October 1, 2019 The 102nd PGA Championship will mark the first PGA Championship in San Francisco, and will mark only the sixth municipal course to host a major championship in the 120-year history of American championship golf. San Francisco’s TPC Harding Park, which is owned by the City and County of San Francisco, was selected back…
I Accidentally Moved My Ball – What Do I Do Now? October Rule of the Month Accidental movement of your golf ball during a round is one of many areas in the Rules that underwent a lot of player-friendly change in the new 2019 Rules. Still, some golfers may be confused about when there is…
September 30, 2019 Junior Tour of Northern California member Sam Sommerhauser and Youth on Course member Ashley Menne have joined the likes of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as a champion at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Sommerhauser, a 17-year-old senior at Whitney High in Rocklin and member of The First Tee of Greater Sacramento, won…
September 27, 2019 Mrs. Rogers’ Neighborhood: NCGA President Gail Rogers at The PURE First round co-leader Joey Sindelar called it “a spectacular day.” NCGA President Gail Rogers agreed. Rogers, the first female NCGA president, got in her first round at this weekend’s PGA Tour Champions PURE Insurance Championship Impacting The First Tee with…
September 18, 2019 This past Monday, PGA of America’s 501 (c)(3) charitable foundation PGA REACH, Stephen and Ayesha Curry’s Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, and Workday, a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, partnered to host the inaugural Stephen Curry Charity Classic presented by Workday at TPC Harding Park in San…
September 17, 2019 If you follow social media (and the NCGA) on Twitter, you may have seen Phil Mickelson’s latest Phireside chat, which involved the NCGA’s own Poppy Hills Golf Course. In the post, which Mickelson introduces by calling it, ” one of the most interesting moments that have happened with me on the PGA Tour,”…
September 13, 2019 Since being named the captain of Team USA for a third time back in January, NCGA Hall of Famer Juli Inkster has been preparing to lead 12 American women to the goal of winning a third consecutive Solheim Cup. The time has finally come and Inkster is ready for her team to…
September 6, 2019 Watch Out for Junior Tour of Northern California at Upcoming PURE Insurance Championship Don’t be surprised if a Junior Tour of Northern California player walks away with the Pro-Junior title at the upcoming PGA Tour Champions PURE Insurance Championship Impacting The First Tee. The event, set to tee off Sept. 27-29 at…
August 27, 2019 NCPGA’s ‘The Langley’ Raises $280K For Military Veterans The Northern California PGA Foundation has announced that its signature fundraising event in 2019, The Langley: A Tribute to Legends Charity Pro-Am Golf Tournament, raised a record $280,000 in support of PGA HOPE (Helping Our Patriots Everywhere) golf programming for Veterans. The 12th annual event, sponsored…
August 19, 2019 Recent Stanford grads Isaiah Salinda, who won the 2017 NCGA Amateur Match Play Championship and 2018 Pacific Coast Amateur, and Brandon Wu were named to the 2019 U.S. Walker Cup squad. This year’s Walker Cup will tee off Sept. 7-8 at Royal Liverpool in Hoylake, England, against the best amateurs from Great Britain…