Coming into the final FedExCup Playoffs event prior to the Tour Championship, Roberto Castro faced a tall order to achieve a top 30 finish in the points standings and a spot in the field at Atlanta’s East Lake Golf Club. Castro, who grew up in Alpharetta, enjoyed a successful four years at Georgia Tech and has settled in Atlanta, needed to finish third at Crooked Stick to … [Read more...]
6 Georgians Earn PGA Tour Cards for 2016-17
Six players who either live in Georgia or played their college golf in the state were among the top 25 finishers on the Web.com Tour’s final regular season money list, and will be rookies on the PGA Tour for the 2016-17 season. Four other Georgia residents finished in the top 75 on the money list and will compete in the Web.com Finals, a series of four tournaments beginning … [Read more...]
Former Augusta State Star Patrick Reed Wins Playoffs Opener
Coming into the first of the FedExCup Playoffs events, Patrick Reed was very much on the bubble of the U.S. Ryder Cup standings, holding down the eighth and final spot for automatic inclusion on the team, with the Barclays the final tournament before the eighth automatic spots were determined. Considering his performance in the 2014 Ryder Cup in Scotland, Reed was almost … [Read more...]
Matt Kuchar Takes Home Bronze Medal from Olympics
Ordinarily, a player the caliber of Matt Kuchar would not be in a particularly celebratory mood after a third place finish in a tournament, with the exception of a major championship. Kuchar already had a trio of third place finishes this season, one in the Players Championship and another in the WGC event at Firestone. But his most recent third place showing was a … [Read more...]
Savannah’s Gene Sauers Takes U.S Senior Open Title
When Savannah native Gene Sauers left the PGA Tour in 2005, he did not expect to return to golf as a profession. Six years later, Sauers was told he had only about a 25 percent chance of survival as a result of a mysterious skin ailment he contracted that doctors could neither diagnose nor treat. Fortunately for Sauers, his condition was finally diagnosed and treated, … [Read more...]
3 Ex-Georgia Collegians on Olympic Team
Bubba Watson, Patrick Reed, Matt Kuchar to Represent U.S. When golf makes its return to the Olympics this month, the four-man U.S. team will consist of three players with Georgia ties, two of whom made the squad thanks to the lengthy list of world class players who elected to skip the Games in Rio de Janeiro. The players not competing in Rio have largely overshadowed those … [Read more...]
Ollie Schniederjans a winner on Web.com Tour
When recent Georgia tech standout Ollie Schniederjans returned to the Atlanta area to compete in a U.S. Open sectional qualifier, he was feeling pretty good about his play at that point of his rookie season on the Web.com Tour. Three weeks later, after his first professional victory in a Web.com event in Wichita, Schniederjans was feeling considerably better about his game … [Read more...]
Roberto Castro Comes Close to First PGA Tour Win
Loses late lead, playoff at Quail Hollow Since his outstanding PGA Tour season in 2013, Roberto Castro has been searching to re-locate the game that landed him in the Tour Championship at East Lake in just his second season in golf’s major leagues. Castro finished 21st in the FedExCup standings in 2013 and seemed headed for a prosperous PGA Tour career after a successful … [Read more...]
Augusta’s Scott Parel perfect in Champions qualifiers; Web.com veteran 5-for-5 on Monday, Tuesday
In baseball, if you get two hits every five at-bats over the course of a season, you bat .400, something that hasn’t been accomplished in 75 years. After five full-field events on the 2016 Champions Tour, Augusta’s Scott Parel is 5-for-5 in Monday/Tuesday qualifiers, with his fifth successful attempt coming in the recent Mitsubishi Electric Classic at TPC Sugarloaf. … [Read more...]