Like the economy, the LPGA seems to be on the upswing these days. Granted, uncertainty remains about the global markets — and this global tour — but at least the ladies will be on American soil for the first time in 2012 when the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup gets under way this week at Wildfire Golf Club in Phoenix.
It took Kyle Stanley just one week – seven long days – to erase the darkest moment of his career with the brightest. His first-ever win at the Waste Management Phoenix Open didn’t come easy, but as the resilient Stanley can attest, they hardly ever do. Or just look to Spencer Levin, the latest…
Match play is one of golf’s most fickle and funny games. Just when a player thinks he’s got it all figured out, the mano y mano format jumps up and bites him like a sleeping dog. That lesson straight out of the school of hard knocks was reaffirmed Saturday in the final match of the 87th Arizona Amateur…
A waiter from Scottsdale, Michael Wog, will meet a “weekend warrior’’ from the same city, Bowen Osborn, in Saturday’s championship match of the 87th Arizona Amateur at the Country Club at DC Ranch. It marks the first time in eight years that a college-age player will not win this major championship…
The last time Jin Song went this far into the Arizona Amateur’s bracket of 64 players, he was just like his future teammate, David Lowe – an 18-year-old fresh out of high school kid just two weeks away from going to Arizona State.
But here it is three years later, and there’s Song again in the quarterfinals of this major championship sponsored by the Arizona Golf Association…
Zachary Sardina, an 18-year-old from Goodyear, was well aware of the challenge he faced Wednesday as the No. 63 seed in the 64-player bracket of the Arizona Amateur. After all, he was pitted against Sierra Vista’s Colin McCarty, the No. 2 seed and a very good player headed to Southern Illinois-Edwardsville this fall…
In recent times the Arizona Amateur has been ruled by college players, with the past seven champions falling into that age-group category. This year’s version is so heavy with collegians that even a coach from a major university showed up for the first two rounds of qualifying at the Country Club at DC Ranch…
If former major league pitcher Mark Mulder really took his golf seriously, who knows how well he’d play? But even if it’s “just for fun,’’ as Mulder likes to say, the ESPN commentator is pretty adept at golfing his ball. Mulder had it going Monday during the opening round of qualifying for the 87th Arizona Amateur Championship…
Seldom do coaching changes in college golf merit big headlines. But that rule of thumb was bent back nicely over the weekend when Arizona State confirmed that Tim Mickelson – the younger brother of PGA Tour star Phil Mickelson – will be the new men’s coach of the Sun Devils. Tim Mickelson, who led the University…