PRCC revives golf program
Over at Pearl River Community College, the Wildcats are reviving their men’s golf program under PRCC Hall of Fame inductee Coby Scarborough, who was an All-Region 23 member of the 1995 state…
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Rapiscan Systems Classic returning for 2022 at Grand Bear Golf Club in Saucier
After two years away from the links due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Rapiscan Systems Classic is finally back for 2022, new home…
PGA Champions Tour's Coast event returns in March 2022
Tournament officials announced today that the Rapiscan Systems Classic will return in the Spring of 2022, after canceling the 2020-2021 events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2022 PGA TOUR Champions event will be held at Grand Bear Golf Club, featuring…
46th Slavic Invitational tees off in Biloxi-Jack
More than a thousand golfers from around the country packed their irons and headed to the Coast for the 46th annual Slavic Invitational after the tournament’s cancellation due to…
Ole Miss women’s golf wins NCAA National Championship
The Ole Miss women’s golf program wins its first ever NCAA National Championship. The Rebels are the fourth SEC team to ever win it all and the first since Alabama in 2012. Ole Miss Women’s Golfer Julia…
Rapiscan Systems Classic donates more than $2M as part of Birdies for Charity program
They say timing is everything and nobody knows that better than the folks in charge of the Rapiscan Systems Classic. The sports world came to a screeching halt just 11 days before tee-time in 2020 which carried…
Student Athlete of the Week: St. Stanislaus’ Jack Lawson
Out of St. Stanislaus, Jack Lawson has exploded onto the high school golf scene this season, but he’s been knocking down putts on the Coast and across the country for the last eight years. In his young life, there…
State Championship Ace: PRC's Grace Lanier drains historic Hole-In-One
Most golfers go their whole lives without ever knowing the feeling of a hole-in-one. That’s probably why it had never been done before by any high school girls golfer during a state championship round until today. Pearl River Central’s…
Hancock, Long Beach capture MHSAA girls golf state championships
This week, 81 golfers from 26 different schools took part in the MHSAA Girls Golf State Championships for both the 5A and 6A classifications. Sitting atop the leaderboard at the end of today’s final round are all teams and…
Matsuyama becomes first Japanese in Masters green jacket
The victory comes 10 years after the Japanese star was low amateur in the Masters as a teenager.
Rapiscan Systems Classic Charity Challenge postponed due to severe weather
Bad break for the Rapiscan Systems Classic, having to postpone this week’s charity challenge event originally scheduled for tomorrow and Thursday. Tournament Director Stephen Schoettmer tells News 25 the board had an emergency meeting late yesterday and should have make…
Rapiscan Systems Charity Challenge March 24th-25th
For the second year in a row, the Rapiscan Systems Classic won’t be played due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In its place, Fallen Oak Golf Club in Saucier will host the Rapiscan Systems Charity Challenge on March 24th and…
Going yard at Schooner’s Landing
Schooner’s Landing is a 9-hole golf course, now open for business with a lot of the same feel as a Top Golf experience. Watch the video above to see News 25’s Sports Director Jeff Haeger take on friend of the…
Top Golf starts at MGM Park
A new sport has officially taken over MGM Park for the next three weekends: Golf. Today was the first day MGM’s golf experience was open for business. The 9-hole course features different tee boxes from various locations around the ballpark…
MGM Park now ‘Schooner’s Landing’ golf experience
Whether or not playing golf during the offseason can actually mess with a person’s baseball swing doesn’t really have much to do with what’s going on at MGM Park. As of today, taking the diamond and hitting the links are…
Shuckers launch ‘Schooner’s Landing’ golf experience in July
BILOXI, MS – With a pristine field awaiting and the best part of the summer on the horizon, the Biloxi Shuckers announced on Friday that MGM Park will be transformed into a golf experience unlike any other on the coast over each…
Masters Golf Tournament postponed
More big news coming out of the PGA Tour where Augusta National has announced that next month’s Masters Tournament will be postponed due to the Coronavirus. The first major of the year had been scheduled to take place from April…
Rapiscan Systems Classic canceled
For the first time since its inception in 2010, the Rapiscan Systems Classic will not be played as scheduled. The PGA Tour Champions event has been canceled due to the Coronavirus as a part of the PGA Tour’s decision to…
Swinging for a Good Cause: Annual Gautier-Vancleave Rotary Club golf tournament
News 25's Jaylon Morris sits down with organizers for this Saturday's annual Gautier-Vancleave Rotary Club Student Scholarship Golf Tournament to help raise money to send South Mississippi young people to college.
Tiger brings out best in himself and the Masters
While walking the grounds of Augusta National, it’s usually easy to pick out first-timers at the Masters. The wide-eyed gazes slowly give way to a nervous excitement and the telling and re-telling of everything they’ve taken in so far. On…
Rain helps bring out low scores, charging Tiger
History has proven that anything can and will happen on Sunday at Augusta. That said, in order to have a chance to do something special on Sunday, players need to make it to the weekend. Friday was cut day at…
Unknowns shine amid stars on Masters Thursday
By MIKE ANTHONY Much is made of the power and emotion of the Sunday roars at Augusta National, but it’s often the quieter accomplishments in front of fewer patrons early in the week that set the stage for the late…
Even before Masters starts, back 9 on Sunday looms large
By MIKE ANTHONY As the old saying goes, The Masters doesn’t really begin until the second nine on Sunday.Through decades of thrilling finishes and memorable moments at Augusta National Golf Course, the vast majority of singular shots that have separated…
The Masters Life
Well, we’re here at Augusta National Golf Club and if you happen to be here on a Wednesday,there’s one must-see marquee event and that’s the Par-3 Contest. A time when you can get a little bit more exposure to the…