ATLANTA, (GA) --- For the fourth time since 2017 the Georgia Open presented by L & J Golf, Layr, and E-Z-GO will be contested at The Ford Field and River Club in Richmond Hill next week. The Championship dates are August 5-8, with the sold-out Pro-Am set for Wednesday, August 4th. The Georgia Open annually attracts a diverse field, with mini-tour pros and amateurs … [Read more...]
Large Group of Georgians Competing in Savannah Golf Championship
The Savannah Golf Championship, originally set for early April, is one of a handful of Korn Ferry Tour tournaments to be re-scheduled, and will played this week at the Landings. The tournament is the next-to-last on the tour’s 2020 schedule, which is being combined with the 2021 schedule to determine the 25 players who will earn PGA Tour cards for the following season. The … [Read more...]
Georgia Open: Results
Roswell, GA --- Mini-tour professional Jonathan Keppler of Marietta fired a closing round of five-under par 67 making birdies on the 16th and 17th to capture the 69th Georgia Open presented by L&J Golf at Jennings Mill Country Club in Watkinsville. Keppler finished at 15-under par 273 for the week and collecting the first-place check of $6,000. With Jonathan’s victory, … [Read more...]
Q school roundup: Tim O’Neal Reaches European Tour Finals
Savannah’s Tim O’Nealhas advanced to the finals of qualifying for the 2020 European Tour, making it through first and second stage qualifiers in Portugal and Spain. Atlanta resident Samuel Del Val, like O’Neal a former Georgia Open champion, advanced from a first stage qualifier in England, but missed by two shots of advancing from the same second stage qualifier as O’Neal … [Read more...]
Samuel Del Val Takes Third in Spanish Open; Dori Carter, Shad Tuten Also Make News
Former Georgia Open winner Samuel Del Val enjoyed the best week of his professional career, finishing in third place Sunday in the Spanish Open, a European Tour event. Del Val, the 2010 Georgia Open champion, is a Spanish native who attended college in Georgia and has lived in the state since he graduated from Berry College a few months before his Georgia Open … [Read more...]
Web.com Tour returns to Landings in Savannah for second time
The Web.com Tour returns to the Landings in Savannah for a second year, with the 2019 tournament set for March 28-31 on the Deer Creek course. Last year’s inaugural event produced plenty of final round fireworks, as first year pro Sam Burns out-dueled Alpharetta’s Roberto Castro in a Sunday birdie barrage to win by one shot. Both Burns and Castro are playing on the PGA … [Read more...]
O’Neal Receives Charlie Sifford Exemption into PGA Tour Event in LA
Savannah’s Tim O’Neal will make a start in next week’s PGA Tour tournament in Los Angeles as the recipient of the Charlie Sifford Memorial Exemption. The tournament, which is sponsored by luxury automaker Genesis, has been awarding exemptions to golfers from minority backgrounds in honor of Sifford since 2009, and O’Neal had been hoping for a call since that first … [Read more...]
Savannah’s O’Neal Closes with 64 to Win Georgia Open at Ford Plantation
After finishing second or third the three most recent times the Georgia Open was played in Savannah, Tim O’Neal faced a possible fourth near miss in his home town, beginning Sunday’s final round of the 2018 edition of the tournament two shots off the lead. Barrett Waters, who had finished between fourth and sixth each of the last three years in the Georgia Open, held the … [Read more...]
Georgians Advance in U.S. Open Qualifying; Tim O’Neal, Lee McCoy Among Group
Local qualifying for the 2017 U.S. Open has concluded, with approximately two dozen golfers with Georgia ties advancing to sectional qualifying. Sectional qualifying is scheduled for June 5 at 10 sites throughout the U.S., including one at Hawk’s Ridge in Ball Ground. Two of the local qualifiers were held in the Atlanta area, with Summer Grove in Newnan and Stone … [Read more...]