Luke Herbert and Noah Kandt were putting on the 12th green at Island View Golf Club when their round ended abruptly and their roles as bird rescuers commenced.
The PGA Tour will play next month in Minnesota, with major championship winners Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson expected, but without spectators admitted.
At Hiawatha Golf Club on Tuesday, there was a search for perspective on where we are, where we could be going, in a city and a state these older black men have made home.
The made-for-TV charity event was gobbled up by fans craving any sort of live sports, but it was compelling enough with personalities, banter and insight to merit imitators.
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.