PEBBLE BEACH — Heading into the 50th Walker Cup Match at Cypress Point Club, the United States team knew exactly the power it possessed in the world’s top-ranked amateur, Auburn junior Jackson Koivon, and the five other players who were among the top 10 in the WAGR. As for Mason Howell? He is an 18-year-old Read more…
When you’re 21 years old and Dad wants to hang with you and your friends for dinner, the reaction could be a mix of guilt and horror. Unless your father is a continent’s fiery golf hero and your buddies have looked up to him for as long as they’ve been swinging a club. So Luke Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — Niall Shiels Donegan will graciously insist that he was not the emergent star of the last month’s U.S. Amateur Championship at The Olympic Club. He is quick to point out that he didn’t even reach the final after being eliminated one step away. MORE: What will it take to win the Walker Read more…
In the 35 years since Cypress Point Club took itself out of the rotation for the PGA Tour’s Bing Crosby Clambake—otherwise known as the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am—there have been few glimpses of it from those who are outside of its 250 members and their grateful guests.
Keegan Bradley and Sam Burns knew exactly what the stakes were in the phone call. Bradley, the U.S. Ryder Cup captain, wasn’t reaching out to his friend and fellow PGA Tour competitor on a late August Wednesday morning to see if he’d had time for an emergency nine. MORE: With Keegan Bradley’s decision, Europe’s dream Read more…
CHULA VISTA, Calif. — After making yet another lengthy putt on the tilted and slick greens of San Diego County Club, Becky Morgan stood off to the side for her playing partner to finish up and dabbed at tears with the collar of her shirt. The 50-year-old from Wales might have hoped those would be Read more…
[Pictures: LC Lambrecht] The Yale University Golf Course that is closed and being renovated by Gil Hanse experienced a tragedy this week when a man was electrocuted by a downed power line that fell during a storm in New Haven, Connecticut. OTHER NEWS: LIV Golf Team Championship: Cam Smith’s Ripper GC out of the season Read more…
The expiration date for Leta Lindley’s time with her trophy as the 2024 U.S. Senior Women’s Open champion was coming too fast for her liking. “I was, like, noooo, I don’t want to give it back,” Lindley said recently. “I emailed the USGA to find out what the absolute hard last date was that I Read more…
After his post-round comments on Saturday afternoon, we don’t know if Scotsman Robert MacIntyre is going to face even more partisan jeering on Sunday when he gain goes toe to toe with American Scottie Scheffler in the final group of the BMW Championship, but give him this: The patsy-faced man is a lot more feisty Read more…
As this PGA Tour season’s outset, Scotsman Robert MacIntyre could not have fathomed what he achieved in the first round of this week’s BMW Championship, making an astonishing 195 feet, 2 inches of putts en route to a 62 that gave him a three-shot margin. He birdied the last six holes and said it was Read more…
There will be more coverage of USGA events in the future on the same network after the USGA and NBCUniversal announced on Tuesday that they’ve struck a media rights agreement through 2032. NBC will continue its exclusive coverage of the U.S. Open, U.S. Women’s Open and U.S. Senior Open, and for the U.S. Open it Read more…
Six years, ago, when Megha Ganne was all of 15 years old, she played her way into the semifinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship at Old Waverly Golf Club in Mississippi. It was all such a blur before she was beaten by a woman she idolzed, Albane Valenzuela, that the Holmdel, N.J., native insists Read more…
“Big Mama” is getting her name on a sizeable prize. The USGA announced on Saturday that the gold medal awarded to the U.S. Women’s Amateur champion will be redesigned and named in honor of JoAnne Carner. Carner has a long and rich history with the USGA, having won eight championships, including five U.S. Women’s Amateur Read more…
The PGA Tour has confirmed that a clerical error led to an ineligible player being allowed into this week’s Korn Ferry Tour Pinnacle Bank Championship, while leaving out another competitor who should have been in. As first reported on X Friday by Monday Q Info, MJ Daffue had not earned enough points through his major Read more…
In the walk from the practice range to the first tee on that late March day in 2023, a feeling of dread began to rise in Brooke Seay. This was the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, one of the most coveted and prestigious invitations in golf, and Seay had forced herself to show up yet now Read more…
Nine birdies in each of his previous two rounds in the 49th Junior PGA Championships put Charlie Woods in contention for a U.S. Junior Ryder Cup spot. But just an ordinary round on Friday knocked him down the board on the final day. Woods, 16, managed only two birdies and suffered a double bogey on Read more…
The news came out of the blue for the members of San Diego Country Club, and like any big surprise it arrived wwith doses of thrill and apprehension. An attorney representing the estate of LPGA legend Mickey Wright called to say that someone had designated $175,000 to the club to fulfill an extremely unusual request—commission Read more…
Akshay Bhatia had every reason to believe that the 2025 PGA Tour season would serve as yet another step in his strong and popular rise. Over the previous two years, the lanky North Carolinian, who skipped college and turned pro at the age of 17, has grown into a much-respected competitor. Bhatia won once in Read more…
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — This year’s Open Championship was like a science fair in which the one kid from Mensa builds a talking robot and the other kids glue together log cabins with Popsicle sticks. Scottie Scheffler was a genius for nearly all of the week at Royal Portrush, and the result was a masterclass Read more…
The comparisons, debate and analysis of Scheffler’s past four seasons to some of Woods’ greatest runs are inevitable. And upon closer examination, it’s a legitimate exercise because the ways in which they stomped on their peers are very similar in some respects – and quite a bit different in others.
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