PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fl. – In recognition of his character, sportsmanship and commitment to charitable giving, nine-time PGA TOUR winner and 2012 FedExCup Champion Brandt Snedeker has been named the 2024 recipient of the PGA TOUR’s Payne Stewart Award presented by Southern Company. Snedeker will be honored on Tuesday, August 27, at the Payne Stewart Award Ceremony in conjunction … [Read more...]
TOUR Championship announces record $5.5 million donation from 2022 tournament
ATLANTA – TOUR Championship officials today announced a record $5.5 million charitable donation from the 2022 tournament, up from $3.7 million in 2021. The announcement was made during Atlanta Land Trust’s groundbreaking for The Trust at East Lake, a 40-townhome development that is being aided by the TOUR Championship’s charitable donation and will provide permanently … [Read more...]
GSGA Announces Georgia Golf Hall of Fame Class of 2023
The GSGA is pleased to announce the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame Class of 2023: Billy Andrade, PGA, is a well-known professional golfer and winner on the PGA TOUR and PGA TOUR Champions, who has brought honor both to the game and to the Atlanta community for more than three decades. Billy Fuller, the former superintendent at Augusta National Golf Club and current owner of … [Read more...]
Larry Fitzgerald, Tom Glavine, Andruw Jones and Billy Andrade headline return of TOUR Championship Charity Challenge
ATLANTA – TOUR Championship officials today announced the return of the TOUR Championship Charity Challenge, a televised nine-hole exhibition on Wednesday, Aug. 24, from 3-5 p.m. to benefit the East Lake Foundation and the TOUR Championship’s other charitable beneficiaries. The match, which will be played in a scramble format, will take place on the back nine at historic … [Read more...]
Billy Andrade honored with PGA TOUR’s Payne Stewart Award presented by Southern Company
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida – In recognition of his character, sportsmanship and commitment to charitable giving, Billy Andrade, who has enjoyed a 35-year career on the PGA TOUR and PGA TOUR Champions, has been named the 2022 recipient of the PGA TOUR’s Payne Stewart Award presented by Southern Company. Andrade will be honored on Tuesday, August 23, at the Payne Stewart Award … [Read more...]
Phillips Wins 68th Sunnehanna Amateur
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. --- Georgia’s Trent Phillips won the 68th Sunnehanna Amateur by one stroke on Saturday at Sunnehanna Country Club. Phillips, a rising senior for the Bulldogs, landed at 9-under 271 with rounds of 69, 68, 66, and 68. He finished one clear of Duke’s Ian Seibers and was two better than Travis Vick of Texas. Phillips joins Paul Claxton (1991) as the only Bulldogs … [Read more...]
2020 Champions Tour Preview: Augusta’s Scott Parel Takes Over as State’s Top Senior
The 2020 Champions Tour began last month in Hawaii and includes a new early season event in Morocco before returning to the U.S. and a mostly familiar schedule beginning with a mid-February tournament in south Florida. The tour is back in the Atlanta area for its annual stop at TPC Sugarloaf in Duluth, scheduled for April 17-19. With two off weeks before the Mitsubishi … [Read more...]
Ex-Bulldog Tommy Tolles Second in Champions Tour Playoffs Event
Coming into last week’s Champions Tour Playoffs opener in Richmond, Va., former Georgia Bulldog Tommy Tolles needed a top-10 finish to advance to the second of three Schwab Cup events. Tolles did a little better than that, finishing second behind Miguel Angel Jimenez. Thanks to his runner-up finish, Tolles improved from 59 to 37 in the Schwab Cup standings, putting himself … [Read more...]
Billy Andrade Loses in Champions Tour Playoff at Pebble Beach
Atlanta’s Billy Andrade made a strong run at capturing his first Champions Tour title since 2015, but settled for second place after losing in a playoff Sunday to Kirk Triplett at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Triplett, who won the event for the third time – the first two in 2012 and ’13 – birdied the first playoff hole, the par-5 18that Pebble Beach. Both he and Andrade layed up … [Read more...]