Serious golfers take their clubs seriously. Golf clubs represent a significant investment in the game, but PGA pro Tom Ringer said what’s in the bag often doesn’t match up with a golfer’s individual needs. Ringer, a golf pro for the past 30 years, left his job as the director of golf at the Visalia Country [...]

Michael Weaver — the ex-Clovis West High star — shared team-low honors with a 7-under 65 as No. 1 Cal shot a school- and course-record 23-under 265 in Thursday’s first round of the NCAA men’s golf Pullman Regional. Fresno State’s Rufie Fessler, playing as an individual, shot a 2-under 68 in Tempe to put himself [...]

Two burgeoning golf stars from Clovis East High have made it through local qualifying for the U.S. Open. Derek Ernst — who a week ago earned his first PGA Tour victory at the Wells Fargo Championship — punched his ticket for sectional qualifying with a 70 at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas on Monday. In [...]

One phone call changed his plans. One shot changed a whole lot more for Derek Ernst. Six days after the Clovis East High graduate received a call that he was in the Wells Fargo Championship as the fourth alternate, the 22-year-old rookie found himself one shot out of the lead and 192 yards away from [...]

Phil Mickelson and Nick Watney wound up tied for the lead Saturday at the PGA Tour’s Wells Fargo Championship, but minus much in the way of separation from the rest of the field. Mickelson hit a shot out of bounds on the 15th hole and hit another that struck a spectator in the head, costing [...]

Former Clovis West standout Michael Weaver, along with two other teammates from the top-ranked Cal men’s golf team, will play in the Palmer Cup, which matches the top college golfers from the U.S. and Europe in a Ryder Cup-style event. The event tees off June 7-9 at the Wilmington Country Club in Wilmington, Del. Weaver [...]