10:52 AM ET Tiger Woods won another green jacket. Brooks Koepka won another major. And there were two more first-time major winners. The 2019 major season might have seemed like a blur with golf’s new condensed schedule, but there’s plenty to unpack after four months of unexpected results and surprise champions. Here are some of
Golf
6:02 PM ET Associated Press PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Andrew Landry hit the opening tee shot at the Masters. Shane Lowry hit the final shot at the British Open. All in 102 days. The new major championship season in golf — one each month, starting with the Masters in April — could take time before
5:48 PM ET Associated Press Lee Westwood was five shots out of the lead going into the final round of the 2017 Masters, closed with a 74 and tied for 18th. He had fallen out of the top 50 a month earlier and has yet to return, and returning at age 46 was not going
4:00 PM ET Newly-crowned Open champion Shane Lowry has withdrawn from this week’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational as he is continuing to enjoy his major victory at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland on Sunday. Lowry, 32, attended a victory gathering in his hometown of Clara, County Offaly, Ireland on Tuesday and has been seen in
1:29 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — A University of Texas at Arlington report says former golf coach Stuart Deane was found responsible for sexual harassment through inappropriate comments to some of his female athletes. Deane resigned as the university’s golf director before the investigation was completed in October, according to documents obtained by
8:16 PM ET Associated Press NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — Jim Herman rode President Donald Trump’s putting advice to victory Sunday in the PGA Tour’s Barbasol Championship. Taking advantage of playing partner Kelly Kraft‘s two late bogeys, Herman finished with a 2-under 70 for a one-stroke victory at Keene Trace. A shot ahead with three to play,
4:11 PM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — A return of a skins game format that will feature Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day and Hideki Matsuyama will take place on Oct. 21 at Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club in Japan, a source tells ESPN. The one-day competition, which will offer lucrative prize money, will take
7:17 AM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Just like that, the major season in golf is over. That’s what happens in this new, condensed schedule. There is still plenty left this season — a World Golf Championship event this week in Memphis, Tennessee, the FedEx Cup playoffs and the Presidents Cup. But another major? Not
8:55 PM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — The rain was coming sideways at Royal Portrush, and the wind was screaming like a banshee. It did not take much of an Irish fatalist to forecast the demise of Shane Lowry, who had taught himself three years ago how to blow a big major-championship lead. He had
3:31 PM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — The golf gods finally found a way to slow down Brooks Koepka in a major championship — heavy rain, 35-mph wind gusts and a final-round pairing with J.B. Holmes, one of the most notoriously slow players on the PGA Tour. Despite that trifecta — and Koepka’s inability to