BENTON HARBOR, MI. – Little known foreign players won the last two titles in the Senior PGA Championship, and that could happen again. Japan’s Kiyoshi Murota shot the best score of Friday’s second, holing from off the green twice en route to a 6-under-par 65 – and is in a six-way tie for the lead…
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NCAA CENTRAL REGIONAL: Illini, Campbell rule at Rich Harvest
Illinois saw its five-year reign as men’s Big Ten golf champion come to an end two weeks ago, but the Illini still have a longer run going. They qualified for the NCAA finals for the seventh straight time on Saturday by winning the Central Regional at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove. Coach Mike Small’s…
IPGA MATCH PLAY: Malm notches three-peat; Harris is next target
Curtis Malm hadn’t even been born when Bill Ogden won three straight Illinois PGA Match Play titles from 1970-72. That’s the last time any player scored a three-peat in the section’s first of four major championships. Malm ended that dryspell when he took a 1-up victory over Medinah teaching pro Travis Johns in the 63rd…
HANDA CUP: World Legends finally beat U.S. on eighth try
OLD HICKORY, Tenn. – It took eight tries, but the LPGA Legends Tour finally witnessed a breakthrough in its premier team event on Sunday. The Legends’ U.S.-born players had won the ISPS Handa Cup six straight times and retained it last year after the matches ended in a 24-24 tie at Reunion Resort in Orlando,…
HANDA CUP: Jones wins twice, but U.S. trails after Day 1
OLD HICKORY – Some golf history could be made on Sunday at the LPGA Legends Tour’s ISPS Handa Cup. The World team was winless in the first seven stagings of the team competition that matches LPGA players 45 and over from the U.S. against their Legends counterparts who were born internationally. The U.S. won the…
HANDA CUP: Captains Carner, Nilsson take opposite approaches with pairings
. OLD HICKORY, Tenn. – The ISPS Handa Cup is one of the premier events on the LPGA’s Legends Tour and its eighth staging at Hermitage Golf Club on the outskirts of Nashville figures to be something special. In fact, it could result in a breakthrough for the World team. It has never won the…
HANDA CUP: U.S. Legends have never lost to the World team
HANDA CUP: U.S. Legends have never lost to the World team OLD HICKORY, Tenn. – The biggest season in the 13-year history of the LPGA Legends Tour reaches a climax this week with the eighth playing of the ISPS Handa Cup at Hermitage Golf Club. The international team event features some of the biggest names…
LPGA LEGENDS: Chip on 18 gives Kane a big win in the rain
FRENCH LICK, Ind. – Lorie Kane let a victory slip away on the LPGA Legends Tour two weeks ago when she lost in a five-hole playoff to Rosie Jones in the Harris Charity Classic in Maine. There was no such negative carryover to Sunday when Kane put herself in position to win again, however. The…
LPGA LEGENDS: Kane, Rinker are best at coping with Dye Course in Round 2
FRENCH LICK, Ind. – The wind blew harder and from a different direction in Saturday’s second round of the LPGA Legends Championship. Some of the pin positions at the Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort were more difficult, too. “Add in that Pete Dye designed this place, and that raised it another notch,’’ added…
LPGA LEGENDS: Tour rookie sets course record in Round 1
FRENCH LICK, Ind. – The five-year old Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort figured to be a mystery to the players in the LPGA Legends Championship. The layout, loaded with elevation changes and spectacular views, had never hosted a premier women’s event before welcoming the biggest in the history of the LPGA’s senior circuit….