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9:39 PM ET TULSA, Okla. – Phil Mickelson, the defending PGA Championship winner, wasn’t at Southern Hills Country Club this week to defend his title. Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world who won the Masters a month ago, won’t be around for the weekend. But there will still be plenty of intrigue

There’s some mystery in the air this week at the PGA Championship. Southern Hills Country Club hosts the major for the fifth time, but the first since 2007, when Tiger Woods won his fourth Wanamaker Trophy in the scorching Tulsa heat. In 2018, the Perry Maxwell course underwent an extensive restoration from Gil Hanse and

9:38 AM ET Tiger Woods snuck into the weekend at the PGA Championship with a gritty end to his second round. Despite the accomplishment of making the cut just 14 months after a single-car crash that nearly cost him his leg, Woods isn’t just happy to be here. He wants to be a factor. “This

After two days of some typically-hot weather in Tulsa, Okla., temperatures have dropped considerably on Saturday at the PGA Championship. Out with the buckets of sweat, in with the sweater vests and long sleeves at Southern Hills. Due to dangerous weather in the area this morning, tee times were actually pushed back by 37 minutes.

10:13 PM ET TULSA, Okla. — How do you feel, these days, when you watch Tiger Woods tee it up in a major championship? There are no wrong answers, which is one of the reasons we’re so drawn to the drama of sports. We can all watch the same events unfold, the same athletes compete

TULSA — Tyrrell Hatton has never been one to hold back how he feels about, well, how he feels. If you didn’t know that already from the endless number of on-course outbursts he’s displayed over the years following good, bad and indifferent shots, it was crystalized after the final round of last month’s Masters when

2:10 PM ET Tiger Woods started so well at the PGA Championship, his first round beginning with a smooth, easy birdie on the very first hole at Southern Hills Country Club. But as his day progressed, things got harder — his body started to fail, his game started to falter. Watch Woods, McIlroy, Spieth in

TULSA — The top of the 2022 PGA Championship leaderboard is loaded, with Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy and Bubba Watson among those chasing Will Zalatoris. But the list of those who failed to advance to the weekend at Southern Hills isn’t short on firepower, either. From fledgling superstars, current and former World No. 1s to

Good news, golf fans! The 2022 PGA Championship continues on Friday, even if many have already declared Rory McIlroy the winner. The four-time major champ certainly was sharp on Thursday with that opening round 65, and Southern Hills has a reputation for golfers converting leads into wins. But there is a LOT of golf left,

5:13 PM ET Associated Press TULSA, Okla. — Rory McIlroy looked free and easy and saw only opportunity at Southern Hills during the first round of the PGA Championship on Thursday. McIlroy blasted his driver over trees and into fairways, setting up some of his seven birdies that carried him to a 5-under 65 and

9:42 PM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Kevin Van Valkenburg Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior Writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine Born and raised in Western Montana Spent 11 years as a feature writer for

TULSA — Bunkers on the PGA Tour tend to be hazards in name only. Gone are the days when bunkers were glorified sand boxes, when good lies were bonuses rather than the expectation. Modern bunkers are pearly-white oases that offer players a blank canvas to do whatever they want with the ball. They’d much rather

TULSA — Here we are on Thursday afternoon of PGA Championship week, and there’s more intrigue than we had any right to expect thanks to Rory McIlroy. He’s at the top of the leaderboard, a shot clear of his nearest rivals, and while we’re used to seeing his late charges that come up agonizingly short

5:35 PM ET TULSA, Okla. — Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy do not walk the way they once did, when each was at the height of his powers. Woods, understandably, takes tentative steps these days. He’ll often hold a club in his right hand as he leaves the tee box, gently swinging it like a

All the big guns are at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., for the 2022 PGA Championship. Story lines abound. Can Masters champion Scottie Scheffler complete the second leg of the Grand Slam? Will fellow Dallasite Jordan Spieth, looking to complete the career Grand Slam, get in his way? Can Rory McIlroy end a

8:40 AM ET Nick PietruszkiewiczESPN.com Close Senior editor for college basketball Joined ESPN in 2008 Graduate of the University of Maryland Follow on Twitter Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Tiger Woods wandering Southern Hills Country Club alone at the PGA Championship would attract interest. But for the first two rounds of the year’s

Sports are unscripted for a reason, one best articulated by the erudite Yogi Berra (edited here to account for the sport), who said, “There’s one word that describes golf—you never know.” The U.S. Amateur Four-Ball final on Wednesday emphatically proved his point. The team of former Wake Forest players Chad Wilfong and Davis Womble seemed

11:51 PM ET Associated Press BRISBANE, Australia — When Adam Scott won the Masters in 2013, the person he thanked most profusely was a larger-than-life character synonymous with golf in Australia. “There was one guy who inspired a nation of golfers and that’s Greg Norman,” Scott said shortly after beating Angel Cabrera in a playoff