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Bob Gillespie 05/11/2025 

As Mackenzie Hughes and Harry Higgs took their mano-a-mano duel to the 18th hole in Sunday’s final round of the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic, Ryan...

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Bob Gillespie 05/10/2025 

Carson Young’s Saturday at the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic was probably as close as the former Clemson player has come to living his professional...

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Bob Gillespie 05/10/2025 

In 11 seasons as golf coach at Purdue, Rob Bradley – now men’s golf coach at South Carolina – took nine Boilermaker teams to NCAA regional tourn...

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Bob Gillespie 05/09/2025 

The week before the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic, Nick Watney shot rounds of 69-69 at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson tournament in Dallas. Sounds pretty go...

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Bob Gillespie 05/09/2025 

Late Friday morning, Kevin Kisner was feeling a familiar and not-always-welcome vibe: grinding out a score to make the cut in the second round of the ...

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Bob Gillespie 05/08/2025 

It was purportedly W.C. Fields who first said “All things considered, I’d rather be in Philadelphia.” That largely fictitious sentiment – the ...

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Bob Gillespie 05/08/2025 

When Greenville’s Bill Haas won the PGA Tour’s 2011 season-ending Tour Championship and FedExCup Championship, a payday worth a combined $11 milli...

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Bob Gillespie 05/06/2025 

Growing up in Columbia, Jonathan Byrd and his brother Jordan learned to play and love golf in outings with their father, Jim. Nothing out of the ordin...

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Bob Gillespie 05/12/2024 

Give a talented PGA Tour player – even a first-year competitor like, say, Chris Gotterup – a four-shot lead with 18 holes to play, and chances are...

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Bob Gillespie 05/12/2024 

A New Jersey guy made an early run at the lead in the Myrtle Beach Classic on Sunday – and his name was NOT Chris Gotterup. With four holes to play,...

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Bob Gillespie 05/11/2024 

Chris Gotterup had plans for a relaxing Saturday night after his dominant third-round performance to build a four-shot lead at the Myrtle Beach Classi...

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Bob Gillespie 05/10/2024 

PGA Tour players rarely refer to their sport as “a game of inches” the way, say, football players do. But with a pre-round adjustment before Frida...

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Bob Gillespie 05/09/2024 

The most spectacular shot of Beau Hossler’s 7-under par 64 Thursday to lead the first round of the inaugural Myrtle Beach Classic was one that elici...

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Bob Gillespie 05/09/2024 

An obvious question for Jay Haas and son Bill, who’ll participate in this week’s inaugural Myrtle Beach Classic as player (Bill) and caddie (Jay),...

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Bob Gillespie 05/07/2024 

Probably the lowest point in George Bryan IV’s recent golf career came in early March. That’s when the tech-savvy half of Bryan Bros Golf, whose t...

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