Asterisk Talley and Sarah Lim, California teenagers, lost only a single hole in defeating Nevadans Gracie McGovern and Brynn Kart, 4 & 2, in the final to win the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship Monday at Oak Hills Country Club in San Antonio. Talley, 15, and Lim, 17, lost the second hole to go 1-down, Read more…
The journey for this journeyman has seldom been mundane, Doug Barron having run a gamut from lowlights to highlights in a meandering career that reached its apex on Sunday. Barron, 54, coming off a year in which he underwent surgery on both elbows, went head-to-head with two World Golf Hall of Famers, Ernie Els and Read more…
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA – MAY 11: Doug Barron of the United States waves after sinking a putt for birdie on the 15th green during the third round of the Regions Tradition at Greystone Golf and Country Club on May 11, 2024 in Birmingham, Alabama. (Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images) This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
Career trajectories often are not linear, to which Loritz “Scooter” Clark, North Carolina A&T’s new director of golf, can attest. His has been more of a circle, gratitude its center. Clark may not be widely known in the golf universe, though the 54-year-old warrants greater attention given his lifelong dedication to promoting the game to Read more…
Ben Polland entered the PGA Professional Championship with an impressive club pro resume that includes a stint at Deepdale Golf Club in Manhasset, N.Y., and his current job as director of golf at Shooting Star Jackson Hole in Wyoming, that also contained a disturbing blemish that he erased on Wednesday. Polland, 33, won the club Read more…
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…