Author: Jaida Hampton

UCLA men’s golf head coach Armen Kirakossian announced the addition of transfer Andy Yoon from Cal State Dominguez Hills Sunday morning. Yoon will compete as a junior in the upcoming 2023-2024 season. “We are very excited to welcome Andy to Westwood,” Kirakossian said. “Andy is under the radar having started competitive golf later than most. He played his last two years at Cal State Dominguez Hills where he recorded his first collegiate win. It’s hard to win golf tournaments and Andy has shown rapid improvement. He is coming in with a chip on his shoulder and very hungry to prove…

Mizzou men’s golf will be searching for a new head coach ahead of the 2023-24 season. MU Athletics announced that head coach Mark Hankins resigned, on Sunday. Just minutes after MU’s announcement USC announced that it has hired Hankins’ as their new head coach. In a press release, Athletics Director Desiree Reed-Francois thanked Hankins for his service to the Tigers and wished him well in the future. “We have one of the best coaching jobs in the country. Our golf program is on the rise: Old Hawthorne is a phenomenal home facility and we are surrounded by a strong golf…

American golfer Bryson DeChambeau told CNN he “feels bad” for PGA Tour players who did not take the “risk” he did by joining the breakaway LIV Golf series, in the wake of the shock reconciliation between the warring tours on Tuesday. An announcement by the PGA Tour declared a partnership with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, as well as the DP World Tour, unifying the trio under a new, yet-to-be-named, commercial entity. It looks set to end years of bitter public and legal friction between the different tours, a conflict that DeChambeau quickly found himself at the center of after becoming one of the first…

The Wisconsin Junior Golf Tour is a development tour for kids from age 5 to age 18. The whole idea of it is to make young golfers comfortable by competing and meeting competitors their age. The tours’ main goal is to help young golfers achieve whatever it is they hope to in the game of golf. “We really want to set them up for high school golf, middle school golf, college golf, wherever they want to be we want to help them,” said tour director Ryan Champeau. The tour is a passion project for Champeau, who would spend hours driving…

TORONTO — Rory McIlroy said he hopes the LIV Golf League is going away, but an official for the rival team-focused circuit told ESPN on Thursday that the league being fronted by two-time Open Championship winner Greg Norman isn’t going anywhere. “We know the big picture,” the LIV Golf official said. “We don’t know the details because this is the beginning of the [merger and acquisition] process. There’s just a lot to be worked through in the coming weeks. I think a lot of our questions will be answered … but the big picture, LIV is not going anywhere. “We are — and we…

Despite retiring from the PGA Tour a long time ago, Bernhard Langer manages to keep the golf community in his wake. The 65-year-old scripted history at the PGA Tour Champions in February, equaling the record for the number of wins in the senior league. Yet, Langer has also been in the firing line during his extended golf tour. The German golfer’s putting action has been under the scanner throughout his career, something which has caught up again after his success in the PGA Tour Champions. But his recent meltdown at the Regions Tradition tournament has caught everyone off guard. The…

Annika Sorenstam has been a fixture in the game for decades. Not only has she competed at the highest level with incredible success — she won 72 LPGA events including 10 majors — but she also continues to serve as an ambassador for the sport, helping a new generation understand the game and teaching them how to play it well. Twenty years ago this week, Sorenstam also became the first woman in more than 50 years to play in a PGA Tour event. Competing at the Colonial, she was paired with Dean Wilson and Aaron Barber for the opening rounds, providing another…

American Talor Gooch has fired a flawless 10-under-par 62 to take the opening-round lead at the inaugural LIV Golf tournament in Adelaide. Key points: Gooch carded 10 birdies at the Grange Golf Club on Friday to be four shots clear of Englishman Richard Bland and South Africa’s Dean Burmester. The 31-year-old Gooch went on a hot streak of five consecutive birdies in benign conditions at the sandbelt course in Adelaide’s west. Australia’s Cam Smith posted a three-under 69. Fellow Australian Matt Jones reached 4-under, before slipping late to finish even par. Compatriot Marc Leishman was 1-under. Only 10 players in the…

It’s officially major season, and the biggest names in golf are working to make sure their games peak at the right time. Of course, everyone would love if they could play their best all the time, but that’s simply not attainable. Because of this, most players try to get their games to peak a few weeks a year, typically around major season. That’s not to say players aren’t always grinding away to improve, though. Professional golfers eat, sleep and breathe the game, and a majority of their waking hours are spent perfecting their craft. But there are a variety of ways they…

Last year, Phil Mickelson, Ian Poulter and Brooks Koepka raised some eyebrows with their decision to depart the PGA Tour and join the controversial breakaway league LIV Golf. They weren’t the only ones, but they have made a lot of money from doing so since they were among the highest profile names to take the Saudi Arabian money. The wealth of the LIV Golf stars Mickelson’s net worth is estimated at 462 million dollars at this stage of his career, while he received as much as 305m dollars to leave the PGA Tour and join LIV Golf. It is believed that, over the years, Mickelson has earned more…