An Ohio golf course is offering a $5,000 cash reward for information leading to an arrest
after someone drove a "side by side" vehicle across the turf in the dead of night. Turkeyfoot Lake Golf Links, one of the oldest public golf courses in the Akron area, posted photos of the damage and has already sent video to local law enforcement.
The incident occurred near midnight on Saturday and the course is planning to pursue "all available criminal charges, as well as full restitution for the damages caused."
A tale of the tape isn't quite as intimidating when it's just two golf dudes getting ready to do battle in a sudden-death playoff.
Yet here we are with this graphic of the two Monday morning playoff combatants in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. The final round was cancelled Sunday at Port Royal because of winds that reached 40 mph. The PGA Tour announced later Sunday that it would only be a 54-hole event. But the problem was, there was a tie at the top of the leaderboard between Austin Smotherman and Seamus Power. Smotherman won the Bank of Utah Championship earlier this month for his lone tour title. Power has two but hasn't won in four years. Here are some numbers regarding both men, noting that neither is favored over the other according to the odds. They are scheduled to begin the playoff at 8 a.m. ET and it will be aired on Golf Channel.
John Catlin punched his ticket to both the Masters and British Open Sunday by winning the Asian Tour’s Hong Kong Open.
The 35-year-old Californian, who also has a base in Thailand, shot a final-round 64 at Hong Kong Golf Club to win easily by five shots. The highest score he shot all week was a second-round 66. This will be his first appearance at Augusta National. In four previous Open appearances, he has missed the cut three times, but he tied for 16th place in 2024 at Royal Troon. "Hard to put it into words," he said.
The PGA Tour is facing some tough decisions over the next 24 hours because of the weather at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
With winds already gusting up to 30 mph in Saturday’s third round, the forecast gets far worse for Sunday, going from scattered showers in the morning to thunderstorms and a 100-percent chance of rain in the afternoon. Further troubling is the prediction of wind gusts up to 47 mph, which could force the stoppage of play, even if lightning doesn’t.
The tour sent a notice to the players on Friday night and said that play could be extended into Monday. Unfortunately, the forecast isn’t great for that day either, with an 80-percent chance of rain.
How concerned is the tour about the weather? Golf Channel’s Gabby Herzig reported on Saturday that, in anticipation of the high winds, the green speeds on the Port Royal course have been slowed down to 9.5 on the Stimpmeter. That's a lot when the standard tour speed is 12. She also said the tournament is removing all high-profile signage that could be blown over.
This has to be a nervy time for the players—many of whom are battling for their cards for 2027. From Bermuda, they’ll head to Puerto Vallarta for the VidantaWorld Mexico Open. That’s a 2,600-mile flight, though they’ll likely be on charters, since a commercial filght takes almost 14 hours with layovers.
Andrea Lee called in the “most quiet hole-in-one I’ve ever hit.” In the second round of the LPGA’s BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea.
The Stanford alum hit a 9-iron from 122 yards on the eight hole. The ball took a small hop and bounced into the cup for an ace. And in the video, we could hear exactly one person clapping for it. “No one even screamed on the green,” said Lee, who traded rather subdued high-fives with the caddies and playing partners.
The prize deserved a bigger celebration, because Lee won a BMW Mini Countryman car. "It feels awesome,” Lee said. "It honestly came when I least expected it. I wasn't even looking at the car. I just wanted to hit a good shot, and somehow it went in.”
Funnily enough, the last time Lee made an ace, in the LPGA Shanghai pro-am, she got a toy car. "I was like, I don't want this. I want the real thing," she said. "So I got the real thing today."
After an opening 78, the ace helped Lee shoot 66 in the second round. She followed that with a 70 on Saturday and sits T-45. Korean Haeran Ryu—the winner of two majors this season—takes a four-shot lead into the final round.
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