before transitioning to a new phase in her life. “It seems like it’s been a couple years coming

3:15 PM ET NFL quarterbacks Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers will face off against Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen in Capital One’s The Match on June 1 on TNT. The four quarterbacks participated in a media event Wednesday, and they showed a glimpse of what fans might expect on the television broadcast of the 12-hole

Early on, the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship final largely became devoid of drama on Wednesday, while not devaluing what transpired at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., an unsurprising victory for a talent-deep Stanford team. The No. 1-seed featuring the last two NCAA individual champions, Stanford broke to early leads in three of the five

9:39 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Jodi Ewart Shadoff routed defending champion Ally Ewing 6 and 5 on Wednesday at Shadow Creek in the first round of group play in the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play. After Ewing opened with a birdie win and halved the second with a par, Shadoff won seven

Jordan Spieth is a Texas man, and it is a Texas bylaw that one must bow before the altar of football. As one who calls Dallas home, part of that worship ties Spieth to the Dallas Cowboys. But part of being a Cowboys fan, at least a realistic one, is realizing the Cowboys have been

8:20 PM ET TULSA, Okla. — As Mito Pereira stood in the interview area in a tent at Southern Hills Country Club on Sunday, TVs to his left and right showed Justin Thomas and Will Zalatoris preparing for a playoff in the 104th PGA Championship. After Pereira answered a couple of questions, someone had enough

The Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth features five of the world’s top 10 players including Dallas resident Scottie Scheffler looking to return to form after a poor showing at the PGA Championship. Scheffler, a four-time tour winner since February, will be joined in this latest visit to Texas along by

4:28 PM ET Two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson will be sidelined for four to six weeks because of a torn meniscus, he announced on social media on Monday. Watson, 43, was in contention at last week’s PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He had the low round on Friday, carding a

Justin Thomas, just days after winning his second major championship title, is among five of the top 10 players in the world playing this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge. He’ll be joined Masters champ and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, Collin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth and Viktor Hovland competing at historic Colonial Country Club in

5:00 PM ET Associated Press BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — Former Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker has pulled out of the Senior PGA Championship after testing positive for the coronavirus. Stricker revealed his positive test Tuesday on Twitter, saying he was “super bummed” and that it was “just a small setback.” Stricker was out of competition

OFFICIAL FIELD PLAYER, QUALIFYING CRITERIA NUMBERS(S)Abraham Ancer, 11, 20Ardi Arnaus, 20Daniel Berger, 2, 20Richard Bland, 20Keegan Bradley, 20Sam Burns, 11, 20Patrick Cantlay, 11, 12, 20Paul Casey, 2, 20Stewart Cink, 11Corey Conners, 11, 20Bryson DeChambeau, 1, 11, 20Nicholas Dunlap (a), 5Harris English, 2, 11, 20Tony Finau, 11, 20Jim Furyk, 3Matt Fitzpatrick, 20Tommy Fleetwood, 20Sergio Garcia, 11,

4:14 PM ET PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas, a former Alabama star and big Crimson Tide football fan, couldn’t help but weigh in on the Nick Saban-Jimbo Fisher feud after winning a second Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday. Thomas, who rallied from a 7-shot deficit in the final round at Southern Hills Country Club to win

These days, it usually takes going exceptionally low to win on the PGA Tour, and it’s apparently no different in qualifying for the U.S. Open. In the first final qualifier played in North America on Monday at two courses in Dallas, 11 under for 36 holes was the number to be the medalist—and there were

10:55 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Sean Crocker found form at just the right time and qualified for his first U.S. Open, among 13 players in Dallas and three in Japan who earned spots at The Country Club next month. The 36-hole qualifiers were the first of 11 that will fill the field for

Victory laps typically occur only in motorsports, but how else to describe heralded Stanford freshman Rose Zhang’s final round in the NCAA Division 1 Women’s Individual Championship on Monday at Grayhawk Golf Course in Scottsdale, Ariz.? If ever a victory entered the realm of foregone conclusion it was Zhang’s, when she carried a seven-stroke lead

8:17 AM ET TULSA, Okla. — Justin Thomas‘ long wait to win another major championship is over after he defeated Will Zalatoris in a playoff to win the 104th PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club. Zalatoris will have to wait again for his first PGA Tour victory, along with Mito Pereira, whose costly mistake

TULSA, Okla.—One by one, Southern Hills muddled their putting strokes, compromised their swings and stole their souls. The final round of a major championship is supposed to be a war of attrition, but Sunday at this PGA Championship turned into full-blown carnage. Callow Cameron Young took five to get down from the fairway on the