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Captivating WGC Match Play deserves better treatment

This week provides the most exciting single day of golf outside the majors, yet it often feels as though the game doesn't make the most from what should be a refreshing change of format. First round day at the WGC Accenture Match [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

Wood-Club Tournament Recalls the Game’s Roots

TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla. — Cars driving on the neighborhood streets surrounding Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club slowed to a crawl, their drivers craning their necks for a better look at yesteryear. It was as if the knicker-clad, sw [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Golf-Mickelson and Bradley fall agonisingly short at Riviera

However, Haas went on to claim a stunning victory at the second extra hole, the driveable par-four 10th, where he rolled in a 43-footer for birdie. "It was a lot of fun," Bradley, 25, told reporters after narrowly missing a 15-f [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Golf Capsules: Mickelson returns to the top of leaderboard

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four days after his big win at Pebble Beach, Phil Mickelson keeps right on rolling. Mickelson hit driver off the deck from just under 300 yards on the par-5 11th that led to a two-putt birdie, and he ended a gorge [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Golf: Baddeley and Scott each aim for a Riviera repeat

Pacific Palisades - Australians have thrived at Riviera in recent years and two players from Down Under, Aaron Baddeley and Adam Scott, are aiming for repeat success at this week's Northern Trust Open. In-form Baddeley defend [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Golf Notes: Late start for Scott; Riviera snub for Weir

Adam Scott was on the range at Riviera on Tuesday and had every reason to feel like a stranger. He is the only player from the top 10 in the world who has yet to play a tournament this year. “I may have to introduce myself to a fair [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

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: Mark Wilson wins Humana Challenge

La Quinta, Calif. • Mark Wilson made a 10-foot birdie putt on the final hole to win the Humana Challenge on Sunday, beating Robert Garrigus, John Mallinger and Johnson Wagner by two strokes in a dramatic dusk finish to the wind-delay [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 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 [...]