The PGA Championship always has the strongest field of golf’s four majors. Next week at Southern Hills is no exception. It’s how the PGA of America gets around to making sure it has the top […]
SOUTHERN PINES — Annika Sorenstam was born in Sweden and lives in Florida. But when she set foot on the property at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club for last week’s U.S. Women’s Open media […]
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Jordan Spieth hit a 56-foot shot from a greenside bunker to 7 inches and beat Patrick Cantlay with the tap-in par putt on the first hole of a playoff Sunday […]
Technically, there are four pro golfers with ties to North Carolina who have won the Masters. As the Triangle Business Journal reported in 2019, 1998 champion Mark O’Meara was born in Goldsboro but his family […]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Leona Maguire became the first Irish winner in LPGA Tour history Saturday, closing with a 5-under 67 for a three-stroke victory in the LPGA Drive On Championship at Crown Colony. “It’s […]
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — The Americans were looking for a fresh start in the Ryder Cup with its youngest team ever, and it worked out even better Friday than they imagined at windswept Whistling Straits. Dustin […]
The only experience that matters to Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker is how the youngest U.S. team in history prepares for Whistling Straits in a bid to win back that shiny gold chalice. Equipped with […]
Equipped with the most captain’s picks in Ryder Cup history, Steve Stricker added four more rookies to his American team that included a mixture of obvious choices and perhaps a surprise, but no Patrick Reed. […]
J.R. Smith always planned on attending college at a North Carolina school. Eighteen years after deferring that ambition for a professional basketball career, he’s finally ready to make it happen. The former NBA first-rounder who […]
GREENSBORO — Kevin Kisner finally broke his playoff drought to win the Wyndham Championship. He hopes the victory will help him achieve another milestone — representing the United States in the Ryder Cup. Kisner stuck […]
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