Slow play can often lead to a lively discussion and perhaps some dirty looks, but things went from “disrespectful” to bloody pretty quickly at Lansbrook Golf Club in Palm Harbor, Fla. Right around 9 a.m. on Saturday, “a quiet morning on the course turned into a felony child abuse charge” when a disagreement over pace Read more…
U.S. Amateur semifinalist Carter Loflin has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA as he hopes to return to the University of Georgia to play golf on a fifth year of eligibility, according to a report in the Athens Banner-Herald. Loflin’s attorney Nik Erramilli told the newspaper that the lawsuit was filed in Athens-Clarke County Superior Read more…
Miyu Yamashita won the CPKC Women’s Open in dominant fashion. To put into perspective how commanding the victory was, she tied an impressive LPGA record in the process. The 25-year-old Japanese star tied the lowest gross score of all-time on tour with a four-day total of 23-under 257. She shot a final round four-under 66—the Read more…
Michael La Sasso’s final putt had barely disappeared before the champagne bottles opened, his teammates dousing the former NCAA champion as he captured LIV Golf’s season finale in Indianapolis. The extravagance carried an uncomfortable dissonance, considering blue-collar workers were asking LIV to pay for labor already performed while millionaires emptied bottles over one another in Read more…
Maria McBride avenged a late quadruple bogey from last year that cost her a chance to win the U.S. Senior Women’s Open and won this year’s version at Barton Hills Country Club in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was a third-round 66 that put her into the lead, which was shaky early on Sunday when she Read more…
ST. LOUIS — Patrick Cantlay extolled the virtues of patience this week in the BMW Championship, but it was his resilience that earned him a berth in the Tour Championship. With four bounce-back birdies, the last of which spurred a three-birdie run to close out the final round, Cantlay cobbled together a two-under 68 on Read more…
ST. LOUIS — Wyndham Clark takes a five-stroke lead into the final round of the BMW Championship after a masterful putting performance Saturday at Bellerive Country Club with perhaps more to gain than anyone else in the 50-man field. Despite a double bogey on the first hole and a bogey at the last, Clark, the Read more…
Kiara Romero is making a big splash in her LPGA Tour professional debut. The former top-ranked amateur in the world just turned pro and shot 64-67 in the first two rounds of the CPKC Women’s Open at Royal Mayfair Golf Club in Edmonton, Alberta, and at nine under she held a share of second place Read more…
While PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp continues his reorganization of the schedule and competition model, he might also consider an idea that CBS golf host Jim Nantz has recommended for elevating the Jack Nicklaus Award for PGA Tour Player of the Year. To add another layer to the Tour Championship, Nantz would like to see Read more…
The LPGA is in Canada, so that means the country’s favorite daughter, Brooke Henderson, will make headlines no matter what she does this week at the CPKC Women’s Open. Last year she won her national championship by making three late birdies to shoot a final-round 67 and top Minjee Lee by a shot. Henderson (No. Read more…
This is the last LIV Golf event of the season. But is it the last LIV Golf event ever? Those questions will be answered in the not-too-distant future, but for now, the league is outside Indianapolis at the Club at Chatham Hills, where players will complete for $10.1 million with the champion receiving $2.02 million. Read more…
The top 50 in FedEx Cup points have reached the second playoff event, the BMW Championship, which is at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis this year. Only Sungjae Im moved into the top 50 last week in Memphis to punch his ticket to this week, which ultimately came at the expense of Keith Mitchell, Read more…
Only 50 players left standing on the PGA Tour are headed to St. Louis, where the second leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs awaits as players descend on Bellerive Country Club for another high-stakes test. While Memphis asked players to play under control and find fairways, this golf course looks to emphasize power and should Read more…
If you’re reading this, you know Bobby Jones—the most decorated amateur golfer of all time and founder of Augusta National. For those of us at Inwood Country Club, site of his 1923 U.S. Open, we’ve been fortunate to study Jones’ first major title at our storied club. We believe this statement wholeheartedly: Jones hit the Read more…
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