Golf

1:00 PM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN It’s October, and still golf major season. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the LPGA Tour shifted its schedule — including when and how many majors will be played. The major schedule was condensed to four tournaments, compared to the regular slate of five, with the third major of the season
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5:19 PM ET Tony Finau has withdrawn from this week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open after testing positive for COVID-19, the PGA Tour announced Tuesday. “Earlier today, I received a positive result for Covid-19 under PGA TOUR on-site testing protocols and have begun a period of self-quarantine to protect others around me,” he wrote on
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12:19 PM ET The Latin America Amateur Championship, whose winner gets an automatic invitation to the Masters and The Open, has been canceled for 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The event, which is sponsored by the USGA, the R&A and the Masters and has been played since 2015, was scheduled for Jan. 14-17
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11:54 AM ET Associated Press Charlotte Thomas has withdrawn from the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship after her caddie tested positive for the coronavirus. Thomas dropped out because she was in close contact with the caddie and will begin a 14-day quarantine. Thomas, 27, was among the field set to play beginning Thursday at Aronimink Golf
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3:17 PM ET Associated Press Englishman Aaron Rai needed only one playoff hole to beat compatriot Tommy Fleetwood and win the Scottish Open for his second European Tour title on Sunday. Fleetwood (67) birdied the last hole of regulation to match Rai’s total of 11 under par, but then missed from three feet for par
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9:12 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss — Sergio Garcia squeezed his eyes shut on the 18th green, not as he stood over his putt but when he saw it stop one turn short of dropping for another birdie. No matter. He played bogey-free Saturday in the Sanderson Farms Championship for a 6-under 66, and
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6:27 PM ET Associated Press GALLOWAY, N.J. — Mel Reid gave herself another chance for her first LPGA Tour victory. Two weeks after missing an opportunity in Portland, the 33-year-old Englishwoman shot a 5-under 66 on Saturday to take the lead into the final round of the Shoprite LPGA Classic. In Portland, Reid closed with
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