Golf

Mitch Jacobi’s first fall with the Kirkwood men’s golf team was “OK,” according to Eagles Coach Darin Pint. “The courses were slightly different than he was used to, and it took time for him to adjust,” Pint said. But hard work during the winter is paid dividends and Jacobi quickly became one of the top [...]

IOWA CITY — University of Iowa men’s golf coach Mark Hankins continuously stresses the importance of preparation before his team takes the course. The Hawkeyes’ annual Hawkeye-Great River Entertainment Invitational, which starts today at Finkbine Golf Course, sets up as preparation for an environment much like they will experience at the Big Ten Championships. “I [...]

AUGUSTA, Ga. — I’m glad Bubba Watson won that Masters playoff Sunday night, and not just because his name is Bubba. Nor is it because he’s from a Florida town of 1,500 people called Bagdad, though, how great is that? Nor is it because he hits tee shots with a big pink driver, though how [...]

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The crowd noise blasted across three Augusta National fairways to the No. 16 green at the Masters on Sunday. As Zach Johnson was facing a downhill putt off the fringe at 16, a roar grew, and grew, and grew some more, and was sustained for as long as you’ll hear fans cheering [...]

AUGUSTA, Ga. — A University of Iowa athletics trainer had been a spectator at Augusta National for just an hour when he found himself called onto the course to tend to an injured athlete. With any luck, Jesse Donnenwerth can fade into the gallery today and simply enjoy watching golf. But when Gary Woodland had [...]

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jason Dufner is to the Masters leaderboard what a pair of brown shoes is to a tuxedo. Nothing against Dufner, who obviously is no duffer. The guy did make it into a playoff at last year’s PGA Championship before losing to Keegan Bradley, after all. But Dufner has no PGA Tour victories [...]

AUGUSTA, Ga. — It was hard to tell which putt Zach Johnson liked more at the Masters Thursday, his 25-footer for eagle at No. 13 or the delicate 8-footer for par on the final hole. He didn’t hide his clear pleasure about either at the time, but he had a post-round moment of clarity. Crystal [...]

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The weather here isn’t doing the Masters golf tournament or Zach Johnson any favors. An overnight storm late Tuesday/early Wednesday toppled several trees on the Augusta National course. The top of the grandstand at the 16th-hole was damaged, and a large oak tree near that hole fell on a million-dollar restroom. Believe that [...]

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The new CEO of IBM is Virginia Rometty. This matters to some reporters here because IBM is a major corporate sponsor of the Masters, and every man who ever held the job of CEO of IBM has been a member here. And, because the club has no female members. So a couple [...]

AUGUSTA, Ga. — It is simply called  “The Big Oak Tree.” Just about everyone who is anyone in golf walks under it the week of the Masters. So do other assorted millionaires and billionaires. So do friends of the well-connected, friends of friends of the well-connected, and impoverished media mopes. The tree was planted in [...]