CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Auburn senior J.M. Butler polished off a dominant two days at La Costa by winning the anchor match Wednesday to give the Tigers the final point they needed to beat Florida State and capture their first NCAA title in men's golf. “A college career isn't complete without a national championship,” Butler said. “This is for all my teammates who push me every single day.” Butler never trailed in any of the three matches he played, making him the right player for Auburn if the c
FLOURTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Scottsdale, Arizona, software friends Brian Blanchard and Sam Engel won the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship on Wednesday at Philadelphia Cricket Club's Wissahickon Course, beating Tennessee teenagers Blades Brown and Jackson Herrington 2 up. “It’s why we grind,” Blanchard said. “It’s why we’re out there after work until it gets dark, grinding all day." The 31-year-old Blanchard is a software engineer, while the 29-year-old Engel is an account executive who is starting a
Four days after Grayson Murray's death, the golf world was still trying to make sense of the tragedy. Murray withdrew from the Charles Schwab Challenge on Friday, citing illness. The next day his parents confirmed that he had died by suicide at the age of 30. PGA Tour players wore red and black ribbons in his honour for the rest of that tournament and were still struggling to understand his death as the RBC Canadian Open, the next event on the schedule, was starting. "I always felt like he had a