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, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The U.S. is currently enjoying what is arguably the best (and deepest) crop of players they’ve had in the last 20 years. Looking at a snapshot of the mid-March world rankings every year since 1999, it is easy to see how the number of Americans in the top 25 of the world rankings has changed. […]
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 […]
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 […]