The Rebels shot 22 over in Friday’s first round at Fayetteville, Arkansas. The team has two days of stroke play remaining to make the top 15 for Monday’s final round of stroke play.
Golf
The UNLV men’s golf team opens play in the NCAA Championship on Friday in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This is the Rebels’ third consecutive trip to nationals and 23rd overall.
In 2018, the PGA of America voted the 2000 PGA Championship with Tiger Woods beating Las Vegas resident Bob May in a playoff as the best in the major’s history.
He joined Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners of the PGA Championship since it went to stroke play in 1958.
Brooks Koepka is on the cusp of some elite company at the PGA Championship — in the record book, not on the leaderboard.
Brooks Koepka backed up his record-tying 63 with a round that put him in a league of his own and gave him a seven-shot lead after two rounds at the PGA Championship.
The golfer misses the cut Friday at the PGA Championship, and sportsbooks won’t have to sweat out a large number of bets that he would win the 2019 Grand Slam.
Las Vegas PGA Tour Champions player Bob May, who has struggled with his own back issues, is someone who can relate to Tiger’s plight.
For the third straight year, the UNLV men’s golf team has qualified for the NCAA championships.
After helping Coronado capture its second straight team title, Michael Sarro topped Galena’s Ian Gilligan in a one-hole playoff to win the individual title in the Class 4A state golf tournament at Somersett Country Club.
The Masters champion is the 8-1 favorite to win the PGA Championship, the year’s second major, which begins Thursday at Bethpage Black in New York.
The 15-time major champion is the 8-1 favorite to win the PGA Championship and a 20-1 shot to have the lead after Thursday’s first round at Bethpage Black in New York.
There’s little value in his 8-1 odds, so golf handicapper Brian Blessing will look at Sergio Garcia at 50-1 and six others to win the second major of the year.
Ronda Henderson earned a spot in the United States Golf Association senior major by shooting a 79 in a qualifier at Briarwood Country Club in Arizona in April.
The parents of a drunken driver who died in a car crash last year are suing Tiger Woods.
