ERIN, Wis.—Phil Mickelson withdrew from the U.S. Open a little more than an hour after the sun climbed over Erin Hills, realizing there was no chance to get from his daughter's high school graduation in California and make his Thursday afternoon tee time in Wisconsin.
This is the first time Mickelson has missed the U.S. Open since he failed to qualify in 1993.
Tiger Woods attributed an “unexpected reaction” to prescription medicine for his arrest on a DUI charge that landed him in a Florida jail yesterday for nearly four hours.
Woods, the 14-time major champion who had back surgery five weeks ago, was arrested on suspicion of DUI around 3 a.m. and taken to Palm Beach County jail.
He was released on his own recognizance.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.—Mackenzie Hughes arrived at the TPC Sawgrass with no scar tissue and played his first round at The Players Championship with no bogeys.
Pretty simple, eh?
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.—The Players Championship attracts the strongest and deepest field in golf.
In its 43-year history, all but 10 winners of the PGA Tour's premier event have captured a major championship.
It also might be the most difficult to handicap.
WILMINGTON, N.C.—Dustin Johnson hasn't lost his touch with his wedges.
From 107 yards away on the fourth hole yesterday at the Wells Fargo Championship, his shot took a big hop on the firm green and flew straight into the cup for an eagle.
The crowd erupted in cheers while Johnson simply smiled and used his shoe to tamp down the corners of his divot.
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Sergio Garcia tugged the lapel of his green jacket with both hands, proud of his prize and how he earned it.
His hopes were fading yesterday in the Masters—two shots behind with six holes to play—when his tee shot bounced off a tree and into an azalea bush, the kind of bad luck he had come to expect in the majors.
AUGUSTA, Ga.—In the toughest opening round at the Masters in 10 years, it all felt so easy to Charley Hoffman.
For the better part of three hours, in a ferocious wind that made the Georgia pines creak, he had the right yardage for the perfect club to hit every shot he wanted.
And then he made the putts—so many that it felt as though he never missed.
AUSTIN, Tex.—The final day lasted longer than Dustin Johnson wanted.
The outcome was what everyone expected.
Johnson, a golfing machine with no discernible weakness and hardly any pulse, won the Dell Technologies Match Play yesterday for his third-straight victory—this one making him the first person to sweep the four World Golf Championships.
AUSTIN, Tex.—Phil Mickelson hit a simple chip toward the hole that never stopped until it was off the other side of the green and into the water.
Jordan Spieth felt a gust of wind as his tee shot was in the air and began pleading for it to get down.
He only stopped talking when he heard the crowd cheer and saw the ball two feet from the hole.
AUSTIN, Tex.—Defending champion Jason Day lasted only six holes at the Dell Technologies Match Play until a heavy heart forced an early departure.
Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth might not be far behind.
