Articles by John Strege

November 17th, 2025

Stewart Cink ends Kiwi Steven Alker’s reign, wins the Charles Schwab Cup

It was Cink’s third victory of the season and the fourth win in his brief senior career.

November 4th, 2025

Judy Bell, first woman to serve as USGA president, dies at 89

The World Golf Hall of Fame member and pioneer for women’s golf leaves behind a legacy of service to others in a sport that meant so much to her.

September 19th, 2025

Brandon Holtz, former college basketball player and pro golfer, wins the US Mid-Amateur

Brandon Holtz, suffice it to say, is accomplished at putting a ball in a hole, considering that he played college basketball and, for a time, professional golf, but his ability at doing so paid a huge dividend when he won the US Mid-Amateur Championship this week.

September 19th, 2025

After 35 starts in USGA events, career amateur Dawn Woodard can finally call herself a national champion

It could have been argued that the game owed one to both finalists in the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, notwithstanding golf’s inclination to disregard its debts. Dawn Woodard’s was paid in full on Thursday by virtue of her first victory in her 35th start in USGA events. Woodard, 51, from Greenville, S.C., defeated Australian Sue Read more…

August 29th, 2025

Former Masters participant and U.S. Walker Cup captain just accomplished this impressive USGA first

Mike McCoy’s amateur career already was sufficiently impressive to stand on its own, but greatness does not come with an expiration date, as he demonstrated on Thursday, winning the U.S Senior Amateur Championship and making a bit of history in doing so. A Des Moines, Iowa, native, McCoy, 62, defeated Greg Sanders of Anthem, Ariz., Read more…

August 11th, 2025

Megha performance: Ganne adds US Women’s Amateur to already stellar résumé

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.

July 28th, 2025

Padraig Harrington joins elite company, becomes fifth player to win Open and Senior Open titles

The victory was Harrington’s second senior major this year, coming a month after he won the US Senior Open.

July 27th, 2025

Augusta’s Hamilton Coleman hangs on to win US Junior over Vietnam’s Nguyen Anh Minh

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.

July 21st, 2025

Ryan Gerard takes the next step towards potential stardom with his victory in the Barracuda Championship

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.

July 20th, 2025

Canadian Aphrodite Deng hangs on to win the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship, 2 and 1, over Singapore’s Xingtong Chen

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…

July 6th, 2025

Top-ranked amateur opens seven-stroke lead in bid to win pro event

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…

July 5th, 2025

Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze plays a lot of golf, leading to speculation that it is hurting recruiting efforts

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…

June 30th, 2025

Padraig Harrington joyfully and gratefully wins his second US Senior Open, Mark Hensby finishes T-4

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.

June 26th, 2025

Bernhard Langer, 67, is teetering between aging and ageless as he pursues a third U.S. Senior Open victory

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…

June 25th, 2025

Meet the least likely player in the U.S. Senior Open field with a star-studded rooting base

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…

June 23rd, 2025

Watch Keegan Bradley’s dramatic birdie to win the Travelers, breaking Tommy Fleetwood’s heart

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…

June 9th, 2025

Watch Kiwi Ryan Fox win the PGA Tour’s RBC Canadian Open in a playoff with ‘The best shot I ever hit’

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.

May 26th, 2025

Ben Griffin’s unlikely career resurrection continues with second win in past five starts

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.

May 22nd, 2025

Teenagers Will Hartman and Tyler Mawhinney rally to defeat their veteran opponents in the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball final

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…

May 20th, 2025

Arkansas sophomore Maria Jose Marin joins Stacy Lewis and Maria Fassi as Razorbacks winning an NCAA individual championship

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…

May 20th, 2025

Angel Cabrera’s return to golf continues with win at the Regions Tradition, his second victory in past four starts

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.

May 15th, 2025

Teenagers Natalie Yen and Asia Young win a teen-dominated U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball final, 5 and 3

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…