Articles by John Strege

December 23rd, 2024

Tiger Woods’ son Charlie makes a hole-in-one in the final round of the PNC Championship

Charlie Woods, apparently a chip off the old block, as they say, wrested the spotlight from father Tiger early in the second and final round of the PNC Championship with his first hole in one

November 26th, 2024

Tiger Woods announces he will not play in the Hero World Challenge that he hosts next month

Woods, who will turn 49 next month, is typically cryptic about the state of his health, hence no explanation for why he won’t be playing.

November 11th, 2024

Watch Bernhard Langer drain a long birdie putt at the Schwab Cup finale to deny Richard Green and Steven Alker

This is the 18th consecutive year the German has won at least one tournament on the PGA Tour Champions.

November 11th, 2024

Paul Waring wins the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship – and probably a PGA Tour card for 2025

Journeyman Paul Waring of England birdied the final two holes to fend off late challenges from Tyrrell Hatton and Rory McIlroy and win the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship at Yas Links in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.

October 7th, 2024

Wow, here’s an accomplished Scottish golf professional suggesting the iconic Road Hole at St Andrews should be blown up

It is somewhat shocking to hear his disdain for one of golf’s most historic and iconic holes disparaged by anyone, much less a Scot.

October 7th, 2024

Former top-ranked amateur Braden Thornberry wins Korn Ferry Tour Championship, joins Aussie Karl Vilips as one of 30 to earn PGA Tour promotion

Among the notable players to earn the PGA Tour promotion were Australia’s Karl Vilips, who won on the Korn Ferry Tour in August, Matt McCarty, who won three KFT events and finished first in points, former PGA Tour pro Harry Higgs and former Pepperdine University star William Mouw.

September 27th, 2024

She stopped playing competitive golf for almost two decades. Now Aussie Nadene Gole is the US Senior Women’s Amateur champion

Gole, 56, in the midst of a stellar 2024 that includes six earlier victories, one of them in the R&A Women’s Senior Amateur, defeated Canadian Shelly Stouffer, 3&2.

September 27th, 2024

Evan Beck wins U.S. Mid-Amateur, spectacularly avenging 2023 loss in the final

A 36-hole final for a national championship generally promises drama at some point in the match. On Thursday, Evan Beck did not comply en route to winning the U.S. Mid-Amateur title. Beck, 34, of Virginia Beach, Va., sprinted to an 8-up lead on Bobby Massa of Dallas through 18 holes at Kinloch Golf Club in Read more…

September 22nd, 2024

Promising Australian Jeffrey Guan struck in the eye by errant shot, suffers multiple fractures to the eye socket and possibly damage to his eyesight

Australian Jeffrey Guan, considered to be a potential star, was struck in the eye by an errant tee shot from a pro-am participant, reportedly resulting in multiple fractures to his eye socket, according to a report from Brad Clifton in Australian Golf Digest. Guan, 20, who missed the cut in his PGA Tour debut at Read more…

September 13th, 2024

Hana Ryskova prevails in an ‘all-Louisville’ final at the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur

The soundtrack to the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur final might have been “My Old Kentucky Home,” given the finalists’ ties to Louisville. But this match race, in the end, was no match at all. Hana Ryskova, 25, a native of the Czech Republic who played her college golf for the University of Louisville, defeated Louisville native Read more…

September 2nd, 2024

Here’s what Sahith Theegala’s self-imposed penalty ultimately cost him (hint: it’s 7 figures!)

Honesty is the best policy, so the saying goes, but in professional golf, it also sometimes come with a heavy price, as in the case of Sahith Theegala.

September 2nd, 2024

Breaking down Scottie Scheffler’s year by the numbers is pure insanity

There are good years and great years and then there are Scottie Scheffler years.

August 30th, 2024

Louis Brown wins U.S. Senior Amateur in his first tournament start in 11 months

Louis Brown of Marietta, Ga., found a shortcut to the finish line of a long week in the U.S. Senior Amateur on Thursday, by staking himself to an early lead to set up a 4-and-3 victory over Daniel Sullivan in the championship match at the Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tenn. Brown, 61, who played college Read more…

August 26th, 2024

With BMW victory, Keegan Bradley enters Presidents Cup picture and the real possibility of becoming Ryder Cup playing captain

Six weeks after he was named captain of the 2025 US Ryder Cup team, Bradley, 38, demonstrated a game still good enough to compete with the best by winning the BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club.

August 26th, 2024

Jason Day ends PGA Tour season with late stumble, while Justin Thomas qualifies for Tour Championship while flying home

[PHOTO: Getty Images] Justin Thomas was en route home to Florida when he moved into the top 30 in FedEx Cup points to qualify for the Tour Championship. Thomas left Colorado outside the top 30 after posting a four-under 68 in the final round of the BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club. He began Read more…

August 26th, 2024

Rory McIlroy hits barefoot shot while standing on rocks after breaking driver shaft on the tee

Rory McIlroy had quite an adventure on the ninth hole at Castle Pines Golf Club in the final round of the BMW Championship, one that included a snapped driver and a barefoot shot.

August 22nd, 2024

What to look for in golf this week: around the tours, Aussies, Women’s Open, PGA Tour

What to look for in golf this week: around the tours, Aussies, Women’s British Open, PGA Tour.

August 21st, 2024

Wyndham Clark is playing a home game at a mile-high altitude that should give him an edge. Will it?

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Home games in tour golf are rare, and those played at more than a mile high, in this case 6,200 feet, tilt the advantage further toward Denver’s favorite son Wyndham Clark this week. Or does it? Clark, a former U.S. Open champion and a recent Olympian trending in the right direction, Read more…

August 10th, 2024

World Golf Hall of Famer Chi Chi Rodriguez dies at 88

His given name was Juan, though the golf world knew him as Chi Chi, a better fit for the outsized personality who dwarfed his 5-foot-7, 135-pound frame. He was a golfer, yes, and a good one, but it was his showmanship and repartee that helped place him perpetually on center stage. Chi Chi Rodriguez died Read more…

August 5th, 2024

Leta Lindley avenges consecutive runner-up finishes in the U.S. Senior Women’s Open with a comeback victory

The game owes you nothing, so the theory goes, though in the final round of the U.S. Senior Women’s Open on Sunday, Leta Lindley played as though she was collecting on a debt that now is paid in full. Lindley, 52, twice the runner-up in two previous starts in this national championship, turned a five-shot Read more…

July 29th, 2024

Watch this Jhonattan Vegas tee shot that had the police involved

Sometimes in golf it’s better to not play the ball as it lies, as in the case of an errant Jhonattan Vegas tee shot during the final round of the 3M Championship on Sunday.

July 28th, 2024

Trevor Gutschewski defies his ‘longshot’ odds, wins the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, 4 and 3, over Tyler Watts

Theoretically, Trevor Gutschewski should not have even been playing for a national championship, a notion he had blithely mocked in an X post on Friday and validated a day later with a resounding victory in the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship final. Gutschewski, 17, who began the week 3,570th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, defeated Read more…