golf

Pinehurst No. 2 tests world’s best

June 13, 2024 Shawn Krest

The U.S. Open returns to Pinehurst No. 2 this week. For the best golfers in the world, that means only one thing—trouble. The Open offers the highest purse of golf’s majors—over $20 million last year, […]

Golf House Pinehurst makes debut

May 20, 2024 Shawn Krest

A month before it became the center of the golf world’s attention, Pinehurst became golf’s home. With Pinehurst No. 2 getting finishing touches in advance of hosting next month’s U.S. Open, the USGA opened Golf […]

McIlroy turns in big round for sizable win in Charlotte

May 20, 2024 Ryan Henkel

Life is full of iconic duos. Bacon and eggs, peanut butter and jelly, Tom and Jerry and Rory McIlroy and Quail Hollow. For the fourth time in his career, McIlroy came away with the trophy […]

Elevated events show a divide among PGA Tour events for ’23

October 18, 2022 The Associated Press

RIDGELAND, S.C. — The PGA Tour will have a four-month stretch of 12 tournaments that are either majors or have $20 million purses in what figures to be a taxing year for the elite players. […]

HILL: Doing business with bad people

August 3, 2022 Frank Hill

A lot is being made of top PGA golfers jumping to the LIV Tour for monumental amounts of money. It brings to mind conflicting thoughts: 1) Shouldn’t any American be free to make as money […]

Schauffele wins Scottish Open, 4th victory in the last year

July 11, 2022 The Associated Press

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — Xander Schauffele keeps making up for lost time. Winless for more than two years, Schauffele picked up his fourth win in the last 12 months Sunday when he overcame a rough […]

Column: PGA Championship delivers strongest field for majors

May 10, 2022 Doug Ferguson, Associated Press

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 […]

SKVARLA: Dormie Club leaves its conscience at the door

December 18, 2021 John E. Skvarla, III

Golf is ostensibly the game of gentlemen. A self-policing sport where players call penalties on themselves. One would associate these tenets with sportsmanship as its hallmark feature The Dormie Club in West End, North Carolina […]

Stricker fills out US team with 4 more Ryder Cup rookies

September 9, 2021 Doug Ferguson, Associated Press

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. […]

USGA bringing headquarters, tournaments to Pinehurst

September 8, 2020 Shawn Krest

North Carolina will soon be a second home to the USGA. The United States Golf Association and political officials from all levels of state and local government announced last week that the USGA will be […]