Pete Crozier is playing 50 golf courses, one in every state in the country, in just shy of a two-month span, in honor of his late father, George, who died after a stroke with complications from Type 2 diabetes 20 years ago. Crozier is also doing it for his 15-year-old son, Gavin, who has Type […]
Category Archives: Practical Golf
Akshay Bhatia, a slender, 17-year-old high school junior who plans to bypass college to turn professional this fall, made his PGA Tour debut this week as an amateur at the Valspar Championship. GGP+ Correspondent Sean Fairholm writes Bhatia’s story. The post The Pro Road Less Traveled appeared first on Global Golf Post.
The engagement between the USGA and elite players, both pro and amateur, took another giant step with the announcement that past PGA Tour winner and U.S. Walker Cup team member Jason Gore will join the USGA as senior director of player relations. Our Steve Eubanks has the details and the rationale behind it from the […]
When 23-year-old LPGA rookie Anne van Dam came out on Tuesday to hit balls, players 20 and 30 yards away stopped what they were doing. Most tried to be nonchalant, but the intent was clear. They wanted to see if the rumors were true. They wanted to watch Anne van Dam hit it. No one […]
Had you been looking, you could have watched the present and the future of English professional golf in one pairing in the last round of the Players Championship. There was Justin Rose, 38, who seems to be world No 1 on alternate weeks and in contention every other week and there, alongside him, was Eddie […]
When Betsy King founded the Golf Fore Africa charity in 2008 after taking a heartbreaking trip to Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia and witnessing the plight of HIV-infected children in those countries, she wasn’t sure what she could do. Then she realized, clean water was lacking in their villages. Thus began a quest to change that, […]
For years, before the advent of the wrap-around season, the Masters was widely regarded as golf’s Rite of Spring. But not by a prominent group of British amateurs and professionals who elected instead to begin their seasons in what was, and still is, a quintessentially British tournament staged on arguably two of the finest inland […]
In the latest rendition of Green in Regulation, Ron Green Jr. writes – among other things – that Jon Rahm took one step forward and one step back at the Players Championship. The post Rahm’s Players Postmortem appeared first on Global Golf Post.
Through the years, competitive golf has had its share of fitness fanatics. One of the first was Frank Stranahan, also known as the “Toledo Strongman,” who won pair of British Amateurs in the 1940s and who was as devoted to his gym workouts as he was to his golf game. Then came nine-time major winner […]
Click here for the cover, or read about a couple of guys who showed what had made them winners in the past. Rory McIlroy broke a lengthy stretch of Sunday struggles to win the Players Championship. He was 3-under par on the inward nine to rally past Jim Furyk. McIlroy was one day short of […]