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By Mike McAllister, PGATOUR.COM IRVING, Texas — The last time Vijay Singh found himself in the top five on the leaderboard after the third round, he never got the chance to play another shot. That was at The Barclays last year, an event that was shortened to 54 holes because of the threat of Hurricane [...]
IRVING, Texas (AP) Jason Dufner shot a 1-under 69 on Saturday, enough to keep a one-stroke lead heading into the final round of the Byron Nelson Championship.
GLADSTONE, N.J. (AP) Morgan Pressel inched closer to her first LPGA Tour title since 2008, posting two very different victories Saturday to reach the semifinals of the Sybase Match Play Championship.
Morgan Pressel inched closer to her first LPGA Tour title since 2008, posting two very different victories Saturday to reach the semifinals of the Sybase Match Play Championship.
IRVING, Texas -- Jason Dufner shot a 1-under 69 on Saturday, enough to keep a one-stroke lead heading into the final round of the HP Byron Nelson Championship.
Carroll/Getty Images IRVING, Texas – Saturday’s third round of the HP Byron Nelson Championship is complete at the TPC Four Seasons Resort. Here’s how the third round played out, along with a quick recap. Feel free to join the discussion. MORE HP BYRON NELSON: Round 3 scores | Shot Tracker | Projected FedExCup points [...]
By Mike McAllister, PGATOUR.COM IRVING, Texas — On Thursday, Phil Mickelson ended his first round with a bogey. On Friday, he suffered a double bogey on his final hole. Saturday, he could walk off the TPC Four Seasons Resort course with a smile, thanks to a chip-in birdie from 41-1/2 feet at the par-4 18th. [...]
Graeme McDowell held his nerve in a tense playoff against local favorite Sergio Garcia to squeeze into the World Match Play Championship semifinals in Spain on Saturday.
Rhein Gibson set a provisional world-record score last Saturday by shooting a 16-under 55 at the River Oaks Golf Club in Edmond, Okla., according to a report in Golfweek.
Jason Dufner birdied four of the last five holes Friday for a 4-under 66 and a one-stroke lead after the second round of the Byron Nelson Championship.
IRVING, Texas -- Standing over his ball in a swale behind the 18th green, Jason Dufner would have been content with a par and a spot in the big group tied for the lead in the HP Byron Nelson Championship.
The ownership dispute over the land set to be used for the Olympic golf course for 2016 took another twist Friday when a court ordered the city of Rio de Janeiro to hand over the contracts with the owner of the land -- and city officials said no such docu
MORE INTERVIEWS: HP Byron Nelson Championship THE MODERATOR: We would like to welcome Chad Campbell into the interview room after a 4-under par, 66, Chad, tremendous playing, four birdies, no bogies. Can we get your comments?
Rhein Gibson - a golfer who (hat tip: Golf Digest) has very modest experience on the Nationwide Tour and a few Australian pro tournaments, and is ranked 1,444th in the ...
Slow play is a hot topic on the PGA Tour these days, especially after Kevin Na waggled his way to some long days over the weekend at The Players Championship.
Our latest roundup of new golf equipment arriving in pro shops leads off with a pair of putters: the Odyssey Flip Face and Nike Method Midnight. The Flip Face is ...
Troy Peissig's surprise at acing an $18,000 hole-in-one contest at a charity tournament has been replaced by bitter disappointment now that he hasn't been paid a dime nearly two years after making the 170-yard shot.
Should the PGA Tour crack down on slow play? Kevin Na's glacial pace at The Players Championship has set a lot of tongues wagging on the issue. Of course, Na has been a very slow player for years, as have quite a few other tour members.
The tour has slow play rules in place already that would probably speed up play if they were simply enforced - because enforcing them would lead to penalty strokes. As it stands, the PGA Tour hasn't assessed a penalty stroke to a player because of slow play in 20 years.
Is an individual golfer's pace of play even the main issue in overlong rounds? In comments made prior to The Players Championship, PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said no. Finchem said the issue is one of logistics: With 150-plus player fields, there are inevitable bottleneck areas on every golf course where play is going to back up.
We see that on the courses we play on busy days. Those par-5s where players wait to have a go at the green in two. On particularly busy days, just about any par-3. Those are places where recreational golfers on the local course will have to wait on a busy day, and they are places where the pros in a large field are going to wait, too. Finchem claimed that reducing field size to, say, 120 players, would solve the issue. But we all know there's zero chance of that happening (and Finchem wasn't proposing it, merely claiming field size and course logistics play a larger role in long tour rounds than the pace of individual golfers). But we've also all seen very long rounds in short-field pro tournaments, and "bottlenecking" can't explain 6-hour matches at the Ryder Cup.
In my opinion, absolutely nothing will be done about slow play on the PGA Tour until or unless one thing happens: until or unless the television networks state, or the tour comes to believe, that PGA Tour telecasts will be worth less money unless pace of play improves. Otherwise, there are too many players - probably a majority - who think, "I'm playing for millions of dollars, I'll take as long on a shot as I need."
Unless it starts to hit players and the tour in the pocketbook, slow play in tour events will be around forever. And so will complaining about slow play in tour events.
Ricardo Santos shot a 9-under 63 Sunday to win the Madeira Islands Open by four strokes, becoming the first Portuguese-born golfer to win on the European Tour in his home country.
Rickie Fowler is a winner on the PGA Tour for the first time. But it's the second time Rory McIlroy has finished as runner-up to Fowler in a pro event.
Tiger Woods missed the cut at 2012 Wells Fargo Championship on Friday. Woods carded scores of 71-73, even-par 144, which left him one stroke on the wrong side of the ...
San Francisco's Olympic Club is the site of the U.S. Open this year; more specifically, the club's Lake Course. The club is home to three courses, 45 holes of golf, ...
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) -- The LPGA Kia Classic will return to La Costa Resort and Spa near San Diego in 2012, where the inaugural event was held in 2010.
SHANGHAI (AP) -- U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy shot an 8-under 64 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead in the Shanghai Masters, the lucrative invitational tournament that isn't sanctioned by any of the major tours.
SELANGOR, Malaysia (AP) -- Australia's Robert Allenby shot an 8-under 63 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead over Venezuela's Jhonattan Vegas after the first round of the Asia Pacific Classic, the second-year event sanctioned by the PGA Tour and Asian Tour.
TOKYO (AP) -- The Japan LPGA has canceled a team event against South Korea in Bangkok in December because of the severe flooding that has hit the Thai capital.
SOTOGRANDE, Spain (AP) -- Sergio Garcia wants to become the first Spaniard to win the Andalucia Masters at Valderrama, where defending champion Graeme McDowell leads the challengers.
First of all, congratulations to Bubba Watson, a well-deserving champion and classy champion here at this year's Travelers Championship! As always, it's a thrill to be a part of what we here at TPC River Highlands feel is one of the best events in golf (no bias here!). But I think this year, with the drama and the three-man playoff, we have a pretty good case for sure.
MUNICH, Germany (AP) -- David Horsey of England birdied the 18th hole to win the BMW International Open by one stroke over countryman Ross Fisher on Sunday, shooting a 5-under 67 that earned him the biggest victory of his career.
The list is lengthy of legendary athletes who have made the journey to French Lick, Ind., in search of vitality and restoration. During the early 1900s heyday of the small resort town in southern Indiana, Joe Louis came to train for heavyweight fights, Babe Ruth came to lose a few pounds in the off-season and entire Major League Baseball teams came for spring training -- in fact, the Chicago Cubs trained in town prior to the 1908 season, when the team last won the World Series.
LEON, Mexico -- B.J. Staten and Peter Tomasulo share the 54-hole lead at the Nationwide Tour's Bicentenary Mexico Open after both Staten and Tomasulo shot even-par 72 Saturday at El Bosque Country Club.
"There was always a bit of the punk in Tiger Woods, but I always loved watching him play, and I always wanted him to win. The whole show was just too compelling. It wasn't that way over the weekend. I wanted Tiger to lose -- and it's not just the sex thing. The guy's just too weird."
I got that opinion from everyone I talked to about the Masters -- men, women, teenagers, younger kids, hard-core fans, casual observers. Go, Phil. Tiger's the bad guy now. He may eventually get past the stigma of his heinous off-course behavior, but I'm not sure he's bright enough to shake the weirdness.
The Golf Blog says: we didn't share the same feeling as Jenkins. It was a great tourney and having Tiger Woods in the mix was certainly better for the competition. We do have to admit that we've supported Tiger a lot in the past and probably are not as big supporters as we were. Had we been forced to pick between Phil and Tiger yesterday, we would have picked Phil in a heartbeat. How could you not, with his wife and mom battling breast cancer this year? But we weren't rooting against Tiger. We do agree, though, with Jenkins that Tiger's new Nike commercial using his dead father's voice was in very, very poor taste.
It was de ja vu all over again. After parring the front nine, Phil Mickelson finally propelled his round at Amen Corner, on the devilish par-3 12th over Rae's Creek. Just as he did in 2004 to win his first green jacket, Phil rolled in a downhill birdie putt with slight left to right break. On the next hole, Phil hit a spectacular 6-iron from the pine needles in between two trees and over the creek to land just 5-feet away for eagle. The shot was unbelievable -- high risk, high reward. And, even though he missed the short, sliding putt--Phil separated himself from Lee Westwood (and a charging Anthony Kim, who went birdie-birdie-eagle on 13, 14, 15 and would post -12) by birdieing 13 and 15. Click here for Phil's interview talking about the shot
Lee Westwood, who, like Phil, had trouble off the tee, couldn't get much going until the very end, with a nice birdie on 17 to pull within 2 of Phil, which put a little pressure on Phil for the final hole. Hats off to Westwood who is surely the Best Player Who Hasn't Won a Major (very reminiscent of how Phil Mickelson was, not too long ago).
Phil, however, would not be denied. He birdied the 18th, when the tourney and green jacket were already his. It was an emotional victory for Phil, as his wife Amy and his mom are both battling breast cancer. When Phil walked off the 18th green, he hugged Amy, who had already been crying. The two hugged, and the camera caught a tear trickling down Phil's face. So poignant. What a memorable victory.
Tiger Woods had a rollercoaster of day, starting off with 3 bogeys on the first 5 holes, but then holing out for eagle on 7 and going birdie-birdie. On the back nine, Tiger had the same ups and downs, with 2 bogeys, 2 birdies, and an eagle. Even though he was spraying shots all over the course, Tiger managed to shoot 69. That was amazing in itself, given how wild his ballstriking was.
Shout out to 16 year old Matteo Manassero who was low amateur at +3. Wow. That is so impressive! Go back to high school, Matteo!
Leaderboard
-16 Phil Mickelson -13 Lee Westwood -12 Anthony Kim -11 Tiger Woods, KJ Choi -9 Fred Couples -8 Nick Watney -7 YE Yang, Hunter Mahan -5 Ian Poulter, Rickey Barnes
Phil Mickelson electrified the crowd at Amen corner by eagling 13 and 14, back to back, with a scintillating 138 yard hole out to cap the dramatic charge. Lefty almost holed out his wedge on the 15th for what would have been an impossible eagle-eagle-eagle combination. Lee Westwood still has the lead at -12, but Lefty got himself into the final group at -11. That's a good thing: in 17 of the last 18 Masters, the winner has come from the final group.
Leaderboard -12 Lee Westwood -11 Phil Mickelson -8 Tiger Woods, KJ Choi -7 Fred Couples -6 Rickey Barnes, Ian Poulter, Hunter Mahan -5 Anthony Kim, YE Yang
Day 2 proved to be a much more difficult day to score at Augusta -- except for the UK golfers Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter. Westwood, who is still on the course, is 5-under for the day and 10-under for the tourney. Westwood just double-bogeyed 14 to fall back to -8 after dunking his ball into Rae's Creek -- the cut line changed dramatically now. Poulter is also 8-under for the tourney after shooting a pair of 68s. First round leader Fred Couples had a rough day, shooting a 75.
Leaderboard as of 5:15 p.m.
-8 Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter -6 KJ Choi, Tiger Woods, Rickey Barnes -5 Anthony Kim -4 Tom Watson, Phil Mickelson, YE Yang -3 Fred Couples, Soren Kjeldsen
Just heard someone exuberantly say on The Golf Channel that this is the best leaderboard he's ever seen in his life. Whoa, settle down there Mr. Golf Channel commentator. We understand your excitement, but let's not get too carried away--just yet.
Don't get us wrong, we love this leaderboard!!
-6 Fred Couples -5 Tom Watson, Phil Mickelson, Lee Westwood, YE Yang, KJ Choi -4 Anthony Kim, Nick Watney, Ian Poulter, Tiger Woods, Rickey Barnes -3 David toms, Sandy Lyle, Trevor Immelman, Adam Scott, C. Shwartzel
But don't forget about 1986 when Jack Nicklaus made his famous Sunday charge. The leaderboard looked pretty amazing in the end:
-9 Jack Nicklaus -8 Greg Norman, Tom Kite -7 Seve Ballesteros -6 Nick Price -5 Tom Watson, Jay Haas, Tsuneyuki Nakajima -4 Payne Stewart, Bob Tway -3 Sandy Lyle, Corey Pavin, Mark McCumber, Donnie Hammond, Calvin Peete -2 Bernard Langer, Larry Mize, Ben Crenshaw, Dave Barr, Gary Koch
A couple weeks ago, Tom Watson predicted that Fred Couples would win the Masters, followed by Lee Westwood in second, and Tiger Woods in third. We doubted Watson's selection of Couples, but thought Westwood and Woods would contend.
Boy, were we wrong! Watson is looking like a soothsayer right now. Couples shot his lowest round ever at Augusta during the Masters. But what Tom Watson didn't say was that he, too, would be in contention. That's awesome, given what happened last year at the British Open.
Sandy Lyle at -3 is the biggest shocker.
We love this leaderboard!!
-6 Fred Couples -5 Tom Watson, Phil Mickelson, Lee Westwood, YE Yang, KJ Choi -4 Anthony Kim, Nick Watney, Ian Poulter, Tiger Woods, Rickey Barnes -3 David toms, Sandy Lyle, Trevor Immelman, Adam Scott, C. Shwartzel
Tiger Woods gets an A for his answers. But the male questioners get a D for their softball questions. Only the 3 female reporters get an A- for their tough questions (on Dr. Galea and PEDS, Elin's absence, and who in his management team knew of the other women). Tiger answered the PED question, but evaded the other 2 questions. The women reporters put Tiger on the defensive. He squirmed.
Top 3 Questions Tiger Woods should be asked today at 2 p.m.:
1. When did your agent Mark Steinberg first learn about Perkins waitress Mindy Lawton or any other woman with whom you had an affair? (Vanity Fair article says Steinberg helped make the deal with the National Enquirer to get the article on your affair killed, in exchange for you appearing on the cover of Men's Fitness, click here NSFW)
2. Did you have sex or meet with any of the women with whom you had an affair during the week of a golf tournament while you were at the tournament? (Ex porn star Joslyn James says she hooked up with Tiger at last years BMW Championship at Cog Hill, near Chicago). If so, did the amount of sex you were having ever have a positive or negative effect on your golf game, stamina, or concentration on the course?
Wow! We just learned that Tiger Woods and Jesse James will star in a spinoff of the new comedy show The Marriage Ref, produced by Jerry Seinfeld. The basic premise of the show is that two celebrities, along with the show's host Tom Papa, give advice to married couples who need a "ref" to resolve their disputes.
In the spinoff, titled The Marriage Ref: Rogue Edition, Tiger Woods and Jesse James will give advice to married couples in which the husband has repeatedly cheated on his wife -- with several women (a single affair is a disqualifier!). Based on their experiences, Tiger and Jesse should be able to give some really good advice.
Anthony Kim was winning by 2 strokes when he bailed out his 3 wood into the bunker on the final hole, in order to avoid the water on the left. He smiled seeing his ball land safely in the sand, no doubt thinking bogey would be good enough to win. Meanwhile, Vaughn Taylor was on the 18th green and rolled in a beautiful birdie putt to pull within 1 stroke of Kim.
Kim started to feel a little bit of pressure and then had to hit a long iron out of the fairway bunker. The shot went right, into the greenside bunker. Kim then exploded a long bunker shot that ended up about 5 or 6 or so feet past the hole. AK, looked pretty confident standing over the putt, and kind of rushed things, powering his putt a good foot or two past the hole. Ouch.
Meanwhile, Vaughn Taylor's wife or significant other smiled, mouth open, in delight at Anthony Kim's miss, which ensured that Vaughn would be in a playoff at worst. Kudos to NBC for showing that shot of Vaughn's wife twice!! AK almost yipped his short comeback--but it slid in the side door. Whew!
The playoff went back to the difficult 18th hole. AK teed off and finally found the fairway. Vaughn went into the bunker. That was basically the tournament, as Vaughn would end up bogeying the hole, while AK parred it.
Tom Watson made some pretty interesting predictions on The Golf Channel yesterday. He picked Tiger Woods to show (3d), Lee Westwood to place (2d), and Fred Couples to win (1st). Couples has won of 3 of 4 tourneys on the Champions Tour (read Seniors Tour), with a low round of 62. Watson says that Couples is putting so well and that will carry over to Augusta.
The Golf Blog says: Are you kidding? Westwood might be in contention, so might Woods. But Couples to win? Not a chance. We still love you, Freddie! But Jack was 46 on his magical run at the Masters. And today the course is longer and competition more fierce.
Well, amid allegations by several women of having extramarital sexual affairs, Jesse James, the husband to actress Sandra Bullock, has taken a page out of the Tiger Woods' playbook. Jesse hightailed it to a rehab clinic in Arizona, in an effort to save his marriage to Bullock. In fact, James was stopped by police for his tinted windows and lack of front license plate, but he told them he was trying to save his marriage by going to rehab. Sounds like Jesse may be trying out the sexual addiction excuse.
The Ernie Els of old (now 40 years old) has reemerged. Els won the Arnold Palmer Invitational at -11, two shots better than Kevin Na and Edoardo Molinari. After play was suspended on Sunday due to rain, Ernie said, "The last 20 hours I couldn't stop thinking about trying to finish this thing."
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