An exceedingly difficult game on a challenging course is made easier when the hole starts getting in the way, as it did on Sunday for Carl Yuan. He holed out from off the green three times in the Valspar Championship on the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Fla. It began at the Read more…
For Garnett, 40, with little PGA Tour status and playing in his first tour event of the year, the victory was the second of his career, six years after his first.
There was so much more to Burke than his playing credentials. He was a link to the era of Snead and Hogan and Nelson. He was Bing Crosby’s friend, Jimmy Demaret’s partner, a businessman, a curmudgeon, a teacher (don’t call him a guru), a sage.
Carl Paul, a pioneer in the golf club component industry that led to the golf retail chain Golfsmith, died last week in Austin Texas, home since 1973. He was 83. Paul, who graduated from what now is known as Texas A&M, was an engineer by trade. In 1967, he played golf for the first time, Read more…
The final round of the Sony Open in Hawaii was already sufficiently dramatic, when one of five co-leaders hit a second shot at the par-5 18th at Waialae Country Club that, well, mysteriously disappeared.
Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz, still pursuing a career in professional golf, has advanced to the final stage of PGA Tour Champions qualifying by virtue of his tie for 14th in first stage qualifying at Buckhorn Springs in Valrico, Fla. Smoltz, 56, had rounds of 71, 73, 74 and 71, a one-over total of Read more…
University of North Carolina senior David Ford closed with an eight-under par 64 to lead the USA to an 11-stroke victory in the 33rd men’s World Amateur Team Championship, earning its first Eisenhower Trophy since 2014.
Cameron Champ largely has gone missing in recent months and even spilling over to years, yet all it seemed to take for his talent to resurface was a return to the Sanderson Farms Championship, a tournament he won in 2018. “I love the course,” he said of the Country Club of Jackson in Jackson, Miss., Read more…
Sarah Gallagher took an early 4-up lead, then withstood a late rally by Brenda Corrie Kuehn to win the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, 1 up, on Thursday at Troon Country Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. Gallagher, a financial planner from Canton, Ga., won the second through fifth holes with birdies Her lead was cut to Read more…
A Solheim Cup that other than the initial session on Friday morning could not have been closer accordingly finished in a 14-14 tie that allowed the defending champion Team Europe to retain the cup at Finca Cortesin in Andalucia, Spain. Team USA jumped to a 4-0 lead on Friday morning, but by Saturday evening the Read more…
Two days after Gary Woodland underwent surgery to remove a lesion on his brain, his alma mater, the University of Kansas, announced that it was naming its golf practice complex used by the Jayhawk men’s and women’s teams after him. The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved naming the facilities the Gary Woodland Golf Read more…
Norrman, a 25-year-old Swede made an up-and-down par on the first extra hole at Keene Trace Golf Club in Kentucky, to defeat England’s Nathan Kimsey, who was on the verge of becoming the first player to win in his PGA Tour debut since Jim Benepe won the Western Open in 1988.
It was her first victory as a professional and came on one of golf’s grandest stages, earning her a payday of $US2 million, the largest in women’s golf.
There have been a variety of winners – from phenoms and Hall of Famers to dark horses and unknowns – winning in all sorts of ways. There have been tears of joy shed, and tears of heartbreak, too.
It was Langer’s record 12th senior major championship, to go with two Masters titles. It was his second US Senior Open victory, 13 years after his first. It also marked his record 11th season with multiple victories, his having won the Chubb Classic earlier this year.
The inaugural championship played at the new PGA of America headquarters in Frisco, Texas, was at a minimum a dramatic success, a duel between opposing Ryder Cup captains that ultimately reinforced the fact that these days Stricker owns the PGA Tour Champions.
Bernhard Langer’s bid for a PGA Tour Champions-record 46th victory went awry on the back nine on Sunday, clearing a way for another World Golf Hall of Famer, Ernie Els, to win the Hoag Classic.
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