TULSA, Okla. -- Diane Lang won the USGA Senior Women's Amateur for the third time in four years, beating Toni Wiesner 6 and 5 Thursday at Tulsa Country Club. The 53-year-old Lang, a Jamaican who lives in Weston, Fla., also won the 2005 and 2006 tournaments. The sixth player to win the event three or more times, she also was a semifinalist in 2007, making her 22-1 in four years in the event. Lang won

FORT WORTH, Texas -- U.S. Walker Cup captain Buddy Marucci won the USGA Senior Amateur on Thursday, beating George Zahringer 2-up at Shady Oaks Country Club. The 56-year-old Marucci, from Villanova, Pa., won for the first time in 51 starts in U.S. Golf Association events. "It's great to get a win after all these years," said Marucci, best known for losing to Tiger Woods in the 1995 U.S. Amateur final. "It means a lot." Zahringer

RIVER HILLS, Wis. – It’s a well known fact, in the game of golf, a good short game can take a player a long way in a competition. That was certainly the case Thursday for Steve Wilson in the scheduled 36-hole final of the 28th U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship at Milwaukee Country Club. Time and again, Wilson, 38, of Ocean Springs, Miss., got up-and-down to save par. And time and again, he did that by sinking

RIVER HILLS, Wis. -- Todd Mitchell and Steve Wilson each won two matches Wednesday to advance to the 36-hole final in the U.S. Mid-Amateur. Mitchell, from Bloomington, Ill., routed Chris Lange of Bryn Mawr, Penn., 9 and 7 in the morning quarterfinals, and beat Sean Knapp of Oakmont, Penn., 4 and 3 in the afternoon semifinals at Milwaukee Country Club. Wilson, from St. Martin, Miss., edged Michael Stamberger of Plainfield, N.J., 2-up in the quarterfinals,

RIVER HILLS, Wis. – Todd Mitchell made it look easy. The 30-year-old from Bloomington, Ill., notched six birdies over 11 holes Wednesday morning and breezed into the afternoon’s semifinal round in the 28th U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship at Milwaukee Country Club. Mitchell, who spent two years in the New York Yankees minor league system, rolled past Chris Lange of Bryn Mawr, Pa., 9 and 7, the largest margin of victory ever in the quarterfinal round of

RIVER HILLS, WI -- Tim Mickelson, younger brother of Phil Mickelson, pulled out a 1-up victory over Scott Kammann on Monday in the first round of match play at the U. S. Mid-Amateur Championship. The runner-up in stroke-play qualifying for the tournament, Mickleson won the final hole with a par-4 to Kammann's bogey-5. Mickelson's putter saved him down the stretch. He made a seven-footer to win the par-4 16th hole and square the match, a

RIVER HILLS, Wis. –Two-time champion Tim Jackson shot a 5-under 65 on Saturday at Milwaukee Country Club to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of stroke-play qualifying in the U.S. Mid-Amateur. The 49-year-old Jackson, the 1994 and 2001 winner from Germantown, Tenn., had seven birdies and two bogeys. The top 64 after two rounds will advance to match play. “I expect to compete, but you don’t expect to shoot 65 on a USGA

PINEHURST, N.C. -- After a week full of autographs and adulation, Danny Lee is starting to feel like Tiger Woods at the U.S. Amateur. One more victory, and he'll surpass him. Lee moved to the brink of supplanting Woods as the youngest champion in U.S. Amateur history on Saturday by defeating Patrick Reed 3 and 2 in one semifinal. If Lee -- who is 18 years, 1 month old -- beats Florida State sophomore Drew

PINEHURST, N.C. – Adam Mitchell and Patrick Reed are giving the Georgia Bulldogs something to cheer besides football.   The Georgia teammates advanced to the U.S. Amateur semifinals Friday and kept alive the possibility of an all-Bulldog championship round.   Mitchell rallied to defeat Charlie Holland 2 and 1 in one quarterfinal, and Patrick Reed defeated Graham Hill 4 and 3 to reach a Saturday semifinal matchup against perhaps the field’s hottest player: fellow 18-year-old

I played in the 1980 U.S. Amateur at Pinehurst No. 2/CCNC and had one of my career rounds with an even-par 72 on No. 2 in the qualifying event to get into match play. The Bermuda rough there was the toughest and longest I’ve ever seen -- so thick you could lose a ball inches off the putting surface. Combine that with the undulations on the greens, and the U.S. Amateur was as tough as

PINEHURST, N.C. -- Adam Mitchell and Patrick Reed are giving the Georgia Bulldogs something to cheer besides football. The Georgia teammates advanced to the U.S. Amateur semifinals Friday and kept alive the possibility of an all-Bulldog championship round. Mitchell rallied to defeat Charlie Holland 2 and 1 in one quarterfinal, and Patrick Reed defeated Graham Hill 4 and 3 to reach a Saturday semifinal matchup against perhaps the field's hottest player: fellow 18-year-old Danny Lee.

PINEHURST, N.C. -- Kevin Tway took another step toward establishing himself, while a former NCAA champion made an earlier-than-expected exit from the U.S. Amateur. The son of former PGA champion Bob Tway defeated Philip Francis 2-up Wednesday in the first round of match play, winning a matchup of former U.S. junior amateur champions on the renowned No. 2 course at Pinehurst Resort. "My dad's making me play real smart," Tway said. Meanwhile, 2007 NCAA medalist

PINEHURST, N.C. -- A whirlwind of a month is almost over for Danny Lee. First, he became only the sixth player in the 106-year history of the Western Amateur to sweep medalist and match play honors, joining a group that includes Phil Mickelson and Curtis Strange. Then came a tie for 20th over the weekend in his PGA Tour debut at the Wyndham Championship. Those performances leave the 18-year-old player from New Zealand as one

MAINEVILLE, Ohio -- Anthony Paolucci won the Junior PGA Championship on Saturday, beating fellow Dallas player Jordan Spieth with a 6-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff at TPC River's Bend. Danielle Frasier of Encinitas, Calif., won the girls' division by seven strokes. The 15-yeare-old Paolucci closed with a 1-over 73 to match Spieth (68) at 12-under 276. Paolucci made a double bogey on No. 17, then made a 2-foot birdie putt

This isn't how Danny Lee expected to prepare for the U.S. Amateur -- not that he's complaining. The world's top-ranked amateur could have worked out the few kinks in his game with a practice round or two at Pinehurst, N.C., before the national championship of amateur golf begins there Monday. Instead, he went some 75 miles across the state to Greensboro to tune up with the pros after making his first start on the PGA

EUGENE, Ore. -- Duke star Amanda Blumenherst won the U.S. Women's Amateur on Sunday, rallying to beat NCAA champion Azahara Munoz 2 and 1 in the 36-hole final at Eugene Country Club. Blumenherst, the three-time national college player of the year, was 1-down after the morning 18 and still a hole behind through 27. She squared it with a birdie on the par-4 10th and took the lead with a par on the par-5 13th

EUGENE, Ore. -- Duke star Amanda Blumenherst and NCAA champion Azahara Munoz advanced to the U.S. Women's Amateur final Saturday at Eugene Country Club. Blumenherst, the three-time national college player of the year, beat 15-year-old Erynne Lee of Silverdale, Wash., 3 and 2. Munoz, the Arizona State star from Spain, held off compatriot and close friend Belen Mozo 4 and 3. Blumenherst, a two-time Curtis Cup player, reached the 36-hole final for the second straight

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — NCAA player of the year Amanda Blumenherst shot a 6-under 66 Monday to take a two-stroke lead after the first round of the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship at Eugene Country Club. Alison Walshe, of Westford, Mass., shot a 4-under 68. Australian Stephanie Na and Canadian Stephanie Sherlock are three shots back entering Tuesday's final round of stroke play. The field of 156 will be cut to 64 for five rounds of

From The Golf ChannelWEST HARTFORD, Conn. – Alexis Thompson defeated Karen Chung, 5 and 4, to claim U.S. Girls’ Junior on Sunday at Hartford Golf Club, becoming the second-youngest winner in the event’s 60-year history.At 13 years, 5 months and 17 days, Thompson is only two months older than 1999 champion Aree Song Wongluekiet, who was 13 years, 3 months, 7 days. Chung, also 13, would have been nine days older than Wongluekiet.This was also

From GOLF.comSHOAL CREEK, Ala. (AP) — Cameron Peck won the U.S. Junior Amateur title on Saturday, 10 and 8 over Evan Beck for the largest margin of victory in four years.The 17-year-old from Olympia, Wash., won six of the first eight holes and cruised over Beck, also 17, from Virginia Beach, Va.Peck earned a spot in the 2008 U.S. Amateur competition at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina starting Aug. 18."I don''t think it has sunk

From GolfweekBy DAN MIROCHAAssistant EditorSHOAL CREEK, Ala. – For the second year in a row, an exempt U.S. Junior Amateur champion will not be in the field at the U.S. Amateur.Cory Whitsett, who was granted a two-year exemption into the U.S. Amateur after his victory at last year’s U.S. Junior at Boone Valley, missed the July 2 registration deadline for next month’s U.S. Amateur at Pinehurst.The United States Golf Association every year files a blank

From ESPN.comSHOAL CREEK, Ala. -- Jorge Fernandez Valdes, a 15-year-old golfer from Argentina, shot a 7-under-par 65 Monday to take a three-stroke lead over Seth Reeves after the first round of the U.S. Junior Amateur.Valdes made six birdies on the final nine holes of the 7,251-yard course at Shoal Creek golf club, to lead the 156-player field.Reeves, 17, of Duluth, Ga., opened with a 68, and defending champion Cory Whitsett, 16, of Houston, was among

From The Sporting LifeBy Carl Markham, PA SportBristol''s Chris Wood won the silver medal for leading amateur at the Open after a final-round 72 at Royal Birkdale.But unlike Justin Rose, the last amateur to finish in the top 10 on this course 10 years ago, he has not decided whether he will turn professional or not."I haven''t had any time to think about anything so far," said the 20-year-old Open debutant, who when he birdied

From The Palm Beach PostBy CRAIG DOLCHPalm Beach Post Staff WriterSaturday, July 19, 2008NORTH PALM BEACH — Gary Nicklaus doesn''t know how many times he has played the Lost Tree Village course, but he knows this: "I''ve probably played here more times than I have any other course."Nicklaus certainly looked at home Saturday with an eight-under 64 that moved him from 14th place into a two-shot lead entering today''s final round of the Palm Beach

From GolfweekStory upcoming...Final results from the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, played July 14-19 at the par-71, 7,551-yard Murphy Creek Golf Course in Aurora, Colo.:FINALS Keep reading....