Golf

6:06 PM ET Associated Press FORT MYERS, Fla. — Leona Maguire became the first Irish winner in LPGA Tour history Saturday, closing with a 5-under 67 for a three-stroke victory in the LPGA Drive On Championship at Crown Colony. “It’s huge for Irish golf,” Maguire said. “There was never an Irish player on the tour,

1:07 PM ET Associated Press Nicolai Hojgaard shot an 8-under 64 on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead into the final round of the Ras al Khaimah Championship. The 20-year-old, seeking his second DP World Tour title, birdied five of his last six for a 54-hole total of 20-under 196, with David Law his nearest

10:30 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Harold Varner III birdied the par-5 18th hole on Saturday to shoot a 2-under 68 and take a one-stroke lead over Adri Arnaus into the final round of the Saudi International. Defending champion Dustin Johnson was five strokes back at the Asian Tour

8:58 PM ET Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Even for being located next to the ocean, the iconic finishing hole at Pebble Beach is short for par 5s by modern standards. That didn’t keep Seamus Power, who has plenty of pop, from taking an iron off the tee and playing it as a three-shot

7:57 PM ET Associated Press FORT MYERS, Fla. — Leona Maguire and Marina Alex shared the lead Friday in the LPGA Drive On Championship after another windy round at Crown Colony. Maguire birdied the par-5 18th for a 7-under 65, and Alex closed with birdies on the par-4 eighth and par-5 ninth for a 66.

11:35 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Defending champion Dustin Johnson shot a 1-over 71 to fall 6 strokes behind co-leaders Harold Varner III and Adri Arnaus at the Saudi International after a windy second round on Friday. Varner and Arnaus carded 66s to reach 10 under overall, while Johnson

4:04 AM ET Germany’s Sebastian Heisele and Scotland’s Scott Jamieson carded matching bogey-free rounds of 65 to share a one-shot lead after the first round of the 2022 Ras Al Khaimah Championship on Thursday. Hiesele leads a DP World Tour event for the first time in his career after he endured a difficult season in

1:48 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Bryson DeChambeau withdrew from the Saudi International before the second round Friday because of left hand and left hip injuries. DeChambeau opened Thursday with a 3-over 73, making a triple-bogey 7 at the seventh hole. The American star missed the cut last week

11:03 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Dustin Johnson‘s bid for a third victory at the Saudi International began with the American shooting 5-under 65, leaving him 3 strokes off the lead held by Matteo Manassero after the first round Thursday. Johnson is one of a slew of high-profile players

7:19 PM ET Defending AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am champion Daniel Berger was forced to pull out of the tournament because of a back injury, the PGA Tour announced on Wednesday. Berger, the 16th-ranked player in the world, is the second big PGA Tour star to withdraw from the tournament. Will Zalatoris, runner-up at last week’s

9:00 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The PGA Tour continues Thursday at the 2022 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The tournament will feature a unique setup with three different golf courses. The Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course and Monterey Peninsula Country Club will host the first three rounds of action before finishing up

7:26 AM ET This is the week the stars come out on the PGA Tour. And not just the celebrities who will be playing alongside the professionals for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which begins Thursday. No, the three golf courses — Monterey Peninsula Country Club, Spyglass Hill and, of course, Pebble Beach — also

7:26 AM ET The 2021-22 PGA Tour schedule isn’t yet five months old, but it has already produced three first-time Tour winners. Australia’s Lucas Herbert won the Butterfield Bermuda Championship in October, Talor Gooch took The RSM Classic title in November, and then Luke List won a sudden-death playoff at last week’s Farmers Insurance Open

1:00 PM ET Will Zalatoris, who just missed winning his first PGA Tour event last week, has withdrawn from this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am after testing positive for COVID-19, the tour announced Tuesday. Zalatoris, the 29th ranked player in the world, will be replaced in the field by Greg Chalmers. Zalatoris, 25, just missed

6:59 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — A 10-event run called the International Series will form part of this season’s Asian Tour in a Saudi-funded move that could prove to be a threat to golf’s two main tours. The series is being funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and

7:28 AM ET The PGA Tour is beginning to hit its stride, with another stop on the California swing at this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. It’s still January, so there’s a lot of golf left to be played. Many of the sport’s biggest names are just beginning to find their games. Jon Rahm, the

5:58 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Lydia Ko pulled ahead with a birdie on the 15th hole and matched scores with Danielle Kang the rest of the way, closing with a 3-under 69 for a 1-shot victory on a chilly Sunday in the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio. Ko won for the

9:00 AM ET Associated Press Viktor Hovland beat Richard Bland in a playoff to capture the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday after Rory McIlroy missed a chance to win the title in regulation by bogeying the last hole. Hovland claimed his third victory in five events by making birdie from inside 3 feet at the