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The South African
3 days ago
- Sport
- The South African
SA rower Kerry Grundlingh killed in Johannesburg cycling accident
The South African and international sporting communities are mourning the tragic death of Kerry Grundlingh, a talented young rower and economics student at Princeton University, who died in a cycling accident while visiting Johannesburg during her summer break. Grundlingh, 21, was struck by a car while cycling in her hometown. The incident was confirmed by both Princeton Athletics and her alma mater, St Mary's School, Waverley, where she matriculated in 2022. 'Kerry lost her life in a cycling accident while visiting family and friends in Johannesburg during the American university summer holidays,' the school said in a statement. Grundlingh had distinguished herself both academically and athletically. As a member of Princeton's open water rowing team, she was a two-time Ivy League medallist and competed at the NCAA Championships in both her freshman and sophomore years. In 2024, she was part of the second varsity eight that took bronze at the Ivy League Championships and later finished sixth at the NCAAs. This year, she rowed in the first varsity eight, winning gold at Ivies and securing victory in the Petite Final at NCAAs. 'She leaves a legacy of her life lived as a tremendous daughter, sister, friend and teammate,' said Princeton head coach Lori Dauphiny. 'Kerry constantly gave the best of herself for the betterment of others in every daily interaction. All of us in the Princeton rowing community send our deepest and heartfelt sympathies to her parents, Debbie and Francois, her brother James, and all her family and friends around the globe.' Grundlingh also represented South Africa at the World Rowing Championships, earning widespread respect for her discipline, dedication, and quiet leadership. In a heartfelt tribute on Facebook, Rowing South Africa said she had left 'an unfillable space in those who had the honour of knowing her,' highlighting her dry sense of humour, infectious laugh, and deep commitment to high performance. Friends, coaches, and team-mates have remembered Grundlingh as a quiet force, a gifted athlete, and a warm, humble presence both on and off the water. 'The world has lost an amazing young woman,' Princeton's Dauphiny said. Post your condolences below, by … Leaving a comment below, or sending a WhatsApp to 060 011 021 1 Subscribe to The South African website's newsletters and follow us on WhatsApp, Facebook, X and Bluesky for the latest news.
USA Today
05-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Amateur Jackson Koivun is four shots off the lead at 2025 John Deere Classic after 54 holes
Jackson Koivun's resume is already stacked will accolades. Might he add a PGA Tour victory to it as well? The amateur from Auburn fired a third-round 68 to follow up scores of 70-64 at the 2025 John Deere Classic. That has him at 11 under and in a tie for 10th at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois. This tournament has a PGA Tour-best 24 first-time winners (since 1970). It also boasts the only teenage victory (Jordan Spieth, 2013) as well as one of the Tour's 14 59s (Paul Goydos, 2010). With those kind of superlatives, having an amateur win would just be another notch in its belt. But first, there are still 18 holes to play, and Koivun does have nine guys ahead of him on the leaderboard, not to mention the four others he's tied with. Still, the kid is having a great week. "I'm just trying to climb up the leaderboard as much as I can every day," he said. "I know if I go play well tomorrow I can definitely get in contention." Koivun earned his PGA Tour card after his finish at the NCAAs in early June, but he's choosing to defer his status until 2026. He'll be a junior at Auburn this fall. This week marks his sixth PGA Tour start and third this season. So far he has two made cuts and a missed cut at the U.S. Open. Nick Dunlap is the most recent amateur to win a PGA Tour event, doing so at the 2024 American Express. There been eight all-time. Koivun says he and Dunlap are good friends. "Nick is a great dude and I played a lot of golf with him. It's obviously very inspiring to see what he did about a year ago now. Obviously to be one the few ams to win a professional event would be great. At the end of the day I just got to go give it my best shot and be happy with the result."
USA Today
20-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
USGA announces first 3 selections for 2025 U.S. Walker Cup team, including No. 1 amateur
USGA announces first 3 selections for 2025 U.S. Walker Cup team, including No. 1 amateur The Waker Cup is less than three months away, and on Friday, the U.S. Golf Association announced the first three selections for the United States squad. Jackson Koivun, Ben James and Michael La Sasso will each don the red, white and blue Sept. 6-7 and Cypress Point, site of the 50th Walker Cup. The biennial match between the top amateurs from the United States and those from Great Britain and Ireland takes place Sept. 6-7 at famed Cypress Point in California, which ranks No. 1 in Golfweek's Best Classic Courses. The three earned automatic spots on the Walker Cup team thanks to being the highest-ranked Americans in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. All three players competed in last week's U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania. James, a rising senior at Virginia, is making his second Walker Cup appearance, having competed on the 2023 team that won at St. Andrews, going 1-2-0. He helped the Cavaliers advance to the championship match at NCAAs and is the likely No 1 when the PGA Tour University Class of 2026 rankings are announced this summer. He's ranked second in WAGR. Koivun, the top-ranked amateur in the world, earned his PGA Tour card with a T-4 finish at NCAAs, but his stellar season came as a freshman when he swept the major postseason awards: the Fred Haskins, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Phil Mickelson. He's returning to Auburn for his junior season and will turn pro after NCAAs next May. La Sasso had a standout junior season for Ole Miss, culminating in him winning the NCAA individual title at Omni La Costa. He was a finalist for the Haskins Award, the Heisman Trophy of college golf, and is ranked third in WAGR. The Walker Cup is a two-day event with 18 singles matches and eight foursomes matches. The U.S. leads the overall series, 39-9-1, though its advantage is only 11-7 since 1989.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
'Hitting good shots all day': Sunnehanna Amateur co-leaders motivate, push each other
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – University of Tennessee golfer Bruce Murphy made birdie putts on two of the first four holes in the 84th Sunnehanna Amateur Tournament for Champions. Playing in the same group as Murphy, University of Illinois player Ryan Voois didn't get out to an ideal start to Wednesday's opening round. Advertisement He made two bogeys on the front nine and had a mental error by inadvertently leaving behind his scorecard on the No. 1 tee at the par-70 Sunnehanna Country Club course. Eventually, Murphy and Voois hit their stride, motivating each other with consistent play and birdie putts to share the first-round lead at 5-under-par 65. PHOTO GALLERY | Sunnehanna Amateur Tournament for Champions | Opening Round 'He was hitting good shots all day. I was hitting good shots,' said Murphy, a Johns Creek, Georgia, native. 'You kind of feed off the momentum. It's good.' Voois used Murphy's early success as a sign that he simply needed to stick to his game plan. Advertisement 'Bruce was lighting it up on the front, making putts, hitting good shots, so I could see it was out there,' Voois said. The 102-player field will play the second round Thursday, with the third and fourth rounds set for Friday and Saturday, respectively. A total of 38 golfers shot under par Wednesday on a course softened by ample rainfall throughout the past six weeks. 'I birdied 3 and 4 and felt good,' said Murphy, who shot 3-under on the front nine. 'I tried to make a bunch of pars today. If you're hitting the fairways and playing on the short grass out here, it's going to be a pretty easy day, especially with how soft the greens were. I got some putts to fall and got it going.' Advertisement Bruce Murphy Murphy made the turn with momentum after his birdie on the par-5 ninth hole. 'On 9, I made a 12-footer, and then a two-putt birdie on 11,' Murphy said of a bogey-free round. 'On 12, I made a 20-footer that really got me going. I just cruised to the finish from there.' A first-team all-Big Ten player with the Fighting Illini, Voois made bogey on the par-4 second hole, but recovered with a pair of birdies. 'I got off to a slow start, actually,' Voois said. 'I bogeyed 2. I left my scorecard on the first tee. It wasn't a hot start. After NCAAs I took some time off, and I guess I forgot how to play tournament golf for a bit.' Advertisement Voois had a bogey on No. 7 and then birdied No. 8 to shoot 1-under 34 on the front. Ryan Voois Ryan Voois of Ladera Ranch, CA., eyes a putt on No.16 during opening round of the 84th Sunnehanna Amateur Tournament for Champions in Johnstown, PA., Wednesday, June 11, 2025. He got hot on the back, with birdies on 11, 12, 15 and 18. 'The thing about easier and softer golf courses like this is you can't go and try to make seven or eight birdies,' Voois said. 'You've still got to play the right way. Put it in play. Strong side pins. You've got to let it happen. 'I was patient. I was only 1-under on the front. I kind of let it come to me on the back and the putts started falling.' Advertisement University of Georgia signee John Daniel Culbreth made five birdies and had a bogey-free round through 16 holes. His bogey on the par-4 No. 17 was the only blemish in a 4-under 66 that put him in a three-way tie for third place with Adam Bresnu, of Odessa, Texas, and Tyler Watts, of Huntsville, Alabama. 'I just played pretty solid all day. I put it in the right spots coming to the green other than 17, where I made a bogey,' said Culbreth, who attended Brookwood School in Thomas County, Georgia. 'It just shows this golf course, you've got to hit your spots, be conservative. The birdies will come. 'But the greens, you've just got to put it in the right spot. These greens are so tough and it's really 'penalizing' where they put these greens. 'I'm just trying to stay patient, but you still have to take advantage of holes and make birdies.' Nine players tied for sixth place at 3-under 67, and 14 players tied for 15th at 2-under 68. Mike Mastovich is a sports reporter and columnist for The Tribune-Democrat.
Hamilton Spectator
01-06-2025
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
American swimming star Lilly King announces farewell season, final US competition
American three-time Olympic swimming star and world record holder Lilly King has announced the upcoming Toyota National Championships in Indianapolis will be her final meet on U.S. soil as she prepares to call it a career at the conclusion of the 2025 season. The meet will run Tuesday through Saturday. A longtime breaststroke stalwart, King announced her plans Saturday on Instagram and said swimming her final race in the U.S. in her home state and a pool she's known since her youth 'has always been important to me.' 'Well, folks, my time has come. This will be my final season competing,' she wrote. 'I'm fortunate heading into retirement being able to say I have accomplished everything I have ever wanted in this sport. I feel fulfilled.' The 28-year-old King holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:04.13, set at the 2017 world championships. She won an Olympic gold medal in the 100 breast at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and also captured Olympic titles on relays in Rio and at her final Olympics last year in Paris. The U.S. women's 4x100 medley relay set a world record in 3:49.63. Regan Smith, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske were her teammates in the Americans' victory over defending Olympic champion Australia. 'Just an awesome way to cap off the meet,' King said afterward. At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, King earned silver medals in the 200 breaststroke and 4x100 medley relay and a bronze in the 100 breast. She narrowly missed the medal stand in the 100 breast in Paris, with one-hundredth of a second separating bronze medalist Mona McSharry of Ireland and the fourth-place tie between King and Italy's Benedetta Pilato in 1:05.60. For King, being home in Indiana next week will mean so much. It was also in Indianapolis last June during the U.S. Olympic swimming trials that boyfriend and former Indiana University swimmer James Wells proposed to her just off the pool deck — and she said yes. 'I have been racing in the IU Natatorium since I was 10 years old,' she wrote. 'From state meets, to NCAAs, Nationals, and anything in between, this pool has been my home. I didn't quite make it 20 years (only 18) of racing in Indy, but this is as close as I'm gonna get! I look forward to racing in front of a home crowd one last time.' ___ AP Summer Olympics:
