19-year-old Yuka Saso of the Philippines received $1 million for winning the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open. A repeat at Pine Needles this June would mean $1.8 million.
Pioneering sponsorship brings windfall for female golfers.
The FedEx Cup playoffs begin this week at the Northern Trust, continue next week with the BMW Championship and conclude a week later with the Tour Championship. After that we are off to the Ryder Cup as we close out a busy month.
A SHORE THING: Named “Shipwreck,” the Straits course’s sand-sculpted par-3 seventh tightropes 221 windswept yards along Lake Michigan. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF DESTINATION KOHLER
This September, the international spotlight shines on Kohler’s Whistling Straits—a Ryder Cup venue you can actually play.
ALL IS ILLUMINATED: A roaring firepit beckons as evening falls on “The Schneids,” the new putting course at Castle Pines Golf Club.
A trend more than 150 years in the making, putting courses are fostering fun and community at golf facilities across the country—including four in Colorado.
STRIPING IT: The art of long-exposure photography brilliantly turns a putting green of glowing golf balls and hole markers into a painterly composition underscored by the striking apposition of natural and artificial light. PHOTOGRAPH BY DEWITT JONES/COURTESY OF BALLYNEAL GOLF & HUNT CLUB
Ballyneal’s inland-links golf inspires creativity around the green.