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The list of golfers with Utah connections who have won tournaments on the PGA Tour is long and distinguished and includes Hall of Fame members Billy Casper and Johnny Miller who are also Major Tournament winners as is Mike Weir. Regular PGA Tournament champions from Utah include Tony Finau and Jay Don Blake. Club Professionals…
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…
When Weber State collegiate golfer, Mike Malaska won the 1974 Utah Open golf tournament as an amateur, playing against the best professional golfers in the area, some who were also competing on the PGA Tour, it offered a hint of the promise of what he could accomplish in the sport of golf. But no one…
In the long history of the United States Golf Association and its hosting of our National Championships, no one has competed in every USGA event available to her than Sue Billek Nyhus. A total of nine USGA Championships over a long and successful playing career. It is a performance that will never be matched nor…
In my latest episode, I sit down with Golf Digest Senior Writer, Guy Yocum, a Utah boy who got his start in golf at Salt Lake City’s Rose Park Golf Course and then left home for the bright lights of New York City. As the song goes, “If you can make there, you can make…
Fairways Media President & CEO, Randy Dodson, is, in my estimation, the hardest working man in Utah Golf. As the Editor-in-Chief of Fairways, the official magazine of the Utah Golf Association, Utah Section PGA, and the Utah Junior Golf Association, Randy covers and reports on, what is basically, the entire spectrum of golf in the…