By Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle Updated 9:50 am CST, Thursday, January 17, 2019 Houston senior Leonie Harm has been invited to participate in the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur. Houston senior Leonie Harm has been invited to participate in the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur. Photo: (Ben Solomon/American Athletic C/Courtesy Of UH Athletics Photo: (Ben Solomon/American Athletic C/Courtesy Of UH Athletics Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 Houston senior Leonie Harm has been invited to participate in the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur. Houston senior Leonie Harm has been invited to participate in the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur. Photo: (Ben Solomon/American … [Read more...] about UH golfer invited to Augusta National Women’s Amateur
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Dave Anderson, sports columnist, Pulitzer winner, dies at 89
Ronald Blum, Ap Sports Writer Updated 1:52 pm PDT, Thursday, October 4, 2018 FILE - In this June 24, 2004, file photo, Dave Anderson, New York Times sports columnist, right, gestures while on a panel discussion with, from left, Jerry Izenberg, Newark Star-Ledger sports columnist, and Bill Conlin, Philadelphia Daily News sports columnist, while honoring the late Jimmy Cannon, New York Journal-American sports columnist, with the Red Smith Award during the Associated Press Sports Editors convention in Philadelphia. Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist, died Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, at an assisted living facility in Cresskill, N.J., The New York Times said. He was 89. less FILE - In this June 24, 2004, file photo, Dave Anderson, New York Times sports columnist, right, gestures while on a panel discussion with, from left, Jerry Izenberg, Newark Star-Ledger sports columnist, and ... more Photo: MIKE … [Read more...] about Dave Anderson, sports columnist, Pulitzer winner, dies at 89
Bernhard Langer is why it’s good to have golf back at Warwick Hills
Lynn Henning The Detroit News Published 8:14 PM EDT Sep 15, 2018 Grand Blanc – There was a scene late Saturday at Warwick Hills Country Club that made someone stop. And watch. For a very long time. It was not unusual by golf or Tour standards. Bernhard Langer stood on the edge of the practice green putting three balls at different holes from different angles. No drama there, except that for an hour he was the only player on that green. Which tells you Langer had work to do of a specific and personal nature. He had just shot 67 to leave him three shots behind the leaders, Jeff Maggert, Tom Lehman, and Scott McCarron, swinging into the final round of the Ally Challenge, a PGA Tour Champions stop for 50-and-older Tour stars who have shown up in nice numbers this week as celebrity golf returned to the old Buick Open’s home course. Now it was pushing 5 p.m. and finally beginning to cool a tad when afternoon temperatures had been in the 80s with humidity straight from … [Read more...] about Bernhard Langer is why it’s good to have golf back at Warwick Hills
Henning: Golf’s heritage in Michigan will add lore with next year’s PGA Tour stop at DGC
By Lynn Henning The Detroit News Published 8:15 p.m. UTC Jul 20, 2018 Now that the PGA Tour has decided a golf-starved region is due for some dining, you can all but see an orange-clad Ricky Fowler, or Tiger in his Sunday red and black, prancing down fairways as the Rocket Mortgage Classic is in early-stage assembly for its liftoff next June at Detroit Golf Club. Lots of chatter centers on what this could mean to Detroit, and specifically to the area around DGC. There is happy talk about economic impact, which might or might not be valid, and which seems to a person who knows that area from once having lived there for seven years to be incidental when Palmer Woods, Palmer Park, Sherwood Forest, and Green Acres are doing quite well, thank you, and when the nearby Avenue of Fashion, venerable Livernois, has rebounded in remarkable ways. Separate from dollar-sign notions about a Tour stop’s effects, the best reason for why it’s good to have a Tour event in Detroit, and … [Read more...] about Henning: Golf’s heritage in Michigan will add lore with next year’s PGA Tour stop at DGC
Paul Klee: MLB great John Smoltz brings pure joy to U.S. Senior Open
0 View Gallery View Comments This is about a man’s joy. Pure, genuine joy. It comes at a place made for joy and wonder — How on earth did they build a palace like this in 1918? Where are those chimes coming from? — and from an athlete who already had reached the pinnacle of sports, albeit in a different sport. John Smoltz’s wife called me as her husband was teeing off the No. 1 tee of the Broadmoor’s East Course for a practice roundon Tuesday. The first question came excitedly from Kathryn: “How’d he do?” Ripped it. Striped the fairway. Never a doubt. Back on June 1 when the Atlanta Braves' Hall of Fame pitcher was attempting to qualify for his first U.S. Senior Open, and called his wife immediately afterward, she didn’t have to ask how he did. Woody Paige: Colorado's golf history is long, and filled with characters you'll recognize “He was yelling into the phone: ‘We did it!’,” … [Read more...] about Paul Klee: MLB great John Smoltz brings pure joy to U.S. Senior Open