CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – Of the top five players on the leaderboard, only Jordan Spieth has won a major. Then there’s the guy lurking in a share of sixth place. He has 14 of them. In each of Spieth’s three previous major victories, he’s never gone up against a healthy and competitive Tiger Woods. Sure, Woods […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – Tiger Woods stood on the 18th tee at 5 under par, and everyone at Carnoustie knew the importance of the occasion. In 2018, 10 years after his last major victory and one year after fusion surgery, Woods had for a few minutes ascended to the top of the Open leaderboard, and the […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – It might get awkward in that star-studded rental house Saturday night. Two of the three Open co-leaders, Jordan Spieth and Kevin Kisner, are sharing a house this week near Carnoustie. Though it’ll be late by the time they both get back to the house Saturday night, they’ll have plenty of time to […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – Rory McIlroy bogeyed two of his last four holes Saturday to fall four shots off the lead at The Open. One of those mistakes might not have entirely been his fault. McIlroy missed a short putt on the par-3 16th after a photographer was “in a world all his own,” wandering around […]
Only 18 holes remain in the 147th Open Championship at Carnoustie, and the man tied atop the leaderboard is the same man who captured the claret jug last year at Royal Birkdale. So it’s little surprise that Jordan Spieth is the odds-on favorite (7/4) to win his fourth major entering Sunday’s final round. Xander Schauffele […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – Following a breakthough season during which he won twice and collected the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Award, Xander Schauffele concedes his sophomore campaign has been less than stellar, but that could all change on Sunday at The Open. Schauffele followed a second-round 66 with a 67 on Saturday to take […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – Jordan Spieth begins his quest for a second consecutive claret jug and fourth major overall at 9:45 a.m. ET Sunday at Carnoustie, playing alongside Xander Schauffele. This marks the first time Schauffele has ever held a 54-hole lead in his career. The Kevins – Kisner and Chappell – are in the penultimate […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – Jordan Spieth described Monday’s “ceremony” to return the claret jug to the keepers of the game’s oldest championship as anything but enjoyable. For the last 12 months the silver chalice has been a ready reminder of what he was able to overcome and accomplish in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, a beacon of […]
Brittany Lincicome charmed curious spectators and signed a bunch of autographs Saturday at the Barbasol Championship, but she was more than a good LPGA ambassador finishing the suspended second round. She put on a show at Keene Trace in Nicholasville, Ky. “I’ll remember this forever,” she said. Lincicome made five birdies, three in a row, […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but Jordan Spieth wandered into a Scottish barbershop Saturday and … Well, he got a haircut and somehow went unrecognized. “He went a little high and tight,” Spieth said, removing his Under Armour cap and ruffling his surprisingly short hair. “It was intended to […]