Golf

Grace Lee showed her first true interest in golf at age nine by asking her father if he’d take her to the driving range. “He took me and said I had a natural golf swing,” Lee recalled. “The first tournament I played in I got second place, so that kind of motivated me. I thought, ‘I think this is my sport.’ ” Think she might be right.

Spokane’s Andrew Von Lossow shot a 2-under 70 Thursday at Port Ludlow (Washington) Golf Club to secure a spot in the U.S. Mid-Amateur next month.

TROON, Scotland – On a course adjacent an airport, a 30-year-old golfer from San Diego seemed to leave the ground Sunday and commence gliding above as if oblivious to the fray below. His back nine, so artful and tranquil, felt almost as though he had used the runway just behind No. 10 to start floating overhead like one of those lazy-day planes, the engine barely audible but its hum clearly untouchable. In a callous sport with a furious week of weather, the clear winner wound up looking downright pristine.

Longtime followers of the tournament, a major on the PGA’s Pacific Northwest Section, know Indian Canyon’s final two holes – a drivable par-4 and a shortish par-5 – often produce fireworks and dramatic swings on the leaderboard. That’s exactly what happened Sunday as Spokane amateur Andrew Von Lossow spent his lead with a double bogey on No. 17 before responding with a birdie on the par-5 18th to take home all the Rosauers Open trophies – low amateur and tournament champion.

TROON, Scotland – Billy Horschel has this way of prefacing sentences with a single word. A pop. He wants your attention. He wants you to understand him. So he begins.

TROON, Scotland – Thriston Lawrence’s voice cracked as he recalled the path here. How the South African flew overseas to test his level against the best in America only to make one cut in six weeks. How the doubt that this cold, unforgiving game creates can permeate even the strongest of wills.

Russell Grove isn’t at 100 percent due to an undiagnosed shoulder issue, but you’d never know it by looking at his scorecards. Grove has pretty much left his driver in the bag and relied on hitting fairways, his short game and putter to do the heavy lifting through two rounds of the 37th Rosauers Open Invitational.

Spokane’s Andrew Von Lossow and the University of Idaho’s Dalton Dean led a strong showing by area amateurs in Friday’s first round of the 37th Rosauers Open Invitational.Von Lossow and Dean each birdied all three par-5s and carded 6-under 65s at Indian Canyon Golf Course to move to the top of a crowded leaderboard. Amateur Nate Plaster, who recently played at Washington State, is one of six players trailing the co-leaders by one stroke.

TROON, Scotland – Near the end of his brief remarks Friday as he began to exit this 152nd British Open, Tiger Woods ran across a case of cross-accent confusion.

TROON, Scotland – By the time 30 mile per hour gusts of the Firth of Clyde destroyed golf rounds through much of Friday afternoon, Shane Lowry and Daniel Brown stood atop the Open Championship field ready to play in the final group Saturday.

TROON, Scotland – The most dangerous place to be on this Thursday in Scotland is the Open Championship lead.

TROON, Scotland – An official with the merciless job of coordinating interviews between reticent golfers and curious reporters popped into the tent midafternoon on Thursday with a quick announcement: Once Rory McIlroy completed No. 18 and his first round at the 152nd British Open, he would take three questions.

High temperatures and low scores are hallmarks of the Rosauers Open Invitational. The 37th edition of the 54-hole tournament should see plenty of both Friday through Sunday at Indian Canyon Golf Course.

Royal Troon’s Old Course is a breathtaking Scottish seaside links layout that since 1989 has hosted the British Open four times. Yet the winners aren’t exactly a who’s who of golf’s elite: Henrik Stenson (2016), Todd Hamilton (2004), Justin Leonard (1997) and Mark Calcavecchia (1989).

Through words and deeds, many of those involved for decades and in some cases since Day 1 have demonstrated just how special the relationship is between the Rosauers Open and Vanessa Behan.

NEW YORK — The day after Rory McIlroy’s crushing collapse in the U.S. Open, the world’s second-ranked golfer went to New York City. McIlroy had already planned the trip in advance of that weekend’s Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Conn., which he ended up skipping, and used the Big Apple to help clear his head. “I went to Manhattan, which was nice,” McIlroy said Wednesday of his three-day ...

Given the sequence of events over the last eight months or so, it makes perfect sense Spokane’s Dave Christenson is teeing off Thursday at the prestigious U.S. Senior Open. Almost like it was meant to be – in an improbable, meandering sort of way.

PINEHURST, N.C. – Bryson DeChambeau, this skilled conductor who owned every inch of golf’s grandest stage, pumped his fists and played to the crowd again. He turned in a virtuoso performance that came down to the final notes Sunday, a U.S. Open classic in most every way, with a masterful champion – an artist disguised as a brute – hoisting the trophy at the end.

PINEHURST, N.C. – Bryson DeChambeau is 18 holes away from winning the U.S. Open.