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Gaby Lopez, one of just two Mexican golfers ever to win on the LPGA Tour, has been thinking about the Tokyo Olympics for some time now. “That’s my ultimate goal, being able to peak at that week,” Lopez told Golf Channel earlier this year. “That’s what my schedule is going to be played around, being

12:07 PM ET Associated Press EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — South Korean golfer Jeongeun Lee6 tied the men’s and women’s major record for the lowest round when she carded a 10-under-par 61 at the Evian Championship on Friday. Her 36-hole score of 127 is also the lowest total in men’s or women’s major history, beating the 128

Don’t adjust your glasses or rub your eyes out, folks. It’s not 2017. It’s 2021, and Rickie Fowler—yes, THE Rickie Fowler—is tied for the lead in a PGA Tour event. Fresh off a final-round 65 at the Open Championship, Fowler brought some positive momentum back home to the U.S., shooting an opening-round seven-under 64 Thursday

11:12 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Rickie Fowler‘s improved driving helped him shoot a 5-under 65 on Sunday in the final round of the British Open. Looking for a late push in the FedEx Cup standings, Fowler carried over the strong play Thursday with a 7-under 64 in the first round of the

Rickie Fowler has good news for Tiger Woods fans. “I know he’s been getting after it as far as rehab goes—that takes up most of his day,” Fowler said Wednesday ahead of the 3M Open. “I know as kind of stubborn as he is, being as big of a kind of golf nerd as all

4:28 PM ET Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke and South Africa’s James Kingston carded an opening-round 65 to share the lead at The Senior Open on Thursday. Clarke failed to make the cut at last week’s 149th Open at Royal St. George’s, but he got off to a quick start at the Sunningdale Old Course in

Yealimi Noh has slowly begun to establish herself on the LPGA Tour. The former junior phenom from California who celebrates her 20th birthday next Monday has four top-three finishes and six top-15s in 37 career starts since joining the tour in 2020, including a T-3 at last week’s Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational while teamed

PALO ALTO, CA – OCTOBER 1994: Tiger Woods and teammates of the 1994 Stanford University Men’s Golf Team pose for a group photo in October 1994 on the Stanford University Golf Course at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Kneeling in front row are Matt Thompson (far left), Eri Crum (second from left), Jerry Chang

You can’t blame Louis Oosthuizen for not being in the mood to talk following a third consecutive close call in a major championship. But three days after his third-place finish at Royal St. George’s, the South African finally opened up about what happened at the Open Championship. Oosthuizen spoke to reporters at a press conference

6:40 PM ET Associated Press CHEVY CHASE, Md. — Rose Zhang won the U.S. Girls’ Junior on Saturday at Columbia Country Club, beating local favorite Bailey Davis 6 and 4 in the 36-hole final to become the eighth player to win both the junior and U.S. Women’s Amateur. The 18-year-old Zhang won the amateur last

Electronic Arts, in partnership with the LPGA, announced Wednesday that its upcoming EA Sports PGA Tour video game will showcase the LPGA Tour and highlight women’s golf with in-depth female representation throughout all aspects of the game. The announcement comes on the eve of the Amundi Evian Championship, one of the LPGA’s five annual majors,

5:17 PM ET The PGA Tour heads to Minnesota this week for the 3M Open. Matthew Wolff and Michael Thompson are the previous winners of this event, respectively, but will they be a factor this week? Which players are the favorites this time around, who offers good odds and what props are worth considering? Sports

If you’re not betting the 3M Open, you’re either broke from your Open losses or not big enough of a golf degenerate (there’s no shame either way). Though most of the experts in this column were on Jordan Spieth last week, we did have Lee Alldrick of FanShare Sports on Collin Morikawa (40-1). So we’re

9:39 PM ET Associated Press NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — James Hahn missed a chance to shoot the 13th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history Saturday. He settled for a 12-under 60 and a chance to win Barbasol Championship. Eight strokes back entering the day, Hahn had two eagles in the career-best round to move within two

Between Collin Morikawa and Seamus Power both winning PGA Tour events on Sunday, there was a lot going on in the (wide) world of golf. It’s no wonder so few people noticed Robert Garrigus did something that’s never been topped before. In fact, there’s a good chance Garrigus himself doesn’t realize it. Playing in the

1:40 PM ET Associated Press Collin Morikawa is the champion golfer of the year. Morikawa captured The Open on Sunday for his second major title in two years. It was his first time playing The Open, just like it was his first time playing the PGA Championship when he won at Harding Park last year.

Major season might be over, but there is still plenty of golf to be played this year—which means dollars to bag in DFS contests. Next up is the 3M Open. This will be the third edition of this event held at TPC Twin Cities. The only “problem” for a data guy like me is that

3:27 PM ET Jordan Spieth knows he couldn’t have won The Open at Royal St. George’s on Saturday, but he might have very well lost it on the final two holes of the third round. Spieth, who was attempting to join Tom Watson and Bobby Jones as the only American-born golfers to win The Open

As the iconic yellow leader boards reminded everyone on Sunday at Royal St. George’s, the Open Championship will celebrate its 150th playing next year at St. Andrews. From there, the R&A has announced that Royal Liverpool and Royal Troon will host golf’s oldest tournament in 2023 and 2024. As for 2025, while nothing is official,

3:32 PM ET SANDWICH, England — Louis Oosthuizen produced an amazing two months of golf, contending in three consecutive major championships and joining a short list of players to finish top-3 in three of them in a single year. He simply has no hardware to show for it. Oosthuizen, 38, the 2010 Open winning at

Bandon Dunes Golf Resort is pursuing the creation of a sixth 18-hole course, multiple sources have confirmed to Golf Digest. The course would be on a piece of land the resort had originally planned for the Bandon Muni course, south of town along the New River. The land is covered in dramatic sand dunes and

8:09 AM ET SANDWICH, England — Like it did with everything else, COVID-19 turned golf upside down. In 2020, there was no Open. The Masters was in August. The PGA Championship was back in August, where it normally fell before being moved to May the year before. The U.S. Open was in September. Instead of

After a glorious stretch of seven men’s major championships in 11 months, golf fans have to wait 263 days until the next one. Just typing that makes us sad, but that doesn’t mean it’s not too early to think about April at Augusta National. Sportsbooks certainly are already with 2022 Masters odds in place. And

8:11 AM ET In your head, this should sound like a bad, over-the-top game show host … Hey everybody, it’s the waaaay-too-early major championship predictions for 2022! I’ll give you all the picks that have zero chance of coming true but are great for starting arguments! And what’s the first big one I’m gonna give

Some victories are masterpieces, others are eyesores, and several hours after Collin Morikawa delivered one suitable for framing in England on Sunday, Seamus Power was gifted an ugly one in Kentucky. The Barbasol Championship was J.T. Poston’s tournament to lose and lose it he did, spectacularly. He squandered a three-stroke lead on the back nine

9:22 PM ET Associated Press NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — Seamus Power won the Barbasol Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour victory, beating J.T. Poston with a tap-in par on the sixth hole of a playoff. Poston drove into the water that lines the right side of the par-4 18th at Keene Trace and made

Paula Creamer announced on Instagram Sunday that her family will soon become a party of three. The former U.S. Women’s Open champ revealed that she was pregnant by posting a photo of her and fiancé Shane Kennedy holding a “Guess What?” baby shirt. The announcement comes as Creamer, a 10-time LPGA Tour winner, is in

4:23 PM ET SANDWICH, England — He waved to the crowd, clapped his show of appreciation and then stepped to the microphone like he’s been giving speeches for years. Collin Morikawa might have called it the “British Open,” but he nonetheless handled the ceremony as coolly as he did Royal St. George’s. Morikawa is just

NBC broadcasters have a tough job this week. Stuck in a studio in Stamford, Conn., rather than on site at Royal St. George’s in Sandwich, England, the announcing crew has done a decent job calling the 2021 Open Championship considering the circumstances. Take a scroll through social media, though, and you might arrive at a

10:03 AM ET SANDWICH, England — After making five birdies without a bogey for a final-round 65 at Royal St. George’s — and generally feeling like that is the worst he could have shot, Bryson DeChambeau was left to ponder where all that solid golf was earlier in the week. A tumultuous week at The