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As Megha Ganne starts pro journey, she’s already got hard part down

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:03:05 +0000

A couple of months ago, Megha Ganne, the 2025 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion and a decorated collegiate player, surprisingly missed the cut at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. And how did she take it?

She called it cool.

Let her explain.

“ANWA was cool for me because I have not played that poorly in a big event in a long time, so I guess there has always been a little pocket of my head where it’s like, What happens when you don’t play well at a really big tournament?” she said Monday at the U.S. Women’s Open, her first start as a professional.

She seems to already think and talk like a pro.

“Maybe not fear is the right word, but just curiosity of what that would look like and how that would affect me,” she continued, answering the question about how she stays confident when things don’t go her way. “At ANWA I learned the answer, and the answer is absolutely nothing. Life goes on. Then you wake up the next day and go practice. So I think just knowing there is so many opportunities, so many opportunities to prove yourself is the main thing I learned.”

That next opportunity is this week, at the 81st U.S. Women’s Open at Riviera in Pacific Palisades, Calif., and Ganne enters with some momentum. Last week, she helped her Stanford women’s golf team win the NCAA Championship, its third win in the last five years. Ganne finished second in stroke play and then went undefeated in match play, even clinching the title-winning point in the final against USC.

That put a bow on her senior year at Stanford, where over the last few years she continued to morph into one of the best amateur golfers in the country.

Now, as a professional — she finished atop the LPGA’s LCAP Ranking, meaning she has full Epson Tour status — she has new goals, like “just being comfortable being uncomfortable,” as she gets used to life on tour.

This will be Ganne’s fourth major start — and third U.S. Women’s Open — and she’s five years removed from her first, where for most of the week she was the talk of the tournament. As a 17-year-old, she held a share of the first-round lead, was tied for 3rd after 54 holes and ultimately finished 14th at the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open at The Olympic Club.

She’s played in pro events since then, but for amateurs playing up with professionals, the whole thing can feel so novel, she said. Now it’s a job.

“When you go on Tour just with an exemption or just once, you spend so much time getting accustomed to the stuff that feels a little bit different, you don’t feel like you can maybe delve into your routines as much,” she said. “So I’m excited to build those new routines and see what they look like.”

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GolfForever Announces Season-Opener Sale – Major (Distance) Season Starts Now

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:46:36 +0000

15 percent sitewide savings at GolfForever.com available April 4 – 13

Aspen, CO. — GolfForever, the industry-leading at-home golf fitness and wellness system designed to help everyday golfers move better, play better, and enjoy the game pain-free for the long run, is kicking the season off with 15 percent sitewide savings from April 4 – 13.

April and the year’s first major championship has long signaled the start of the golf season. The difference between a good season and a great season often comes down to how well your body moves. No one knows this better than GolfForever Tour Athlete Scottie Scheffler, winner of the 2022 and 2024 Masters, who enters 2026 one U.S. Open shy of a Career Grand Slam.

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These limited-time savings can be used on GolfForever’s training systems that feature the GolfForever Swing Trainer, a one-year membership to the 4.9 App Store-rated GolfForever app, and a specially-curated combination of equipment used in the app such as GolfForever’s Mini Bands+, Stability Ball+ and Massage Ball+:

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GolfForever’s Season Opener Sale will be live on https://golfforever.com/majors-promo-golf-training-systems.

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About GolfForever

GolfForever is a comprehensive, smart at-home training system that takes a science-based approach to maximizing golfers’ performance by improving flexibility, core strength, balance, and rotational power. The first golf-specific home training program to embrace the approach of home exercise equipment paired with streaming instruction, GolfForever takes it one step further by customizing each golfer’s exercise routines just for them, based on a proprietary strength and flexibility test users take when starting. The result is a product and program that is safe, highly effective for any golfer and proven to work, as evidenced by a pilot study that saw users who used GolfForever three days per week for 30 days gain an average of 26 yards with their driver.

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New golf resort in Florida starts construction with famous designer

admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 07:44:28 +0000

Golf course architects Tom Doak and Angela Moser, along with developer Michael Keiser, are off and running at one of Keiser’s three projects currently being built in three different states. Five greens have been constructed at Old Shores in the Florida Panhandle, and preview play on as many as 12 of the holes could commence as soon as October.

Keiser and his brother, Chris, own the popular Sand Valley Resort in Wisconsin, and they are the sons of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort developer Mike Keiser. In addition to Old Shores, Michael also is developing Rodeo Dunes in Colorado and Wild Spring Dunes in Texas. Both of those resort and residential developments are farther along than Old Shores, which sits some half an hour north of Panama City and south of Interstate 10.

But Moser got into the ground at Old Shores in November, and Keiser is thrilled with the progress on what eventually could be an expansive project that includes multiple courses and several walking-based villages with estate homes, cottages, a hotel, restaurants, shops and more.

The first course at Old Shores – so named because the Gulf and its sugar-white sand beaches used to reach all the way to this stretch of Northwest Florida – is being designed by Doak with Moser as lead associate. That’s the same duo that laid out Pinehurst No. 10, a course that opened in 2024 and has climbed to No. 15 on the Golfweek’s Best ranking of the top resort courses in the United States. Moser worked on multiple courses around the world with Doak, one of the game’s most decorated modern course architects, before Pinehurst.

“I’m really excited for her,” Keiser said. “Pinehurst (No. 10) was great. I also know the work that she did with Tom for Rosappena at St. Patrick’s Links (a highly rated layout in Ireland), and I think that was really exceptional. I’ve talked to Tom about what she did at Te Arai (at the highly rated North Course in New Zealand), and I’ve talked to Bill Coore because she helped Bill out for a little bit on his course (South Course at Te Arai, also highly rated). I’m really excited for her, and just philosophically, we’re really aligned as we walk through the holes.

“I was down there a few weeks ago with her just talking through what we’re imagining, what she’s imagining. She’s phenomenal. And her work on the routing – you know how good Tom is at routing golf courses, and she came up and her recommendations completely changed the final stretch of golf holes on the golf course. And it’s an incredible finish, thanks to her. So I’m excited and have full confidence in her abilities.”

Keiser said that as design and construction continue, the plans are to start grassing the first set of finished holes in May. Twelve holes could be available as a playable loop in October, and a full grand opening is planned for fall of 2027.

It all seems to be flying quickly, Keiser said. With the courses at Sand Valley being covered in fescue grass, he’s learning how quickly the Bermuda grasses used in the South can be installed and grown in. It’s similar to Wild Spring Dunes in Texas, where Keiser was able to offer preview play in late 2025 while the full opening is planned for this September. Rodeo Dunes in Colorado is slated to open fully in the spring of 2027.

“As somebody who is used to fescue and two-year to three-year grow-ins, it’s a bit insane for me,” Keiser said, “but also exciting.”

As an old pine plantation was cleared for Old Shores, Keiser grew even more thrilled about the Florida project. Florida golf is too often defined by flat ground with pushup greens and drainage ponds providing the greatest intrigue. At Old Shores, though, the sandy terrain is much more varied.

“The first time I saw it, it was on a topo app from the neighboring site,” Keiser said. “I was drawn by the topography. Not only did it seem really interesting, it’s so unusual. Tom Doak has been talking about this a lot recently. He doesn’t use the word unusual. I think he says dynamic. It’s as dynamic a site as he’s seen in a long time. It’s such a different topography. So that struck me on paper, and I confirmed that on the ground. Its natural beauty has always captivated me.

“But in recent months and really over the last two years, after we’ve removed the pine plantation, we’ve been growing in this prairie that just gets prettier and prettier. And then in the last three or four months, we’ve been mowing out the fairway corridors. And I saw this at Rodeo Dunes: When you go from 4-foot grass to essentially soil, all the little details emerge in the ground. And as I saw the little stuff in the ground, it has really exceeded any expectations that I had even six months ago on the quality of the site.”

Doak and Moser’s design will come first, but the plans keeps stretching out from there. Brian Schneider, a longtime Doak lead associate who completed his first original co-design at the highly rated Old Barnwell in South Carolina that opened in 2023, will design the second course at Old Shores. Keiser said the first phase of development at Old Shores includes those two public-access, 18-hole resort courses plus a par-3 course, a nine-hole private course that will accept some resort play and a 12-hole layout similar to The Commons, a community-based, non-traditional course in development at the heart of Sand Valley.

In time, Keiser said, there are plans for Old Shores to expand from there to include more courses and a second village. Keiser drew inspiration for the villages from the great walking towns of Scotland, where a car might be parked and forgotten. With 4,000 acres owned by Keiser and a partner who wishes to remain anonymous, and with that partner owning another 60,000 acres, there’s plenty of room for Old Shores to stretch out.

“We spent a couple years planning the bones for the villages, and we went through I don’t know how many iterations,” Keiser said. “I always say, let’s measure 50 times and cut once, right? And we’re not on any schedule. So we’re going to start designing this, and we’ll move forward when we’re really excited about it, even if that slows the project down. So that’s what we did. We spent a lot of time on the village design, and it’s pretty cool.”

Founding memberships are available at Old Shores for $115,000, Keiser said, and the first offering of 21 estate homesites are available starting at $1.3 million with owners able to design custom retreats that include as many as eight bedrooms. The homes at Old Shores will be constructed around gardens, greens and shared gathering spaces. Amenities will include an entry plaza, a variety of restaurants, a community pool and multiple communal areas.

But it’s the golf that will draw the most eyeballs. The Keiser family has established high expectations with home run after home run in golf course development, and Michael is thrilled to be building with Doak for the fourth time, especially with this first course at Old Shores on a very unexpected piece of ground.

“The site for Old Shores is not at all what people will visualize when they think of Florida,” Doak said in a media release from Old Shores. “There is about 40 feet of elevation change from high to low on our site, and even more on the site for the second course, with big sweeping hills providing a variety of stances. Then there are the sinkholes, which are unlike anything I’ve seen on a golf course; in some cases there are abrupt banks 30 to 50 feet deep, and the largest of them, Long Lake, is a dry pond that is something like 50 acres in size.”

Keiser is a bit of a golf nut, in a great way. He loves to talk courses and dreams of building more, and a round of golf with him includes continuous conversation about what he likes with various holes and layouts. He learned from his father, Mike – who redefined resort golf in the U.S. with Bandon Dunes in Oregon – that the golf must always come first. Such is the case at Old Shores.

“It’s all happening really fast,” Michael said, “and I just really want to play the course.”

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