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...]
Ex-Bulldog Erik Compton stars at U.S. Open
For his entire golfing career, Erik Compton has been a heart transplant recipient who played golf. After his runner-up finish in the 2014 U.S. Open at Pinehurst, Compton may have finally become a golfer who has underdone two heart transplants. Ever since his days as one of the country’s top junior golfers in the late 1990s, almost everything written and said about Compton … [Read more...]