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Jun 28, 2021 · Look out, Marion County residents, professional golfer Louis Oosthuizen will soon be landing on a farm just west of U.S. 27, far off course from his former home in Palm Beach Gardens, which he sold...
Jun 8, 2021 · Oosthuizen, a 38-year-old South African, is taking a step in that direction. He bought an 86-acre ranch in Ocala, Florida, and is moving this week from Palm Beach Gardens.
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It has become far too common for players who walk off the course at 36-hole U.S. Open qualifying when it’s clear they are not going to make it. One argument is they should finish what they started. Another is that they are getting out of the way of those who have a chance and allowing the long day to move a little quicker. Far more noteworthy was T...
Carlos Ortiz of Mexico is proficient in English, having played at North Texas and going from the Korn Ferry Tour to the PGA Tour to winning the Houston Open last year. English isn’t even his second language. Ortiz, who grew up in Guadalajara, went to boarding school to Germany. He was speaking flawless German as a teenager, though that’s not the ca...
Matthew Southgate needed a birdie on the par-5 18th to force a playoff in the Porsche European Open. But he drove into the water, made bogey and wound up in a four-way tie for second. The result put him 11th on a special three-tournament points list for the European Tour that offered 10 spots to the U.S. Open for players not already exempt. The lis...
Playing in his first major wasn’t the only new experience for Garrick Higgo in the PGA Championship. It also was the first time he competed before fans. The 22-year-old South African played two dozen tournaments before the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly on the Sunshine Tour and a few Challenge Tour events. Fans were allowed, but not many showed up. “Pre...
Ben Crenshaw has been selected as the 79th person to be the Memorial honoree, following Nick Price. The two-time Masters champion will be honored next year during the Memorial at Muirfield Village. ... Patrick Reed finished fifth at the Memorial and crossed the $35 million mark in career earnings on the PGA Tour. ... The British Open is offering ad...
Brian Stuard has earned a spot in the U.S. Open from the Springfield, Ohio, qualifier each of the last four times, and six of the last eight times.
“I don’t know if 10 out of 10 does it justice.” — Wilson Furr, asked to describe his excitement level after he went from an alternate out of local qualifying to earning a spot in his first U.S. Open.
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Jun 9, 2021 · British Open-winner Louis Oosthuizen is moving to Ocala this week after selling his Palm Beach Gardens home recently. Oosthuizen, a 38-year-old professional golfer bought an 86-acre ranch in Ocala.
Jun 4, 2021 · Louis Oosthuizen couldn’t snatch the PGA Championship from Phil Mickelson but he did gain something else—a home in Ocala. Oosthuizen finished in a tie for second place, 4 under par, 2 strokes behind Mickelson at the PGA Championship. The final round was May 23 at Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
Jun 8, 2021 · He bought an 86-acre ranch in Ocala, Florida, and is moving this week from Palm Beach Gardens. He said his family will live in a rental property on Golden Ocala, the course that hosted an LPGA...
Jul 16, 2021 · He's also now a local — Oosthuizen has recently purchased a farm in Marion County, moving to the Ocala area after previously living in the South Florida community of Palm Beach Gardens. Off to...
