Archive for July, 2009
Cheryl Stacy will be taking over as the Michigan women’s golf coach, Director of Athletics Bill Martin announced Friday.
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UCLA rising sophomore Gregor Main strung together consecutive 67s and was tied for the lead midway through the third round of the Southern Amateur before play was halted due to darkness.
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Tiger Woods made a pair of double bogeys on Turnberry’s back nine Friday and has missed his first cut in a major since the 2006 U.S. Open at Winged Foot. Meanwhile, Tom Watson’s storybook run continues.
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Golfweek will be on the scene at the U.S. Junior and U.S. Girls’ Junior at Trump National Golf Club. Here are their predictions:
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Greg Chalmers stayed on top of the leaderboard Friday, firing a second-round 67 to move to 9 under and build a two-shot lead in the U.S. Bank Championship.
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Seve Ballesteros said he would like to play in the British Open at St. Andrews in 2010.
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Five-time British Open champion Tom Watson hasn’t played much golf since having surgery Oct. 2 to replace his left hip. But as Jeff Rude writes, he is still allowed to dream, particularly at Turnberry.
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Golfweek’s fleet of reporters is on the scene this week at Turnberry. Here are their predictions.
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Jarin Todd recorded seven birdies in a 6-under 66 Wednesday to share the first-round lead at the Southern Amateur Championship.
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Yueer Cindy Feng (pictured) shaved six shots off her first-round 73 and moved into a tie for the lead Wednesday at the AJGA’s McDondald’s Betsy Rawls Girl’s Championship. Feng is joined by first-round leader Alison Lee, who shot 68.
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Rickie Fowler (pictured) and Nick Taylor recorded big victories Wednesday at the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship. The All-Americans head into the Round of 32 in top form, reports Ron Balicki.
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It took a few extra holes, but top-seed Candace Schepperle defeated Sarah Elliot Wednesday to advance into the second round of match play at the North & South Women’s Amateur Championship at Pinehurst No. 2.
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Kelli Kamimura has been named the Washington State women’s head golf coach. Kamimura comes to the program after five years as both an associate and assistant women’s coach at Pepperdine.
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Former Texas A&M assistant coach Jonathan Dismuke has been named the head coach at the University of Houston.
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The shock of white hair hasn’t changed much. The swing is pretty much the same, too, though these days people no longer crowd around the tee just to see how far he can bang it down the fairway.
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