Kurt Kragthorpe

Utah’s Tony Finau makes four birdies in his first 12 holes in the third round of the PGA Championship but bogeys the last two holes to finish with a 70.

Utah’s Tony Finau shoots an even-par 72 on Friday to advance to the weekend of the PGA Championship. He’s 2-over for the tournament.

Utah’s Tony Finau and Joe Summerhays prepare to tee off in the PGA Championship

Sandy resident Mike Weir shoots a 68 in the final round at The Woodlands Country Club near Houston to win the senior tour’s Insperity Invitational by two shots.

Utah’s Joe Summerhays qualifies for next month’s PGA Championship, joining fellow Utahn Tony Finau.

Utahn Tony Finau plays and adventurous final round — with four bogeys and four birdies for an even-par 72 — to tie for 10th place in the Masters.

Utah’s Tony Finau shoots a 2 over par 74 at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia on Thursday in an opening round at the Masters that leaves him tied for 31st place.

Utahn Tony Finau has struggled in recent PGA events, but says he always gets revived by The Masters, and is counting on firmer conditions at Augusta than he faced last fall in the 2020 Masters, shifted to fall because of the pandemic.

Salt Lake City native Tony Finau’s final-round 64 topped the field’s Sunday performance by two strokes, and then he watched Max Homa miss a 3½-foot putt on the 18th hole.

The Korn Ferry Tour’s Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank will stay at Oakridge Country Club in Farmington for a fifth year, the host Utah Sports Commission announced Wednesday.

Utah’s annual stop on the Korn Ferry Tour is moving to August in 2021, creating more drama at Oakridge Country Club in Farmington as golfers play for PGA Tour access.

Tony Finau’s hopes of a top-10 placement in a fourth straight major tournament were pretty much gone as of Saturday morning, when he completed a second-round 75 at Augusta National Golf Club. What’s left for Finau is merely finishing as the top Utahn in the Masters.

Putting problems cost Tony Finau a lot of ground Friday, so he chose to sleep on a 12-foot birdie attempt on the par-3 No. 12 at Augusta National Golf Club.

Tony Finau is No. 10 in PGATour.com’s power rankings for the 2020 Masters. That’s an interesting number, because a fourth consecutive top-10 finish in a major tournament would give the West High School graduate a place in Utah golf history.

Part-time Utah resident Tony Finau became the first PGA Tour player in two months to have his schedule disrupted by COVID-19, having to withdraw Tuesday from the Shriners Hospital for Children Open in Las Vegas after his on-site test came back positive for the coronavirus.

Jeremy Ranch • At the end of the longest semifinal round in State Amateur history, University of Utah golfer Blake Tomlinson stood beside Jeremy Ranch Golf & Country Club’s No. 3 green, waiting to congratulate his college teammate and upcoming opponent.

Jeremy Ranch • Hours before Utah and BYU once were scheduled to kick off the football season Thursday, Ute freshman golfer Brandon Robison enjoyed what might stand as some of the only duels between the schools’ athletic programs for a while.

Jeremy Ranch • Mistakenly believing the hole was cut into the bottom portion of the 18th green, Hayden Christensen planned his approach shot to land just below a ridge and have the ball trickle back down the slope.

Jeremy Ranch • After winning a prestigious national event, Preston Summerhays chose to pursue bigger ambitions than trying for a third straight State Amateur victory.

Jeremy Ranch • In the morning chill and the afternoon wind, home-course knowledge became important Tuesday in the first round of the State Amateur at Jeremy Ranch Golf & Country Club.