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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

Southern Hills Country Club will play the host role this week at the 104th PGA Championship. We’ve seen this Tulsa course host four previous editions of the PGA and it always proves to be a tough test. Over those four runnings at Southern Hills, less than 30 golfers have escaped with red numbers next to their name at week’s end. So, to start our search for Yahoo DFS plays, let’s look at historical performance on tough courses. From there, we can look at bentgrass putting stats to see who has… Source link

Valspar Championship Palm Harbor, FloridaInnisbrook Resort (Copperhead Course) – Par 71 – 7,340 yardsField – 144 entrantsPurse – $7.8M The Preview A five-day marathon broke out at THE PLAYERS Championship, but we’ve officially reached the fourth and final leg of the Florida Swing as the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook plays host to a surprisingly decent field that features five representatives from the top 10 in the Official World Golf Ranking. Retaining a common theme of challenging layouts… Source link

Thanks to a pair of huge birdie runs, and a clutch shot at the island green, Cameron Smith walked off TPC Sawgrass a winner on Monday afternoon. Smith posted a 6-under 66 in his final round in a rare Monday finish on the PGA Tour to win The Players Championship, marking his biggest win to date and his second so far this season. Smith took home $3.6 million with the win, which was part of a $20 million purse for the tournament — the largest in the history of the Tour. “It’s unreal. A long,… Source link