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…
A game of skill occasionally has to defer to a game of luck, and Brian Campbell received one of the luckiest bounces that enabled him to turn a potential playoff loss into a victory in the Vidanta Mexico Open on Sunday. On the second playoff hole, the par-5 18th, at Vidanta Vallarta in Puerto Vallarta, Read more…
Kyle Westmoreland, an Air Force Academy graduate and a former Air Force captain, won the Korn Ferry Tour’s Astara Golf Championship on Sunday, his first victory in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event. Westmoreland, 33, took a two-stroke lead into the final round by virtue of a course-record 10-under par 61 at Lagos Course at Country Club Read more…
Peter Kuchar, a former tennis star who gained a measure of attention for his antics caddying for son Matt Kuchar in the 1998 U.S. Open at the Olympic Club, has died, though no cause of death has bewen reported. He was 73. Matt Kuchar was scheduled to play in the Waste Management Phoenix Open this Read more…
Rachel Heck, former Stanford All-American turned Air Force lieutenant, posted on X a photo of herself in uniform, holding an invitation to the Augusta National Women’s Amateurin April. Heck, 23, who once was No. 2 in the women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking, elected not to pursue professional golf, notwithstanding a gilded amateur resume that included Read more…
Charlie Woods, apparently a chip off the old block, as they say, wrested the spotlight from father Tiger early in the second and final round of the PNC Championship with his first hole in one
Journeyman Paul Waring of England birdied the final two holes to fend off late challenges from Tyrrell Hatton and Rory McIlroy and win the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship at Yas Links in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
Among the notable players to earn the PGA Tour promotion were Australia’s Karl Vilips, who won on the Korn Ferry Tour in August, Matt McCarty, who won three KFT events and finished first in points, former PGA Tour pro Harry Higgs and former Pepperdine University star William Mouw.
Gole, 56, in the midst of a stellar 2024 that includes six earlier victories, one of them in the R&A Women’s Senior Amateur, defeated Canadian Shelly Stouffer, 3&2.
A 36-hole final for a national championship generally promises drama at some point in the match. On Thursday, Evan Beck did not comply en route to winning the U.S. Mid-Amateur title. Beck, 34, of Virginia Beach, Va., sprinted to an 8-up lead on Bobby Massa of Dallas through 18 holes at Kinloch Golf Club in Read more…
Australian Jeffrey Guan, considered to be a potential star, was struck in the eye by an errant tee shot from a pro-am participant, reportedly resulting in multiple fractures to his eye socket, according to a report from Brad Clifton in Australian Golf Digest. Guan, 20, who missed the cut in his PGA Tour debut at Read more…
The soundtrack to the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur final might have been “My Old Kentucky Home,” given the finalists’ ties to Louisville. But this match race, in the end, was no match at all. Hana Ryskova, 25, a native of the Czech Republic who played her college golf for the University of Louisville, defeated Louisville native Read more…
Honesty is the best policy, so the saying goes, but in professional golf, it also sometimes come with a heavy price, as in the case of Sahith Theegala.
Louis Brown of Marietta, Ga., found a shortcut to the finish line of a long week in the U.S. Senior Amateur on Thursday, by staking himself to an early lead to set up a 4-and-3 victory over Daniel Sullivan in the championship match at the Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tenn. Brown, 61, who played college Read more…
Six weeks after he was named captain of the 2025 US Ryder Cup team, Bradley, 38, demonstrated a game still good enough to compete with the best by winning the BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club.
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