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Looking to provide a service to golf by hosting a tournament, Augusta National founders, thirteen-time major golf champion, Bobby Jones, and businessman, Clifford Roberts decided to hold an annual event inviting the world’s best golfers, beginning in 1934. The final decision was made at a meeting in New York at the office of member W.…
There are some pundits in the sphere of journalism that would decry the record-setting performance of the #1 player in the World and his overwhelming victory in the COVID-19 delayed 2020 Masters Golf Tournament. Those same scribes might place an asterisk next to the name of the 84th Masters Champion, Dustin Johnson, because of the…
In Dick Schaap’s seminal recounting of the 1974 United States Open Championship, Massacre at Winged Foot, which Hale Irwin won at seven over par, lapping the field. Utah’s Bruce Summerhays was the first contestant off the tee Thursday on that cool morning in early June. It is irony indeed that forty-six years later, when the…
Major championship golf has returned to the American sports scene with a vengeance. The 102nd PGA of America’s 2020 National Golf Championship was contested this last week at San Francisco’s Harding Park. A municipal golf course that anyone can play, the course was built in 1925 by the same architects that constructed the nearby ultra-private…
The 102nd edition of the PGA Championship will be conducted August 6-9, 2020, at San Francisco’s Harding Park Municipal Golf Course. It now becomes, because of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the first Major Golf Tournament of the year, and the first Major to be contested in over 382 days, the longest such interval since World War…
When Kelsey Chugg, the Utah Golf Association’s Female Player of the Decade, won the United States Golf Association’s Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship in 2017, she joined an exclusive group of Utah Golf Royalty. With that victory, she became only the 8th player in history with Utah ties to win a United States Golf Association event, and…