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IVINS — “I’m a bird guy,” Joseph Platt says. A roadrunner seen in an undated image through a remote camera at the Black Desert Resort, Ivins, Utah | Photo courtesy of Joseph Platt/Black Desert Resort, St. George News The environmental consultant and professor of environmental studies at Utah Tech has made being a conservationist his […]
CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Colo. — It is as if Paul Chang, the unexpected sensation of this week’s 123rd U.S. Amateur at Cherry Hills, has been living in an alternate golf universe. For three years, he pestered longtime University of Virginia head men’s golf coach Bowen Sargent to give him a spot on the team. Never […]
U.S. Golf Assn. President Fred Perpall is working to make golf more accessible to diverse communities. (Chris Carlson / Associated Press) Fred Perpall, a Bahamas native who lives in Dallas, went from starting to take golf seriously just 10 years ago to in February becoming the first Black president of the United States Golf Assn. […]
By Aziah Siid, Word in Black Golf, like many sports, is riddled with a long history of systemic racism, which has contributed to a significant lack of representation of Black players. The numbers speak for themselves: of the roughly 24 million recreational golfers in the United States, only 3 percent are Black, and a mere […]
Reuters10:38 PM ET2 Minute Read LIV Golf players might be allowed on the U.S. Ryder Cup team this fall, according to captain Zach Johnson. “No decisions have been made,” Johnson said, speaking Wednesday at the TPC Louisiana in suburban New Orleans, where he is competing in the Zurich Classic. “There’s still a lot of time […]
Four-time major winner Rory McIlroy offered some of the harshest criticism yet of PGA Tour players who have defected to the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series, saying Wednesday that some are “duplicitous” for backing out of their commitments to the tour. McIlroy, speaking to reporters at a news conference ahead of this week’s Travelers Championship […]
BROOKLINE, Mass. — Jon Rahm walked off the 17th green with venom in his eyes. He just hit a sweet little spinning wedge to a few feet and poured it in for his third consecutive 3 as well as his third birdie across four holes. Suddenly, he had the solo lead at the 2022 U.S. […]
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