Greensboro, Georgia--Reynolds Lake Oconee, the award-winning resort community situated on 19,000-acre Lake Oconee located between Atlanta and Augusta, will host the LPGA Tour Drive On Championship at Reynolds Lake Oconee, October 22-25, 2020. The Reynolds community stepped in to host the world's best women golfers after the LPGA Tour was forced to change its fall schedule [...]
Florida's premier meeting and golf destination, the Mission Inn Resort & Club announced that it will host a new Symetra Tour event October 11-17, 2020. The magnificent Howey-in-the-Hills resort will be the site for the Mission Inn Resort and Club Championship presented by Insurance Office of America(IOA). "Working with the Mission Inn and Symetra Tour during [...]
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina – Harry Radley, of Indianapolis, Indiana, made a gross par on the first hole of a three-way, sudden death playoff to emerge victorious in the Flight Winners’ Playoff at the 37th Annual Myrtle Beach World Amateur Handicap Championship on September 4 at Barefoot Resort’s Pete Dye Course. Radley, Doug Mrstik, of Sarasota, [...]
A Strange PGA Tour Season The 2019-2020 PGA Tour season will be remembered for a long time. The worldwide pandemic caused a disruption to our lives as well as the Tour’s schedule that hopefully will never be repeated. Besides the hiatus which resulted in just 36 tournaments being played rather than 46 as was done last [...]
A few random thoughts about the PGA Championship. The weather for the 102nd PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park, which is sandwiched between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean, was distinctly un-August like with the high for the week only 68 degrees. Puffer jackets and hoodies were more in evidence than short shorts and sandals. [...]
BOSTON, Mass – In partnership with the state of New York, the USGA has announced that due to ongoing health and safety concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic, the 120th U.S. Open Championship, scheduled Sept. 14-20 at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., will be conducted without spectators on-site. “Following months of consultation and scenario planning [...]
LAKE MARY, Florida - Timacuan Golf & Country Club in Lake Mary, Florida is hosting the Foley Performance Academy @ EaglesDream Junior All-Star July 21-23, 2020. This prestigious tournament is an official event on the American Junior Golf Association(AJGA) calendar and will feature 78 outstanding girls and boys between the ages of 12-15. The AJGA is conducting [...]
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina – The 37th annual PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur Handicap Championship will be played as scheduled, Aug. 31 – Sept. 4, but the ever-popular event is making changes necessary to ensure a safe environment for players. More than 2,250 players have already signed up for this year’s tournament, which will again allow golfers the [...]
It was no surprise last week when the PGA of America, owners of the Ryder Cup, and the two tours whose players make up the competing teams pushed back the matches originally scheduled for September at Whistling Straights (Kohler, Wisc.) until 2021. The importance of protecting the tens of thousands of fans, volunteers, players, caddies and [...]
HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Fla. – It was Megan Schofill who raised the 91st Women’s Amateur Championship on Sunday at the Mission Inn Resort & Club. Schofill overcame a 10-shot deficit to capture her first FSGA championship. The Championship was played on El Campeon, the historic century-old golf course that still is one of Florida's finest layouts with over [...]
