Give this to Wyndham Clark: He’s got gonads the size of hockey pucks. The RBC Canadian Open has its version of Phoenix’s loud and rowdy 16th. They call it The Rink, and it’s more fun that Scottsdale because it’s not nearly as overblown. Fans are closer to the players and can pound the boards. Into Read more…
It was American golf’s moment. And it most certainly should be a moment that shakes awake everyone in charge of the game at all levels of women’s golf.
LOS ANGELES — The focus will on Nelly Korda on Sunday afternoon in the final round of the 81st U.S. Women’s Open. It should be. She is the No. 1 player in the world. An American trying to win her national championship for the first time. And she can become the first U.S. woman since Read more…
LOS ANGELES — The women’s competitive course record at Riviera Country Club has been changing by the day at the U.S. Women’s Open. That’s because the historic layout had never hosted a women’s tournament before. So, on Thursday it was Sei Young Kim who set the record with a first-round 67. With the sun out Read more…
LOS ANGELES — There is a clock ticking for Alison Lee that only she can hear. In April of last year, she gave birth to her first child, a son named Levi, and before going on maternity leave, she believed she was playing some of the best golf of her career. She came close to Read more…
LOS ANGELES — Just about the only thing that was similar between Michelle Wie West’s first “farewell” to competitive golf three years ago at Pebble Beach, and her latest bow on Thursday at Riviera Country club was the weather. On the Monterey Peninsula that Friday in 2023, the sky was dark with heavy clouds in Read more…
Jackson Koivun had a bunch of reasons to remain an amateur in 2025-26 after having the opportunity to jump to the PGA Tour a year ago. Tops among them were playing for the U.S. in last fall’s Walker Cup at Cypress Point, and entries into this summer’s U.S. Open and Open Championship if he didn’t Read more…
The USGA has carefully planned for pace of play challenges at the 2026 US Women’s Open at Riviera Country Club, with early tee times and strategic setup changes aimed at managing bottlenecks on the famous opener and drivable 10th hole.
LOS ANGELES — Ina Kim-Schaad says there have been plenty of twists and turns in her life path that led to her to playing in the U.S. Women’s Open at the age of 42. The different trails go like this: junior golf phenom from Hancock Park in Los Angeles gets her first taste of the Read more…
Nelly Korda arrived at the US Women’s Open at Riviera wearing a standout number 13 jersey, explaining its personal meaning as she continues her strong season and chase for another major title.
One player is currently ranked among the top three male amateur golfers in the world. The other one shot 92 in college tournament and when he was headed for another score leading with a “9,” his coach took his card away. Two golfers with vastly different college histories ended up being a locked in a Read more…
Amid golfers’ frustrations, putters are kicked, thrown, flipped, slammed, snapped and sometimes find a watery grave. But few are punished emotionally, though J.J. Spaun might be one of the few to admit how he’s truly felt about his flatstick. MORE: What’s the difference between onset and zero-torque putters “I found myself kind of resenting my Read more…
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…
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