Tiger, Elin Splitsville
Tiger Woods and his former supermodel wife, Elin Nordegren Woods, have divorced and will share custody of their two children, their lawyers confirmed today. For more, click here.
North-South Sr. Challenge Seeks Entrants for September Event
The North-South Senior Challenge is seeking prospective entrants for its Ryder Cup-style event Sept. 26-28 at Desert Greens Golf Course in Albuquerque.
The three-round event features two 18-player teams from Northern and Southern New Mexico age 50 or older. There will be three competitive matches: four-ball, alternate-shot and individual. To print the entry form, click here. [Read more →]
USGA Sends Kempter Mixed Signals
Albuquerque’s Katie Kempter was briefly listed Wednesday as among the field in the U.S. Women’s Open at Oakmont Country Club in Pittsburgh, but later in the day a Japanese player, Chie Arimura, was in Kempter’s spot in the 8:39 a.m. starting time Thursday from the No. 1 tee at Oakmont.
Here’s what the USGA’s onsite spokeswoman, Beth Murrison, said of the incident late Wednesday:
“(Katie) was a fourth alternate. Earlier a Japanese player tried to communicate to the USGA she was withdrawing. She meant to tell us she was only withdrawing from the practice round. It is usually understood that she meant she was withdrawing from the championship, that she was withdrawing entirely.
“Katie was onsite and we notified her she was in the field and everything was done. Then we heard 2-3 hours later from the Japanese player and she clarified that she was not withdrawing.
“They found Katie and informed her of what happened and she was gracious and understanding. She was wonderful. Now she is the No. 1 alternate and if anyone else drops out, she is in the field.”
Letter from the Gulf
Editor’s Note: Duncan Millar is a PGA professional with the Gulf Shores Golf Association, a collection of top-quality golf courses clustered around Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Ala., a vacation destination on the Gulf of Mexico renowned for great seafood, fishing, white sugar-sand beaches and plenty of affordable lodging.
We followed up on an September 2009 golf-travel assignment for the Chicago Sun-Times by asking Duncan how the area is holding up since the BP oil spill. Surprisingly, he replied it’s not the oil but the national news media that is keeping people away. Here’s his report:
“One thing we really want to get out in a message is that things are okay here. It is not the hazardous wasteland that the media is making it out to be.
2017 U.S. Open Goes to Erin Hills
The USGA has also announced its intention to award the 2018 U.S. Amateur and 2019 U.S. Open The United States Golf Association has named Erin Hills, a daily-fee public golf course about 35 miles northwest of Milwaukee in the town of Erin, Wis., as the site of the 2017 U.S. Open.Championships to Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links.
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