AGA announces 2024 schedule, qualifying changes
State’s strength of field means AGA champs gain entry into USGA events HOOVER – The Alabama Golf Association announced its 2024 competition schedule, which contains some significant news for the state’s amateurs. For the first time, winners of the boys, girls, women’s and men’s state amateur championships will be exempt into their respective USGA national […]
Prattville’s Linda Jeffery juggles military, golf careers
Comfortable in elite senior competition PRATTVILLE – Linda Jeffery is at ease whether it’s in the course of her duties as an instructor in the U.S. Air Force Reserve or standing on the first tee trying to qualify for the U.S. Senior Women’s Open. Jeffery, who plays at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Capitol […]
Nick Dunlap, Gordon Sargent lead US team to victory
First US win in the event since 2014 Led by Alabama natives Gordon Sargent and Nick Dunlap, Team U.S.A stormed to the title at the World Amateur Team Championship Saturday at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club in the United Arab Emirates. Dunlap, from Madison, finished second in the individual standings, while Sargent, from Mountain Brook, […]
Gordon Sargent earns PGA Tour membership upon graduation
First-ever grad of accelerated program NASHVILLE – When former Mountain Brook High School standout golfer Gordon Sargent decides to turn professional, he won’t have to grind his way through qualifying school to play on the PGA Tour. Instead, the Vanderbilt junior will have qualified for Tour status via the PGA Tour University Accelerated program. When […]
Prattville’s Linda Jeffrey falls in semifinals at US Senior Women’s Amateur
Turns heads in first senior championship Prattville’s Linda Jeffrey nearly made the most of her first time playing in the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship at Troon Country Club in Scottsdale, Arizona,this week. Although the 50-year-old Jeffrey fell short of making it to the championship match, she turned plenty of heads in making it all […]
Alabama wins, Dunlap second at Hamptons Intercollegiate
‘A lot of milkshakes for us on the way home’ EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. – All five Alabama starters finished inside the top-20 to lead the No. 13 Crimson Tide men’s golf team to the Hamptons Intercollegiate championship Tuesday afternoon at the Maidstone Golf Club. The Tide claimed the title with a 24-under par 840 (285-272-283), […]