Rex Hoggard

Editorial Staff

Rex Hoggard is a veteran sports writer and a senior writer for GolfChannel.com, serving as a beat writer for golf’s professional tours. Hoggard handles breaking news, features and opinion stories and contributes to the network’s news reporting team on-site at PGA Tour events and at golf’s major championships.

In addition to his writing contributions for the network, he serves as a co-host on Morning Drive.

Before joining Golf Channel, Hoggard accumulated more than 15 years of journalism experience, including nine years at Golfweek Magazine. He began his career at the Orlando Sentinel, then worked as a staff reporter for the Highline News in Washington before joining Golfweek in 1999. Hoggard also served in the United States Marine Corps from 1986-’90.

 

 

ARTICLES BY Rex Hoggard

  • Golf Central
    BY Rex Hoggard  — 

    When Paul Goydos qualified for last year’s British Open, his first Open Championship in a 15-year Tour career, he immediately envisioned a family trip to England for he and his two daughters.

  • Golf Central
    BY Rex Hoggard  — 

    OK, Paul “Sunshine” Goydos atop the Texas Open leaderboard may be a surprise, but some names fit atop the San Antonio marquee like Tex-Mex. Officials could just as well rename the event the Justin Leonard Invitational.

  • Golf Central
    BY Rex Hoggard  — 

    It was tough to pick a winner out of the list of possible contenders on Sunday in San Antonio.

  • Golf Central
    BY Rex Hoggard  — 

    Quietly, the Byron Nelson Championship is a week with major implications for players looking to play the season’s middle lineup of Grand Slam events.
     

  • Golf Central
    BY Rex Hoggard  — 

    A caddie-yard-staple-turned-radio-analyst has returned to the business end of a golf bag. Mike Collins, a regular on-course analyst for XM/Sirius Radio’s PGA Tour broadcasts, is back looping as Kevin Streelman’s new bagman.

  • Golf Central
    BY Rex Hoggard  — 

    MINNEOLA, Fla. – In many ways, qualifying for the U.S. Open is just like every other event a professional will play. It all comes down to location, location, location.
     

  • Golf Central
    BY Rex Hoggard  — 

    Davis Love III has probably had his fill of World Golf Ranking math. He needed to crack the top 50 earlier this year to get back to Augusta National and was done in by decimal points and dubious arithmetic.
     

  • Golf Central
    BY Rex Hoggard  — 

    FARMINGDALE, N.Y.

  • Golf Central
    BY Rex Hoggard  — 

    By nip/tucking a string of three consecutive Texas events, the PGA Tour had hoped to give fields that sometimes suffer from the post-Players, pre-U.S. Open lull a marquee boost.

  • Golf Central
    BY Rex Hoggard  — 

    Late last year during the PGA Tour’s playoff stop in New Jersey we were talking with Michael Allen when he mentioned that a Champions Tour Q-School application had just arrived at his house.