A total of 16 golfers with ties to Georgia will be among the 144 players competing in this week’s U.S. Open at Winged Foot in the suburbs of New York City. The group of Georgians includes three major champions, two former U.S Open runners-up, a top-10 finisher in the championship last year, two relatively unknown players who have won on the PGA Tour in the past 13 months, … [Read more...]
Stewart Cink Captures First Title in 11 Years with Weekend Comeback in Napa
During his first 13 years on the PGA Tour, Stewart Cink was among golf’s elite players on an annual basis. The former Georgia Tech standout was a fixture on both the Ryder and Presidents Cup teams, qualified for the Tour Championship eight times and became a major champion in his 13thseason, winning a memorable playoff in the 2009 British Open over Tom Watson. At the age … [Read more...]
3 Former Bulldogs Among Players in Field for Tour Championship at East Lake
Spectators will not be all that’s missing from the 2020 Tour Championship. The event returns to East Lake Golf Club this week for the 20thtime, and will be unlike the previous 19 Tour Championships held at the historic Atlanta club. Like the previous 13 PGA Tour events played this year after the three-month cancellation of tournaments due to Covid-19, the Tour Championship will … [Read more...]
Masters, Other Georgia Tournaments Cancelled or Postponed by Coronavirus
All professional and college sports in the U.S. scheduled for this Spring have been cancelled due to the spread of the coronavirus, and Georgia’s golf tournament calendar has been particularly impacted. Shortly after the PGA Tour announced the cancellation of the Players Championship after the first round was played Thursday, Augusta National officials announced the … [Read more...]
COLLEGE ROUNDUP: Tech, Southern, Augusta All Score Early 2020 Victories
Georgia Tech, Georgia Southern and Augusta all scored victories in the second starts of their 2020 schedules to highlight the first month of the Spring college season for the state’s Division 1 men’s programs. GEORGIA TECH opened its Spring schedule with a disappointing fifth place showing in Hawaii, but bounced back with a victory in Puerto Rico with Georgia among the teams … [Read more...]
Georgia PGA Schedule Includes New Event at West Pines; Echelon To Host Atlanta Open
The Georgia PGA schedule has one new addition for 2020, adding a two-day points tournament at West Pines in Douglasville. The tournament joins club-hosted events at Chattahoochee GC and Berkeley Hills CC as part of the Section schedule along with the five most prominent Georgia PGA championships that have been played for more than 20 years. Like the tournaments at … [Read more...]
Tim Weinhart To Be Inducted into Georgia Golf Hall of Fame
For the fourth time in the past seven years, one of a small group of Georgia PGA members who have dominated tournament play in the Section dating back to the 1990s will be inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame. Tim Weinhart will follow long-time competitors Stephen Keppler (Class of 2014), James Mason(’16) and Sonny Skinner (’18) into the Hall of Fame when he is … [Read more...]
WOMEN’S COLLEGE ROUNDUP: Georgia Wins in California; Augusta, Mercer Take Second
Georgia picked up its first victory of the 2019-20 season and Mercer and Augusta each scored runner-up finishes to highlight the early stages of the Spring college season for Georgia’s Division 1 women’s teams. The Bulldogs collected a title in the Gold Rush event in Seal Beach, Calif., scoring a resounding victory over a field that lacked for a top nationally-ranked … [Read more...]
State Am at Atlanta AC Highlights 2020 GSGA Schedule
A pair of trends in Georgia amateur golf continued in 2019, one at the state level and another in a national championship. The national story involved Alpharetta’s Bob Royak, who became the second Georgia senior to claim a USGA title over the past decade, capturing the U.S. Senior Amateur Championship in Durham, N.C. Royak’s victory was the 13thin a USGA championship over … [Read more...]