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Golf roundup: Jessica Korda wins Australian

MELBOURNE - American teenager Jessica Korda won the Women's Australian Open on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, holing a 25-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a six-player playoff. The 18-year-old Korda completed a two-s [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Woods hopes to get ball rolling again at Pebble Beach golf

PEBBLE BEACH, California — Tiger Woods returns to the site of two of his most stirring victories when he makes his PGA Tour season debut at the $6.4 million Pebble Beach Pro-Am which begins Thursday. "I am excited to be back,& [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Golf: Tours glance

Site: Pebble Beach Golf Links (6,816 yards, par 72), Monterey Peninsula Country Club, Shore Course (6,900 yards, par 72) and Spyglass Hill Golf Club (6,833 yards, par 72), Pebble Beach, Calif.   Television: Golf Channel (Thursday, [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

Golf roundup: Kyle Stanley rallies at Phoenix

Kyle Stanley rebounded from a devastating loss to win the Phoenix Open, overcoming an eight-stroke deficit Sunday in a comeback as unlikely as his collapse last week at Torrey Pines. In tears seven days ago in San Diego after blowing a bi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Golf pro welcomes tour school launch

The launch of a tour school for the PGA North Region has been welcomed by Selby golf professional Adam Ledger (left). The Selby Golf Club assistant, who competes on both the Euro Pro and North Region tours, said: “I think it’s [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Golf: Woods says tell-all book 'unprofessional and disappoin...

Tiger Woods has criticised former swing coach Hank Haney for writing a tell-all book about their years together, saying the move was "unprofessional and very disappointing". In an interview with ESPN, Woods said he had no plans [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

GOLF: Steele looking forward to Humana Challenge

They say change is good. They, in this case, are PGA Tour players who’ll be teeing it up today in La Quinta at the Humana Challenge — formerly the Bob Hope Classic. More than the name is different, of course: Only three course [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Luke Donald states the obvious on Twitter: Slow play is kill...

Want to know the quickest may to get a professional golfer to go from calm to enraged? Ask him for his opinion on slow play. Without a doubt, slow play is the biggest hot button issue in golf at the moment. With players vying for record p [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2012 | Comments : 0

Back to work for Keegan Bradley, PGA Tour

He's still hard at work, though. "I've always had to kind of prove myself. I swear to you, still in the back of my mind, I still think I've got a lot to prove," the reigning rookie of the year and PGA champion said a [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Canadians Push to Make Golf Tax Deductible

OTTAWA—A group of Canadian lawmakers is teeing off at what the country's golfers say is a decades-old unfair rule in the country's tax law. Since 1971, Canadians have been barred from deducting greens fees for business- [...]

Posted On : Jan, 04 2012 | Comments : 0