He has been asked about the struggles of Oregon more times than he would prefer this college football season, because when you attend college where greatness breeds greatness across the athletics spectrum, people are going to remind you when things aren’t so rosy.
PGA veteran Scott Piercy of Las Vegas fired a 6-under 65 to pull within three shots of the lead Saturday in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin.
Five-year-old Tommy Morrissey recently shot 1-over-37 on a regulation golf course designed by Tom Fazio. Missing most of his right arm, he has made a hole-in-one, has holed out from 90 yards and can recite the winners of golf’s major tournaments.
Brooks Koepka hasn’t been one to embrace a golf journey that provides little opposition, that physical or metaphorical track allowing one to move forward in the most uncomplicated of ways.
Western High grad and Golf Channel reporter Jerry Foltz hopes reinstating golf will grow the game, and that 150-pound rodents will stay off the fairways in Brazil.
The betting public still believes in Jordan Spieth, who is the fourth choice on the Westgate odds board at 12-1 in the year’s fourth major, the PGA at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey.
Phil Mickelson, who nearly made history in the first round, is the new British Open favorite at 4-1 odds. But it’s doubtful he’s going to run away and hide from the rest of the field.
Jason Day arrives at Royal Troon Golf Club in Scotland as the 8-1 favorite in this week’s British Open. U.S. Open winner Dustin Johnson is the second choice at 9-1.
When he won the 1954 state amateur, the woods were made of wood, and he was “Bobby Pratt, the par-busting schoolboy” according to the yellow newspaper clippings..
Deep roughs, fast greens and wet weather await the field of 156 players in the U.S. Open. Jason Day is the betting favorite at Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania.
