Jim Furyk wasn’t happy to hear about the changes made to the Conway Farms course in preparation for this week’s BMW Championship. “Bummer,’’ he said. “Now I’ve got to learn it all over again.’’ Well, hardly. Tuesday is practice day for the 70 players who will begin the 72-hole competition at the Lake Forest layout…
Tournament Reports
Conway Farms is ready for a BMW Championship replay
The PGA Tour’s visit to Chicago isn’t an annual thing anymore, but when the circuit does come it’s a big deal. That’ll be the case this week when the BMW Championship returns to Conway Farms in Lake Forest. This week’s $8.25 million event, which tees off on Thursday, is the second of three scheduled stagings…
Only eight other Illinois PGA players have matched Billiter’s feat
Jim Billiter and Matt Slowinski were cart partners in Wednesday’s final round of the 93rd Illinois PGA Championship. Slowinski called it “a good pairing’’ and said they had a “great time.’’ It was Billiter, though, who hung on to claim the $10,000 first prize in the first big tournament played on Medinah Country Club’s No….
Inkster, Stephenson are both Legends champions at French Lick
FRENCH LICK, Ind. – Two of the greatest names in the history of women’s golf were champions again on Sunday in The Legends Championship, played on the rugged Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort. Juli Inkster won the main tournament for players who have passed their 45th birthday. Jan Stephenson took the Super Legends…
Legends’ leaderboard is loaded for shootout in final round
FRENCH LICK, Ind. – Sunday’s final round of The Legends Championship is loaded at the top of the leaderboard with eight players within one shot at the top of the leaderboard. That select group includes a recently named World Golf Hall of Famer (Dame Laura Davies), a recently-named Legends Hall of Famer (Rosie Jones), the…
Past champs paired in Legends’ final twosome of Round 1
FRENCH LICK, Ind. – The pre-tournament festivities ended Friday night. Now 58 members of the LPGA Legends Tour will battle for two days in the circuit’s biggest tournament over the Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort. Players arrived here in time for practice rounds on Thursday and Friday was devoted to the day-long pro-am…
Rinker is ready to defend her Legends title at French Lick
FRENCH LICK, Ind. — The Legends Championship tees off at the Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort this week, and the defending champion is ready. Laurie Rinker arrived at 3 a.m. on Wednesday, in time for a Thursday practice round. She may be a bit on the tired side after enduring a weather delay…
This U.S. Amateur champion is already something special
Rain delays, caddie changes, a bad tee shot at a critical moment. Nothing was going to keep Bryson DeChambeau from joining some of golf’s most elite company on Sunday. In winning the 115th U.S. Amateur at Olympia Fields Country Club DeChambeau joined Jack Nicklaus (1961), Phil Mickelson (1990), Tiger Woods (1996) and Ryan Moore (2004)…
DeChambeau, Bard reach U.S. Amateur final
Only four golfers have won the NCAA individual title and the U.S. Amateur in the same year, and three of those are household names. Bryson DeChambeau can join the select group – one that includes Jack Nicklaus, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods and Ryan Moore — with a victory on Sunday at Olympia Fields Country Club….
U.S. Amateur is down to the Final Four
The 115th U.S. Amateur started with over 7,000 entries world-wide, and 312 qualified for this week’s finals at Olympia Fields Country Club. Now there are only four players left. Saturday’s semifinals pit Japan’s Kenta Konishi against Derek Bard, a University of Virginia golfer, and Bryson DeChambeau, the NCAA champions from Southern Methodist, against Sean Crocker,…