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  • Suzann Pettersen Named Captain for 2024 European Solheim Cup Team

    Posted from the Ladies European Tour website. Suzann Pettersen has been named captain of the 2024 European Solheim Cup Team for next year’s competition at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Va., on Sept. 10-15, 2024.  The two-time Major winner, who is already preparing to lead the top 12 European female golfers at the 2023…

  • John Paramor: 1955-2023

    This article originally appeared on the DP World Tour’s website. The European Tour group is today deeply saddened by the passing of John Paramor, one of the most respected rules officials in the history of golf and a hugely popular figure across the entire Tour family. He was 67. John’s remarkable career spanned six different…

  • Stacy Lewis Named Captain for 2024 U.S. Solheim Cup Team

    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 13, 2023 – Two-time major champion Stacy Lewis has been named captain of the 2024 U.S. Solheim Cup Team. Lewis is already hard at work as captain for the 2023 Team and will now also lead the top 12 American female golfers as they represent their country at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in…

  • Angela Stanford, a Generous Giver, Honored with GWAA’s 2022 Charlie Bartlett Award

    By Jeff Babineau, GWAA   (ORLANDO, Fla., Feb 1, 2023) – Angela Stanford accomplished some mighty things during a career on the LPGA that stretched beyond two decades. She won seven times, including a long-awaited major championship at age 40 (2018 Evian Championship), and represented her country six times in the Solheim Cup. After a…

  • Ron Green Jr. to Receive PGA of America Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism

    This piece appears on the PGA of America’s website. FRISCO, Texas (Jan. 23, 2023) ー The PGA of America today named Ron Green Jr. of Charlotte, North Carolina, as the 2023 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism. Green Jr. and his work will be celebrated on April 5 at the Golf Writers Association…

  • Steve Stricker, Bob Ford, Peter Jacobsen to be honored at April’s ISPS/GWAA Dinner in Augusta

    By Jeff Babineau, GWAA (ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 19, 2023) – In a matter of weeks, Steve Stricker went from the high of captaining a 2021 U.S. Ryder Cup team to victory on home-state soil in Wisconsin to beginning the 2022 PGA Tour Champions season bedridden, fighting a mysterious illness that would deplete his strength and…

  • Zach Johnson Names Davis Love III as Vice Captain for U.S. Ryder Cup Team

    This appears on RyderCup.com. United States Ryder Cup Captain Zach Johnson today named Davis Love III as one of his Vice Captains for the 2023 Ryder Cup, which will take place Sept. 29-Oct. 1 at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club in Rome, Italy. Johnson previously appointed former Ryder Cup Captain Steve Stricker as a…

  • Scottie Scheffler, Lydia Ko, Steven Alker Voted GWAA Players of the Year

    (ORLANDO, Florida, January 10, 2023) – Scottie Scheffler, Lydia Ko and Steven Alker have been voted 2022 Players of the Year in their respective divisions by the Golf Writers Association of America.    Ko, 25, voted Female Player of the Year, is the only golfer among the three to have been previously honored as a…

  • Meghan Stasi Named 2024 U.S. Curtis Cup Captain

    Posted directly from the USGA website. Four-time U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champion Meghan Stasi, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been named by the USGA as captain of the 2024 USA Curtis Cup Team. A biennial competition between top female amateur golfers from the United States of America and Great Britain and Ireland (GB&I), the 43rd Match…

  • Block, Changkija, Sowards Win 2022 PGA Professional Player of the Year Awards

    This appears on the PGA of America’s website. FRISCO, Texas ー Michael Block of Mission Viejo, California; Sandra Changkija of Kissimmee, Florida; and Bob Sowards of Dublin, Ohio, won their respective 2022 PGA of America PGA Professional, Women’s PGA Professional and Senior PGA Professional Player of the Year Awards presented by Rolex in conjunction with…