KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Standing on the 18th tee with a two-shot lead in a championship he refused to imagine himself winning, Phil Mickelson took one last violent swing with a driver — the club that betrayed him 15 years earlier in the U.S. Open. His tee shot Sunday in...
Showstopper DeChambeau Brings His Behemoth Drives to Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The cart picking up golf balls on the practice range at Augusta National can only go so far. Club members were swapping tales Tuesday about the staff who reached the end of the range and had to sort through azalea bushes more than 350 yards away to...
Bryson DeChambeau Blasts Way to U.S. Open Title
MAMARONECK, N.Y. — What was supposed to be a typical U.S. Open produced a most unconventional champion. Bryson DeChambeau was not the least bit concerned by the narrow fairways or the ankle-deep rough that shape Winged Foot into historically the toughest of all U.S. Opens. With his extra 40 pounds...
Mayor Brand Will Make Shelter-in-Place Announcement Friday
Mayor Lee Brand will announce news regarding the city's shelter-in-place ordinance Friday morning. The order expires at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, May 6. Also in Politics 101: Could golf and tennis return? Gov. Gavin Newsom says its OK. A look at Fresno crime stats. More federal money coming to...
Some Golfers Play On. But Open Courses Becoming Scarce.
Even as the coronavirus pandemic has shuttered restaurants, bars and beaches, many golf courses have managed to stay open with all sorts of precautions in place to promote social distancing, from sanitizing carts to removing rakes from bunkers. The hope is that golf can provide a safe outlet for the...
Mickey Wright Leaves a Legacy of Big Wins, Beautiful Swing
The swing was so fundamentally sound that it got the attention of anyone who knew and cared about golf, even those considered to be among the greatest to ever play. The appeal was so strong that it carried an entire tour, even as the attention became suffocating. The rate of...
Column: From Orphan in China to Playing With Pros at Pebble
Kayli Lucas is headed to Pebble Beach to play in a PGA Tour Champions event, a dream week for a 17-year-old girl from Tennessee who knew nothing about golf until a friend from church invited her out for a lesson at The First Tee. She liked how the club felt...
Will DeChambeau Turn a Very Good Year Into a Great Year?
Bryson DeChambeau has had a very good season on the PGA Golf Tour: one victory, five Top 10 finishes, and $3.1 million in prize money. But, with start of the 2019 FedEx Cup playoffs, the Clovis East High School grad has a chance to go from good to great. Moreover,...
Trump Awards Medal to Tiger Woods, Calls Him ‘True Legend’
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump awarded golfer Tiger Woods the nation's highest civilian honor on Monday, describing the 43-year-old as a "true legend" who transformed golf and then fought through years of injury to return to the sport's summit. Trump awarded Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He's the...
College Golfer in Hijab out to Blaze Trail for Muslim Girls
LINCOLN, Neb. — Noor Ahmed outwardly lives her Muslim faith, and even growing up in a state as diverse as California she says she encountered hostility on the street, in school and on the golf course. One of the top junior golfers in Northern California coming out of high school,...