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…
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…
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