Marina Alex found the TPC Boston much more to her liking by playing bogey-free for a 4-under 68, giving her a one-shot lead Thursday in the inaugural FM Championship. ... Read full Story
Scottie Scheffler had five birdies over his last seven holes on a sweltering afternoon at renovated East Lake to pull away from Xander Schauffele and everyone else at the Tour Championship. ... Read full Story
Lydia Ko said her victories at the Olympics and the Women's Open haven't changed her mind about retiring from professional golf before she turns 30. ... Read full Story
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said negotiations to bring golf back together have been "enhanced" and are "stronger" but that there is no deadline for the tour to reach a deal with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. ... Read full Story
Scottie Scheffler enters the Tour Championship with a two-stroke lead and Keegan Bradley is coming off a BMW Championship win. Who's coming home with the trophy this week? ... Read full Story
After a huge redesign project, the 30 golfers in the Tour Championship will be playing a different East Lake course for the first time in the FedEx Cup season finale. ... Read full Story
Golfers like Scottie Scheffler and Hideki Matsuyama have already made their respective teams, but there are a lot of questions remaining for the Presidents Cup rosters. ... Read full Story
British golfer Georgia Hall will play in her fifth straight Solheim Cup after being named Monday among four captain's picks for the Sep. 13-15 competition against the U.S. ... Read full Story
Rose Zhang, Megan Khang, Andrea Lee and Lauren Coughlin are among the players joining world No. 1 Nelly Korda on the U.S. Solheim Cup team this year. ... Read full Story
Looking ahead to the Presidents Cup, the BMW Championship was the final tournament for six automatic qualifiers for the U.S. and International teams who will compete Sept. 27-30 at Royal Montreal, and the leading six players remained unchanged on Sunday. ... Read full Story
Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley won the BMW Championship to jump from 50th to 4th in the FedEx Cup standings for the season-ending PGA Tour Championship. ... Read full Story
Stewart Cink, 51, won the Ally Challenge to become the 22nd player to win on each of the PGA Tour's three tours -- the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions and Korn Ferry Tour. ... Read full Story
Olympic gold medalist Lydia Ko birdied the final hole at St. Andrews to shoot a 69 and win the Women's Open by two strokes for her third career major title. ... Read full Story
Keegan Bradley had eight birdies in a round that only gave him a 2-under 70 on Saturday and has a 1-shot lead entering the final round of the BMW. ... Read full Story
Two-time champion Jiyai Shin capitalized on a back-nine collapse by top-ranked Nelly Korda to take a one-shot lead after the third round of the Women's British Open. ... Read full Story
Adam Scott shot a a 9-under 63 on Friday in the BMW Championship that gave him a three-shot lead going into the weekend of the penultimate event of the FedEx Cup playoffs. ... Read full Story
Rory McIlroy, coming off a 3-putt bogey on the 16th hole, hit his drive to the right rough and then casually flung the 3-wood toward the left. It bounced once and went in the water. He walked over to the edge of the water, reached down and retrieved it. ... Read full Story
Nelly Korda mastered more blustery conditions at St. Andrews by shooting a bogey-free, 4-under 68 in the second round on Friday to take a three-stroke lead at the Women's Open. ... 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.