Two Dellwood men created an elaborate 18-hole disc golf course for their neighborhood to help pass the time and keep active during Minnesota's stay-at-home order.
The PGA Tour is scheduled to resume its season four weeks from Thursday in Texas, and there will be a myriad of precautions in tow. The 3M Open in Blaine is scheduled to start July 23.
After a month of hitting the course with modified rules to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we took your temperature about what it's like playing this way.
Raised cups in the hole are intended to be an aid to "no-touch golf." It also raises questions of what counts as a hole-in-one when there's no way a ball can drop into the hole.
Minneapolis native Patty Berg was a champion speedskater and football teammate of Bud Wilkinson before she defined and dominated women's golf for decades.
Players spread out, rib each other from afar and eschew the high-fives. Metro golfers filled tee sheets from 8 a.m. to suppertime last weekend and again when it got warm during the week.
Overcast skies, 44 degrees, gusty wind. Folks in other states call this football weather. In Minnesota, it's golf season, and a little spring chill probably felt like Malibu.
On a warm and sunny Saturday — the first day Minnesota golf courses were allowed to open after a statewide shutdown began in March — just walking around on the course felt pretty good.
With the governor's new executive order, as of Saturday, Minnesotans are allowed "to engage in a range of activities, including golfing, boating, fishing, hunting, and hiking, as long as they follow new outdoor recreation guidelines."
The PGA Tour's modified schedule, which calls for play to resume in the second week of June and fans at tournaments four weeks later, is the most detailed plan by a U.S. pro sport to restart.
Nordwall, who died March 4 at age 98, was a caddie at Keller Golf Course in Maplewood when tapped in 1939 to carry the bag for Gene Sarazen at the St. Paul Open.
This would be Masters weekend at Augusta, but the course is quiet. "Just being there is a good memory,'' said Tim Herron of one of the world's prettiest courses.
In 2015, Sammy Schmitz, the former All-America from St. John's, won the U.S. Mid-Am to earn a berth in the 2016 Masters. He played two rounds at the Masters, missing the cut but gaining lifelong memories.
Gov. Tim Walz extended the state's stay-at-home order that keeps courses closed but modified it to allow turf maintenance during a crucial time in the growing season.
If the 3M Open is played as scheduled in July, PGA Tour and tournament officials intend it will be held with spectators attending at the TPC Twin Cities course in Blaine.
The revised calendar for the 2020 major golf championships — minus the British Open, which was canceled — and the Ryder Cup, which remains on its originally scheduled dates but is now a week after the U.S. Open.
Minnesota is one of only three states with coronavirus restrictions in which employees are not being allowed to perform maintenance on their golf courses.
Golfers played Thursday in Shakopee and New Prague, which remained open while others were shut down. The stay-at-home order goes into effect this weekend.
Two metro-area golf courses deployed measures to encourage social distancing, and state golf advocates believe there are ways to make the game safe amid coronavirus concerns.
Golf tournaments with $75 million in prize money have been affected by coronavirus shutdowns. That means star players will likely enter as many remaining events as they can to earn lucrative FedEx Cup points.
Winning the PGA Women's Stroke Play Championship on Tuesday earned Lisa Grimes, at 59 the second-oldest player in the field, a spot in this year's KPMG Women's PGA Championship in June.