Ben Crenshaw News

Jackie Traina homered and threw a two-hitter, Kaila Hunt and Jazlyn Lunceford also connected and Alabama beat top-seeded California 5-2 in Oklahoma City on Sunday to reach the Women's College World Series finals for the first time.

Texas won its third NCAA men's golf championship defeating Alabama on a 20-foot birdie putt by senior Dylan Frittelli on Sunday at Rivera.

The most important part of good golf is an area that most players spend little time on, putting.

Back then, it was Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite leading the Longhorns. Now it's guys like freshman Jordan Spieth, junior Julio Vegas, and senior Dylan Fritelli.

Players who've recently committed to the Champions Tour event include two-time Masters champ Ben Crenshaw, 2009 Senior British Open winner Loren Roberts and two-time PGA Championship winner Nick Price.

Officials at Pinehurst Resort were so pleased by the restoration work done by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore on course No. 2, they've asked them to design the resort's ninth golf course.

Flying in the face of a fragile economy and a shrinking golf industry, the idea of a new Florida golf resort seems silly.

Those are 10 of the top 11 teams in the latest Golfweek /Sagarin College Rankings, and each one of them, I believe, has a legitimate chance at winning college golf's biggest prize when the NCAA Championship takes place May 29-June 3 at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

One Bay Area junior girl golfer has qualified for the 2012 U.S. Women's Open golf tournament, and another will be on her way to Southern California early next week, determined to do the same.

In just over two years, Pinehurst's renowned No. 2 course will play host to the U.S. Open and U.S. Women's Open on consecutive weeks - the first time the USGA has attempted such a feat.

FORT WORTH, Texas Less than a chip shot from Colonial's 18th green looms an oversized statue of Ben Hogan, a bronze testament to what makes the club special that glares stoically across the property as only the "Hawk" could.

IRVING, Texas They say everything is bigger in Texas, from the trucks to the cattle to the 4-inch stiletto heels preferred by many of the local females here in the Byron Nelson Championship gallery.

It's true that one of my ex's lives in Texas. That's why I hang my hat in Orlando.

If a tailor is defined by his clients as well as the cut of his garments, then Barry Smith walks in pretty select company.

Rankin's Quinton Coppedge watches his putt on hole No. 12 Thursday during the UILClass 1A Boys Golf State Championships at Lions Municipal Golf Course in Austin.