World No. 1 and FedEx Cup points leader Scottie Scheffler told reporters he woke up with a sore back and had difficulty loosening it up but doesn't envision it being a problem the remainder of the BMW. ... Read full Story
Charley Hull rolled in a 6-foot putt on No. 18 for the last of her six birdies to shoot 5-under 67 and take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Women's British Open. ... Read full Story
The top 30 players in the FedEx Cup championship standings will earn two-year exemptions on the PGA Tour and access to the four majors in 2025. ... Read full Story
International team captain Mike Weir named Japan's Shigeki Maruyama as his fifth and final assistant for this year's Presidents Cup. ... Read full Story
Brooks Koepka picked up his second LIV Golf League victory of the year Sunday when he shot 7-under 63 at The Greenbrier and beat Jon Rahm with a par on the first playoff hole. ... Read full Story
Japan's Hideki Matsuyama survived a shaky back nine to win the opening leg of the PGA Tour's playoffs at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. ... Read full Story
Jose Luis Ballester, a rising senior at Arizona State, became the first player from Spain to win the U.S. Amateur, fending off Iowa sophomore Noah Kent 2 up. ... Read full Story
Jordan Spieth ended his season Sunday after one FedEx Cup playoff event and already was planning for surgery on his left wrist, which has troubled him the past 16 months. ... Read full Story
Lauren Coughlin pulled away with superb putting and closed with a 3-under 69 to win the Women's Scottish Open and secure a spot on the U.S. Solheim Cup team. ... Read full Story
Hideki Matsuyama pulled away from a crowded field Saturday with a 6-under 64, giving him a 5-shot lead over Nick Dunlap in the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the postseason opener where the focus began to shift toward players trying to extend their season. ... Read full Story
Jon Rahm finished eagle-birdie-birdie for an 8-under 62 to take a two-shot lead over Brooks Koepka and three others in LIV Golf Greenbrier. ... Read full Story
Lauren Coughlin rolled in a bending, 20-foot putt as part of three birdies on the closing stretch to cap off a 6-under 66 in the Women's Scottish Open and give her a one-shot lead over Megan Khang. ... Read full Story
Jackson Buchanan won his fourth straight match at Hazeltine National to set up a semifinal match against Noah Kent, who beat Ethan Fang in 16 holes. ... Read full Story
“The eagerness to vilify ‘the other side’—usually on social media—complicates the less reactionary work that defines our mission.” — Jerry Brewer, The Washington Post, 11 June 2024
Did you know?
It seems reasonable to assume that the words vilify and villain come from the same source; after all, to vilify someone is—in some ways—to make them out to be a villain. Such is not the case, however. Although the origin stories of both vilify and villain involve Latin, their roots are quite different. Vilify came to English (via Middle English and Late Latin) from the Latin adjective vilis, meaning “cheap” or “vile.” Someone who has been vilified, accordingly, has had their reputation tarnished or cheapened in such a way that they’re viewed as morally reprehensible. Villain on the other hand, comes from the Medieval Latin word villanus, meaning “villager,” and ultimately from the Latin noun villa, meaning “house.” The Middle English descendent of villanus developed the meaning of “a person of uncouth mind and manners” due to the vilifying influence of the aristocracy of the time, and the connotations worsened from there until villain came to refer to (among other things), a deliberate scoundrel.