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Newsweek
2 days ago
- Sport
- Newsweek
How to Watch The Memorial Tournament Second Round: Live Stream PGA Tour, TV Channel
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Golf fans can enjoy the second round of the Memorial Tournament on Friday, an event held at the beautiful Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. Ben Griffin of the United States chips onto the 18th green during the final round of the Charles Schwab Challenge 2025 at Colonial Country Club on May 25, 2025 in Fort Worth, Texas. Ben Griffin of the United States chips onto the 18th green during the final round of the Charles Schwab Challenge 2025 at Colonial Country Club on May 25, 2025 in Fort Worth, Texas. Photo byThus far through one round, American golfer Ben Griffin is sitting in first place at seven under par. Griffin has two PGA Tour wins in his career and three professional wins overall. His best finish at a major was tied for eighth at the most recent PGA Championship, meaning the 29-year-old is in great form with his golf game as of late. The other main contender heading into Friday is Collin Morikawa at five under par, just two strokes behind the leader. How to Watch The Memorial Tournament, Second Round: Date: Friday, May 29, 2025 Time: 2:00 p.m. ET Venue: Muirfield Village Golf Club Channel: The Golf Channel Stream: Fubo (try for free) The American Morikawa loves playing at The Memorial Tournament, as he has already finished second twice at this same event. Behind Morikawa at four under par is another American, Max Homa, who has six PGA Tour wins in his career. Homa's highest finish at a major is third at the 2024 Masters tournament. Homa also boasts a top-10 finish at the 2023 Open Championship. There's a four-way tie for seventh place at two under par, featuring world No. 1 golfer and PGA Championship winner Scottie Scheffler, as well as Si Woo Kim, Andrew Novak, and Akshay Bhatia. With such an exciting leaderboard and so much to play for this weekend at the thrilling Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, be sure to tune into second-round action on the Golf Channel today. Change the channel to The Golf Channel at 2:00 p.m. ET on Friday to catch the second round of The Memorial Tournament. Live stream The Memorial Tournament Second Round for free on Fubo: Start your subscription now! Regional restrictions may apply. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.
Daily Mirror
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Collin Morikawa admission as Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump 'take the next step'
Collin Morikawa recently parted ways with long-time caddie JJ Jakovac to team up with Joe Greiner, and the PGA Tour pro has noted how it didn't take long for his new right-hand man to share a stark opinion The US Open is almost among us, with a 156-player field set to battle it out for the third major of the year. Rory McIlroy completed his long-awaited career Grand Slam at the Masters in April, before world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler turned heads at Quail Hollow by securing his first-ever PGA Championship. With just two PGA Tour events left to play before the major championship lands, including this week's Memorial Tournament at Muirfield and next week's Canadian Open at TPC Toronto, some of the world's biggest stars are making the final tweaks to their game with hopes of topping the leaderboards at Oakmont Country Club between June 12 and 15. But that hasn't prevented some stars from making headlines for completely different reasons. Here, Mirror Sport looks at some of the main talking points from the world of golf, including Collin Morikawa being labelled "crazy" by his new caddie, Jordan Spieth bluntly ignoring his own caddie's advice, Max Homa's surprising view on the US Open, and Tiger Woods' recent comments on his relationship with Vanessa Trump... Morikawa called 'crazy' by his caddie Morikawa stunned golf fans worldwide in April when it was announced that he had parted ways with caddie of six years, JJ Jakovac, instead moving forward with Homa's former looper, Joe Greiner. And speaking at the Memorial Tournament earlier this week, the 28-year-old admitted that it didn't take his new right-hand man long to realise that he is a little unorthadox. Speaking to the media, he said: "He's already called me crazy a lot. And that's fine. Like, I think golfers are generally crazy. I know I am. I mean, you give me eight weeks off this off-season, you should hear about the amount of things I tried. "Just, I mean, I had seven different grips, different wraps on my grips, like I was going through it all. You just give me a little too much time, and I just go down rabbit holes." Currently second at Muirfield behind pace-setter Ben Griffin, Morikawa will hope to see his first win on the PGA Tour since the 2023 Zozo Championship when play comes to a close on Sunday. Jordan Spieth ignores his own caddie's guidance While it is a caddie's job to give their golfer guidance on lies, distances, and recommendations on clubs, it turns out that the loopers don't always know best. This was evident at Muirfield on Thursday, when Spieth's caddie, Michael Greller, suggested that the 31-year-old sacrifice a shot to chip back onto the fairway after landing in the rough of the par-five fifth. A wayward tee shot collided with a tree and left Spieth with an awkward lie in long grass, with Greller suggesting that the lesser of two evils was to chip out to the left. However, the three-time major winner saw things differently, considering the quality of his play. He explained: "It's really hard to get me to chip out. I chip out maybe less than anyone else that's ever played the game of golf. It's demoralising enough that I'll make a terrible decision not to." He added that he told Greller: "If it gets to the fairway, I can make four. Versus, do I still make five if I can't get it to the fairway?" Spieth instead hammered the ball with venom, with the ball catching the first cut and leaving him with 128 yards to the hole. His third shot landed 25 feet below the hole, but in remarkable fashion, he managed to sink his fourth shot to register a birdie. Speaking about his incredible play, Spieth added: "It actually got to the fairway and I made birdie, which doesn't help the whole cause." Max Homa makes surprising US Open comment Elsewhere, Homa has made a stark admission that it's "all good" if he doesn't qualify for this year's US Open. The 34-year-old, who has played in the last five instalments of the major tournament, will be forced to go through qualifying in 2025, given that poor form has seen him slip to 87th in the Official World Golf Rankings and 53rd on the FedEx Cup leaderboard. Only the top 60 in the OWGR qualify for the third major of the year, so Homa will play the qualifiers instead of receiving automatic inclusion. But the PGA Tour pro doesn't seem to be phased if he fails to make the tournament. Speaking about the major, Homa said: "I never play well in the US Open anyway, so at that point I probably would have missed the cut. If I don't get in, it's all good. just wanted to play because now that I'm a dad I would like to win or something on a Father's Day. But if not I'll just hang out with my son and it will be a great day." Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump ready to take next step While Woods will miss the US Open this year as a result of an Achilles injury, the three-time tournament champion has been making waves in terms of personal relationships away from the greens and fairways. The 49-year-old announced back in March that he was seeing Vanessa Trump, the former daughter-in-law of US President Donald Trump. And now, a close friend of the golfing legend has told the Daily Mail that the couple are ready to take 'the next step' in living together. The reported insider claimed that Vanessa feels "very comfortable" in Woods' home, adding: "She has all the security codes and can come and go as she pleases. "She has total access to his life. She's really good for him to have around. And they're always together now. If things keep going the way they're going, they'll be living together by the end of the year. Tiger moves fast in that department."
New Straits Times
3 days ago
- Sport
- New Straits Times
Ben Griffin fires 65, sets early pace at Memorial
After winning a tournament on Sunday, Ben Griffin stayed hot Thursday by shooting a 7-under-par 65 to take the first-round lead at the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio. Griffin made an 11 1/2-foot eagle at the par-5 seventh and had a three-birdie run at Nos. 16-18 at Muirfield Village Golf Club. He finished the day with a two-shot advantage over Collin Morikawa, a two-time runner-up at the tournament hosted by Jack Nicklaus. "My dad always used to tell me, 'Par the first and last holes,' and unfortunately, I birdied the first and the last," Griffin joked. Griffin, 29, won his first PGA Tour title last month at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans team event with Andrew Novak. He validated that victory with his first individual win this past week at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club. It was clear he was not tired from the quick turnaround. "This is nothing. I started out the year playing 13 events in a row," Griffin said. .".. It's funny, I talked to a lot of my peers out here, and they don't understand how I do it. I think it's because I do a really good job resting on Mondays and Tuesday mornings. I don't really prepare for tournaments until pretty much Tuesday afternoons, unless it's a course that I'm not familiar with or maybe a major championship, I try to get a little extra prep in." Morikawa had five birdies through 14 holes before a wayward drive at the par-5 15th led to his lone bogey. He made up for it at the very next hole, rolling his tee shot at the par-3 16th just past the cup and making a 4-footer for birdie. "Honestly, I woke up today kind of not knowing how the swing was going to produce," Morikawa said. "I spent a couple hours on the range after the pro-am yesterday and was just trying to find something. Yeah, kind of went to some old swing thoughts, and it's hard to filter through that, but did it on the range, and kind of was just able to go play golf." In third place was Max Homa with a 4-under 68. Homa has fared better since parting with caddie Joe Greiner, who now works for Morikawa. Homa is searching for his first win on tour since January 2023. "My game feels about as good as it has in a very, very long time," Homa said, "and I knew that I think that brought some peace, which was nice, not feeling like I needed to do much. Then, yeah, you get off to a good start like that and it just kind of calms some of the nerves." U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley, Canadian Nick Taylor and Irishman Shane Lowry are tied for fourth at 3-under 69. World No. 1 and defending champion Scottie Scheffler opened with a 2-under 70. "I need to give myself some more looks," Scheffler said. "I felt like I was out of the fairway a bit too much today. I was able to hit a decent amount of greens, just giving myself a few more quality looks, I think, would be a big difference." The US$20 million signature event will feature a cut Friday from 72 players to the top 50 and ties, plus anyone within 10 shots of the lead. Only 13 players managed to shoot under par Thursday. Players who'll need to work to make the cut in the second round include Sweden's Ludvig Aberg (3-over 75), England's Matt Fitzpatrick (4-over 76) and Justin Rose (6-over 78), Wyndham Clark (78) and Justin Thomas (8-over 80).
USA Today
3 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Collin Morikawa is crazy like a fox at the Memorial, where he says he 'loves the place'
Collin Morikawa is crazy like a fox at the Memorial, where he says he 'loves the place' DUBLIN, Ohio – Collin Morikawa always has been crazy about Muirfield Village Golf Club. 'This is probably the only golf course where I've stepped foot on it before I actually played and said, like, I love this place, no matter how I play, and it's kind of rare to find that,' he said. Morikawa won here at the 2020 Workday Charity Open and has twice finished second at the Memorial, including last year. On Thursday, he birdied three holes in a four-hole stretch on the front nine and made six birdies in all en route to posting 5-under 67 in the first round, two off the pace set by Ben Griffin. 'I woke up today kind of not knowing how the swing was going to produce. I spent a couple hours on the range after the pro-am yesterday and was just trying to find something,' he explained. 'Yeah, kind of went to some old swing thoughts, and it's hard to filter through that, but did it on the range, and kind of was just able to go play golf. I got to trust myself that I'm playing good enough golf to go out there and win and that's what I did today.' Asked if it was the same swing thought as a week ago, Morikawa shook his head from side to side. 'No, it's more of a swing thought that I had around Bay Hill. Shocker that I didn't stick with it,' he said of the site of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, where he finished second in March. 'Like I said yesterday, we're crazy. We think one thing's good, so then you just go away from that and try something new. But it's just, honestly it's just posture and making sure my posture's really good from the ground up and allowing my body to just go from there and swing it.' Whatever the case, it worked. Morikawa topped the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green and ranked second in SG: Approach. He birdied both par 5s on the front nine at Nos. 5 and 7 and laced a mid-iron at the downhill, 214-yard par-3 8th to inside 5 feet. On the backside, he drilled a 22-foot birdie putt at No. 10 and sandwiched birdies at Nos. 14 and 16 around his lone bogey of the day, taking three putts from 57 feet. Still, it was a crazy good start, his third-lowest score in 18 career rounds at Jack's Place. By Morikawa's own estimation, he's just flat out crazy, and it didn't take his new caddie, Joe Greiner, long to reach the same conclusion. 'He's already called me crazy a lot. And that's fine. Like, I think golfers are generally crazy. I know I am. I mean, you give me eight weeks off this off-season, you should hear about the amount of things I tried. Just, I mean I had seven different grips, different wraps on my grips, like I was going through it all,' Morikawa said. 'You just give me a little too much time and I just go down rabbit holes.' The 28-year-old Morikawa's game has been better than most. He is ranked fourth in the world but the six-time Tour winner is winless since October 2023. So, the search to get across the finish line continues. 'I'm in a weird spot right now. I feel like I'm really close, but yet sometimes you don't know what you're searching for. I know it's something small and that's the click that I need to just play free,' he said. 'But it's hard to find that.' Could Morikawa end his winless drought at the Memorial this week? Nothing crazy about that at all.
New Straits Times
5 days ago
- Sport
- New Straits Times
PGA Tour eliminates starting strokes from Tour Championship
MIAMI: Starting strokes will be eliminated from the season-ending Tour Championship, the PGA Tour announced on Tuesday, with the 30-man playoff finale being played as a 72-hole stroke-play tournament. Players in past years had been given a staggered lead based on FedEx Cup season points, with last year's winner Scottie Scheffler starting at 10-under and finishing on 30-under to beat fellow American Collin Morikawa by four strokes after Morikawa began on four-under. Over 72 holes, Morikawa was 26-under and Scheffler was 20-under but the starting strokes edge gave Scheffler the FedEx Cup playoff crown. The tour's player advisory council and policy board approved changes to the playoff format on Tuesday that will have all players starting at level par as in a usual tournament. The new format will be played in this year's Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta from August 21 to 24. "Today's announcement is an important first step in the evolution of our post-season," said PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan. "The Player Advisory Council led a thorough process to respond to what our fans are asking for: The most competitive golf in the world, played for the highest stakes, in the most straightforward and engaging format." Other changes to the Tour Championship include changing course set-ups to encourage more risk-reward choices throughout each round to help build drama. The playoff format will narrow the field to 30 golfers but the player advisory council is studying the qualification system with an eye to boosting the value of season points and keeping the field the toughest to reach on tour. Other ideas are being considered with possible announcements coming later this year. "We want the Tour Championship to be the hardest tournament to qualify for and the FedEx Cup trophy the most difficult to win," world number one Scheffler said. "Shifting the Tour Championship to a more straight-up format with a tougher course set-up makes it easier for fans to follow and provides a more challenging test for players – which brings out the best competition." This year's Tour Championship will feature the top 30 players in points who have advanced from two prior playoff events: the 70-player St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis and the 50-player BMW Championship at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Maryland.
