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Yahoo
17 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Brooks Koepka slams club into ground, smashes tee box marker, WDs from LIV event in Dallas
What else can you expect from a guy whose team name is Smash GC? During a frustrating first round at the 2025 LIV Golf Dallas event, and seconds after hitting a drive he didn't like on the ninth hole, Brooks Koepka slammed his club on the ground and then smashed a tee box marker, sending it flying. He was 6 over at the time, but would bogey the ninth, 10th and 13th before withdrawing after the 14th hole at Maridoe Golf Club in Carrollton, Texas. Advertisement Koepka has two top-10s, including a solo second in March 2025. He won twice last season and was the first LIV golfer to reach five wins on the three-year-old circuit. Captain Brooks Koepka of Smash GC during the first round of 2025 LIV Golf Dallas at Maridoe Golf Club. This is the ninth of 14 events for LIV Golf in 2025. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Brooks Koepka smashes tee box marker, withdraws from LIV Golf Dallas
USA Today
20 hours ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Classic vs. Modern Courses: Golfweek's Best celebrates the differences and similarities
Why does the Golfweek's Best rating program split courses into two categories, Modern and Classic? The simple answer is the vast differences in building techniques available to architects of different eras. Golfweek's Best uses 1960 as a break point, because it was around that time that technology changed almost everything. As written in our Golfweek's Best rater's handbook, the Classic style of architecture was basically natural with intimate routings that enabled holes to cling to native landforms. Designers were not afraid to utilize dramatic slopes or to sculpt bunkers into artistic shapes utilizing the given features of land. Earth scraping was minimal, as opposed to Modern courses that utilize heavy machinery. Greens were built from native soil that was pushed up and shaped, giving Classic designers enormous freedom to build oddly shaped putting surfaces with more contour than typically seen in the Modern era, when green speeds became much greater. The greater abundance of buildable land in those days also gave architects tremendous creative freedom. Design and construction techniques for courses shifted fundamentally after 1960. Mechanized earth-moving became the norm, and the USGA developed sophisticated methods to build sand-based greens. Most courses required extensive planning, documentation and meticulous excavation. And while the advent of new, high-performance grasses meant better conditions, the quicker putting speeds meant greens could not be built with the same dramatic slope as with many classic courses designed before 1960. The skills required to build a great course became those of professionally trained landscape architects, not just creative golf visionaries. The industry had changed dramatically. In the past several decades, several top architects have combined the two eras in many ways. Design firms helmed by the likes of Gil Hanse, Tom Doak, David McLay Kidd and the team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw have created golf courses focused on Golden Age sensibilities, strategies and simulations while utilizing modern earth-moving equipment to achieve their goals. The ground game again is in vogue, as is a frequent emphasis on playability. With all that in mind, Golfweek has in recent weeks published our rankings of the best courses from both eras. We hope you enjoy them as a starting point for discussion and as a reference in choosing your next destination. Click here for the 2025 Golfweek's Best ranking of the top 200 Classic courses, and click here for our ranking of Modern Courses.
Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Private Idaho golf club offers next-level health amenities
After having flipped the nines on its Tom Weiskopf-designed golf course in 2023 to make a better transition and conclusion at the new clubhouse, CDA National Reserve in Idaho has continued with lifestyle enhancements for its members. Now on tap for the club in Coeur d'Alene: a partnership with a local medical practice, Clinic 5C, that provides health tracking and a full slate of modern treatment programs. It's an example of a growing trend at clubs to go beyond the golf course and become involved in the membership's overall wellness. At CDA National Reserve, the Premier Longevity Membership includes access to or reduced pricing on data-driven health programs such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy, infrared sauna, ozone and red-light therapy, stem cell treatments and banking, and other regenerative therapies. It's certainly a long way from the days when golfers loosened up for a round with a little less-than-vigorous stretching that involved tying their shoes in the parking lot. 'CDA National is establishing itself as the leader among clubs that prioritize health and wellness, offering its members incredible access,' Dr. Cameron Chesnut, founder of Clinic 5C, said in a media release discussing the health programs and other updates at CDA National Reserve. 'This carries from what they offer in the kitchen to unique partnerships that give members exclusive access to next-level options, exactly like the Premier Longevity Membership. We are very honored to be part of this journey.' It's all part of an immersive and expanding membership environment in a 1,000-acre preserve that includes a wide offering of outdoor pursuits and wellness initiatives beyond golf. It certainly doesn't hurt that CDA National Reserve – formerly known as The Club at Rock Creek – has a golf course that is ranked by the Golfweek's Best course-rating program as the No. 5 private layout in Idaho and within the top 200 modern courses in the United States. The property was acquired in 2021 by New Edge Living, a Lyon Living company. The club also has expanded its real estate offerings, with 24 new fairway lodges becoming available July 3 at a starting price of $2 million and a move-in date anticipated for the summer of 2026. There are also plans for more lodges overlooking Lake Coeur d'Alene to be announced this summer. The club offers a wide range of real estate options that include custom homesites priced from $535,000. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: CDA National Reserve offers next-level health options as well as golf
USA Today
21 hours ago
- Health
- USA Today
Private Idaho golf club offers next-level health amenities
After having flipped the nines on its Tom Weiskopf-designed golf course in 2023 to make a better transition and conclusion at the new clubhouse, CDA National Reserve in Idaho has continued with lifestyle enhancements for its members. Now on tap for the club in Coeur d'Alene: a partnership with a local medical practice, Clinic 5C, that provides health tracking and a full slate of modern treatment programs. It's an example of a growing trend at clubs to go beyond the golf course and become involved in the membership's overall wellness. At CDA National Reserve, the Premier Longevity Membership includes access to or reduced pricing on data-driven health programs such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy, infrared sauna, ozone and red-light therapy, stem cell treatments and banking, and other regenerative therapies. It's certainly a long way from the days when golfers loosened up for a round with a little less-than-vigorous stretching that involved tying their shoes in the parking lot. 'CDA National is establishing itself as the leader among clubs that prioritize health and wellness, offering its members incredible access,' Dr. Cameron Chesnut, founder of Clinic 5C, said in a media release discussing the health programs and other updates at CDA National Reserve. 'This carries from what they offer in the kitchen to unique partnerships that give members exclusive access to next-level options, exactly like the Premier Longevity Membership. We are very honored to be part of this journey.' It's all part of an immersive and expanding membership environment in a 1,000-acre preserve that includes a wide offering of outdoor pursuits and wellness initiatives beyond golf. It certainly doesn't hurt that CDA National Reserve – formerly known as The Club at Rock Creek – has a golf course that is ranked by the Golfweek's Best course-rating program as the No. 5 private layout in Idaho and within the top 200 modern courses in the United States. The property was acquired in 2021 by New Edge Living, a Lyon Living company. The club also has expanded its real estate offerings, with 24 new fairway lodges becoming available July 3 at a starting price of $2 million and a move-in date anticipated for the summer of 2026. There are also plans for more lodges overlooking Lake Coeur d'Alene to be announced this summer. The club offers a wide range of real estate options that include custom homesites priced from $535,000.
Fox News
a day ago
- Sport
- Fox News
Two-time major champion Collin Morikawa has contentious conversation with reporter: 'Don't put me down'
Two-time major champion Collin Morikawa had a contentious conversation with a reporter during a press conference prior to the Rocket Classic on Wednesday. Morikawa, 28, took issue with a quote that Golfweek reporter Adam Schupak put in his story about Morikawa's recent caddie change. Schupak wrote a story covering Morikawa's caddie change, and said it was unclear who Morikawa would have as his caddie permanently going forward. Schupak included this quote from Morikawa in the story. "Ask me anything you want in my press conference later. I'm with my pro-am partners now," was the quote Schupak used from Morikawa in his story. When Schupak asked Morikawa at the press conference about who will caddie for him at the British Open, the golfer used the question to take issue with Schupak's use of his quote in the story. "I don't. And I read your article that you wrote. Look, I'm not here to tell people how to do their jobs, but I don't get why you would make me sound bad because you put out my quote that I was playing with pro-am partners out front," Morikawa said. "Those guys are paying a lot of money, they're very important to the community, they're very important to the Rocket Classic, and for you to put out a quote like that to put me down and saying, 'Hey, wait two and a half hours.' I mean, you called me up on the first tee, you know?" "I'm not going to tell you how to do your job; you can write whatever you want. This is America. But don't put me down like that because it's two and a half hours, Adam." Schupak said he thought he was giving Morikawa credit because he noted that Morikawa was focused on his pro-am partners. However, Morikawa told Schupak that that's not how he read it. "OK, we can all read it very differently. That's not how I read it," Morikawa said. "But I'm just telling you, I think there's a perspective where people can read it like that. So, I'm just going to leave it at that. We knew I was going to have media in two and a half hours. I'm on the first tee meeting my pro-am partners as they're teeing off." After Morikawa commented at the press conference, Schupak deleted Morikawa's original quote and updated the story with a new quote. It is not the first time Morikawa has ruffled feathers with the media this season, as his comments at The Masters made waves. Morikawa is currently tied for 35th at the Rocket Classic at the Detroit Golf Club as three-under par for the day. At the time of this writing, Min Woo Lee was leading the tournament after he shot nine-under par in the first round. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
