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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…
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…
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…
Does the Bible mention Sports? If Jesus were alive today, would he participate in outdoor recreation, including golf? Is there a place for athletics, particularly the game of golf, in God’s Plan of Salivation for mankind? Existential questions that have been asked for decades and which all can pose serious challenges and obstacles for anyone…
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…