8:18 PM ET Associated Press OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Rory McIlroy doesn’t need fans to keep his head in the game at the BMW Championship. Olympia Fields is so tough, it won’t allow anything but his full attention on every shot. McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay made their share of mistakes Friday and shrugged them off
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Cameron Champ addresses social justice issues as PGA Tour plays on Cameron Champ had the word “equality” written on the right side of his Nike hat and wore a black Nike shoe on his left foot and a white Nike shoe on his right with the words “Papa Champ, Black Lives Matter and Breonna Taylor.”
8:50 PM ET OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — There was not a lot of talk publicly from players — including Tiger Woods — about possibly skipping the first round of the BMW Championship on Thursday, potentially joining others in the sports world who are boycotting games this week as a form of protest of racial injustice.
8:47 PM ET Associated Press OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — One of the toughest tests of the year made it clear that par would be a great score at Olympia Fields. Leave it to Hideki Matsuyama to make a 65-foot birdie putt on his final hole Thursday to lead the BMW Championship. Matsuyama, the Japanese player
5:27 PM ET After splitting with his longtime coach earlier this year, former No. 1-ranked golfer Jason Day has reached out to another player whom he believes can help him understand his back issues: Tiger Woods. Woods, who successfully returned from spinal fusion surgery in 2017, has been talking to Day for about a month
3:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Phil Mickelson has won in his PGA Tour Champions debut. Mickelson closed with a 5-under 66 on Wednesday to win the Charles Schwab Series at Ozarks National by four shots in Ridgedale, Missouri. With rounds of 61-64-66, Mickelson’s 22-under 191 total tied the lowest 54-hole score ever on the
10:22 AM ET Tiger Woods is attempting to play back-to-back events for the first time this year, hoping to make next week’s 30-man Tour Championship field — which would mean three straight tournaments for the first time since 2018. It is not an easy task, as lack of play and so-so results in 2020 have
Aug 26, 2020 Daniel Berger‘s argument for a spot in the 2020 Masters field is a strong one. He is playing as well as anyone not named Dustin Johnson or Collin Morikawa. He has won a tournament since the last Masters was played. And he is well inside the top 50 in the world. But
9:29 PM ET Associated Press RIDGEDALE, Mo. — The hole Phil Mickelson considered the most important in the second round of his PGA Tour Champions career was not any of the eight he birdied but rather the only one on which he made bogey. He was 5 under after the front nine Tuesday at Ozarks
3:16 PM ET Webb Simpson, who is ranked third in the FedEx Cup standings, has withdrawn from this week’s BMW Championship. “After playing consecutive weeks, Webb is taking the week off in order to be rested for the TOUR Championship in Atlanta,” a representative for Simpson said Tuesday. The field for this week’s playoff event