Chances are Samuel Ryder, the man who helped inspire the competition that bears his name, would struggle to recognize the modern match played between the United States and Europe. Even if you accept the premise that the English seed merchant was a man of vision, to think that he knew one day this test between Read more…
[Picture: Steve Gibbons/USGA] When a match in a USGA championship ends on the 20th hole, it frequently wraps up with some drama. In a way that was the case during a first-round showdown between Ryan O’Rear and Paul Mitzel at the US Mid-Amateur Championship on Monday at Troon Country Club in Scottsdale. Just not the Read more…
In the spring of 2024, Andrew Rodriguez was a talented teen golfer hoping he had caught a break. A high school sophomore in Whittier, Calif., Rodriguez had honed a reliable swing with a local instructor and begun to excel on various Southern California junior tours. But to achieve his ultimate goal of playing Division I Read more…
Among a group of youngsters, 34-year-old Stewart Hagestad did himself proud at Cypress Point Club, the lone mid-amateur on the US Walker Cup side contributing a pair of singles wins in the Americans’ 17-9 victory over Great Britain & Ireland.
PEBBLE BEACH — “It’s finally here,” said U.S. Walker Cup captain Nathan Smith as he greeted friendly faces behind the first tee Saturday morning at Cypress Point Club. The XX-year-old insurance salesman from Pittsburgh, Pa., has been waiting two years to lead his 10-player team in the greatest amateur event in the world. The build-up Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — Mason Howell didn’t hesitate when answering the question, as if it’s something he had asked himself recently in a quiet moment of reflection. Three months ago, could he have imagined he would be speaking to the media at Cypress Point as a member of Team USA on the eve of the 50th Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — On Thursday at Cypress Point, it was Luke Poulter of the Great Britain & Ireland Walker Cup team holing out from the fairway for eagle on the first hole then making a hole-in-one on the par-3 third. He would make a third eagle before the day was over, leaving some to wonder Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — Motivation can come from the strangest of things. Including, apparently, a golf pencil. Jackson Koivun, the No. 1 ranked amateur in the world, grew up in San Jose and had played several of the Monterey Peninsula courses as an aspiring teenage golfer. It was four years when the Walker Cup was played Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — Blink and there’s a risk of missing the actual Walker Cup. A week’s worth of pomp and circumstance—practice rounds, dinners, flag-raising ceremonies—proceeds the two-day sprint of a competition between the best amateurs golfers from the United States against their counterparts from Great Britain & Ireland. Teams understandably arrive early, anxious and excited Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — The scorecard for the 50th Walker Cup lists Cypress Point Club at a meager 6,620 yards, but don’t let that fool you. The team that’s celebrating on Sunday evening won’t be victorious because it overpowered Alister Mackenzie’s famed course. Rather it’s the one that comes closest to solving the 18 enigmas that Read more…
The PGA of America allowed the drama to come to a boil on Wednesday during its U.S. Ryder Cup captain’s picks announcement. First, it had Keegan Bradley extol the virtues of the six golfers who were automatic qualifiers to play next month at Bethpage. Then Bradley went one-by-one through his captain’s picks, each player fielding Read more…
On its face, the Tour Championship would seem such a simple tournament to understand and follow. The PGA Tour’s season finale has a limited field of 30 players, each earning their way into the event based on their play over the course of the season. And this year, the winner will once again also be Read more…
And then there was one. One last tournament to decide who will be the 2025 FedEx Cup champion. After nearly eight months and 35 events, the PGA Tour season comes down to the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, where all 30 players start at even par and the golfer with the Read more…
The seventh playing of the U.S. Senior Women’s Open gets underway Thursday at San Diego Country Club, with five of the six previous champions in the field and seven former U.S. Women’s Open winners also competing. But missing this year for the first time in the championship’s history is the most decorated female USGA winner Read more…
While the finish at this weekend’s Tour Championship determines where a player falls in the final FedEx Cup points standings for 2025, it won’t decide how much every player gets from the $US100 million FedEx Cup bonus pool.
Making the Walker Cup team is an honor in any year, whether you’re representing the United States or Great Britain & Ireland. Making the Walker Cup team this year, however, is an extra special treat given just where the biennial match is taking place: picturesque Cypress Point Club out on the Monterey Peninsula. This will Read more…
The USGA received 5,245 entries for this year’s U.S. Amateur, with only about 6 percent of those making it into the 312-player championship field competing this week at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. And after two days of stroke-play qualifying, only around 20 percent of those players remain in contention for the Havemeyer Trophy, Read more…
This week’s BMW Championship at Caves Valley Country Club outside of Baltimore will only have a field of 49 players. That’s after the PGA Tour announced Monday that Sepp Straka has withdrawn from the second leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
It was another painful finish for Tommy Fleetwood on Sunday at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Trying to claim his first PGA Tour title in 162 starts, the 34-year-old Englishman had a two-shot lead with three holes to play at TPC Southwind, only to finish par-bogey-par and miss out on a playoff with Justin Rose Read more…
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