CARLSBAD, Calif. — Don’t look back. If there was an unsaid motto for the Stanford women’s golf team this season, it was to focus on what needed to be done, not what didn’t happen. As in, the Cardinal’s shocking match-play final loss to Northwestern last May in the NCAA Championships. “We’re certainly not a team Read more…
The extraordinary run by the Eastern Michigan women’s golf team came to an end on Tuesday in the NCAA Division I Championships, but not before the Eagles beat one last powerhouse on their way out. And as for Wednesday’s match-play finalists, they could have not been more predictable. EMU, which had never been to a Read more…
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Josh Brewer knows what it’s like to be an underdog. He’s an Indiana native who went to Indiana University and watched his school’s football program be the doormat of the Big Ten for decades. Then Hoosiers head coach Curt Cignetti recruited a quarterback in Fernando Mendoza who turned the college football world Read more…
CARLSBAD, Calif. — If Farah O’Keefe had not grown up in Austin, Texas, there’s no telling where she might be in golf. With virtually no national exposure in the likes of AJGA events, she was not seriously recruited by college programs, and at the University of Texas, they basically figured they’d let the local kid Read more…
Only two weeks ago in Myrtle Beach, after tying for ninth place, 19-year-old Blades Brown insisted he didn’t know where he stood in his bid to earn Special Temporary Membership on the PGA Tour. If that was the case, the circumstances are getting harder and harder to ignore. On Saturday at TPC Craig Ranch outside Read more…
Si Woo Kim was hardly distraught on Friday afternoon after narrowly missing out on shooting the 16th sub-60 score in PGA Tour history. In the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, on a renovated TPC Craig Ranch course that was yielding birdies by the dozens in favorable Texas weather, the Dallas resident made 12 birdies over the Read more…
The PGA of America announced on Friday that embattled president Don Rea has been replaced for the rest of his term, and that vice president Nathan Charnes will replace him. Rea’s two-year term was set to conclude in November, but the PGA of America said in an announcement about the moves, “The Board’s action followed Read more…
It seems like a no-brainer, and Jordan Spieth is saying the same thing now. He’s a lifelong Texan who lives in Dallas and has been playing incarnations of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson since he was a 16-year-old high school junior who got a sponsor’s invite. Given that, you figure that at some point before Read more…
If the NCAA Men’s Championships at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa are as dramatic as the final day of regional, college golf fans are in for a treat. Thirty teams among 81 total and six individuals advanced out of five regionals on Wednesday to play in the championships, May 29-June 3, that will Read more…
For those who have not recently checked on Tom Kim’s career trajectory, doing so would be a bit of a shock. At 23, he seems like he’s been around forever. He has three PGA Tour wins, 12 victories total on various tours around the world, and has twice been an International team agitator against the Read more…
Adam Scott, who will make his 100th straight major appearance, and three-time major champion Jordan Spieth were among the 35 additional golfers who have reached next month’s U.S. Open at Shinnecock, as announced on Monday by the USGA. The cutoff for the top 60 in the Official World Golf Ranking ended on Sunday with the Read more…
Norwegian Kristoffer Reitan pulled of an extraordinary win last week in the Truist Championship by capturing the $20 million signature event in only his 15th PGA Tour start. With that kind breakthrough, you’d have thought Reitan wouldn’t have changed anything—from his breakfast choice to his underwear rotation—for the PGA Championship. So how about switching out Read more…
That Lou Graham won any tournaments on the PGA Tour—and there were six total victories, including the 1975 U.S. Open—was a testament to his considerable skill. Because back in his era, there weren’t equipment trucks on-site at every event, and players couldn’t go through clubs like sticks of gum. When, after he’d gotten on a Read more…
If you scratched your head when the name Kristoffer Reitan appeared on the leaderboard in the Truist Championship, you’re not alone. There’s really been no reason to notice the 28-year-old Norwegian who is a rookie on the PGA Tour, other than a late Sunday charge a few weeks ago in the team Zurich Classic of Read more…
Some of the most thrilling and emotional wins on the PGA Tour come in weeks like these, when there is an alternate event being played while the biggest stars compete in what are now dubbed signature events. In a practice that began with the existence of the World Golf Championships, the tour gives its rank-and-file Read more…
Alex Fitzpatrick readily admits that it’s not easy being a professional golfer while your older brother has become one of the best players in the world. But then there are week’s like this when he’d wouldn’t want to be anywhere else other than at his brother’s side. The Fitzpatricks had played together three previous times Read more…
Being called a “cheater” might be the most damning of all labels at every level of golf, and Ina Yoon has had to live with that over the last four years. MORE: Farah O’Keefe has a Texas-sized personality and the game to back it up It doesn’t matter that after Yoon admitted to knowingly hitting Read more…
Matt Fitzpatrick could argue that the term “momentum” is a concoction of sportswriters and broadcasters to overwise explain how an athlete’s brain and body somehow click together in a way that sustains a bit of success. “It’s funny,” Fitzpatrick was saying on Saturday at the RBC Heritage. “I remember having a conversation with [well-known coach] Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Rory McIlroy press conferences are among the best in the sporting world because he’s an introspective athlete who listens, truly thinks about his answers before giving them, and when he wins, the joy and satisfaction are palpable. So it was yet another fascinating meeting the media on Sunday when the 36-year-old Ulsterman Read more…
Just as Rory McIlroy answered every doubt in last year’s Masters win, Rose could have come to the sweetest peace with a victory on Sunday. Instead, he walked away with more kudos for his skill and grit, but the nagging feeling that he still couldn’t do enough to seize a green jacket.
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