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Professional golfers will be turning to the virtual poker tables to benefit an MGM Resorts workers fund. The Chipping All-in Charity Poker Tournament will be staged April 16, beginning at 12 p.m. PST. Event proceeds will go toward the MGM Resorts Foundation’s Employee Emergency Grant Fund, which provides employees and their immediate families with short-term […]
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Matt Farrell has one of the most interesting jobs in sports and certainly in the golf industry. As executive director of World Long Drive, Farrell not only oversees the tour and its lively events, he also has the intriguing title of general manager of alternative golf at the Golf Channel, which owns and operates the […]
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Visit Monroeville Sports Tourism will be the host of an American Junior Golf Association event in 2020 and 2021, the VM Sports Preview at Westmoreland Country Club in Export, Pennsylvania. The 2020 event is scheduled to be held May 1–3, with a practice round followed by 36 holes of stroke play. A putting contest will […]
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When fans enter the gates at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, they can gawk at the elevation changes and some of the most historic holes in championship golf. They can enjoy activations and different sponsorship stands at almost every fairway. And if they think because the PGA Tour’s Genesis Invitational is a four-day affair that […]
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The 2020 World Long Drive Championships will conclude its season in the Chicago metropolitan area as the full season schedule for the organization has been released, with four events airing on the Golf Channel. There will be more than a dozen qualifying events throughout the world for the six main long drive events that WLD […]
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Sleepy Hollow Country Club in Scarborough, New York, will host the 2023 U.S. Golf Association Mid-Amateur Championship. The USGA announced the selection of Sleepy Hollow as the site as well as announcing that the stroke play co-host course for the 43rd annual event will be held nearby at Fenway Golf Club in Scarsdale, New York. Sleepy […]
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The Professional Disc Golf Association will have most of its 2021 major events in the Midwest after releasing the upcoming schedule of hosts for its marquee events. Emporia, Kansas will host the Professional World Championships while the Amateur World Championships will go to Princeton, Indiana. The Masters and Junior world championships will be hosted by […]
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The PGA Tour’s regular stop in the Reno-Tahoe area will be hosted at a new club that is on the California side of the state line in the region. The Barracuda Championship will be hosted at the Old Greenwood Golf Course at Tahoe Mountain in Truckee, California. The course is a Jack Nicklaus design that […]
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StadiumLinks, which combines long-distance golf shots from elevated tees onto manufactured greens, will hold multi-day events at four Major League Baseball stadiums throughout November. The course design and layout will be new from previous years when events visit Busch Stadium, Citi Field, Angel Stadium and Minute Maid Park. StadiumLinks already visited Levi’s Stadium in San […]
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The San Francisco Giants will host a Topgolf Live experience event in November, giving fans and golfers a chance to hit balls from Oracle Park’s Alaska Airlines Club level onto the field in the hopes of hitting a series of targets. The event will be held November 8–10. Last year’s event at the field drew […]
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