American Megha Ganne continues to burnish her reputation on the biggest stages in women’s golf, this time with victory in the 125th US Women’s Amateur at Bandon Dunes.
Augusta, Georgia and Vietnam seemingly occupy opposite corners of the golf spectrum, but each was represented in the US Junior final on the weekend, a distinctive pairing that nonetheless delivered a dramatic finish. Maybe it was not that surprising that Augusta native Hamilton Coleman won, but neither would it have been an upset had Nguyen Anh Minh prevailed.
Gerard played in the Genesis Scottish Open a week ago and was the second alternate to play in the Open Championship, but he decided against waiting on the outside chance he’d get into the field and headed back to the US to play in the Barracuda Championship instead.
Canadian Aphrodite Deng reinforced her standing as one of the two best juniors in the world on Saturday, winning the 76th U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship, defeating Xingtong Chen of Singapore, 2 and 1, in the 36-hole final on the Riverside Course at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Ga. Deng opened a 4-up lead Read more…
England’s Lottie Woad already has established herself as the world’s best woman amateur, but now she has moved to the brink of solidifying her standing as a future professional star. Woad, 21 and a senior-to-be at Florida State, opened a seven-stroke lead through three rounds of the KPMG Women’s Irish Open in a bid to Read more…
The late Bing Crosby once asked his friend John Swanson if he was playing much golf. “Only days,” Swanson famously replied. This came to mind when questions arose as to whether Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze was playing golf at that kind of frequency and that it was affecting the Tigers’ recruiting efforts. Matt Stahl, Read more…
The Irishman, 53, a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, prevailed in a veritable 18-hole match race with Stewart Cink on the East course at The Broadmoor in Colorado.
COLORADO SPRINGS – A reign has no fixed expiration date, as Bernhard Langer has demonstrated, but there comes a point when inevitability begins to assert itself. Has Langer reached this stage? There is no easy answer with Langer, ostensibly ageless, but indisputably aging. The U.S. Senior Open begins on the East Course at the Broadmoor Read more…
COLORADO SPRINGS – Golf at the elite level is star driven, of course, but occasionally, even refreshingly, the stars align to a degree that allows an interloper to take the stage alongside the headliners. Meet Tom Greller. An amateur golfer from the town of Newberg, about 40 miles southwest of Portland, in Oregon wine country, Read more…
Keegan Bradley, a local favorite and the captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, came to the 18th hole needing a birdie and some help and received both to win the Travelers Championship for the second time in three years on Sunday. Trailing leader Tommy Fleetwood by one on the 18th at the TPC River Read more…
It has been quite the journey for New Zealander Ryan Fox, whose career has played out on its own world tour, defined by victories on several continents in a variety of countries, on tours small and large.
It is insufficient, if not inaccurate, to simply note that this loan arranger got back in the saddle, as it were, trying another run at professional golf, and cashing a $US1.71 million prize.
The advantage talented teens have over older opponents is a paucity of mental scar tissue, offset perhaps by an experience disadvantage. So it was that the final of the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball on Wednesday came down to youth, Will Hartman and Tyler Mawhinney, combined age 35, versus experience, Evan Beck and Dan Walters, combined age Read more…
Arkansas sophomore Maria Jose Marin extended a streak of stellar NCAA championship rounds, this one providing admission into a pantheon of Razorback golfers. Jose Marin posted a final-round of three-under par 69 on the North Course at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., on Monday, her eighth straight round of par or Read more…
Extenuating circumstances, to put it delicately, put his PGA Tour Champions career on hold for 2 ½ years, but now at 55, Angel Cabrera is rapidly making up for lost time.
The final of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball had less to do with women than with girls, an all-teenage pairing that might have warranted having a chaperone rather than a scorer. But the victory delivered by Oregon natives Natalie Yen, 18, and Asia Young, 16, over two 16-year-olds from Kentucky, Athena Singh and Keira Yung, Read more…
Jordan Spieth equaled the best score of his PGA Tour career, a 62 in the final round of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson on Sunday, 11 days before he resumes his quest to complete a career grand slam at the PGA Championship. Spieth, 31, will be making his ninth attempt at completing the grand slam, Read more…
When Blades Brown, only 17, announced in December that he was turning professional, the name that came to mind was Ty Tryon, who at 16 turned pro and, well, was a bust. It’s too early to gauge Brown’s decision to similarly forgo college golf, but on Sunday he made a significant stride toward quelling any Read more…
Jay Sigel, twice a U.S. Amateur champion and one of the most decorated amateurs in golf history, died from pancreatic cancer on Saturday. He was 81. Sigel won consecutive U.S. Amateurs, in 1982 and ’83, while also winning the U.S. Mid-Amateur in 1983. He won two of the following three U.S. Mid-Amateurs as well, and Read more…
Most golfers will never have the opportunity to play Cypress Point, one of the best and most exclusive courses in the world. But they will have a chance to see the course up close at the 50th Walker Cup Sept. 5-7. Ticket applications are now being accepted. “To equitably address the demand for tickets and Read more…
Longtime club professional Jason Caron continues to live out a dream on behalf of many club pros, by continuing to succeed in tournament golf, this time by nearly winning the PGA Tour Champions Cologuard Classic on Sunday. The head professional at Mill River Club in Oyster Bay, N.Y., Caron birdied the final three holes at Read more…
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