Blog: Local Knowledge
- Finally, a slow-play penalty
- Alas, it happened in a national championship, the U.S. Amateur, but at least someone had the nerve to call it, in a prominent pairing, no less. Tim Jackson, the medalist at Southern Hills, was assessed...
Blog: Local Knowledge
- The sons also rise at the U.S. Amateur
- A number of sons of more prominent fathers (for the moment, anyway) have advanced to match play in the U.S. Amateur at Southern Hills. Among them: -- Kevin Tway, son of former PGA Championship winner...
Blog: Local Knowledge
- A golf junkie's payoff
- Vinny Giles is a career amateur who made his living representing PGA Tour players, including Davis Love III, Tom Kite and Lanny Wadkins. Despite the considerable demands involved in representing elite athletes, Giles still found...
Blog: Campus Insider
- What if soon-to-be pro Fowler wins APL or Amateur?
- Rickie Fowler revealed this week what most people had speculated for some time now: that he will turn pro this fall after his likely participation in the Walker Cup, rather than return to Oklahoma State...
Blog: Campus Insider
- Do you really want to win the U.S. Amateur?
- TULSA, OKLA.--Come Sunday afternoon, the last man standing from the 312-player field at the 109th U.S. Amateur will receive the customary spoils that go to the winner of the USGA's oldest championship. The Havemeyer Trophy....
Blog: Local Knowledge
- Mickelson, Irwin in U.S. Mid-Amateur
- Among the more familiar names competing in the U.S. Mid-Amateur that begins today at the Kiawah Island Club are those of Mickelson and Irwin, though they belong to lesser known members of the famous families....
Blog: Campus Insider
- As An learned, making history can be grueling
- TULSA, OKLA.--They only engrave your name on the Havemeyer Trophy, not the number of birdies or bogeys you made during the 36-hole final match. That should allow Byeong-Hun An, the 2009 U.S. Amateur champion, to...
Blog: Campus Insider
- An takes lead after morning 18 despite ragged play
- TULSA, OKLA.--I'm not sure just how time Ben Martin and Byeong-Hun An will actually spend eating lunch after completing the morning 18 holes of the U.S. Amateur's championship match. My guess is both will make...
Blog: Campus Insider
- The Country Club to host 2013 U.S. Amateur
- TULSA, OKLA.--The USGA announced that The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., will host the U.S. Amateur in 2013. The championship, scheduled for Aug. 19-25, will coincide with the centennial of 20-year-old amateur Francis Ouimet's victory...
Blog: Campus Insider
- Holland's dad becomes on-course reporter
- TULSA, OKLA.--Malcolm Holland doesn't have a Twitter account, but a PDA with working e-mail does the same trick. While following his son Charlie's quarterfinal match Friday morning against Peter Uihlein, Holland could be found putting...
Blog: Campus Insider
- Can a senior win a young man's game?
- TULSA, OKLA.--It was a quaint little story and all, Tim Jackson, age 50, becoming the oldest medalist in the 109-year history of the U.S. Amateur Championship on Tuesday. And with a penalty stroke to boot!...
Blog: Campus Insider
- Walker watching
- TULSA, OKLA.--There's a school of thought that says if you had already been picked for the U.S. Walker Cup team, the extra motivation to play well this week at the 109th U.S. Amateur Championship might...
