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When her Sunday tee time at the Amundi Evian Championship was pushed back 40 minutes due to a weather delay, Leona Maguire was nervous it might be an ominous sign for the day ahead. The LPGA rookie from Ireland was out of contention for the title, sitting at three under, 15 shots back of the

A second major champion in men’s golf has tested positive for COVID-19 and won’t be able to compete in this week’s Olympic men’s tournament. The International Golf Federation announced on Sunday that Jon Rahm was in the midst of the final testing protocol before leaving for Tokyo when he tested positive. According to the Spanish

Bryson DeChambeau’s bid for an Olympic gold at the Tokyo Games has come to a premature end. On Saturday, the International Golf Federation revealed that the former U.S. Open champion had tested positive for COVID-19 in his final screening before leaving the United States for Japan. As a result, he will be unable to participate

8:08 PM ET Associated Press PINEHURST, N.C. — Nicholas Dunlap won the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship on Saturday at The Country Club of North Carolina, beating Cohen Trolio 3 and 2 in the 36-hole final. Dunlap, from Huntsville, Alabama, won three straight holes to take control and finished off Trolio, from West Point, Mississippi, with

7:39 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Cameron Tringale made a short par putt on the treacherous par-5 18th hole at the 3M Open for a 5-under 66 and a one-stroke lead Saturday over Gary Woodland and Maverick McNealy. Tringale, who tied for third last year at the TPC Twin Cities, eagled the par-5

“The hours and hours that nobody sees … it’s finally paid off.” Those were the words of 17-year-old Nick Dunlap, the 3-and-2 winner against Cohen Troglio in this year’s U.S. Junior Amateur at the Country Club of North Carolina, after being subjected to the most intense pressure of his very young career and emerging from

It was like an L.A. freeway police chase: The helicopter overhead follows the suspect’s every move as he makes his way through alleys and buildings. On Saturday, the man on the run was Gary Woodland. His crime? One of the worst tee shots you’ll ever see a professional strike. At the TPC Twin Cities’ ornerous

Jeongeun Lee6 continued her march toward major history Saturday at the Amundi Evian Championship in France with a three-under 68 to sit at 18 under par. The 2019 U.S. Women’s Open champion holds a five-shot lead and is three strokes off the all-time major scoring record of 21 under set by In Gee Chun at

If you’ve got your phone, tablet or TV handy and need a break from the Olympics, Saturday’s back nine of the 3M Open is probably worth taking a look at. Yes, because Rickie Fowler is among a tight pack at the top of the leader board, looking to build on a chance to win his

12:35 PM ET Associated Press EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — The day after making golfing history, Jeongeun Lee6 extended her Evian Championship lead to five strokes after a 3-under-par 68 in the third round on Saturday. She’s at 18 under overall and the nearest challenger is teenage American Yealimi Noh at 13 under after carding a 4-under

12:10 PM ET Golfer Grayson Murray posted an unfiltered account of his issues with alcoholism on social media Friday night, saying he has not received help from the PGA Tour and “hates everything that has to do with the PGA Tour life.” “The PGA Tour didn’t force me to drink,” Murray wrote on Twitter, “but

9:17 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Adam Hadwin missed the weekend cuts in his last three tournaments, continuing a disappointing stretch as he dropped to 120th in the FedEx Cup standings. The 33-year-old Canadian has put himself in position to get back in contention for the playoffs with a strong run at the

This 3M Open last year was the final blemish for Dustin Johnson before everything flipped in a major way to finish out 2020. After withdrawing from last year’s event in Minnesota, he finished in the top six in seven of his next eight starts to close out the year. That run included a runner-up at

Bubba Watson is like that kid in “The Sixth Sense.” He sees things that we don’t. He sees openings through trees that aren’t much wider than a sparrow to fly through. He sees lines off the tee that no one else (maybe other than that other wacky lefty, Phil Mickelson, or Bryson DeChambeau) would attempt.

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

Jeongeun Lee6 wrapped up her opening round at the Amundi Evian Championship on Thursday by birdieing four of her last five holes for a 66, and yet she walked off disappointed. She mentioned issues with her backswing, something she’s been working on since last month’s U.S. Women’s Open. It’s hardly the frame of mind you’d

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

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

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

2:22 PM ET Associated Press EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Thailand’s Pajaree Anannarukarn and teenage American Yealimi Noh posted 6-under 65s to share the first-round lead at the Evian Championship on Thursday. Noh’s day began perfectly when she carded an eagle on the first hole. Her momentum was checked by a bogey on No. 4, but she

On the eve of the Amundi Evian Championship, Nelly Korda, the top-ranked female golfer in the world, was asked how she planned to manage her time in the coming weeks with a schedule that included a trip to France for the year’s fourth major, then on to Tokyo for the Olympics. “I bought a gaming

It is surely a question asked by many of Bernhard Langer’s fellow competitors on the PGA Tour Champions: What is the secret behind the 63-year-old German’s longevity? Since turning 50 way back in 2007, the two-time Masters champion has accumulated a remarkable 41 senior victories and more than $41 million in prize money playing against

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

Two peculiarities make golf unique among professional sports. First, only in golf does the winner score the fewest points. Where else does a 3 beat a 4? Second, golf’s spectators at the most critical moments can go from raucous ebullience to prolonged silence with nothing in between. It’s known as a sport of control and

Foreign substances are outlawed by the Rules of Golf but they are also outlaws, their criminality so prodigious and versed and begrudgingly respected it has become folklore. No matter what form the weapon takes—cooking spray, lip balm, moisturizer—legend has it a little lubricant on a club face makes a ball go a long, long way.

6:00 AM ET NEW ORLEANS — The idea was to learn a little bit more about New Orleans Saints kicker Wil Lutz by tagging along during one of his daily rounds of golf. To explore why he is so drawn to activities that require impossible standards like perfection and a repeatable swing. Not only did

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

On the final hole of the 2019 Evian Championship, Jin Young Ko turned to caddie David Brooker and asked how many putts she needed to win. “He said, ‘If you make a par you win. If you three-putt, still you win. But you’re a professional, so you have to make a two-putt,’” Ko explained at

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,

You tune into the Olympic coverage to see champions win medals, sure. But it’s more than that. A part of the fan experience is being introduced to obscure characters in each sport—athletes you want to root for because of their charisma, perseverance, origin story and chance to conquer the odds. Golf in Tokyo is no