[ad_1] The 2024 U.S. Open saw an exciting chase for low amateur honors. It included the two players vying for that title being paired together in the final round. It came down to Neal Shipley, the 2023 U.S. Amateur runner-up and low am of the 2024 Masters, and Luke Clanton, the top-ranked player in the…
[ad_1] More than 10 percent of the 2024 U.S. Open field were amateurs. Only three of them are going to be around for the weekend. There were 16 amateurs who teed it up at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina for the 1,000th USGA championship, including those making their first major championship start and others…
[ad_1] In a recent USGA press conference before the U.S. Open, CEO Mike Whan, president Fred Perpall, and chief championships officer John Bodenhamer discussed the possibility of amateurs being paid their share of event winnings. Whan highlighted the evolving landscape of college athletics and the introduction of NIL (name, image, likeness) as a factor that…
[ad_1] The Men’s Elite Amateur Golf Series is here. The series, which is entering its fourth year, was created to align the top men’s amateur championships in a collective competition for the Elite Amateur Cup. The women’s version, the Women’s Elite Amateur Golf Series, started this summer. The series is a summer-long points race in…
[ad_1] The DP World Tour, the R&A and the PGA Tour have devised a way in which more amateur players can find themselves competing on one of the world’s best golf circuits… Top male amateurs can now earn a DP World Tour card without going to Q-school or playing on the Challenge Tour. The DP…
[ad_1] The venues for next year’s men’s and women’s amateur championships have been revealed. Here’s a full rundown of the 2025 R&A competition calendar Royal St George’s will host the Amateur Championship next year while the world’s leading women players will head to Nairn, the R&A have announced. The governing body have revealed the venues…
[ad_1] The 130th Amateur Championship is set to take place at Royal St George’s Golf Club in Kent next year, as the renowned Kent links has been selected as one of the host venues for major R&A-organised events in 2025. Harry Ellis emerged victorious the last time The Amateur Championship was held at Royal St…
[ad_1] It’s easy enough to imagine an Open Championship host course as a hoity-toity place for the average golfer. You might think of the grand clubhouses that overlook the 18th greens and assume they are full of stuffy members looking down on the action (and maybe those of us stood outside too). A venture to…
[ad_1] The experienced golfer will tell you that the game is all about shotmaking. You need to develop a vast array of skills to really get good at playing golf. And this golfer shows off his versatility with a series of shots, some of which went even vaguely near where he intended them to. Sometimes…
[ad_1] Is there anything better than a bunker save? Bunkers are awkward, and striking a ball well out of them is difficult by design. The greenside bunker is the great guardian of the pin, ready to strike down the proud. But this amateur conquered a bunker in emphatic fashion. The pure joy when he sinks…
