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Lucas Glover cruises through another round, leads ISCO by 2
Lucas Glover tees hits off the 5th tee during the second round of the 2026 PGA ISCO Championship at the Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville, Kentucky. July 10, 2026 Lucas Glover must be feeling deja vu.
One week after going bogey-free through two rounds at the John Deere Classic to take the outright lead, Glover has replicated the feat at the ISCO Championship following his second-round 64 Friday at Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville, Ky.
Glover sits at 13-under 127, two shots clear of Chan Kim (65) and Steven Fisk (66). Aaron Wise and France’s Jeong Weon Ko are tied for fourth at 10 under after identical 65-65 starts to the week.
Glover, 46, is in ideal position to grab the seventh PGA Tour victory of his career and the fourth he’s had since 2021. He did not finish the job last week, tying for third while Chris Gotterup won the John Deere.
“Pretty similar (rounds). I putted very similar,” said Glover, who birdied three holes on each nine. “So I was probably in the fairway a little more today. The holes were in the high spots because of the weather, couple places it was hard to get it close. It was a little bit nasty this morning when we started, had some rain through the first few holes.
“Yeah, played nice, solid, no bogeys through two days. Need to keep that up. Yeah, scores are going to be low so keep the pedal down.”
While Fisk won the Sanderson Farms Championship last fall for his maiden PGA title, Kim has not broken through on the tour yet. He made his living with eight Japan Golf Tour wins between 2017 and 2022, and he’s won twice on the Korn Ferry Tour.
The Hawaii native birdied five times in an eight-hole stretch from Nos. 7-14.
“I do love this golf course, I think it suits my game very well,” Kim said. “I played well the first two rounds last year and I slipped a little bit the last two rounds, but golf’s hard. Hopefully this year I can kind of redeem myself here and play a little better on the weekend.”
The winner last time around was William Mouw, and his competitors will be watching out for him Saturday and Sunday after he turned in a 7-under 63 — tied for low round of the day with Canada’s Taylor Pendrith — to climb into sixth place at 9 under.
Mouw, 25, made three putts from 20 feet or longer in a stretch of four birdies from Nos. 14-18. He had a simple explanation afterward.
“Jokingly, I put my putter in hot water last night and it stayed hot,” Mouw said. “I woke up with it hot out of the water and stayed hot all round.
“I told my caddie I was going to do it and put it in some boiling hot water. Funny enough, it just stayed hot all day and I’m going to do it tonight too.”
–Field Level Media
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UFC 329 ticket prices soar as Dana White predicts record gate
Conor McGregor fights Dustin Poirier during UFC 264 at T-Mobile Arena in 2021. The get-in ticket price for UFC 329 has soared above $1,000 and UFC president Dana White is projecting a UFC record gate for Saturday night’s card in Las Vegas featuring Conor McGregor’s return against Max Holloway.
McGregor (22-6 MMA) will return to the Octagon for the first time in more than five years to face Holloway (27-9 MMA) in a five-round welterweight main event at T-Mobile Arena. The get-in price had increased 14% over the past three days to $1,038 as of 1:30 p.m. ET on Friday, according to ticket-tracking service TicketData.com.
The price peaked at $2,377 back on May 17 but fell as low as $887 on Monday night. Perhaps related, that was about an hour before the United States men’s national team kicked off in a World Cup knockout match against Belgium. Had the USMNT won, they would have played Spain in a quarterfinal game in Los Angeles on Friday.
Since the U.S. was eliminated from the World Cup, the get-in ticket price for UFC 329 steadily rose throughout the week and surpassed $1,000 early Friday morning.
McGregor is returning to the Octagon for the first time since suffering a broken left tibia and fibula in a fight against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021. White said Saturday night’s event, which closes out International Fight Week, will produce the biggest gate in UFC history at $25 million.
The current record is $21.8 million for UFC 306 at the Sphere in Las Vegas.
McGregor, 37, was originally scheduled to return against Michael Chandler at UFC 303 in June 2024 to conclude their Ultimate Fighter 31 rivalry after the show aired in 2023. However, a McGregor toe injury forced a postponement, and the match was never rescheduled. He now returns to the welterweight division for the first time in six years.
The Irishman scored a unanimous decision victory over Holloway in August 2013 at a UFC Fight Night event in Boston in McGregor’s second UFC appearance.
Meanwhile, the 34-year-old Holloway is making his official welterweight debut after a historic run at 145 and 155 pounds over the last decade-plus. He is coming off the loss of his “BMF” title to former lightweight champion Charles Oliveira at UFC 326 in March.
–Field Level Media
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Alexander Zverev to face Jannik Sinner in Wimbledon final
Alexander Zverev defeated hometown wild card Arthur Fery to advance to the Wimbledon men’s final. Second-seeded Alexander Zverev put an end to the “Fery-tale” run of a British wild card on Friday and punched his ticket to the Wimbledon final for the first time, where he’ll face defending champ Jannik Sinner, who knocked out seven-time champion Novak Djokovic.
Zverev recorded a 7-6 (0), 6-2, 6-4 victory over Arthur Fery in 2 hours, 14 minutes to advance to Sunday’s final at the All England Club in London.
“It’s amazing. This is the one that I’ve always struggled with the most. Now I’m in the final at Wimbledon,” Zverev said.
No. 1 seed Sinner, meanwhile, defeated Djokovic in straight sets in the semifinals for the second straight year at Wimbledon, this time notching a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win.
However, Sinner may have been thinking more about his most recent matchup against Djokovic, a five-set loss in the Australian Open semis in January, as the Italian dominated the 24-time major winner in two hours and 20 minutes to leave no questions this time.
“We always have very tough matches, and the last one he won in the semis in Australia,” Sinner said of his rivalry with Djokovic. The pair are 2-2 at Wimbledon but Sinner has won six of the seven most recent matchups to lead 7-5 overall against the Serbian.
“So I tried to make a couple of adjustments, even though here on grass it is very difficult,” Sinner said. “I tried to stay quite aggressive, serving very well which helped me a lot today. He’s probably the best returner we have in our game, so I tried to mix it up.”
Sinner won 88 percent (45/51) of points behind his first serve, knocked down 16 aces, and saved the only break point he faced against Djokovic.
Zverev, 29, notched his second straight major final appearance. The German won his first Grand Slam title at the French Open last month with a five-set victory over Italy’s Flavio Cobolli in Paris.
Should Zverev win Sunday, he will become just the seventh man in the Open Era to win the Roland Garros-Wimbledon double in the same year. Rod Laver, Bjorn Borg, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz also accomplished that feat.
“It’s not gonna be easy no matter who it is against,” Zverev said after his win, which was completed before the Sinner-Djokovic match. “But I have to trust myself and believe I can win. That’s what I’m gonna do.”
Fery, who was ranked 114th in the world, was the second wild card to reach a Wimbledon semifinal after 2001 titlist Goran Ivanisevic. Fery, whose 24th birthday is on Sunday, grew up less than a mile from the All England Club.
–Field Level Media
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Flight delay: Red Sox stuck in Chicago ahead of game in New York
Apr 29, 2021; Arlington, Texas, USA; A view of the Boston Red Sox logo and a field bag during batting practice before the game between the Texas Rangers and the Boston Red Sox at Globe Life Field. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images Players on the Boston Red Sox are being reminded of their travel ball days as they deal with flight delays, with an expected arrival in New York on Friday just ahead of game time.
The Red Sox have experienced a multiple flight issues over two separate days and remained grounded at Chicago’s Midway Airport ahead of a scheduled 7:15 p.m. start against the New York Mets.
As of 2 p.m. ET, Friday’s game time was unchanged.
The Red Sox’s original flight was scheduled to leave Chicago on Thursday at 8:45 p.m. local time following a 2-1 afternoon victory over the White Sox.
The current flight plan has the team arriving at New York’s LaGuardia Airport around 4:10 p.m. ET. The airport is only 3 miles from the Mets’ home ballpark.
Most players arrive at the ballpark for road games around four or five hours before first pitch.
Boston finished off a three-game sweep of the Chicago White Sox on Thursday afternoon. They have won a season-high six consecutive games and 11 of their last 13.
–Field Level Media
UFC 329 ticket prices soar as Dana White predicts record gate
Alexander Zverev to face Jannik Sinner in Wimbledon final
