Inbee Park is in position to end any debate over whether she has won the career grand slam in women’s golf. Or Super Slam, whatever you want to call the sweep of the five majors in the women’s game. While Park has won the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship three times, the U.S. Women’s Open twice […]
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Ryann O’Toole caught fire Saturday at the Evian Championship, going where few women have gone before in major championship history. Only four players have posted scores lower than O’Toole’s 63. Her 8-under-par round moved her into contention to make her first LPGA title a major championship. O’Toole was just three back when she signed her […]
If Mo Martin keeps this going at the Evian Championship and wins her second major, her trusted caddie knows he’ll be working overtime. Craig Castrale will have to wait around until the bitter end on Sunday to make sure Martin doesn’t leave Evian Resort without the trophy. “I can be a little bit mindless, which […]
Lexi Thompson lined up her final putt through tears Friday at the Evian Championship. After stubbing a chip that barely traveled 6 inches at the 18th hole and making bogey, she signed for a 4-over-par 75 to miss her second cut in three starts. She wiped away more tears standing next to her caddie as […]
Georgia Hall is looking to move into rarified air at the Evian Championship. She is setting up a weekend run at joining Se Ri Pak as the only LPGA rookies to win back-to-back majors since the tour’s inaugural season in 1950, when Babe Zaharias won all three majors staged that year. Hall, 22, is also […]
There’s no cut this week as the PGA Tour endures its annual playoff intermission, but there’s still plenty to cover in what will be the final “bye”-week edition of Cut Line. Made Cut The envelope, please. This was a foregone conclusion for some time, but with just a single playoff event remaining it’s time to […]
In what is unfolding as “The Year of the Breakthrough” in women’s golf, Maria Torres is making a run at becoming the most stunning of all. She’s an LPGA rookie. She’s No. 184 in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings. She has missed the cut in more than half her starts this year, with 11 MCs […]
Maria Torres put Puerto Rico’s flag atop the leaderboard Thursday at the Evian Championship. The LPGA rookie’s move was well timed, giving the U.S. commonwealth a boost of pride with the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria’s devastating landfall looming. Torres was huddled with her family in San Juan when the hurricane hit on Sept. 20 […]
Brooks Koepka inched closer to the world No. 1 ranking without hitting a shot. The PGA Tour was off last week, but that didn’t prevent some slight shuffling in the Official World Golf Rankings because of the divisor math that supplies a point average for each player. Chief among those changes was Koepka inching past […]
There was a surreal moment accompanying Keegan Bradley’s victory at the BMW Championship on Sept. 10 when he didn’t know what to think. That moment occurred when Bradley looked at his cell phone and noticed that U.S. Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk sent him a text. For a split second Bradley thought, “Is he?” As […]