Category Archives: GOLFESCU’s Journal

The Highest Climb

Pratima Sherpa, 19, was raised by her family in a 200-square-foot corner of a maintenance shed on a golf course in Nepal, and now she’s set to make her Symetra Tour debut this week as an amateur in the IOA Championship. Staff Writer Steve Eubanks writes her incredible story. The post The Highest Climb appeared […]

Golf Gaming In Great Britain: A Long, Uneasy History

The European Tour announced last month that Betfred is to become the new title sponsor of the British Masters. Not a moment too soon. The two-year deal is a welcome development for a tournament that in recent years has struggled for sponsorship. But it also will extend what is now a centuries-old relationship between golf […]

Money Driving PGA Tour Gambling Train

Soon, golf and gambling will become a marriage of sorts, wagering on professional golf having been sanctified by a Supreme Court ruling last year that struck down a federal law prohibiting legalized sports gambling. Within five years, legalized sports betting is expected to be a familiar piece of the national landscape and the PGA Tour […]

Read Global Golf Post – March 25

Click here for the cover, or get ready for your reminder that three is a magic number. Paul Alexander Casey won this third PGA Tour title – and his second in row at the Valspar Championship, contested near Tampa, Florida. The 41-year-old carried the 54-hold lead and did not stumble Sunday. “I feel like I […]