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Quiet efficiency

Jan 14, 2025 | globalgolfpost.com | Pete Kowalski |Dan Loman

The tenacity of soft-spoken Martha Linscott began as a high school golfer in Oklahoma. It continues today with Linscott’s matter of fact and unassuming way. In 2024, after a knee replacement, Linscott was the 2024 Kansas Women’s Mid-Amateur and Senior Player of the Year, winning the Kansas Mid-Amateur in a seven-hole playoff and qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, the U.S. Senior Women’s Open and the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, the third straight year she had done so.
PGA Tour’s ‘Opening Drive’ sets stage in Hawaii

Jan 9, 2025 | globalgolfpost.com | Pete Kowalski |Jeff Barr

The PGA Tour’s Opening Drive begins, fittingly, in Hawaii. Uplifted by the pervasive “aloha” spirit that focuses on all the good and kind pieces of human nature and the hope aligned with the turn of the calendar to 2025, Opening Drive is knitted into the events and attitudes of The Sentry, contested last week at Kapalua’s Plantation Course on Maui, and this week’s Sony Open at Waialae Country Club on Oahu.
It’s all relative

Nov 9, 2024 | globalgolfpost.com | Pete Kowalski |Dan Loman

Karen Moraghan (left) and sister Kristen Hunter at the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach (California) Golf Links. Karen Moraghan photoKaren Moraghan owns a formidable portfolio of success in golf, mostly behind the scenes and without a golf club in her hands. She is president of Hunter Public Relations * Special Events, a firm she owns and operates with her sister, Kristen Hunter.
Tradition of excellence

Nov 5, 2024 | globalgolfpost.com | Pete Kowalski |Dan Loman

Liz Haines (center) and the winning Merion team in 2024 Philadelphia Cup. Courtesy Women's Golf Association of PhiladelphiaThe Team Matches, first staged by the Women’s Golf Association of Philadelphia in May 1897 and conducted in the spring of each year, are the oldest and largest of all women’s golf competitions in the United States. More than 1,100 players from clubs within the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s authority compete for 22 cups in five inter-club matches in March and April.
Pride drives Merion’s sustained excellence

Oct 24, 2024 | globalgolfpost.com | Pete Kowalski |Jeff Barr

Liz Haines (center) and the winning Merion team in 2024 Philadelphia Cup. Courtesy Women’s Golf Association of PhiladelphiaThe Team Matches, first staged by the Women’s Golf Association of Philadelphia in May 1897 and conducted in the spring of each year, are the oldest and largest of all women’s golf competitions in the United States. More than 1,100 players from clubs within the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s authority compete for 22 cups in five inter-club matches in March and April.
On the move

Oct 12, 2024 | globalgolfpost.com | Pete Kowalski |Dan Loman

Anna Kittelson (left) and Deborah Smith at 2022 U.S. Adaptive Open in Pinehurst, North Carolina Courtesy Anna KittelsonEditor's Note: The inaugural GAP Adaptive Championship will be played October 14-15, so we thought we would revisit our GGPWomen story from May of this year featuring the woman in charge of the tournament, Anna Kittelson. Anna Kittelson, the manager of adaptive golf at the Golf Association of Philadelphia, likes moving fast.
Family ties

Oct 3, 2024 | globalgolfpost.com | Pete Kowalski |Dan Loman

After Brenda Corrie Kuehn played her way into the semifinals of this year's U.S. Senior Women's Amateur, one of more than 60 USGA championships in which she has played, GGPWomen thought it would be a fun to share this story, published last October. There is heritage in the image of Brenda Corrie Kuehn walking the fairways while eight months’ pregnant in the 2001 U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles Golf and Lodge.
Larry Hirsh preaches the value of golf

Oct 3, 2024 | globalgolfpost.com | Pete Kowalski |Jeff Barr

Larry Hirsh can answer hypothetical questions that never get asked. What is Merion Golf Club worth? Or Aronimink Golf Club? Or Philadelphia Cricket Club? The president of Golf Property Analysts, Hirsh, along with his staff, have conducted more than 3,000 appraisals of golf courses/facilities in 46 states, Canada, Scotland, Panama and the Caribbean since he opened the doors of his company in 1980.
Short’s story

Sep 26, 2024 | globalgolfpost.com | Pete Kowalski |Dan Loman

Lisa Short, who has only been playing golf for six years, qualified for her first USGA championship, the U.S. Senior Women's Amateur. Georgia State Golf AssociationLisa Short’s history of never backing down from a challenge is admirable, inspiring, and sometimes hard to believe. Short picked up golf only six years ago on the insistence of her son, Madison. Remarkably, Short was recovering from rare triple negative breast cancer and a subsequent year of chemotherapy and radiation.
Ground work

Sep 12, 2024 | globalgolfpost.com | Pete Kowalski |Dan Loman

Competitive golfers look for lines off the tee, among many other pieces of their game plans. They are quite a focused lot. Katrin Wolfe of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, has played in eight USGA championships and advanced to the round of 16 as the No. 62 seed at the 2023 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, losing to eventual finalist Kelsey Chugg, the 2017 champion. Wolfe has street cred as a player.