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This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Golf series. FedEx St. Jude Championship Memphis, TennesseeTPC Southwind – Par 70 – 7,243 yardsField – 121 entrantsPurse – $15M The Preview Transitioning from a WGC event to its new position as the first leg of the FedExCup Playoffs, the St. Jude Championship invites those within the top 125 of the Eligibility Points List to extend their 2021-22 campaign in Memphis with a trip to the BMW Championship on the line. The strongest field since the Open… Source link

Justin Lower was all set to not only make it into the FedExCup Playoffs on Sunday afternoon, but also secure his PGA Tour card for the second straight year. Yet on the 72nd green at the Wyndham Championship, Lower slipped. Lower, after reaching the par-4 18th green in regulation, three-putted from 61 feet for a bogey — which officially knocked him outside of the top 125 in the FedExCup standings and took his Tour card away. Lower’s face walking off the 18th green said it all. “I don’t… Source link

Two-time NBA champion Slava Medvedenko is auctioning his championship rings to support Ukraine in its war against Russia. A Ukraine native, Medvedenko played seven seasons in the NBA, winning two championships alongside Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant with the Los Angeles Lakers. He joined the Lakers as an NBA rookie in 2000 to win the last two titles of a three-peat secured by the Bryant-O’Neal core. Medvedenko, 43, lives in Kyiv. He told the Associated Press on Sunday that he decided to… Source link

Brooke Henderson follows her ball after playing on the second hole during the Evian Championship on Saturday. (Laurent Cipriani / Associated Press) EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Brooke Henderson stood over a birdie putt from three feet at the 18th green, a three-shot lead going into the final round of the Evian Championship seemingly at her mercy. For the first time Saturday — maybe all week, given her dominance of the fourth women’s major of the year — her putting stroke let her… Source link

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE to see today’s piping-hot, fresh-outta-the-oven episode of THE RUSH with Jared Quay! We’ll let you know everything you didn’t know you needed to know about sports. Other stuff too. But mostly sports. It’s Thursday, July 14, 2022, and here’s what Jared is cookin’ up: The 150th Open Championship is underway at St. Andrews, following a week of pre-tournament drama Tiger Woods took aim at the LIV Golf tour Past champions were uninvited, or opted to skip the Open… Source link

This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Golf series. The Open Championship Fife, ScotlandSt. Andrews Links (Old Course) – Par 72 – 7,313 yardsField – 156 entrantsPurse – $14M The Preview The 150th edition of the Open Championship finds itself poetically on the sacred grounds of the birthplace of golf, as the Old Course at St. Andrews plays host to the final major of the season along the coast of Scotland for the first time since 2015. A true links test, the Old Course features wide… Source link

Low scores set up for a close shave in the final round of the 2022 Barbasol Championship with the tournament being decided with a clutch, late putt. Trey Mullinax made a 14-footerfor birdie on the final hole to take a one-shot lead at 25 under and earn not only his first PGA Tour win, but the final spot in the field for next week’s 150th playing of the Open Championship at St. Andrews. The 30-year-old shot a 6-under 66 on Sunday to follow rounds of 65-65-67 and hold off a charging Kevin… Source link

Sage Steele confirmed on Saturday that she was struck by a golf ball at the PGA Championship on Thursday that resulted in injuries requiring visits with doctors and a dentist. The ESPN anchor didn’t reveal the extent of her injuries, but announced in a statement released by the network that she received medical care at a hospital at the Tulsa, Oklahoma, site of the PGA Championship before returning to her Connecticut home to consult with her doctor and dentist. “I just want to thank everyone… Source link

    After three days in which his score and his pain grew progressively worse, Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the PGA Championship. Woods began the tournament Thursday with an early charge that put him within a stroke of the lead. That hot streak soon faded. Friday was a battle just to make the cut, and Saturday was a debacle — a nine-over round that left Woods +12 for the week and in obvious pain. “I didn’t do anything right,” Woods said after the round. “I didn’t hit many good shots…. Source link

There are limits to Tiger Woods’ ability to work miracles. Somewhere. There have to be, right? Woods won’t win the PGA Championship. He might not ever win a tournament again. But he’s staying in the fight long after so many others would have quit. Fifteen months after a devastating car wreck that nearly cost him his leg, six weeks after his return to competitive golf at Augusta, one day after a round at the PGA Championship that started hot but stalled late, Woods fought through one of the… Source link