Conference Challenge: Sights and sounds
Behind-the-scenes at the Golfweek Conference Challenge, practice round edition.
Commentary: Test awaits at Golfweek’s Conference Challenge
Iowa junior Vince India already has a leg up on the field when the college golf season starts Sunday at Golfweek’s Conference Challenge.
Making the cut on Tour as a 16-year-old . . . "That's neat."
A father and his two small children stood outside the ropes at Sedgefield Country Club wearing “Saint X” T-shirts, cheering on 16-year-old Justin Thomas as he walked by.
Storm stories from Wyndham
How bad is the second storm of the day here at the Wyndham Championship? Well, you may have seen the lights go off during David Feherty’s interview with Freddie Couples. But, for the record, the television in the media center also went down for a minute or so.
Wet one at Wyndham
Got to the Wydham Championship this morning only to find the big digital leaderboards announcing a 90-minute delay on all third-round tee times.
Francis leaving UCLA for Arizona State
Philip Francis told Golfweek June 8 that he is transferring from UCLA after two seasons to enroll at Arizona State, but will have to sit out the 2009-10 season due to Pac-10 regulations.
Commentary: Review: 'Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010'
“Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010,” clearly the Tiger Woods of home golf video games, hit store shelves and mothers’ wallets around the country Monday, just hours following Woods’ comeback victory at Memorial – or as EA Sports executives are rumored to be calling it, the Promotional.
Aggies win NCAA title in thriller
Bronson Burgoon almost threw away the NCAA Championship, then hit one of the best shots in college golf history to earn Texas A&M its first national title.
Stop the changes to the NCAA Championship
Note to NCAA Division I Golf Committee members: With all due respect, take a five-year vacation. Or maybe 10.
Emotions run high in NCAA match play
The NCAA golf committee added match play to its championship to hopefully stir excitment and emotion; what it got out of Georgia vs. Oklahoma State – Round 1, Match 1, 7 o’clock Friday morning start – may never be duplicated.
Kim spurs Wolverines to match play
Even when things started to look really good for the previously overlooked, 43rd-ranked Michigan Wolverines Thursday afternoon at the NCAA Championship, things actually didn’t look so good.
IMG, Callaway in Danny Lee’s future
Reigning U.S. Amateur champion Danny Lee, who is scheduled to make his professional debut this week at the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans (Golfweek, March 28), has signed a deal to be represented by IMG.
Cabrera's Masters victory was worth the wait
On a heavenly Easter Sunday at Augusta National, golf fans stopped waiting for the roars and the fun to return, stopped waiting for the choir to come back to church; Argentina, meanwhile, stopped waiting for the green jacket it first set eyes on 41 years ago, when Roberto De Vicenzo inadvertently signed for a higher score and finished second by a stroke.
Behold a Battle of Unassuming Men
Sunday at the final Masters of the decade will predominantly feature a Battle of Unassuming Men, a bummer to the casual golf fan without even considering the acronym.
Kittleson creates lifetime memory
Florida State sophomore Drew Kittleson will spend some time Friday evening in the Crow’s Nest with his nose in the books, hoping to take a chunk out of all the homework that has piled up the last few weeks.
Kittleson creates lifetime Masters memory
Drew Kittleson may have missed the cut at the Masters, but he left with plenty of memories, and some cool prizes. Kittleson earned two pair of crystal goblets for making two eagles in the second round, including on the difficult 11th.
Tragedy lends Kim new perspective
A day before making more birdies in a single round at the Masters than anyone ever born, Anthony Kim walked off the 18th green Thursday evening at Augusta National feeling a big “sense of urgency.” He’d just posted 75 on a day characterized by many as the easiest day in Masters history, and was 10 shots off the lead when he hit his pillow.
Notables who missed the Masters cut
Greg Norman said he played better this week than he did at last summer’s British Open and missed the cut by two shots Friday at the Masters.
Newman closes strong at Augusta
Tough to blame Jack Newman for having a few first-tee jitters Thursday at the Masters. “I was unbelievably scared on the first tee,” Newman said. “But after a couple bogeys, I got more fired up than nervous.”
The red numbers are coming!
Ross Fisher was the first of three players to climb to 5 under on the leaderboard before Tiger Woods even teed off Thursday at the Masters, sticking his tee shot on the par-3 16th to a few feet for birdie.
Woods, Mickelson need big Friday
It was an atypical Thursday at the Masters, especially for fans of red, white and blue – and this has nothing to do with four out of the top five players on the leaderboard being American.
Commentary: On the Twitter bandwagon
This story is going to be longer than 140 characters, so forgive me for not posting it on Twitter.
Commentary: Out of focus at the Masters
One of the most popular stories coming out of Augusta National so far this week is that Padraig Harrington and his quest for the PaddySlam is not the most popular story heading into the Masters.
Woods sparkles at Bay Hill
It probably should come as no surprise that Tiger Woods delivered another “unbelievable” – as Arnold Palmer called it – performance Sunday night at Bay Hill. But, Eric Soderstrom asks, was it better than last year’s?
Commentary: Beware of the ailing Lefty
Winner of the most recent two-man race at the Blue Monster, Phil Mickelson, who late Saturday night was hooked into two IV bags, now has two wins this season.
2006: Internet networking creates pitfalls for athletes
“(College students) have grown up with computers and they do not see threats from computers. They trust computers.”
2006: Attention getter
A day before Luke Donald won the Honda Classic in style, it was still unclear as to whether people had been paying enough attention to the 28-year-old Englishman.
2006: Under review: Real golf on Line 1
NBC Sports Real Golf, the newest golf game for your talking machine, is everything you need in a cellular links experience.
2006: By Rex Hoggard Bradenton, Fla. Of the 22 juniors who schlepped halfway around the world and arrived at the sprawling IMG Academies bubble-headed, yet
The middle group of boys wasn’t above a little ribbing among themselves.
2005: Bonus for Southern Jr. champ
Michael Buttacavoli walked into an impromptu surprise party June 16 behind the 18th green at the Golden Bear Club at Keene’s Pointe.
2005: College - Quakers click in Division III victory
A bad shot almost cost Colin Clark the NCAA Division III individual title May 12, and his father was the one who took it.
2005: One heck of a Honda
Disappointment hung around the Honda Classic well before any fans started to.
2005: Thompson breaks through at Jones
Roberto Castro sounded a bit confused Feb. 19 as he walked away from the scoring table outside the clubhouse at Ocean Forest Golf Club.
2005: Birdies come in buckets for Overton
With the Big Ten checked off, Jeff Overton now can look toward a national title.
