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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- While every player that competes on the NGA Pro Golf Tour has aspirations of teeing it up on the PGA TOUR, the road to the top can be a long one, filled with a myriad of twists and turns. But thanks to a partnership between the NGA Tour and the Reno-Tahoe Open, o...
As the old saying goes, U.S. Opens are all about hitting "fairways and greens." While the fairway part may help lead to hitting more greens, it's the second part that's proven to be more important the past 10 years. In that span, the winner has led the field in greens in regulation th...
SAN FRANCISCO -- PGA Tour veteran Brandt Snedeker has withdrawn from the 2012 U.S. Open due to a rib injury and will be replaced by University of Texas star Jordan Spieth. Spieth is coming off a victory in the NCAA Championship, winning his final match over Golfweek's top-ranked colle...
The Olympic Club, San Francisco The Olympic Club was established in 1860 and enjoys the distinction of being America's oldest athletic club, with some 5,000 members who compete in 19 sports out of its downtown San Francisco clubhouse. Its 45 holes of golf include the Lake Course, whic...
Ryan Reiterman, senior producer, Golf.com: A week after Tiger gave us another "You have to be kidding me!" moment, two of the best twenty-somethings, Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy, got their games back into form just in time for the U.S. Open. Before we get to all the questions head...
Exclusive Nike US Open Competition After a stunning Masters it's now time to welcome the second Major of 2012, the US Open, which starts shortly at The Olympic Club, California. To celebrate, we've teamed up with Nike to bring you the chance to win a prize that money really can't buy....
In January 2011, Nike started working with Tiger Woods on a golf shoe modeled on Nike's ultra-flexible Nike Free running shoe. After listening to what Woods wanted, Tobie Hatfield, innovation manager of the Nike Innovation Kitchen, began work on what would become the Nike TW '13. He b...
As the old saying goes, U.S. Opens are all about hitting "fairways and greens." While the fairway part may help lead to hitting more greens, it's the second part that's proven to be more important the past 10 years. In that span, the winner has led the field in greens in regulation th...
Who's playing at the U.S. Open this week? We've analyzed the field based on the following categories:
With playing partner Doug LaBelle II needing relief from a sprinkler head adjacent to the green and then a subsequent chip that left LaBelle still away, Williams waited and paced and waited some more. The wait was worth it, though, when he stepped up and drained the putt to win the Me...
International Golf & Resort Management Ltd (IGRM) has completed the successful handover of the Laguna Lang Co golf course part of the Laguna Hue Project in Vietnam, to the Banyan Tree group for whom it has acted as the Golf Project and Construction Manager. IGRM has overseen the devel...
Patrick R. Finlen, CGCS, director of golf maintenance operations for The Olympic Club, is the current vice president of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA). Established on May 6, 1860, The Olympic Club enjoys the distinction of being America's oldest athleti...
1. To play the week before a major championship, or not, that is the question. At least it was for Rory McIlroy , who broke from his routine and chose the former last week. It proved to be a wise decision for McIlroy, who was in contention in Memphis until a costly double bogey on the...
Adding to the challenge is the largely universal notion that the first six holes at the Lake Course "offers the hardest start in golf," according to USGA Executive Director and setup guru, Mike Davis . And that opening doesn't even include the longest hole in U.S. Open history, a 670-...
IJP Design announced its selection of public relations and marketing agency, Raker Goldstein & Co., based in Old Tappan, NJ, to handle the company's North American public relations for its trendy and classic styles for golfers. The UK-based label, designed for junior and adult males, ...
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PITTSFORD, N.Y. -- Shanshan Feng won the Wegmans LPGA Championship on Sunday to become the first Chinese player to win an LPGA Tour title and a major event, closing with a 5-under 67 for a two-stroke victory. The 22-year-old Feng, the only player from mainland China on the tour, had t...
Notebook: Allen finally gets his shot at Olympic text size Jun. 11, 2012 By Champions Tour staff The Champions Tour is idle for the week before heading to the Montreal Championship at La Vallee du Richelieu Golf Club (Vercheres Course) in Montreal. The purse is $1.8 million and the wi...
PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) -- Shanshan Feng set two personal goals this year on the LPGA Tour. She reached them both with one memorable round. Feng won the LPGA Championship on Sunday to become the first Chinese player to win an LPGA Tour title and a major event, closing with a 5-under 67 f...
Whenever we have a style question at Golf Digest, we walk down the hall and consult our fashion director, Marty Hackel (aka Mr. Style). But not everyone has this luxury, which is why we decided to bring Mr. Style to you. Proper style is elusive for many players. Most of us know some b...
Johnson won the St. Jude Classic on Sunday in his second event back after a back injury cost him nearly three months away from the PGA Tour, shooting a 4-under 66 that held off John Merrick by a stroke. It was Johnson's sixth career victory as he prepares to head to California to comp...
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Recent Illinois graduate Luke Guthrie, along with freshmen Patrick Rodgers of Stanford and Jordan Spieth of Texas, have earned sponsor exemptions to play in the John Deere Classic. The tournament will take place July 9-15 at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Ill. “The John Deere Classic embrac...
LAKE MARY, Fla. -- If the phrase "hidden gem" were in the dictionary, there would be a photo of Swan Lake Resort right there with it. Located in beautiful northern Indiana, Swan Lake Resort is truly a well-kept secret among the nation's leading golf getaways. But come May 19 2013, mem...
It's been 14 years since the U.S. Open was last contested at Olympic Club in San Francisco. That was 1998, before Luke Donald , Adam Scott or Geoff Ogilvy first played in a PGA Tour event. Before Rickie Fowler and Kyle Stanley had even teed it up in the American Junior Golf Associatio...
What a great finish to a great tournament in Memphis! Congratulations to Dustin Johnson, what a way to comeback from his injury. His ball-striking and touch around the greens showed that he is not only fully recovered, but has to be among the favorites for next week's U.S. Open. But t...
Spieth has been riding an emotional rollercoaster. He helped Texas win the NCAA title June 3, holing out for eagle 2 on Riviera's par-4 15th to beat Justin Thomas, the nation's No. 1 player, in Texas' final match against Alabama. He had U.S. Open sectional qualifying the next day in H...
Lindy Duncan never has been quite so consistent. Despite that, the Duke junior closed a year during which she won four individual titles with this statement: “I’m still trying to get better, because there is a lot of room to improve.” Duncan finished the 2011-12 season atop the Golfwe...
Al Tielemans/SI Sports Illustrated's cover. This story on Phil Mickelson's collapse at the 2006 U.S. Open first appeared in the June 26, 2006 issue of Sports Illustrated. FOR 69 holes of last week's U.S. Open, Phil Mickelson did a pretty good Tiger Woods impersonation. For most of a w...
