Articles Tagged: Golf

Gazette-area golfers and teams to keep an eye on during the 2024 Class 4A Iowa high school boys’ golf season this fall.

In an effort to reduce a congested spring sports calendar for Iowa high schools, girls’ tennis and boys’ golf will be held in the fall season, beginning in the 2025-26 school year.

Linn-Mar’s Morgan Rupp and Christian Cloyd both captured open division titles at the 2024 Rotary Pribyl Junior Golf Classic at Elmcrest Country Club. Rupp claimed her third straight girls’ open title and Cloyd won his first boys’ open title in his first appearance in the event since winning a novice title a few years ago.

Photos from the final round of the Rotary Pribyl Junior Golf Classic on Thursday at Elmcrest Country Club in Cedar Rapids.

In the 71-year history of the Cedar Rapids Men’s City Amateur golf tournament, no one has won more titles than the six by Cedar Rapids’ Chris James.

Coby Thompson fired a 7-under par score of 65 Saturday at Saddleback Ridge Golf Course in Solon to lead the Iowa City Golf Association Men’s City Amateur golf tournament.

Defending champion shoots 69 in first round at Twin Pines to grab share of lead

Former University of Iowa golfer Alex Schaak outlasted two other golfers through five holes of a sudden-death playoff to claim the 2024 Greater Cedar Rapids Open title.

Former University of Iowa golfer Brian Bullington bogeyed four of the first five holes in Thursday’s opening round of the Greater Cedar Rapids Open. Since those early struggles, Bullington has been terrific. He shot a 7-under par score of 65 in the second round Friday.

For the second year in a row, fourth-year golf professional and University of Iowa alumnus Alex Schaake charged up the leaderboard in the first round of the Greater Cedar Rapids Open.

After helping Cedar Rapids Xavier reach the boys’ state golf tournament last fall, Garrett Nurre and Logan Otting will take a swing among professionals at the Greater Cedar Rapids Open golf tournament, which begins Thursday at Hunters Ridge.

At 25 with quite an amateur pedigree, Davis Thompson left no doubt Sunday afternoon about who was going to win the John Deere Classic.

Gazette Male Athlete of the Year 2024 finalists: Lance McShane of Maquoketa Valley, Jack Miller of Jesup, Preston Ries of Monticello, Derek Weisskopf of Williamsburg and Brett White of Solon.

Iowa football star and Philadelphia Eagles draftee Cooper DeJean was one of the big draws at the annual Zach Johnson Foundation Classic on Monday at Elmcrest Country Club in Cedar Rapids.

Carson Schaake, a golfer for the University of Iowa from 2013-2017, qualified for next week’s U.S. Open by being one of four qualifiers at the 64-player final qualifier at Springfield (Ohio) Country Club.