Jordan Spieth will go into the US PGA Championship next month looking to join an elite club and complete the career Grand Slam after his memorable British Open triumph on Sunday. Spieth’s dramatic victory on the links at Royal Birkdale in north-west England saw him add the Open’s famous Claret Jug to the Masters green … Read more
Chinese prodigy Li Haotong registered his country’s best ever performance in a major after shooting a 63 in his final round at Royal Birkdale on Sunday to finish third in the British Open. Li, 21, started the day at +1 for the championship and parred his first seven holes before a remarkable run of seven … Read more
Australia’s world number six Jason Day shot up the British Open leaderboard on Saturday after firing a fine 65 in the third round at Royal Birkdale. Day, the PGA champion in 2015, was one of a host of players to profit from the benign early conditions that contrasted sharply with the miserable weather late on … Read more
Jordan Spieth produced one of his best major championship efforts to take a share of the lead alongside fellow Americans Brooks Koepka and Matt Kuchar after the first round of the British Open. The trio all shot five-under-par rounds of 65 at Royal Birkdale on Thursday and hold a collective one-stroke lead over Paul Casey … Read more
Ernie Els fired a warning that he can still make his presence felt at a major as he shot a two-under-par 68 in the opening round of the British Open at Royal Birkdale on Thursday. Els started his day with a birdie at the par-four 1st — where there have been some ugly scores in … Read more
Dustin Johnson is aiming to show why he is ranked number one in the world and emerge from a field full of potential winners at the British Open, which gets underway at Royal Birkdale on Thursday. Johnson, 33, has not made an impression at the majors so far this year, missing the Masters with a … Read more
Jason Day is hopeful he can figure prominently at this week’s British Open despite arriving at Royal Birkdale later than planned — thanks to Donald Trump. The Australian was due to be in England on Sunday but ended up putting back his departure by 24 hours because of flight delays in New York which he … Read more
While uncertainty surrounds the form of leading names such as Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy, the British Open begins at Royal Birkdale on Thursday with a plethora of players hopeful of winning the Claret Jug. When The Open last came to the links at Southport, near Liverpool on the coast of north-west England, it was … Read more
World number one Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy will play together in the first two rounds of the British Open at Royal Birkdale, it was announced Monday. Johnson and McIlroy will play together with former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel of South Africa in a group that will start their opening round at 2:48pm (1348 GMT) … Read more
American Patrick Rodgers fired a seven-under 64 to vault to the top of the leaderboard halfway through the USPGA Tour’s John Deere Classic on Friday. Rodgers drained five birdies in one seven-hole stretch before finishing with a bogey on his last hole of the day, the par-four ninth. “It was nice to keep making birdies … Read more
Adam Scott is hoping a change in his usual schedule to play in this week’s Scottish Open will be pivotal in ending a 24-year Australian win drought at the Open Championship. The current world number 15 and former Masters champion is contesting the Scottish Open which begins Thursday for the first time since sharing fourth … Read more
Jordan Spieth posted the lowest opening-round score of his career on Thursday with a 63 at the Travelers Championship. The 23-year-old Spieth, who is coming off a disappointing tie for 35th at the US Open, made his eighth birdie of the round on his last hole to seize a one-shot lead in his first career … Read more
US Open champion Brooks Koepka moved into the top 10 of the world rankings for the first time on Monday after his victory at Erin Hills. The American jumped 12 places as a result of his four-shot win in the second major championship of the year, that he sealed with a final-round 67 to tie … Read more
World number one Dustin Johnson led an unprecedented exodus of big guns at the 117th US Open on Friday as four players grabbed a share of the lead at the halfway stage. American favourite Johnson crashed out after he could only card a one-over-par 73, which left him four over for the tournament at the … Read more
Hideki Matsuyama exploded with a magnificent seven-under-par 65 to spearhead Asia’s US Open challenge on Friday as Li Haotong carved a piece of history for China. Matsuyama, who struggled with a two-over-par 74 on Thursday, roared up the leaderboard with a front nine birdie blitz to finish the day at five under. With just two … Read more
Chez Reavie fired three birdies and an eagle in a five-under par 65 that boosted him into a three-way tie for the lead with Charl Schwartzel and Carlos Munoz Friday in the PGA St. Jude Classic. South Africa’s Schwartzel had five birdies and a bogey in his four-under par 66 while Colombia’s Munoz carded a … Read more
Sweden’s David Lingmerth broke out of his recent doldrums to seize the early first-round lead at the Memorial tournament on Friday, where Jordan Spieth was one adrift and top-ranked Dustin Johnson nowhere. Lingmerth, winner of the Jack Nicklaus-hosted tournament in Dublin, Ohio, hasn’t posted a top-10 finish on the US PGA Tour this year. But … Read more
New Zealand’s Danny Lee and red-hot Kevin Kisner were in a four-way tie for the lead halfway through the PGA Tour’s Colonial as an already crowded leaderboard got more congested on Friday. Lee fired a six-under 64 and American Kisner shot his second straight 67 to move into a tie with Webb Simpson (66) and … Read more
Two-time Masters champion American Bubba Watson led the first round of the storm-interrupted Shenzhen International on Thursday after scoring six under par. The clubhouse leader, ranked 22 in the world, clinched an early lead by shooting an eagle and five birdies before storms in the area suspended play for two hours in the afternoon. “I … Read more
Spain’s Sergio Garcia captured his first major golf title on Sunday after 73 failed attempts, making a birdie on the first playoff hole to defeat Justin Rose and win the 81st Masters. The 37-year-old Spaniard achieved the greatest triumph of his career on what would have been the 60th birthday of his idol, two-time Masters … Read more