Trey Mullinax has been suspended for six months by the PGA Tour after testing positive for a prohibited substance, which he says stemmed from medication for a pre-existing condition.
Brooks Koepka’s bid to make the postseason is very much in doubt. On Tuesday Koepka withdrew from this week’s Rocket Classic field. No reason was given for the decision.RELATED: The other side of Brooks Koepka In his season back on the PGA Tour following a four-year stint at LIV Golf, Koepka’s results have been mixed. Read more…
The PGA Tour just re-invented itself. It was long overdue. Those seeking specificity from the PGA Tour’s seismic announcement in late June may have left wanting more. Those who can see what this is designed to become are looking at something the tour hasn’t offered in a very long time. Not a framework under siege, Read more…
Ryan Fox birdies the 72nd hole to claim his maiden major title at Royal Birkdale, capping off a career that nearly ended before it began. “I used to get up in the middle of the night to watch this tournament back home.”
SOUTHPORT, England—It is Saturday night in Southport, and according to the leaderboard, someone is going to do something they’ve never done before. Sam Burns is the pace car after 54 holes, his 10-under score good for a two-shot lead at Royal Birkdale. But there are seven players within four, and the connective tissue between Burns Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Three swipes from three feet revealed the magic that hasn’t been there wasn’t coming back, not this week at least. There was hope it might resurface at Royal Birkdale since this is where it burned brightest, where Jordan Spieth scaled the dunes into the unknown to steal a claret jug that he Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — The big yellow scoreboard was littered with small black letters of names that seemed not to belong there judging by the squints and pointed fingers from the fans camped out early in the 18th hole grandstands. The Open Championship caters to a golf-centric crowd, probably the most knowledgeable left in the game, Read more…
Scottie Scheffler’s title defense got off to a strong start at Royal Birkdale, a hot opening burst followed by a cold putter leaving him two back of the lead, but firmly in control heading into the weekend.
SOUTHPORT, England — Bryson DeChambeau took a step to breaking his major slump with a 67 on Thursday at Royal Birkdale, a bogey on the last hole dropping him out of a tie for first place. But after the round, the talk around DeChambeau was that DeChambeau wasn’t talking. Despite being in contention, DeChambeau told Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Every major needs an outsider. This morning at Royal Birkdale it’s a college dropout with a YouTube channel, a pack of cigarettes, bird tattoos and a share of the lead. “Yeah, very nice day,” Dan Brown said after a Thursday 66. “Tee to green, it’s similar to how I’ve been playing recently. Read more…
The Open Championship keeps growing, bigger crowds, more hospitality tiers, a redesigned Royal Birkdale. But is that growth coming at the expense of what makes this major different from every other?
SOUTHPORT, England— Ludvig Aberg’s preparation for the Open got off to an inauspicious start. In a walk-and-talk with Open Championship media at Royal Birkdale Tuesday morning, Aberg relayed that he had some travel difficulties arriving to the United Kingdom earlier this month. For starters, his bag was lost for three days. Not necessarily an uncommon Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England— Matt Fitzpatrick joined the growing chorus of players concerned about the impact gambling is having on crowd behavior. Wyndham Clark’s treatment on Sunday at Shinnecock, where the eventual U.S. Open champion faced repeated issues of jeers and heckling, has been the latest flashback regarding the deterioration of fan etiquette. There were a number Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England—After reports indicated that he would miss the Open Championship due to his wife’s pregnancy, Sam Burns was on site Monday at Royal Birkdale and is expected to compete at the Open Championship. Burns is coming off a heartbreaking performance at the U.S. Open, where he made a Sunday charge at Shinnecock to challenge Read more…
Royal Birkdale has burned brown and firm ahead of the Open Championship, the driest it’s played since Carnoustie in 2018. Jordan Spieth and others weigh in on what that means for the week ahead.
[Photo: Thibaut Durand] I was nursing a coffee, watching fellow scribes tee off at the Old Course, waiting behind the first tee for a St. Andrews local to arrive for an interview in the middle of a summer spent bouncing around the linksland. Because standing in front of the Old Course never gets old, or Read more…
The league is filing Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notices in the United States. The notice is a legal requirement, not a definitive announcement of job cuts, but it signals that a workforce reduction is possible.
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