With only a week to go until the Olympic Games, Ryan Hietala produced an Olympic performance on Friday to take the lead at the halfway point of the Cox Classic at Champions Run.
Hietala, who was 5 under for the day after starting on No. 10, finished birdie-birdie-eagle to shoot a 9-under 62 for a 126 [...]

D.A. Points, from Pekin, Ill., shot an 8-under 63 Thursday in the opening round of the Cox Classic on the Nationwide Tour to lead the way at Champions Run Golf Club.
Points holds a one-stroke advantage over Garth Mulroy, Vance Veazey, David Branshaw, Chris Kamin and Ryan Hietala, who all are at 7 under.
Colt Knost, David [...]

Bill Lunde chipped in from 30 feet to birdie his final hole and earn a one-stroke victory in the Nationwide Tour’s Children’s Hospital Invitational on Sunday.
Lunde, who sat out the 2006 season, shot a 2-over 73 in the final round, but it was good enough for his first career victory and a $135,000 winner’s check. [...]

The Scarlet Course at the Ohio State University Golf Club put up a good defense Friday as the greens firmed up, the wind picked up, and the scores went up in the second round of the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational.
Peter Tomasulo (67), leads at 5 under par, one stroke ahead of Rich Barcelo (70) and [...]

Four golfers have been first-team All-Americans all four years of their college careers. Three won multiple times on the PGA Tour. One, David Duval, briefly was the best player in the world. Another, Phil Mickelson, is now the best of the rest chasing Tiger Woods.
And then there’s Bryce Molder.
“I’ve gotten past kind of thinking, ‘Well, [...]

Reigning U.S. Amateur champion Colt Knost shot a 10-under 62 Sunday to cap a four-shot victory in the Nationwide Tour’s Price Cutter Charity Championship and earn his 2009 PGA Tour card.
Knost, 23, opened the tournament with an 8-under 64 and led after each round at Highland Springs Country Club. He finished 26-under 262 to beat [...]

Colt Knost admitted he was pretty lucky to shoot a 4-under-par 68 Saturday in the third round of the Price Cutter Charity Championship. Knost, the reigning U.S. Amateur champion from Dallas, has led after each of the first three rounds in the Nationwide Tour’s $600,000 event, and finds himself 18 holes away from securing his [...]

Colt Knost, the reigning U.S. Amateur champion, could have been playing in the British Open this week in England. Knost also would have gotten exemptions into the Masters and the U.S. Open, but the Dallas, Tex., resident decided to turn professional last fall after a stellar amateur career that also included a win at the [...]

Colt Knost fired an 8-under-par 64 and grabbed the first-round lead in the Nationwide Tour’s Price Cutter Charity Championship. Knost rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt on his closing hole for the 64 and a one-stroke lead over the Tour’s leading money winner, Jarrod Lyle (65).
Vance Veazey, Sebastian Fernandez, Camilo Benedetti, Chad Ginn and Monday [...]

Rick Price defeated Chris Anderson on the second playoff hole of the Nationwide Tour Players Cup on Sunday and earned his PGA Tour card for next season.
The 40-year-old Price collected $180,000, the richest paycheck in the Nationwide Tour’s 19-year history and, guaranteed himself a spot among the top-25 money winners on the circuit who will earn [...]