Playing in 24 USGA championships would be accomplishment enough for most people. So would be amassing more than 20 triumphs in other tournaments. But those feats are only part of Olivia Herrick’s golf story.A native Minnesotan who is competing in this week’s U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, the 36-year-old mother of two is also a graphic designer…
Catherine CarmignaniIn February of 2019, after almost 10 years of working in collegiate athletics, Catherine Carmignani was working as a senior project manager for Paramount & Co. Up to that point in her career, Carmignani had never worked in the golf industry.That all changed one month later when Carmignani was hired as the director of…
ATLANTA, GEORGIA | Scottie Scheffler crowned his 2024 season in the only proper way it could have ended: with a FedEx Cup title as the PGA Tour’s best player of the year. The first player since Tiger Woods in 2007 to win seven PGA Tour events in a season, Scheffler didn’t do anything small. He…
In her 3-plus years as director of retail at Interlachen Country Club, Katie Gates has learned not to shy away from trying something new. Courtesy Interlachen Country Club After studying fashion merchandising and business at Florida State University, Katie Gates took what she calls an “unconventional route” to golf shop merchandising. First, she became national…
David Cannon, R&A via Getty Images The par-3, eighth-hole Postage Stamp at Royal Troon played between 108 and 130 yards during last week’s Open Championship. The familiar saying that good things come in small packages may be about jewelry, but it applies to golf, too. In this oversized era in which driver heads are the…
By Since becoming golf shop manager in 2020, Kelsey Jo Holsten has helped transform the retail operation at Monterey Peninsula Country Club in Pebble Beach, California. The golf shop has been turned into a boutique-style experience that keeps members coming back not only for golf apparel but for all their fashion needs. “It’s the innovative…
The Yada visor is part of J.Lindeberg’s Team USA-inspired collection. J.Lindeberg Founded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1996, J.Lindeberg soon began marketing its European-inspired line in U.S. golf shops, earning a loyal following among those who dare to be different on the course. The brand’s youthful, cutting-edge styling will be seen on an even bigger stage…
Lee Wybranski captured the scene of the intense final round at the 2016 Open Championship held at Royal Troon, where Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson engaged in a record-setting shootout. Wybranski painted this vivid picture while stationed inside the ropes near the iconic Postage Stamp par-3 eighth hole, as the golfers played through. Returning to…
It began with the simple desire once again to play in the R&A Women’s Senior Amateur Championship. Lara Tennant, a three-time U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur champion from Portland, Oregon, played in the British version twice, winning it in 2019 and finishing runner-up in 2022. As she began to register to play in the event this…
Looking backward, the dots always connect. Sierra Sanchez keeps coming back to this phrase as she lays out the story of how she drew hundreds of women into her Millennielle Golf Club, a millennial women’s golf community of roughly 1,000 members which she founded and grew in the Phoenix metro area over the past four…
