While Olympia Fields has hosted the U.S. Amateur and the Women’s PGA Championship in recent years, the Chicago course hasn’t been home to a men’s professional event since the 2003 U.S. Open. According to various outlets, that will change in 2020. The Fried Egg and Chicago Tribune reported on Saturday that Olympia Fields is jumping
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Three days after golf course architect Keith Foster pled guilty to federal charges of illegally transporting between $250,000 and $500,000 in items made from endangered species, his most high-profile golf client has fired him. Congressional Country Club president Bev Lane sent a letter to the membership on Saturday announcing that the Board of Governors at
Like most years, 2018 was hardly a slow one when it came to equipment news. Several stories of note relating to bats, balls and, of course, the hot-button topic of distance, grabbed our attention during the past 12 months. As such we give you our top equipment stories of 2018. DistanceThe distance debate remained a
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the December 1989 issue of Golf Digest. An hour north of Boston, the golf shops hold their end-of-season sales in early October, and by the end of the month, the club pros have flown south to Florida, to begin all over again. The courses remain open, however, for
All of the top players in the world have put in countless hours of work to reach the level they have in the game. But there’s a legitimate case to be made that nobody works as hard as Alex Noren. From his obsessive pre-shot routine, to that insane picture of the callouses on his hands,
Forrest Fezler won a PGA Tour event and worked alongside renowned course architect Mike Strantz on many of his most notable projects, including his last, the renovation of the Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula Country Club. Yet Fezler was best known and will forever be remembered for changing into “Larry Bird-length” shorts in a port-a-john
Sure you know Tiger Woods came back to competitive golf with gusto in 2018, that the European’s boat-raced the Americans in the Ryder Cup and that Oklahoma State came out on top in the first blowout at the NCAA men’s finals since they went to match play in 2009 (OK, so maybe you forget that
Golf architect Keith Foster plead guilty on Wednesday in a Virginia courtroom to illegally transporting between $250,000 and $500,000 worth of items made from endangered species, migratory birds and other wildlife. Foster now faces a five-year prison sentence. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Foster and his wife violated portions of the Lacey Act—which
The latest iteration of the Rules of Golf will be implemented on January 1. While the revisions have been generally welcomed, golf’s guidelines remain a work in progress. A point PGA Tour player Mackenzie Hughes seconded on social media Wednesday afternoon. On Twitter the 28-year-old said, while he agreed with a few changes, “I feel
Montrose Golf Links has been around for 450 years. But a storm made the course look like a thing of the past. Montrose, located in the Angus county of Scotland, was hit with strong winds over the weekend from Storm Deirdre that blew sand from the beach onto the second hole. Montrose greenskeeper Darren McLaughlin
On Monday the PGA Tour announced that its PGA Tour Live subscription video service was moving to NBC Sports’ streaming channel, NBC Sports Gold. However, that won’t be the only direct-to-consumer portal for golf viewers in 2019. Amazon released a statement on Wednesday that it too had acquired PGA Tour Live rights for next season,
The clubhouse at Machrihanish Golf Club in Scotland was destroyed on Wednesday after a devastating fire hit the property. According to the Daily Record, officials were called to the course, which sits on the west coast of Scotland, around lunchtime. The early reports are no casualties, but the club’s steward lived in a flat above
To paraphrase a law enforcement official from my youth (long story involving a blinking red light), “Ignorance of the law is no defense for breaking the law.” The same holds true for competitive golfers when it comes to The Rules of Golf. The looming modernization of the game’s good book, set to go into effect
Life is good for Bernhard Langer, couldn’t be better, some might say. Some, however, would be wrong. The man who has discovered the fountain of youth and won’t reveal its location now has a Major League Baseball player in his family. Yep, on Dec. 1, Langer’s daughter Christina married Chase De Jong, who pitches for
6:46 PM ET Michael Jordan came in at No. 4 on Forbes’ annual list of America’s wealthiest celebrities, with a net worth estimated at $1.7 billion through a sneaker fortune and a 90 percent stake in the Charlotte Hornets. Tiger Woods was tied at No. 9, with an $800 million net worth, according to the
Ethan Miller The accuracy of net worth lists ought to be viewed, at a minimum, with a modicum of skepticism, but they are interesting nonetheless, notably when Diddy is shown to be worth more than Tiger and a 21-year-old woman is worth more than either of them. The list is Forbes’ annual ranking of America’s
If you’ve played much golf in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah or California, there’s a good chance you’ve played a golf course my husband designed or renovated. In all, John Harbottle is credited with 15 original layouts and more than 45 remodels. John and I met in college, at the University of Washington, and I remember
To say Andrew Landry came out of nowhere to contend for the 2016 U.S. Open is to be generous to “nowhere.” The Texan had just a dozen tour appearances to his name, with zero finishes inside the top 40, and started the week at Oakmont No. 624 in the world. So when he found himself