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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…
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…
In 2016, when Jon Rahm was a fourth-year senior at Arizona State University and winning the Pac-12 Championship at the Country Club in Salt Lake City, he was also the #1 ranked player in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. A position he held for total of 60 weeks, an all-time record. He also won the…
As the President of the 40,000 plus membership of the Utah Golf Association, Kurt Bernhisel is responsible for overseeing the administrative working’s of the Association’s Membership, whose stated objective is to “promote interest in the game of golf by encouraging, organizing, supporting, sponsoring and administering golfing activities and programs without regard to race, color, or creed, and to…
It has been said that Golf Professionals wear many hats, but few men in the history of the PGA have a closet stacked with as much headgear as Utah Golf Hall of Fame member, Ernie Schneiter Jr. As a player, Ernie excelled from the first time he picked up a golf club, winning the Utah…