Every architect yearns to work on a great site, and almost all of them will tell you that good land is one of the top requirements for building a good golf course. Over the last 25 years, places like Bandon Dunes, Sand Valley and Barnbougle Dunes, in Tasmania—several of the most incredible sites to ever
Month: June 2020
We’re back! On Thursday, the PGA Tour returns after a three-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth will host quite an eager—and loaded—field for the Charles Schwab Challenge, the longest-running tour event to be held on the same course. Not only are the top five golfers in the FedEx
FORT WORTH — Players at the Charles Schwab Challenge who participated in virtual press conferences on Tuesday said they accept and support the conditions imposed for the first PGA Tour event since the abbreviated Players Championship in mid-March, protocols that involve both testing for coronavirus and restrictions on the golf course. Still, the “new normal”
FORT WORTH — On the 10th tee at Colonial Country Club Wednesday, Mike “Fluff” Cowan stood apart from the golfers and caddies in his group, some of whom were getting reacquainted in slightly closer proximity. Cowan practiced the standard six feet of recommended social distance—“two club lengths,” according the signage around the Charles Schwab Challenge,
As chairman and chief executive of Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ed Stack oversees golf’s largest retail footprint, which includes about 100 Golf Galaxy locations. Before the pandemic forced his stores to close, the golf business in 2020 was off to one of its best starts ever. Then, as Dick’s Sporting Goods and Golf Galaxy stores began
FORT WORTH — More than 900 volunteers originally were scheduled to work this week at Colonial Country Club. They couldn’t wait to put on their new uniform shirts, reunite with old friends and do their parts, whether it be making sure practice balls were washed, players got safely to the first tee, corporate hospitality was
The PGA Tour resumes operations this week, and one of its players will do so with a heavy heart. On Wednesday, an emotional Camilo Villegas—who is playing in the Korn Ferry Tour event at TPC Sawgrass—announced his 20-month-old daughter Mia is battling tumors. “She went through surgery and obviously needed treatment. She just started her
Brooks Koepka has already made his feelings known about the idea of September’s Ryder Cup being held without fans. He doesn’t like it. Wednesday, he took things a step further. Asked at the Charles Schwab Challenge if he could see a scenario in which a player protests no spectators at Whistling Straits by opting not
The way 2020 was going, Brooks Koepka needed something to happen. When he arrived at TPC Sawgrass for the Players Championship, he had played just three tournaments in the calendar year: T-43, T-47 and a missed cut. He was struggling with a nagging knee injury, one which required surgery last fall, and felt like he
Marcia Chambers was never much of a golfer, but she became the voice of reason on all of golf’s serious issues pertaining to the law and discrimination during an important period of change—the late 1980s and 1990s. I met Marcia in 1982 when she was dating Stan Wheeler, a sociology professor at Yale Law School.
With the PGA Tour re-starting this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge, it also served as a re-start for the tour’s road warriors—those who work out of the equipment vans that go from tournament to tournament servicing the equipment needs of their respective players until the opening tee shot on Thursday. As with everything in
9:32 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — The PGA Tour is not simply picking up where it left off. Very little about the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial resembles the opening round of The Players Championship on March 12, the last professional golf played before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down golf and most
4:19 PM ET The Memorial Tournament will require fans to wear masks when next month it becomes the first PGA Tour event to allow spectators. The tournament was given approval last week by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to allow a limited number of spectators at Muirfield Village Golf Golf in Dublin, Ohio, a number that
7:46 PM ET Associated Press The LPGA Tour is still six weeks away before resuming its schedule, but two of its members had that winning feeling last week in state opens against solid competition. Jennifer Kupcho, the former NCAA champion at Wake Forest and inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur champion, shot 68 in the final
2:13 PM ET The PGA Tour has set aside the 8:46 a.m. tee time on Thursday at both the Charles Schwab Challenge and the Korn Ferry Tour Challenge to honor the memory of George Floyd. The tee time will go unused with no players teeing off and a moment of silence will be conducted for
6:07 PM ET With no spectators, golf promises to be quite different when the PGA Tour returns this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Long-time CBS lead announcer Jim Nantz, for example, will be alone in the 18th hole tower — with lead analyst Nick Faldo working from a studio in Orlando, Florida, and other
Puma Golf’s new Ignite NXT Crafted shoes build on the success of its Ignite NXT shoes by featuring leather components on the uppers to create a more premium look. Boasting a saddle made from natural leather, which is wrapped around a PWRFRAME reinforcement, Ignite NXT Crafted shoes feature the same Pro-Form TPU outsole used in
7:44 AM ET For the first time in 90 days, PGA Tour players are gathering at a golf course to prepare for a tournament that begins Thursday and will be the first played since the coronavirus pandemic halted sports across the country. On March 12, the first round of the Players Championship was played in