EVANS, Ga. – The weather couldn’t have been better for the first round of the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur at Champions Retreat Golf Club. Augusta National president Fred Ridley and Diana Murphy, a former U.S. Golf Association president who became the fourth woman member of Augusta National, were on hand when Jennifer Kupcho smacked…
Tournament Reports
England’s Casey becomes Valspar’s first repeat champion
PALM HARBOR, Florida — It took 19 years, but the Valspar Championship now has a repeat champion. England’s Paul Casey backed up his victory in 2018 with another triumph on Sunday at Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead Course. Valspar hasn’t been the title sponsor throughout the PGA Tour’s run at Innisbrook, but no player could win twice…
Return to Innisbrook has put some spark back in Luke Donald’s game
PALM HARBOR, Florida – Luke Donald has played well at the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship before. He even won the title here in 2012 when the tournament was known as the Transitions Championship. This week’s been different, though. Donald, the former Northwestern star, was ranked 919th in the world before the tournament teed off on…
Illinois veterans Streelman, Points have unique pairings at Bay Hill
ORLANDO, Florida — What are the chances that the two Illinois players competing the most regularly on the PGA Tour would be paired in consecutive groups in Saturday’s third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational? That’s what happened when Pekin’s D.A. Points, in green shirt and paired with Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, teed off in the…
Jimenez’ only lead in the Chubb Classic was at the finish
NAPLES, Florida — No metropolitan area has hosted PGA Tour Champions longer than Naples. Nine courses in the area have hosted tournaments on the 50-year over circuit for the last 32 years but this week’s Chubb Classic on the Classics Course at Lely Resort was a bit different than the others. A playoff seemed inevitable…
Father-daughter time is worth it for the Langers in Champions Tour win
Bernhard Langer, at 61 years old, may seem near the end of his career as a tournament player. There’s only one thing wrong with that line of reasoning. He keeps on winning. Langer won on PGA Tour Champions for the 39th time on Sunday, and his victory in the newly-named Oasis Championship was something special….
Davies completes sweep of the two major titles for senior women golfers
FRENCH LICK, Indiana – There’s no doubt who the best senior woman golfer was in this first historic first year. England’s Laura Davies won both the U.S. Senior Women’s Open and the Senior LPGA Championship convincingly. Davies was as dominant in the Senior LPGA as she was in the Open, played in July at Chicago…
Davies is on the brink of sweeping the two LPGA senior majors
FRENCH LICK, Indiana – England’s Dame Laura Davies, winner of the U.S. Senior Women’s Open at the Chicago Golf Club in July, is poised to sweep the two major championships for senior women golfers on Wednesday (TODA). Davies started Tuesday’s second round of the Senior LPGA Championship on the Pete Dye Course with a two-stroke…
Davies clings to one-stroke lead after Round 1 in Senior LPGA
FRENCH LICK, Indiana – Laura Davies and Juli Inkster finished one-two in the inaugural U.S. Senior Women’s Open at Chicago Golf Club in July, and the possibility loomed for a similar result after a weird finish to Monday’s first round of the Senior LPGA Championship here. Temperatures in the 40-degree range and winds of 15…
Will the Trish Johnson Era continue at French Lick?
FRENCH LICK, Indiana – As far as tournament play on the Pete Dye Course here is concerned, this is definitely the Trish Johnson Era. “And I hope it continues,’’ said Johnson on Sunday – the last practice day before Monday’s start of the second Senior LPGA Championship. This is the last major championship of 2018…