John Strege

1 week ago | golfdigest.com | John Strege

It is insufficient, if not inaccurate, to simply note that this loan arranger got back in the saddle, as it were, trying another run at professional golf, and cashing a $1.71 million check in Cowtown on Sunday. It is more complicated, indeed more unlikely, than that. No scriptwriter conceivably would have created this scenario.

2 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | John Strege

The advantage talented teens have over older opponents is a paucity of mental scar tissue, offset perhaps by an experience disadvantage. So it was that the final of the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball on Wednesday came down to youth, Will Hartman and Tyler Mawhinney, combined age 35, versus experience, Evan Beck and Dan Walters, combined age 74.

2 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | John Strege

Arkansas sophomore Maria Jose Marin extended a streak of stellar NCAA championship rounds, this one providing admission into a pantheon of Razorback golfers. Jose Marin posted a final-round of three-under par 69 on the North Course at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., on Monday, her eighth straight round of par or better in the last two NCAA Championships, this one giving her an individual title.

2 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | John Strege

Extenuating circumstances, to put it delicately, put his PGA Tour Champions career on hold for 2 ½ years, but now at 55, Angel Cabrera is rapidly making up for lost time. The Argentinian won the Regions Tradition on Monday, his second PGA Tour Champions victory in his last four starts. “I always thought I would (win), but didn’t think it would be so fast,” Cabrera said through an interpreter.

3 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | John Strege

The final of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball had less to do with women than with girls, an all-teenage pairing that might have warranted having a chaperone rather than a scorer. But the victory delivered by Oregon natives Natalie Yen, 18, and Asia Young, 16, over two 16-year-olds from Kentucky, Athena Singh and Keira Yung, on Wednesday testified to the continuing growth and strength of the future of women’s golf.