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Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterNov 15, 2023, 08:15 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions SAINT SIMONS ISLAND, Georgia — After another tumultuous season in men’s professional golf, the PGA Tour’s last wrap-around schedule for the foreseeable future wraps

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterOct 19, 2023, 09:45 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions The second LIV Golf League season wraps up this weekend with the circuit’s $50 million team championship, starting Friday at Trump National Doral Golf

The powerlines near the tee on No. 9 at the Country Club of Jackson struck again. They got Sam Burns last year, but on Friday at the Sanderson Farms, they didn’t lay a glove on Australia’s Harrison Endycott. At last year’s event, Burns hit the powerlines with an otherwise perfect drive that found the fairway

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Don’t get too excited. Halfway through the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Nicolas Colsaerts isn’t leading the tournament. Then again, no one really is. With three courses — the Old Course at St Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns — in the rotation, who is actually atop the leaderboard will not become completely clear

Morgan Hoffmann is happy to be home. Not Costa Rica home, New Jersey home. It’s a chilly, dreary Thursday in the Garden State, and Hoffmann is striping 8-iron after 8-iron into the par-3 16th green at Mountain Ridge Country Club in West Caldwell. It’s no morning stroll on the beach in Nosara, but it’ll do

PGA Tour rookie Ludvig Åberg hasn’t played in a major championship just yet, but he’s already a Ryder Cup winner and is one of the favorites at the upcoming Sanderson Farms Championship. The 23-year-old Swede, who turned pro in June, is looking to improve upon a fourth-place finish at the John Deere Classic as his

Xander Schauffele earned the chance to play on the 2023 U.S. Ryder Cup team, grabbing the last of six automatic qualifying spots to secure his second start in the biennial event. But according to a story in the Times of London on Monday, his place on the roster was in jeopardy ahead of the match

ROME — Rickie Fowler conceding Tommy Fleetwood a two foot, eight-inch putt for the win on the 16th hole was a strange technicality which both ended the Ryder Cup, and sparked some controversy with viewers at home. I get that, but I also don’t agree with it. I was on the 16th green when it

ROME — Playing golf the day before your wedding, if you’re lucky enough to do it, is meant to be relaxing. It doesn’t usually involve tens of thousands of golf fans ferociously taunting you for four hours. But Patrick Cantlay is not your average person, and a Ryder Cup in Italy is not your average

ROME — Jon Rahm knew the questions were coming. It had been more than 16 hours since Brooks Koepka had accused him of “acting like a child” for whacking a sign in frustration at the Ryder Cup. The Spaniard is not on social media, but his friends had sent him articles of Koepka’s comments. “I

ROME — Let’s get right to it. The point that is. Matt Fitzpatrick arrived at this Ryder Cup as a veteran of two previous biennial encounters between the best from the United States and Europe. And, much to his obvious annoyance, the former U.S. Open champion came armed with a 0-5-0 record. He had, however,

Tom Hamilton Close Tom Hamilton Senior Writer • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of

The wait is finally over. We have official pairings for the first session of the 44th Ryder Cup. And now the instance analysis can begin. Here’s a breakdown of Friday morning’s opening fourball session, exploring the four matches and what we can expect when play is underway (All times EDT). Match 1/1:35 a.m. Scottie Scheffler/Sam

ROME — With advances in sports analytics, the big brains behind the numbers can actually quantify the value of homefield advantage in various sports. In the NFL, for instance, the value season to season fluctuates between two and three points; that’s the boost you get from a supportive crowd and familiar surroundings. In the NBA,

ROME—Justin Thomas said he isn’t keeping receipts, which doesn’t seem like something a confident Justin Thomas would say. Thomas’ appeal and arguably part of his success, especially at the Ryder Cup, is treating slights both real and perceived with mild irritation that anyone could stop him from getting to where he wants to go. Justin

ROME — Although he was 54th on the final U.S. Ryder Cup points list, Bryson DeChambeau felt snubbed by captain Zach Johnson. It wasn’t so much that he didn’t earn one of Johnson’s six wildcard picks; it was the perceived slight of not even receiving a phone call from the American skipper. After winning his

CASARES, Spain — It was as close as it could be entering the final round of the Solheim Cup, the visiting Americans with eight points, the home Europeans with eight points, creating the prospects of a dramatic Sunday in Spain. And that’s how it played out, even if in the end there was no winner

Chances are Samuel Ryder, the man who helped inspire the competition that bears his name, would struggle to recognize the modern match played between the United States and Europe. Even if you accept the premise that the English seed merchant was a man of vision, to think that he knew that one day this test

America’s well-documented road woes in the Ryder Cup are worse than you might realize. It’s not just that the U.S. team has failed to win in Europe since 1993. Rewind the tape back to 1979, when European players were added to the biennial competition, and you can see that only twice has the U.S. triumphed

Golfers around the world will tune in to watch the best female players from the United States and Europe compete in the 18th edition of the Solheim Cup this weekend at beautiful Finca Corestin in Andalucia, Spain. It will be a sight to see. It really can’t compare to being at the Solheim Cup in

CASERAS, Spain — As a Solheim Cup player, Suzann Pettersen brought her own distinctive level of drive and intensity to the nine European teams she was a part of. The Norwegian remains the only player from either side in the biennial contest to unwittingly utter a four-letter curse word live on national television, a feat

FINCA CORTESIN, Spain — Listed under the player-profile sections in the official Solheim Cup program are each competitor’s best results this year. European stalwart Celine Boutier’s, by way of example, takes up six lines and contains three wins, including her major championship victory at the Amundi Evian Championship. On the other side of the trans-Atlantic

The Ryder Cup exhibition is a celebration of the sport of golf, a shining example of team camaraderie in an individual game, and a testament to the integrity and honor of this most rarefied and elevated … Oh, who am I kidding? The Ryder Cup is a lowdown, bare-knuckle fight, and like any good fight,

Since the last time the Solheim Cup was played in 2021 at Inverness Club, Europeans and Americans have dominated the LPGA Tour. Of the 24 competing this week as the biennial event comes to Finca Cortesin, 16 have won on the LPGA in that time, with nine of them combining for 13 wins on the

After what Justin Thomas described on Wednesday as being a “brutal” couple months leading into the U.S. Ryder Cup team being finalized, the two-time major champ can sleep even easier on Friday night. So can Zach Johnson. The American captain has faced plenty of questions about this particular personnel choice heading into the biennial event

In my garage at home is a red canvas, cylindrical shag bag with a protruding aluminum tube that retrieves golf balls without back strain. It’s my longest serving piece of golf equipment in continuous use. The Original Shag Bag was invented by Clifford Hurd and Ian McDonald in 1948, and the same company, Madewell Products,

There are hundreds of examples of great leadership in golf, but one that I will long remember occurred leading up to the 2018 Ryder Cup, despite an American loss. It involved not a golfer, but the legendary Duke basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski. “Coach K” was still coaching at the time and didn’t retire until 2022.

It was only two weeks ago that Viktor Hovland won the Tour Championship/FedEx Cup title in a runaway by five strokes over Xander Schauffele. Well, now we’re back, the PGA Tour starting anew with the FedEx Cup Fall at the Fortinet Championship. Players status in the 2024 FedEx Cup points race isn’t at stake this

Editor’s Note: In honor of National Golf Course Superintendents Day, Golf Digest is republishing this important piece from 2019 by Ron Whitten that chronicled the effects of the high-stress profession of greenskeeping. Whitten’s award-winning piece highlighted the pressures facing these men and women. Make sure to send your appreciation to the grounds crew at your golf

The Ryder Cup began in 1927, but it didn’t really get cooking until 1983. Before then, the Americans dominated to an absurd degree, losing only three times in 24 Cups. But in ’83, Tony Jacklin took over as the European captain, Seve Ballesteros entered the legendary phase of his career, and everything changed. Since then,