Golf

8:51 AM ET Associated Press FINCA CORTESIN, Spain — Suzann Pettersen, who won the Solheim Cup for Europe in 2019 with the last shot of her career, will captain the team four years later for its second straight title defense. The Norwegian’s 7-foot putt for birdie at the final hole at Gleneagles saw Europe reclaim

9:31 AM ET Associated Press South African golfer Thriston Lawrence won the Joburg Open on Saturday after the third round was abandoned because of bad weather, meaning the result was called after 36 holes of the inaugural event on the DP World Tour. The event had been reduced to a 54-hole tournament late Friday to

7:06 PM ET The match between Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka turned into a rout on Friday, as Koepka throttled his rival in a 4-and-3 victory in a 12-hole match at the Wynn Golf Club in Las Vegas. Koepka, a four-time major winner, had four birdies in the match for charity, while DeChambeau didn’t have

2:11 PM ET After months of feuding, trading jobs during interviews and on social media, then seemingly making up at the Ryder Cup — there was even a bro hug! — until that unraveled earlier this week, Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka are finally taking this rivalry to the golf course. Today, in the latest

12:45 PM ET South Africa’s Thriston Lawrence claimed a four-shot lead at the Joburg Open on Friday as imminent travel restrictions and a thunderstorm meant for a turbulent second round at the season-opening DP World Tour event. Rain and lightning halted play for over two hours, meaning half the field were yet to complete the

7:35 AM ET Associated Press JOHANNESBURG — A batch of British and Irish golfers withdrew from the Joburg Open before Friday’s second round after the U.K. government announced it was banning flights from South Africa to counter the spread of a new COVID-19 variant. The inaugural season of the DP World Tour started Thursday but

1:50 AM ET South African sport faced a shutdown on Friday due to the detection of a new coronavirus variant, with British rugby teams scrambling to leave before travel restrictions are imposed, and the first event of golf’s new-look DP World Tour under threat. Four rugby teams were due to play South African opposition in

1:59 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Two-time major winner Martin Kaymer is taking three months off for the birth of his first child, he told a German golf magazine Thursday. Kaymer expects to become a father in January at home in Germany and says he’s looking to live in Florida with his family after

12:04 PM ET South Africa’s Thriston Lawrence and Spain’s Angel Hidalgo had a share of the lead at 6 under par before a thunderstorm suspended play for the day in the first round of the DP World Tour’s Joburg Open at the Randpark Country Club on Thursday. It was the opening day of the newly-styled

7:39 AM ET It would be tough to top the kind of drama that Bryson DeChambeau found himself part of in 2021. He won just once on the PGA Tour, but the man who transformed his body in less than two years to become the tour’s longest driver certainly was a major topic of discussion

7:41 AM ET His résumé is heavy with major championship accomplishments, and Brooks Koepka has somewhat famously let it be known that the regular tournaments are not much of a priority to him. So a couple of missed cuts late in a long year that has seen its share of injury struggles for Koepka might

5:46 PM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour is raising purses even higher in five of its biggest events, with two FedEx Cup playoff events now offering $15 million in a schedule that pushes prize money closer to the $500 million mark this year. The increases, which include $12 million purses in the three invitational

5:36 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — The stakes were high and the odds would have seemed long to anyone but Jin Young Ko. Her only chance at LPGA player of the year was to win the CME Group Tour Championship. In her way was Nelly Korda, the No. 1 player in the world.

5:27 PM ET Associated Press ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Talor Gooch was playing too well to get fazed by anything Sunday in the RSM Classic, and it paid off with his first PGA Tour title when he closed with a 6-under 64 for a three-shot victory at Sea Island. He was playing with two

11:12 AM ET Tiger Woods posted video of himself hitting balls for the first time since his February car crash that caused several injuries to his right leg and foot. The video posted Sunday to Woods’ social media accounts constitutes the first official update he has shared since April. The three-second clip includes the caption,

7:50 AM ET Associated Press British Open champion, Ryder Cup winner and now the first American to finish a season as the European Tour’s No. 1 player. It’s been quite the year for Collin Morikawa. The 24-year-old Californian showcased his world-class iron play down the stretch in making five birdies in his last seven holes

6:09 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Nelly Korda and Jin Young Ko are part of a four-way tie for the lead going into the final round of the season, with nothing less than $1.5 million and LPGA player of the year on the line. Ko started pouring in putts from everywhere and ran

6:41 PM ET Associated Press ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Talor Gooch is playing some of his best golf in the toughest weather, even when he hasn’t been in the best position off the tee. Now the former Oklahoma State player is one round away from his first PGA Tour victory at the RSM Classic.