Category: News
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PGA Tour releases 2025 schedule
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida – The PGA TOUR today announced the 2025 FedExCup Regular Season and FedExCup Playoffs schedule, a 39-event slate that marks year two of the TOUR’s new competitive model. A combination of Full-Field and Signature Events offers heightened drama and consequence for fans — plus life-changing moments for the game’s biggest and newest…
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Valhalla Golf Club to host 2028 Solheim Cup
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 13, 2024 – The LPGA announced today that Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., will host the 21st Solheim Cup in 2028. The Solheim Cup is the biennial international match-play competition showcasing the best American players from the LPGA Tour against the top European players from the Ladies European Tour (LET). With the…
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World Golf Hall of Fame member Chi Chi Rodriguez dies at 88
This from Doug Ferguson’s AP article. Juan “Chi Chi” Rodriguez, a Hall of Fame golfer whose antics on the greens and inspiring life story made him among the sport’s most popular players during a long professional career, died Thursday. He was 88. Rodriguez’s death was announced by Carmelo Javier Ríos, a senator in Rodriguez’s native Puerto Rico.…
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Truist named title sponsor of PGA Tour event at Quail Hollow
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, and PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida – Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC), Quail Hollow Club and the PGA TOUR today announced a seven-year agreement for Truist to become title sponsor of the PGA TOUR’s Charlotte, North Carolina, event — renamed the Truist Championship. The announcement was held at the Truist Innovation & Technology…
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GWAA announces inaugural Herbert V. Kohler Scholarship recipients
ORLANDO, Fla. (August 1, 2024) – Amanda Vogt, a rising junior at Penn State University, and Aman Misra, who is pursuing a doctorate in journalism and media at the University of Tennessee, have been named the first two recipients of the inaugural Herbert V. Kohler Jr./GWAA Scholarship. Vogt and Misra, who were chosen by a seven-person…
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Mark Carnevale, PGA Tour winner and broadcaster, dies at 64
Sad news to report: Mark Carnevale, a PGA Tour winner in 1992 who went on to earn the Rookie of the Year honors that year and later became a popular broadcaster, died unexpectedly on Monday. He was 64. Carnevale worked the Genesis Scottish Open a week ago for PGA Tour Radio and was scheduled to…
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Keegan Bradley named U.S. Ryder Cup captain for 2025 matches
From the PGA OF AMERICA NEW YORK, NEW YORK (July 8, 2024) – PGA of America President John Lindert today announced that Keegan Bradley will serve as Captain of the United States Ryder Cup Team for the 45th Ryder Cup, which will be played September 26-28, 2025, at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, New York. The Woodstock,…
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Doug Ferguson’s speech as Memorial Tournament Journalism Honoree
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Tiger Woods Accepts Special Exemption Into U.S. Open
LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. (May 2, 2024) – The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced that three-time U.S. Open champion Tiger Woods has accepted a special exemption into the 124th U.S. Open Championship, which will be contested June 13-16 on Pinehurst Resort & Country Club’s Course No. 2, in the Village of Pinehurst, N.C. Woods,…
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Public Event to Honor the Late Pete Brown Scheduled May 1
(Burneyville, OK, April 11, 2024) The residents of Falconhead Resort in Burneyville, OK, are holding a public event on May 1 to honor the late Pete Brown, who was the first African American member of the PGA to win a Tour event. Brown made history in the 1964 Waco Turner Open, when Falconhead was known…