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Alexa Pano tied for 10th at Stage II of LPGA Q-School but will not advance. After her petition to attend Q-Series was denied, Pano competed in both Stage I and Stage II to try to secure Symetra Tour status. When asked about her plans for 2022, the 17-year-old said sheContinue Reading

“I gotta go play in playoff, I think,” Doug Barron could be heard on Golf Channel telling a group of young fans as he signed autographs after his final-round 68 at the Dominion Energy Charity Classic. Barron had minutes before birdied the par-5 18th hole at The Country Club ofContinue Reading

Jin Young Ko’s victory at the 2021 BMW Ladies Championship brought about a number of individual successes, but it represented so much more. Ko’s 11th career victory is the 200th for South Korean players on the LPGA. That she accomplished the feat on South Korean soil made it all theContinue Reading

Fredrik Andersson Hed, who won the Italian Open in 2010 and retired in 2015, died Sunday of cancer. The European Tour confirmed his death. He was 49. “Fredrik was much loved in the golfing world and beyond, particularly amongst our Scandinavian players and staff, past and present,” said European TourContinue Reading

A complete list of the golf equipment Hideki Matsuyama used to win the PGA Tour’s 2021 Zozo Championship: DRIVER: Srixon ZX5 (9.5 degrees), with Graphite Design Tour AD DI 8 TX shaft (From $499.99 at Carl’s Golfland and Dick’s) FAIRWAY WOOD: TaylorMade SIM2 Titanium (15 degrees), Cobra King RadSpeed Tour (19 degrees), withContinue Reading

The PGA Tour made its first visit to Asia since the 2019 WGC-HSBC Champions for the 2021 Zozo Championship. Hideki Matsuyama delighted the fans by winning on home soil to earn his seventh PGA Tour win and the first-place prize of $1,791,000. Matsuyama made three birdies and an eagle onContinue Reading

Jin Young Ko went into the second round of the BMW Ladies Championship with a nothing-to-lose mentality. Her streak of consecutive rounds in the 60s had come to a disappointing close at 14 and she needed a reset. It didn’t take long for something else special to come along. KoContinue Reading

To hear PGA Tour veteran Pat Perez tell it, Hideki Matsuyama is beloved like a rock star at home in Japan. “I played behind Hideki [on Friday], and it’s like seeing Elvis,” Perez said. In bright sunshine, Matsuyama gave his adoring fans an unforgettable performance, making three birdies and anContinue Reading

It never crossed the mind of Terry Moore, a Golf Association of Michigan governor and golf writer, that one day he would be contacted by a screenplay writer for permission to include his name in a story and then called by an actor doing research on playing Terry Moore inContinue Reading

Steve Flesch has been approaching golf more relaxed recently, and it’s paying off this week at the Dominion Energy Charity Classic at The Country Club of Virginia. “I’m not overthinking it at night,” Flesch noted after his first round Friday. “I’m just playing golf, having fun out here. That’s reallyContinue Reading