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2025 U.S. Amateur to Olympic Club February 21, 2019 The Northern California golf calendar has added yet another event. On Thursday, the USGA announced that The Olympic Club will host the 2025 U.S. Amateur Championship. It will mark the 12th USGA championship to be hosted by The Olympic Club. The course will also host the U.S. Women’s Open in…
2018 NCGA Hole-In-One Contest Winners February 19, 2019 NCGA members Ty Robb and Frank Buchanan were the big winners of the 2018 NCGA Hole-In-One Sweepstakes. Every year, the NCGA holds a Hole-In-One Sweepstakes where members can record their hole-in-one and be entered into a sweepstakes with the grand prizes being a round of golf for four…
The Big Easy at Poppy Hills February 11, 2019 Count four-time major champion Ernie Els as a fan of the new Poppy Hills Golf Course. Els, the winner of two U.S. Opens (1994, 1997) and two Opens (2002, 2012) who’s known as ‘The Big Easy’ due to his 6-foot-3 frame and smooth swing, stopped by the…
2018 NCGA Players of the Year December 3, 2018 NCGA Player of the Year—Nick Moore When Nick Moore won the 2018 NCGA Amateur Stroke Play Championship, he moved into a tie for third place on the all-time NCGA career win list with seven. The only two players ahead of him are NCGA Hall of Famers…
November 10, 2018 Suzy Whaley Elected 41st President of the PGA of America Whaley Becomes First Woman to Serve as PGA President PGA Master Professional Suzy Whaley was elected the 41st President of the PGA of America on Friday at the Association’s 102nd Annual Meeting. Whaley is PGA Director of Golf at Suzy Whaley Golf in Cromwell, Connecticut;…
November 5, 2018 BYU’s Peter Kuest Cards Course Record 61 at Poppy Hills Brigham Young University junior Peter Kuest got off to a record start at this week’s annual St. Mary’s Invitational at par-71 Poppy Hills Golf Course. Kuest, who grew up in Fresno and played on the Junior Tour of Northern California, fired…
August 30, 2018 NCGA’s Jeff Wilson Wins U.S. Senior Amateur Jeff Wilson finally got his turn atop the pinnacle of a USGA championship. On an overcast Thursday at Eugene Country Club, Wilson, 55, of Fairfield, Calif., became the first medalist in 31 years to win the U.S. Senior Amateur Championship, claiming the 64th edition with a 2-and-1 victory…
July 21, 2018 July 16-21, 2018, Poppy Hills Golf Course, Pebble Beach, Calif. mediacenter.usga.org/us-girls-junior | usgirlsjunior.org | #USGirlsJunior The traditional origin of the marathon comes from a story how a herald named Phidippides ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to announce a Greek victory. Concord resident Yealimi capped a brilliant performance in what became a marathon of golf.…
July 16, 2018 Lucy Li shoots 62, ties U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship record July 16-21, 2018, Poppy Hills Golf Course, Pebble Beach, Calif. mediacenter.usga.org/us-girls-junior | usgirlsjunior.org | #USGirlsJunior By Ian Dahl When Lucy Li walked in her 15-foot birdie putt on her fifteenth hole (No. 6), it was not because she knew it was going in the hole, it…
July 16-21, 2018, Poppy Hills Golf Course, Pebble Beach, Calif. mediacenter.usga.org/us-girls-junior | usgirlsjunior.org | #USGirlsJunior By Chris Ceman It’s been an eventful couple of weeks for Yealimi Noh, but a first-round 5-under-par 66 at the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship falls right in line with her latest accomplishment. A little over a week ago, the Concord native showed up…