FOX CHAPEL — When searching for a venue for the 6th U.S. Senior Women’s Open Championship, the USGA hoped to find a course that would provide an ultimate challenge while serving as a welcoming site for passionate golf fans. Fox Chapel Golf Club emerged as the perfect...
Tim Slavish considers himself a rookie at the Pittsburgh Field Club. But he certainly doesn’t feel like one when he arrives. One of the most special and unique golf clubs in the region, the Pittsburgh Field Club has existed since the late 1800’s and was one of the...
Carol Semple Thompson. Say the name in golf circles and you’ll most likely get a response that includes “the greatest women’s amateur ever.” The numbers that the Sewickley native has amassed over her career make a very strong case for that moniker. And it only made...
The West Penn Golf Association will be well-represented when the 83rd edition of the Sunnehanna Amateur gets underway at Sunnehanna Country Club near Johnstown. Five players – J.F. Aber, Palmer Jackson, Gregor Meyer, Rocco Salavati and Sam Lafferty — with...
The first time that Ted Marron played a hole of golf, it took him 127 strokes to go from tee to green on a 179-yard Par 3. In Marron’s defense, he was a mere two years old at the time, and was playing with a plastic golf club purchased by a remarkably patient father....
The game of golf has been very, very good to Mike Nicolette. Just ask him, he’ll be happy to tell you. Growing up close to the epicenter of Arnold Palmer’s world – Latrobe, Pa. – Nicolette was influenced by what Palmer was accomplishing in the world of golf, even...
