NAPLES, FL. — Tour Edge, based in Batavia, IL., isn’t the biggest golf club manufacturer, but it is the dominant one on PGA Tour Champions. That was particularly evident on Sunday when two Tour Edge ambassadors – Bernhard Langer and Tim Petrovic – finished one-two in the first full-field event of the season for the…
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Another year hasn’t slowed down Langer on the Champions tour
NAPLES, Florida – Another year of dominance for Bernard Langer on PGA Tour Champions seems a given with the first full-field tournament of 2022 still having one round to go. Langer, 64, opened the Chubb Classic by shooting his age on Friday. He wasn’t impressed. “It was the second time for shooting my age and…
Two ex-Illinois Open champs are in the hunt at Korn Ferry stop
LAKEWOOD RANCH, Florida – The Korn Ferry Tour is only a pathway to the PGA Tour, but it can offer some things that the premier circuit. That clicked in during Friday’s second round of the circuit’s first tournament of 2022 in the United States. For one thing the LECOM Suncoast Classic included three Illinois Open…
Now the men’s pro tours take the golf spotlight in Florida
Golf-wise it’s Florida where the action is for at least the next month. First it was the LPGA tour staging its first three tournaments of 2022 in the Sunshine state. They were captivating events, too, with Danielle Kang, Lydia Ko and Leona Maguire winning the titles and Annika Sorenstam drawing bigger galleries than all of…
GOLF TRAVEL NOTES: Florida’s World Woods is in for some big changes
BROOKSVILLE, FL. – Go back three decades and World Woods was one of the biggest things in Florida golf. It had two Tom Fazio-designed courses – Pine Barrens and Rolling Oaks – that opened together on April 1, 1993 and its Japanese owner, Yukihisa Inoue, had plans for much more. “The previous owner (Inoue is…
Chubb tourney’s 35th anniversary is at a special place
NAPLES, FL. – The traditional warmup in Hawaii is over. Now PGA Tour Champions is ready to get down to business. With the tournament rounds scheduled for Feb. 18-20, the Chubb Classic Presented by SERVOPRO is the first full-field event of the season for the 50-and-over circuit. “A great place for it,’’ said Peter Jacobsen,…
Ko finally regains winning form on LPGA’s first full-field event of 2022
BOCA RATON, FL. – The first full-field event of the Ladies PGA tour’s 2022 season was just a two-player duel between two of the circuit’s most popular stars. One of them not only came away with a vicrtory but also gave herself a big boost for her Hall of Fame aspirations. Lydia Ko, a 24-year…
Zero Friction’s new golf cart is a big hit at the PGA Show
ORLANDO, FL. – The biggest show in golf wrapped up on Friday at the Orange County Convention Center, and the 69th PGA Merchandise Show was a bit different than the previous 68 stagings. The pandemic forced cancelation of the show in 2021 and the two-year hiatus took its toll Normally the show has about 1,000…
LPGA’s first full-field event will carry on without Annika
BOCA RATON, FL. — The first full field event of the LPGA’s 2022 season tees off on Thursday at Boca Rio Golf Club. It’ll have 120 players, but not Annika Sorenstam. Sorenstam, who won 72 tournaments on the LPGA tour before taking 13 years off from golf competition, is still tinkering with a comeback…
LPGA’s T of C turned into the `Annika Show’
LAKE NONA, FL. – Annika Sorenstam didn’t win on Sunday but – as the only woman in a 50-player group of celebrities that included famous sport stars like Roger Clemens, Greg Maddux, Brian Urlacher, Jeremy Roenick, John Smoltz, Sterling Sharp and Tom Glavin, the 51-year old golf legend did just fine. No doubt she was…