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Darci Olsen: Being back where it all began
By Beaux Yenchik, UGA Intern It was Career Day at school and all the students were being asked what they wanted to be when they grew up. Some probably wanted to be firefighters, while o…
Nov 15, 2018
BYU Men’s Golf: Kuest wins second straight WCC Golfer of the Month
By Caleb Turner, Sports Information Director for Golf at Brigham Young University SAN BRUNO, Calif. – BYU men’s golfer Peter Kuest was named West Coast Conference …
Nov 15, 2018
UWGA Lady of the Year: Margaret McDonough
By Kurt Kragthorpe Margaret McDonough Nay's work on the book “100 Years of History – The Utah State Women's Amateur” could be quantified in hours, but there ma…
Nov 14, 2018
UGA Gold Club Award Winner: Reese Nielsen
By Kurt Kragthorpe Reese Nielsen remembers playing Brigham City's old nine-hole course, with par of 37. If that layout existed today, he would know many more details about it. Niels…
Nov 14, 2018
UGA Volunteer of the Year: James Mitchell
By Kurt Kragthorpe James Mitchell readily acknowledges that the occasional opportunity to play an exclusive golf facility in Utah is part of the attraction of rating courses. A lot of w…
Nov 14, 2018
UGA Senior Women’s Player of the Year: Sue Nyhus
By Kurt Kragthorpe In her 50s, Sue Nyhus discovered that golf courses were getting longer. That happens to a lot of golfers, right? In her case, it was not merely her imagination or the…
Nov 14, 2018
UGA Women’s Player of the Year: Carly Dehlin-Hirsch
By Kurt Kragthorpe Qualifying to play in what's traditionally (but not properly) known as the men's State Amateur was among the 2018 highlights for the former Carly Dehlin, duri…
Nov 14, 2018
UGA Senior Men’s Player of the Year: Brigham Gibbs
By Kurt Kragthorpe The deferred, second phase of Brigham Gibbs' golf career has turned into a success story. Having basically given up the game for about a dozen years while concent…
Nov 14, 2018
UGA Men’s Player of the Year: Mitchell Schow
By Kurt Kragthorpe Mitchell Schow's T-shirt and fishing cap probably won't be collectible items displayed in the Utah Golf Hall of Fame, but those artifacts are part of the stor…
Nov 14, 2018
BYU Men’s Golf ranked no. 9 in NCAA Top 25
By Caleb Turner, Sports Information Director for Golf at Brigham Young University PROVO, Utah – BYU men’s golf is ranked No. 9 in the nation according to the NCAA Top 2…
Nov 14, 2018
2018 UGA Awards Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Utah Golf Association Names Annual Award Winners and Players of the Year Utah’s amateur golf governing body released today the 2018 list of award winners including t…
Nov 13, 2018
BYU men’s golf: Kuest takes first at St. Mary’s Invitational
(Photo courtesy of BYU's Athletic Department) By Caleb Turner, Sports Information Director for Golf at Brigham Young University PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Peter Kuest fi…
Nov 08, 2018
Dunkle tabs top-five finish at Saint Mary’s Invitational
By Mady White, Student Assistant for Utah Athletics Communications PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Senior Kyler Dunkle came away with his third top-five finish of the fall on Wed…
Nov 08, 2018
UVU Women’s Golf: Utah Valley posts seventh-place finish in final fall tournament
By James Warnick, Assistant Sports Information Director for Utah Valley University HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, Ark. - Behind a final-round 2-under-par 70 from freshman Nathalie Irlbacher, the …
Nov 01, 2018
BYU Women’s Golf: Huang finishes in top 10 in Hawai’i
By Caleb Turner, Sports Information Director for Golf at Brigham Young University KAPOLEI, Hawai’i – After two days of rain delays, BYU women’s golf finished sixth ove…
Nov 01, 2018