Double-hits are no longer punished the same way as before – but they are often punishment enough, as this golfer found out. This golfer discovered that to his detriment. His chip in hope of putting in for a bogey might have been on line if his follow through didn’t catch up with it. Rule 10.1a…
Golfers can play for decades and not get near a hole-in-one. I may or may not be one of them. Navaporn Soontreeyapas isn’t one of us, to her relief I imagine, as she achieved golfing immortality at the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific Championship in Thailand. Soontreeyapas graced Siam Country Club with her first ace on the…
Oakville, Ont. – Golf Canada is pleased to announce the addition of the Canadian U15 Championship and player development educational summit to its 2024 Amateur Championship schedule. The event will take place August 27-30 at the Elmira Golf Club in Elmira, Ont. The Canadian U15 Championship, presented by BDO will bring together a field of 78…
We’ve all been there. You get out on the course with a new piece of gear or equipment and immediately make a fool of yourself. That is the game of golf in a nutshell: not every innovation is designed to help you. Instead, they just grass on you like a squeaky new pair of shoes. Tracing…
An amateur won on the PGA Tour for the first time in 33 years on Sunday. In other words, Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm, the last two Masters champions, had not yet been born when Phil Mickelson won the 1991 Tucson Open as a 20-year-old Arizona State student. Nick Dunlap, a 20-year-old Alabama sophomore and…
Another future star is chasing a place in the record books. Tom Kim can relate, as can Ludvig Aberg. Now it is the turn of Nick Dunlap. The American’s score of 12-under-par in the third round of The American Express was just the second-ever 60 an amateur has shot on the PGA Tour. He has…
The Elite Amateur Golf Series has announced a new series as part of its mission to align the top competitive amateur events in the United States. Five leading women’s amateur events representing more than 345 years of conducting championships will form the Women’s Elite Amateur Golf Series (WEAGS) officially launching in summer 2024. The Women’s…
The 36 holes at Torrey Pines represent the finest municipal courses on the West Coast of the United States. Torrey Pines’ South Course has twice hosted epic US Opens this century, with the San Diego layout the canvas for a Tiger Woods masterpiece in 2008 and Jon Rahm’s charge in 2021. The South Course underwent…
What a year it was for amateur golf in 2023. The best female amateur of all-time, Rose Zhang, capped her career in as strong of fashion as possible, winning the Augusta National Women’s Amateur and her second straight NCAA Championship. Nick Dunlap won the U.S. Amateur and in the process accomplished something only Tiger Woods…
