Tag: Best of 2021

Best of 2021: The year’s top amateur golf stories (including a Heck of a run)

Our partners from AmateurGolf.com offered up their best moments of the year.

(Editor’s note: For the final few days of 2021, we’ve been offering up a snapshot of the top 10 stories from each of Golfweek’s most popular sections, including the likes of travel, the PGA and LPGA tours, instruction and equipment. Here’s what we’ve already counted down. But when it came to the top amateur moments of the year, we brought in our friends from AmateurGolf.com to help with the list. The outstanding site is a partner on the Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com player rankings for men, women, and mid-amateurs.)

After the game shut down along with the world around it in 2020, golf came back with a roar in 2021, with amateurs offering some indelible moments that will surely stand the test of time.

Who will ever forget Megha Ganne’s memorable run at the U.S. Women’s Open at the Olympic Club? Stanford’s Rachel Heck announced her presence on the collegiate scene by winning six consecutive tournaments as a freshman, including the NCAA individual championship. Gene Elliott won senior majors on two continents, Cinderella found her slipper in a castle at the Westchester Country Club while Michael Thorbjornsen and Matt Parziale staged a duel for the ages in the finals of the Massachusetts State Amateur.

Here are the top five moments of the amateur golf year (see the bottom of the list for a link to AmateurGolf.com’s full top 20 moments):

Your 2021 picks: Our top 10 PGA Tour stories (No. 1 came from a stunning turn of events)

Check out the top 10 PGA Tour stories of the year.

While you’re resting and celebrating (we hope!), we’re closing the books on a year that will leave a lasting impression.

And as part of taking our year-end inventory, we’ve been looking through the numbers and tallying up which stories drew your attention — and sharing the findings with you.

For the final days of 2021, we’re offering up a snapshot of the top 10 stories from each of Golfweek’s most popular sections, including travel, the PGA and LPGA tours, instruction and amateur golf. Here’s what we’ve already counted down.

Here’s a look at the top 10 PGA Tour stories, as clicked on by you (we should note, this list doesn’t include photo galleries or money lists):

Your 2021 picks: Our top 10 LPGA golf stories (No. 1 is all about Q-School)

We’re offering up a snapshot from each of Golfweek’s most popular sections. Today, the LPGA.

Before we even start down this road, let’s begin by explaining that the top 10 moments of the LPGA year were already well-chronicled by the esteemed Beth Ann Nichols, who covers the tour as well as anyone.

As Nichols explained, the LPGA’s “super” season certainly delivered on drama. Here is her list in its entirety.

But to close out the year, we’ve been looking through the numbers and tallying up which stories drew your attention, and we’re now sharing the findings with you.

For the final 10 days of 2021, we’re offering up a snapshot of the top 10 stories from each of Golfweek’s most popular sections, including travel, the PGA and LPGA tours, instruction and amateur golf. Here’s what we’ve already counted down.

Here’s a look at the top 10 LPGA stories, as clicked on by you (we should note, this list doesn’t include photo galleries or money lists):

Your 2021 picks: Our top 10 college golf stories (No. 1 is all about facilities)

Take a scroll through the top 10 college golf stories of 2021.

After the COVID-19 pandemic derailed the 2019-20 season, college golfers across the nation were back in action this spring as the amateur golf calendar got back on schedule.

Like the rest of college athletics, the biggest storylines for college golf centered around the NCAA’s new name, image and likeness rules – particularly how Barstool Sports has operated – as well as the NCAA Transfer Portal. Oh, and don’t forget the NCAA Regional that was decided without a single shot being hit.

As we continue the countdown to 2022 by offering up a snapshot of our best stories from the year, take a scroll through some of the biggest stories from the world of college golf in 2021 (photo galleries and preseason watch lists were not included in this listing).

Your 2021 picks: Our top 10 golf instruction tips (No. 1 asks how high you’re teeing it up)

These are Steve’s top tips as voted on by you, the readers — through your clicks.

As we mentioned on Christmas Eve, we’ve been looking through the numbers and tallying up which stories drew your attention during the year.

We decided to share the findings with you, our loyal and wonderful readers, so we can reminisce together.

For the final 10 days of 2021, we’re offering up a snapshot of the top 10 stories from each of Golfweek’s most popular sections, including travel, the PGA and LPGA tours, instruction and amateur golf.

Today it’s instruction, which is led by Steve Scott, who has worn many hats, including professional at the Outpost Club, founder of the Silver Club Golfing Society and PGA Tour Live analyst.

It was a big year for Steve, who celebrated the 25th anniversary of one of golf’s historic moments recently passed when Tiger Woods attempted to claim an unprecedented third straight U.S. Amateur Championship conducted at Pumpkin Ridge GC.

His opponent was none other than our Steve, who, in a gracious move that follows golf etiquette, told Woods he had to move his mark back during a key putt. If Scott would have stayed silent, Tiger’s run would have certainly been derailed, but an act of sportsmanship still rings true a quarter-century later.

“Hey, Tiger – you need to move your mark back,” was released earlier this year (Skyhorse Publishing, $19.99), and is available at movethatback.com.

Here are the top 10 instruction posts of the year, as clicked on by you, our readers:

Your 2021 picks: Our top 10 golf fitness stories (No. 1 is all about mobility)

We’ve been combing through the numbers, reviewing which stories drew your attention.

As a remarkable year in golf comes to a close, we’ve been combing through the numbers, story section by story section, reviewing which stories drew your attention during a year unlike any other.

This got us thinking — why not share the findings with you, our loyal and wonderful readers, so we can reminisce together?

For the final 10 days of 2021, we’ll offer up a snapshot of the top 10 stories from each of Golfweek’s most popular sections, including the likes of travel, the PGA and LPGA tours, instruction and equipment.

Let’s start with fitness, which is headed up by our guru, Averee Dovsek. Wondering what kind of results good fitness and flexibility can produce? Take into consideration what Averee accomplished just a few months ago.

Without further ado, here are the top 10 fitness posts of the year, as clicked on by you, our readers: