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As the sun beat down late on a steamy Friday afternoon at Kasumigaseki Country Club, American Nelly Korda holding a three-shot lead through three rounds of the women’s Olympic competition, the same question lingered on everyone’s minds: Will there be a fourth round come Saturday? Tropical storm Mirinae was moving steadily towards the eastern coast

1:38 AM ET Associated Press KAWAGOE, Japan — Nelly Korda had to work for pars instead of making birdies look routine, and the 23-year-old American did well enough to keep her distance in pursuit of an Olympic golf medal. Korda saved par with a 5-foot putt on the 17th hole and then got up-and-down from

After steamrolling through the Florida Swing, Bryson DeChambeau has simply not been the same player in the summer months. There was a brief glimpse of greatness on Sunday at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, but a back-nine 44 spoiled his near title-defense. During DeChambeau’s mini dry spell, every headline involving his name has had

12:37 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Justin Thomas sat in the chair, exhaled, then did his best to keep his eyes open. He might have simply said the media questions he fielded were putting him to sleep. But he didn’t have the energy for humor. A long stretch of golf across the globe was taking

Say what you will about Nelly Korda “settling” for a nine-under 62 on Thursday during the second round of the women’s Olympic competition. Yes, a double bogey on the last hole hurts when a birdie could have given the 23-year-old American just the second 59 in women’s pro golf history. Even so, Korda’s still impressive

4:01 AM ET Associated Press KAWAGOE, Japan — Already with her first major title and the No. 1 ranking, Nelly Korda took a big step toward a gold medal Thursday with a 9-under 62 that tied an Olympic record and gave her a four-shot lead. Still to be determined was how much golf was left

Nelly Korda stood on the 18th tee at Kasumigaseki Country Club in the second round with an opportunity to elevate the 2020 Tokyo Olympics into an echelon of their own in golf. With a birdie on the last, Korda could complete the second 59 in the history of the women’s game. But after missing left

9:57 PM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN Lexi Thompson had a new caddie on her bag for the second round of the women’s golf tournament at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday: Drew Hinesley. Hinesley, who was in Tokyo working with NBC, took over because Thompson’s regular caddie, Jack Fulghum, suffered from heat exhaustion and dehydration during the

Bryson DeChambeau says he lost 10 pounds and had some “coughing spurts” during his illness with COVID-19, but he now doesn’t see a need to get a coronavirus vaccine. “The thing is, the vaccine doesn’t necessarily prevent it from happening,” DeChambeau told Golfchannel.com after practicing on Wednesday for the WGC-St. Jude Invitational. “That’s where for

4:13 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — With recent concern over the Delta variant of the coronavirus and an increase in positive cases around the country, the PGA Tour this week reimplemented an indoor mask policy for all individuals, but stopped short of resuming its COVID-19 testing. Two weeks ago, the Tour stopped the practice of

Lexi Thompson grew up in Florida, so the LPGA Tour pro knows from hot. But what she and the rest of the field faced on Wednesday at Kasumigaseki Country Club was a different level of heat. Temperatures rose into the high 90s and the heat index reached 110 degrees. But the situation grew scary for

7:47 AM ET Charlotte S Gibson Aditi Ashok, 23, might not be a household name or winner on the LPGA Tour quite yet. But back home in India, she’s a top-ranked woman golfer, two-time Olympian and current second-place holder in Tokyo. In her first round of the women’s golf tournament at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,

After picking a pair of winners in consecutive weeks, our expert handicappers finally cooled off at the Olympics men’s golf tournament. Shockingly, no one on our normally very pro-Xander Schauffele betting panel was on Xander to win gold, despite many signs pointing to that outcome. That just means we’ll be digging a bit deeper this

6:34 AM ET It’s Day 9 in Tokyo and the final day of what has been a lucrative location for Team USA at these Olympic Games: the pool. There was also Xander Schauffele winning America’s first gold medal in golf in 121 years. Sunday starts with the gymnastics event finals. But, back to the pool.

With the news that the FedEx St. Jude Invitational will become the first event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs in 2022, this year’s tournament will be the last under the World Golf Championships banner. Nevertheless, this week’s WGC event at TPC Southwind will host a plethora of top-ranked players, including the brand-new Olympic gold medalist.

2:05 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Xander Schauffele had the presence of mind to bring his Olympic gold medal with him to Memphis, just not enough bravado to wear it around his neck as he emerged from a two-day blur to resume life on the PGA Tour after winning the Olympic men’s tournament on Sunday.

Mike Whan became the LPGA Tour commissioner in January 2010, three months after the International Olympic Committee announced golf’s return to the Olympics beginning with Rio in 2016. Part of Whan’s new duties included attending quarterly Olympic Board meetings to discuss how golf would fit into the Games, meeting alongside the power brokers of golf:

10:11 AM ET GERMANTOWN, Tenn. — The PGA Tour announced significant changes to its 2021-22 schedule, collaborating with the European Tour to co-sanction three events, dropping two World Golf Championship events and relocating the first FedEx Cup playoff event to the backyard of its umbrella sponsor. For the first time outside of the World Golf

That turned out to be the case, though, due to the countries being represented by those golfers who wound up on the medal podium. As Golf.com’s Dylan Dethier pointed out, C.T. Pan earned approximately $179,000 for finishing third—or nearly five times as much as Xander Schauffele will get for gold. Still confused? Allow us to

8:32 PM ET Associated Press KAWAGOE, Japan — Coping with high expectations at home and low energy from his COVID-19 recovery, Hideki Matsuyama stayed on pace in his bid to add a gold medal in golf to his Masters green jacket. Matsuyama holed a 5-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole Saturday morning and saved

HAVEN, Wis. — They let me out on the Straits Course at Whistling Straits by myself, as a single, before the first tee time of the day, which sounded a little like paradise to me, and in fact it was. It was a clear, bright morning, but more importantly it was cool on the western

11:59 AM ET The Hero World Challenge which benefits Tiger Woods’ foundation will take place as originally scheduled with an expanded field. Woods announced that the annual event in the Bahamas will be increased to 20 players, up from 18. He linked to a news release from his foundation. The tournament is scheduled for Dec

The successful return of golf to the Olympics at the 2016 Rio Games brought with it an anticipation for more in 2020. And while players and fans have had to wait an additional year for the Tokyo Games to be held, the wait ends this week. The men’s tournament begins on Wednesday evening U.S. time

9:19 PM ET Associated Press FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Annika Sorenstam shot a 3-under 69, racing to finish before dark, to take a three-stroke lead Friday in the U.S. Senior Women’s Open. The 50-year-old Sorenstam, a three-time U.S. Women’s Open champion making her first appearance in the senior event, birdied Nos. 7-9 to get to 8

Exactly when Megha Ganne realized things had changed after her breakthrough performance at the U.S. Women’s Open in early June isn’t altogether clear. It might have been when strangers kept stopping the 17-year-old high school senior at the San Francisco airport as she returned home, congratulating Ganne on playing her way into Sunday’s final threesome

5:44 PM ET Associated Press FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Annika Sorenstam ran away with the U.S. Senior Women’s Open on Sunday, closing with a 4-under 68 for an eight-stroke victory. The 50-year-old Sorenstam, a three-time U.S. Women’s Open champion making her first appearance in the senior event, finished at 12-under 276 at Brooklawn Country Club. Playing

A decade before her first LPGA Tour victory at the ISPS Handa World Invitational on Sunday, Pajaree Anannarukarn had a conversation with her dad about her golf ball marking. Her creative 12-year-old self drew so many pictures on the ball, she could hardly see its white cover when it sat in the rough. They agreed

6:04 AM ET Associated Press KAWAGOE, Japan — Xander Schauffele won an Olympic gold medal he badly wanted by overcoming more pressure than he could have imagined Sunday. Right when Schauffele appeared to lose his firm grip on the gold, the 27-year-old American responded with two clutch putts at the end for a 4-under 67

In golf, a seven-man playoff to determine a third-place finisher is something that tends to occur in USGA qualifiers. And, thankfully for Chinese Taipei’s C.T. Pan, the Olympic Games. When Hideki Matsuyama, in the last threesome of the final round at Kasumigaseki Country Club, missed a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole, he joined

9:06 AM ET KAWAGOE, Japan — For the past few years, Xander Schauffele has been pro golf’s next big thing, which is a designation that’s usually, and ideally, temporary. But his ascent had been stuck in neutral. He has been playing very well, but not great. A bevy of top-10 finishes in majors, but an