Sam Greenwood/Getty ImagesSwing coach Rick Smith looks on during a practice round prior to 2017 The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.Rick Smith, whose students have included Jack Nicklaus, Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, Greg Norman, John Daly, Lee Janzen and Rocco Mediate, will become the new head instructor at Trump National Doral Miami.
Beginning in November, the Rick Smith Golf Academy will move into the current site of the Jim McLean Golf School, located at the back of Doral’s practice range.

McLean, whose facility has been located at the Doral facility for 26 years, announced on Wednesday that he is moving his golf school down the road to the Biltmore Hotel and Golf Resort in Coral Gables, Fla., starting on Jan. 1. “It’s been a great run at Trump Doral,” McLean said, “and I’m so grateful to everyone connected with this world class resort.”
Besides his work with touring professionals, Smith, 59, is a course designer and television commentator. “In my career, I have been fortunat..

Steve DykesKaylin Yost initially caught our attention in March when she Monday qualifying into the LPGA Bank of Hope Founders Cup, then shot an opening-round 67, an impressive feat for the on-again, off-again Symetra Tour pro who also suffers from 90 percent hearing loss. The 24-year-old American impressed again this week by becoming the first gold medal winner in golf at the Deaflympic, an Olympics-style international competition for hearing-impaired athletes.
Competing at Turkey’s Samsun Golf Course, Yost defeated India’s Diksha Dagar in the championship match, rallying from a 3-down deficit after six holes to take the title on the 19th hole.
“To win the gold at the inaugural Deaflympics for golf is special,” Yost told the Symetra Tour after her victory. “I’m thrilled to win gold, but even more happy with the way I fought.”
When Yost was 2, her parents discovered her hearing issue, which was among several obstacles she had to overcome as a child. She was born with two dislocated hips..

Rob CarrBernhard Langer putts to the ninth hole during the final round of the Senior PGA Championship at Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, D.C.Bernhard Langer is enjoying another dominant season on the Champions Tour, winning three times with nine top-10 finishes in 12 events. Alas, 2017 has bestowed its share of issues as well, as Langer's putting stroke — one that many believe is in violation of golf's anchoring ban — has begat a wave of cheating accusations.
While the USGA has come to Langer's defense, many prominent voices continue to cast aspersions on Langer (and to a lesser extent, Scott McCarron). Speaking at Royal Porthcawl ahead of this week's Senior Open Championship, the two-time Masters champ sounds fed up with the matter.
“I personally don't understand it because I'm a man of integrity and the last thing I want to do is break rules and be known as cheating or something,” Langer said. “I mean, that's the very last thing I wan..