RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – If Pernilla Lindberg picks up where she left off winning the ANA Inspiration last year, she won’t see the challenges that new tee boxes, thicker rough and firmer greens create this week. She’ll just see a bunch of great putts going in again. Lindberg was unstoppable breaking through to make her […]
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Jimmy Walker has fought Lyme disease since late in 2016, a few months after winning the PGA Championship. Our Sean Fairholm has great empathy for Walker, as he’s been fighting the same affliction for the same period of time. This is Jimmy Walker’s story – and Sean’s. The post Lyme Life appeared first on Global […]
As a little girl, Valentina Giraldo’s goal was to play golf in the United States. She watched Tiger Woods play in the Masters and Lorena Ochoa dominate the LPGA and told herself that one day she wanted to do that. Now, she’s doing the next best thing, playing in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Our […]
There was never a question; never a doubt. At least that’s what Stanford junior Albane Valenzuela says now about the enviable dilemma she faced when two invitations to conflicting tournaments arrived in consecutive days. Our Steve Eubanks asked why she picked the ANA Inspiration over the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. The post Amateurs Are Comfortable […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Masters should have been the first major Rory McIlroy won. Now it is the only one he is missing. Augusta National was thought to be the domain of Tiger Woods when he won four green jackets before turning 30. Now he is 43, with eight surgeries behind him, so far removed from his last Masters […]
Jennifer Kupcho will carry a one-shot lead into the final round of the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur, where an 11-for-10 playoff was required to determine who would advance to compete at Augusta National Golf Club. Kupcho, the reigning NCAA individual champion and No. 1-ranked amateur in the world, held a share of the lead […]
EVANS, Ga. – Jennifer Kupcho and Maria Fassi have crossed paths many times in their decorated golf careers. But nothing should compare to what will happen Saturday, when both players will converge at the historic Augusta National Golf Club in the final pairing of the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Kupcho, the world’s top-ranked women’s […]
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Lexi Thompson hit just half her fairways in Thursday’s start of the ANA Inspiration. She missed seven greens. Forget those numbers. She opened with a 69. That’s the number that counts. A round of 3-under par gave her a share of the lead through the morning wave. Welcome back to Lexi’s […]
During the season, GolfChannel.com will check in weekly to update what’s happening in the world of college golf. SMU men’s coach Jason Enloe was sitting with his team in an In-N-Out Burger on Sunday, enjoying a quick meal before finishing their trek from Stanford, Calif., to Pebble Beach, where the Mustangs were set to play Cypress […]
EVANS, Ga. – An hour before the start of the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur, heavy fog blanketed the grounds at Champions Retreat Golf Club. Participants, the trailblazers for this landmark tournament, were bundled up as they hit balls and struck putts in frigid temperatures. Patrons began to trickle in, and the atmosphere could best […]