Golf

It started, as so many things do these days, with a social media video. This one showed an NCAA official—rather callously, it must be said—telling a group of young women about the “gut-wrenching” decision he’d just been a part of. “Even though the course is playable,” he says from a …

The fans who follow professional golf can cite plenty of memorable moments over the years from the Masters, the United States Open and the British Open.That isn’t necessarily the case with the least glamorous of the four majors, the P.G.A. Championship, which starts Thursday on the Ocean Course at the …

The British Open is played at a fairly set rotation of courses, but the winning score is as dependent on the weather — particularly the wind — as it is on the course itself. Winning scores at the Old Course at St. Andrews, for example, have ranged widely. Woods won …

Omar Uresti, 52, is 5 feet 6 inches tall with a slight belly and signature sideburns. Last month, he punched his ticket to this year’s P.G.A. Championship at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort in South Carolina by winning the P.G.A. Professional Championship. Uresti beat a field of …

“I’m in a completely different place in life,” he said. “Yeah, everything has changed, really.”He continued: “I think a lot has changed for the better. I’m standing up here probably more confident in myself, happier with where I am in my life, and yeah, just sort of enjoying everything, enjoying …

A young Rory McIlroy fan has shown he has enough talent on the golf course to rival his idol after he shot a course record just a day before he went on to help his GAA club win a league game. Charlie Cooley (18) shot a round of 62 at Belvoir …