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.
[PHOTO: Getty Images] Justin Thomas was en route home to Florida when he moved into the top 30 in FedEx Cup points to qualify for the Tour Championship. Thomas left Colorado outside the top 30 after posting a four-under 68 in the final round of the BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club. He began Read more…
Rory McIlroy had quite an adventure on the ninth hole at Castle Pines Golf Club in the final round of the BMW Championship, one that included a snapped driver and a barefoot shot.
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Home games in tour golf are rare, and those played at more than a mile high, in this case 6,200 feet, tilt the advantage further toward Denver’s favorite son Wyndham Clark this week. Or does it? Clark, a former U.S. Open champion and a recent Olympian trending in the right direction, Read more…
His given name was Juan, though the golf world knew him as Chi Chi, a better fit for the outsized personality who dwarfed his 5-foot-7, 135-pound frame. He was a golfer, yes, and a good one, but it was his showmanship and repartee that helped place him perpetually on center stage. Chi Chi Rodriguez died Read more…
The game owes you nothing, so the theory goes, though in the final round of the U.S. Senior Women’s Open on Sunday, Leta Lindley played as though she was collecting on a debt that now is paid in full. Lindley, 52, twice the runner-up in two previous starts in this national championship, turned a five-shot Read more…
Sometimes in golf it’s better to not play the ball as it lies, as in the case of an errant Jhonattan Vegas tee shot during the final round of the 3M Championship on Sunday.
Theoretically, Trevor Gutschewski should not have even been playing for a national championship, a notion he had blithely mocked in an X post on Friday and validated a day later with a resounding victory in the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship final. Gutschewski, 17, who began the week 3,570th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, defeated Read more…
It is not often that a junior golfer has a second chance to win a national championship, given that those who reach a final often age out of the junior ranks, but Filipino Rianne Malixi gave herself an opportunity and responded with a resounding victory in the U.S. Girls Junior Championship on Saturday. Malixi, 17, Read more…
Editor’s Note: Donald Trump has selected first-term Ohio senator J.D. Vance as his Republican running mate for the November presidential election. This story was written in 2016, before Vance’s entrance into politics. A book with a title that references hillbillies, its pages exploring the plight of America’s white working class and its inability to access Read more…
Clanton, third in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, has been a dominant amateur this year. He said this latest performance reinforces his belief in his ability to succeed in professional golf.
Inevitably and perhaps unfairly, Tiger Woods comparisons already have begun for Miles Russell, who at 15 made his PGA Tour debut on Thursday, posting a two-over par 74 in the Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club. Russell, the No. 1 junior player in the world, was impressive enough for much of the round, and Read more…
Jon Rahm and drones apparently are incompatible, to wit his tee shot and reaction at the par-4 sixth hole at the Grove, site of LIV Golf’s tournament in Nashville.
Precocious teenaged golfers generally are not burdened with scar tissue, a built-in advantage against older opponents, though occasionally they are reminded that experience counts, too. Brian Blanchard and Sam Engel delivered that message in the final of the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship on Wednesday. Blanchard, 31, and Engel, 29 never trailed and defeated heralded teens, Read more…
Bland’s 72-hole total of 17-under 267 was three better than runner-up Richard Green and four ahead of Greg Chalmers. A third Australian, Scott Hend, shared fourth place.
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