Most Southcentral Alaska golfers currently look out windows and see how slowly winter’s offseason is melting away. Impatience rightfully grows by the second. “I don’t think I need to tell you (by how much),” second-year Alaska Golf Association president Jeff Ranf...
Longtime Anchorage golf standout Greg Sanders garnered our Alaska Athlete of the Week honors after a spectacular runner-up showing at the U.S. Senior Amateur Championships at Oak Hills Country Club in San Antonio, Texas. The effort marks the furthest an Alaska golfer...
Anchorage golfer Briggs Winfree wowed over the weekend during the Alaska State Golf Association's Match Play Championship at Moose Run Golf Course, earning our Alaska Athlete of the Week honors. After shooting a 9-over-par 81 in Thursday's seeding round and earning...
The 16-year-old Anchorage golfer wowed over the weekend during the Alaska State Golf Association's Match Play Championship at Moose Run Golf Course. After shooting a 9-over-par 81 in Thursday's seeding round and earning the 16-person bracket's No. 7, Briggs Winfree...
Abigail Ante and Jack Carr grew up in front of each other’s eyes as well as those of the quaint but quirky local golf community. The duo just didn’t know one another too well. “We really didn’t talk a lot until last year because we both were just too awkward,” Ante...
Anchorage golfer Jack Carr was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after his stirring victory at the Anchorage Open men's championship. The 17-year-old West High senior birdied Nos. 17 and 18 and fired a sterling 3-under 69 in the final round of the 36-hole course...
In arguably the greatest golf moment of his young life, Jack Carr briefly stepped away from the festivities to do what all good boys and girls should. The West High senior grabbed his phone and called his mother from just outside the Anchorage Golf Course clubhouse....
Anchorage golfer Greg Sanders was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after winning his 10th Alaska State Amateur golf championship Sunday in a playoff at Chena Bend in Fairbanks. It took a huge comeback for Sanders to earn his 10th title. Trailing by 7 strokes back at...
As one of the 132 qualifying golfers for the 60th U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, Pam Chesla ventured through the registration process like all the other competitors. However, Chesla’s status as the lone Alaskan in the first United States Golf Association national...
Anchorage’s Harry Weigle is one of many two-sport college athletes from Alaska. But he's unique. He's the only golfer-bowler combo. Weigle is entering his third season of competing in both sports for Waldorf University, an NAIA school in Forest City, Iowa. “I am lucky...
Anchorage golfers Abigail Ante and Mark McMahan are separated by 44 years of age but have this in common: they're the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Athletes of the Week. Ante, 15, won the Alaska match-play women's championship at Palmer Golf Course in her first try after...