Golf
‘We are at the mercy of what Mother Nature wants to do’
6 minute read Friday, Aug. 22, 2025The Manitoba Open has gone from a marathon to a sprint.
By now, the field of 156 golfers should have been cut to the top 60 and ties for the final two rounds of the 72-hole event. Instead, Mother Nature intervened, forcing organizers to scramble. The result is a rare two-day tournament, set to tee off Saturday morning and conclude Sunday evening.
“There’s only so much you can do when the rain falls that fast,” a disappointed tournament director Brendan Baldwin told the Free Press on Friday as he surveyed the soggy scene around him.
An estimated 2.6 inches of rain pounded Breezy Bend Country Club during an intense, slow-moving thunderstorm Wednesday night, adding to more than three inches that had already fallen the previous week.
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Rain puts Manitoba Open on hold until Friday
2 minute read Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025A massive late-summer thunderstorm has delayed the start of the Manitoba Open.
Play was scheduled to begin early Thursday morning at Breezy Bend Country Club, but heavy overnight rain left the course too saturated for the 156 competitors to tee off.
The opening round is now set to begin Friday at 7:30 a.m.
Officials still hope to complete all 72 holes of the PGA Tour Americas event by late Sunday afternoon — weather permitting. The field will be cut to the top 60 players and ties after two rounds.
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2 minute read Monday, Jan. 13, 2025The cover of PGA Tour 2K25 will feature Max Homa, Matt Fitzpatrick and Tiger Woods, 2K announced Monday.
The three golfers are on the cover of the game's standard and deluxe editions together. Woods alone is on the legend edition.
Homa is making his franchise debut in the game, which typically features some of the Tour's top golfers as well as LPGA Tour golfers.
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Nick Taylor comes through in the clutch. Now he wants more chances to be there
5 minute read Monday, Jan. 13, 2025HONOLULU (AP) — Nick Taylor never looked more clutch than when he birdied the 18th hole three times in the WM Phoenix Open, first to force a playoff and the last to win it.
And then he went 23 starts over 11 months without a top 10.
Who can forget that 70-foot eagle putt to win the Canadian Open before a delirious home crowd? During the next seven months and 12 tournaments, he had only one top 10.
The trade-off for the 36-year-old Canadian are the trophies — one in each of the last three years and five overall.
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