If golf’s TV producers haven’t figured it out yet, they will soon: the great amateur events are every bit as interesting, and likely more so, than what the golf played on the PGA Tour week in and week out. I’m not denigrating Tour golf, although at times in the season there is a numbing similarity to […]
By Bill Fields | Aug 19, 2017Special to espnW.com Harry How/Getty Images Cristie Kerr, right, gets a well-earned fist bump from Lexi Thompson for her record-setting 20 career points in the Solheim Cup. WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — If folks partaking in the midway games at the nearby Iowa State Fair were having as much […]
CLOSE Go behind the scenes and see what it takes to cover a world-class tournament. Buy Photo A staff of hundreds helps broadcast golf tournaments to viewers on Golf Channel each week.(Photo: Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register)Buy Photo In the entertainment world, true professionals take some seriously complicated concepts and turn them into must-see TV. The Golf […]
If the Chicago Park District is dead-set on creating a championship golf course on the South Side, the course had better be affordable for all Chicago golfers. Forget about tourists, wealthy suburbanites and visitors to the future nearby Obama Presidential Center. Our city’s public parks, including the fanciest of golf courses, must put Chicagoans first. […]
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the August 2017 issue of Golfweek DOWNINGS, Ireland – Once upon a time, a capricious and uncompromising land baron ruled over large swaths of County Donegal. William Sydney Clements, the 3rd Earl of Leitrim, was known to evict tenants for the mildest of transgressions. Lord Leitrim was so […]
Chris Keane Doug Ghim, a University of Texas senior, advanced to the quarter-finals of the U.S. Amateur at The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Copyright USGA/Chris Keane) Texas’ footprint in Southern California golf circles is legendary and growing, the latter courtesy of the University of Texas’ Sophia Schubert, who won the U.S. Women’s […]