From Evanston to Scottsdale, Matt Fitzpatrick’s Northwestern connection runs deep
By Nick Neumayer Medill Reports SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Matt Fitzpatrick was a student at Northwestern for all of 80 days. Yet as thousands of people lined the fairways Feb. 8 to watch Chris Gotterup win the WM Phoenix Open in a playoff, a man wearing a Northwestern polo followed every shot of Fitzpatrick’s round. The […]
WM Phoenix Open is Coachella for golfers, and hole 16 is headlining
By Nick Neumayer Medill Reports SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — One of the earliest mentions of golf etiquette came in the Aberdeen Code of 1783 in Scotland, which stated, “while a stroke is playing, none of the party should walk about, make any motion or attempt to take off the player’s attention, by speaking or otherwise.” For […]