The Annual Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Induction Weekend presented by Sanderson Farms and the Sanderson Farms Championship takes place late July each year and celebrates the newest members of the Hall of Fame.
It’s raining out here at the Country Club of Jackson for what should be the second round of the Sanderson Farms Championship. The course is saturated, this after a summer-long drought in mid-Mississippi. This is the 48th version of this tournament, which has been played at the Hattiesburg Country Club, Annandale and now CCJ. It […]
This is the tale of two guys named Smylie, one a 23-year-old PGA Tour rookie sensation who shot 61 in the final round of a recent Las Vegas golf tournament to win fame, fortune ($1.15 million) and a spot in The Masters next April. He’s Smylie Kaufman, and, he tries to make it two straight […]
Wednesday, for a day, the Sanderson Farms Championship pro-am will be played at the Country Club of Bo Jackson. That’s right. Anywhere Bo plays with a ball — any ball — it becomes his place. Herewith, with no apologies to Letterman, are the top 10 feats I ever saw Bo Jackson perform, which does not […]
Mississippi’s Sanderson Farms Championship has often served as a springboard to success for some of the biggest names on the PGA Tour. Former Clarion-Ledger sports editor Rusty Hampton, now a board member of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, was on the Annandlae practice range in 2008 when he encountered a 20-year-old named Jason Day. […]
