Utah Golf Radio

BYU teammates Cole Ponich and Cooper Jones will meet in the final of the 126th Utah State Amateur Championship at the Ogden Golf and Country Club. Fairways Magazine's Kurt Kragthorpe joins the pod to break down how they got there with victories and the quarters and semis. Sponsored by Goldenwest Credit Union. 

Elijah Turner defeats 2022 champ Zac Jones in a Round of 16 match at the Utah State Am at the Ogden Country Club. Cooper Jones gets to the quarters for the first time, and we'd all better pay attention to Aidan Thain. Fairways Magazine's Kurt Kragthorpe joins the pod to break down the thickest golf day of the year as the quarter finals are set. 

Medalist Tyson Shelley barely survives a Round of 64 match with younger brother Austin and defending champ Simon Kwon is defeated in the Utah State Am at Ogden Country Club. Sponsored by Goldenwest Credit Union.

BYU's Tyson Shelley takes medalist honors in the stroke play portion of the 126th Utah State Amateur Championship at the Ogden Golf and Country Club. Teammate Cole Ponich is one shot back. Sponsored by Goldenwest Credit Union. 

Four BYU players sit atop the leaderboard after Round 1 at the 126th Utah State Amateur Championship. Cole Ponich and Zach Jones are T1 at 65 followed by teammates defending champ Simon Kwon at 66 and Tyson Shelley at 67. Jones joins the pod. Sponsored by Goldenwest Credit Union. 

Utah PGA pros Brian Fiedler and Troy Watkins team up with Ben Hulin of Stand Up and Play to tell us about helping wheelchair users play golf. We celebrate Doug Bybee's election to the Utah Golf Hall of Fame. Tommy Sharp, Wesley Ruff and Kurt Kragthorpe tee up the State Am with their Ten Who Can Win lists. Kersten Ngakuru dishes on her win the the UGA Mary Lou Baker Open. 

BYU rising sophomore Peter Kim wins the Provo Open in a playoff over Utah Tech's Zach Felts to become the first amateur to claim the title since Jimmy Blair in 1977. Kim joins the pod. Sponsored by Goldenwest Credit Union. 

Timpanogos head pro Brett Watson helps us celebrate the Primo Provo Open on the live show on ESPN 700. Utah Golf Hall of Fame inductee Garey Chadwick's son, Doug, remembers his father. Fairways Magazine's Kurt Kraigthorpe reviews the State Am field. UJGA horse beast Kate Walker on her win at Fox Hollow. Sponsored by Goldenwest Credit Union. 

Several UPOTs, the Utah Players on Tour, had big weeks, but none more meaningful that BYU rising sophomore Cooper Jones in his Korn Ferry Tour debut. Tony had a T5; Weirsy a solo 2nd. Peter Kuest and Danny Summerhays made noise, too. Jones joins the pod. Sponsored by Goldenwest Credit Union. 

Fairways Magazine's Kurt Kragthorpe joins the live show on ESPN 700 to help us celebrate the 2024 Utah Golf Hall of Fame class. Inductees Bruce Brockbank and Guy Yocom join the show. 

BYU commit Lincoln Markham won the inaugural UGA Utah Junior State Am with a 7&6 victory over Lance Loughton in the final match. Markham and Loughton join the pod. UGA Tournament Director Colin Clawson puts a bow on the experience of this new championship.  

Ashley Gettleman of Santa Cruz, California won the inaugural UGA Utah Girls' Junior State Am with a 2 and 1 victory over Aadyn Long in the final match at Wasatch Mountain State Park. Gettleman and Long join the pod. UGA Tournament Director Colin Clawson puts a bow on the new championship. Sponsored by Goldenwest Credit Union. 

Tony Finau finishes T3 in the US Open at Pinehurst #2. His post-round presser is here in its entirety. Zac Blair finishes T26 and moves inside the top 125 on the FedEx Cup points.  We also give an encore listen to a conversation with champion Bryson DeChambeau from earlier this year. 

Wasatch Head Pro Bret Weston and UGA's Colin Clawson join the live show on ESPN 700 to help celebrate the inaugural Utah Junior State Am. Instructor legend Dr. Jim Suttie talks teaching at Soldier Hollow. Utah's Maya Renteria on being a USGA Pathways Intern at the US Open. 

Wasatch Head Pro Bret Weston and UGA's Colin Clawson join the live show on ESPN 700 to help celebrate the inaugural Utah Junior State Am. Instructor legend Dr. Jim Suttie talks teaching at Soldier Hollow. Utah's Maya Renteria on being a USGA Pathways Intern at the US Open. 

Sunset View head pro Casey Fowles wins the Utah PGA Match Play Championship with a 5 & 4 victory in the final match over Zach Johnson. Fowels joins the pod. Sponsored by Goldenwest Credit Union. 

BYU's Cole Ponich grabbed a come-from-behind victory in the Sonny Braun Art City Amateur with a dramatic eagle on the last hole. Derek Penman and teammate Simon Kwan finish T2, three shots back. Ponich joins the pod. 

Hobble Creek head pro Craig Norman joins the live show on ESPN 700 to help us celebrate the Art City Am. We put a wrap on Bowen Mauss's win in the Salt Lake City Am, and talk with winners in the UJGA State Jr. Am. We review Utahns in the US Open qualifiers. And Matty Gay gives the deets on Primo's new women's line. 

Corner Canyon senior and ASU commit Bowen Mauss won the Salt Lake City Amateur by one over Devin Tovey, after finishing runner-up last year. Mauss joins the pod. 

New Bonneville Head Pro Lynsey Meyers joins the live show on ESPN 700 to celebrate the Salt Lake City Amateur. Colby Cowen tells us about his new gig at GM at Black Desert. UGA Exec Easton Folster puts a bow on the Utah Women's Four Ball and why it produced co-champions. Former USU horse Cameron Tucker on his win at the Valley View Am. And Bruna Deconte & Jennifer Gibbs tell us all things Stretch...

University of Utah head coach Garrett Clegg and LPGA great Angela Stanford join the live show on ESPN 700 from the NCAA finals at Omni La Costa and the LPGA Senior at Copper Rock. Tournament Director Penny James-Garcia joins in. Annie Fisher of the Utah Section PGA and 6A champ Aadyn Long put a bow on the girls high school state championships.

Playing on a sponsor's invitation, BYU's Lila Galeai take low am with a T19 at the Copper Rock Championship on the Epson Tour. Galeai joins the pod. Presented by Goldenwest Credit Union.

We celebrate the Copper Rock Championship on the live show on ESPN 700 with tournament director Penny James-Garcia and the state champ Beaver HS golf team. Utes Coach Garrett Clegg tees up the NCAA national finals, Beth Harman tells us about the Scheels First Tee Marathon, and we put a bow on the UGA Mid Am. 

Timpanogos HS senior Noah Moody gets his first PPR win at the Talons Cove Am by four over Preston Cheney. Moody joins the pod. 

We talk with Utah golf legend Jay Don Blake about his his 500th PGA Tour start in his home town of St. George at the Black Desert Championship on the live show on ESPN 700. Talons Cove GM Kareen Larson helps us celebrate the Talons Cove Am. Boston Bracken on receiving the Byron Nelson Award and UVU's Kai Iguchi on playing in the PGA Works Collegiate Championship.