Lee Westwood will take a commanding five-shot lead over European Tour money list rival Rory McIlroy into the final round of the season-ending Dubai World Championship on Sunday.
While Europe's best golfers were focusing their attention this year on chasing a share of the $15 million on offer for the Race to Dubai the event's organizers were in a mad scramble to just get the tournament up and running.
How the sports legends' marriage went from romantic to over in just 15 months
The United States will take a three-point lead over the International team into the final day's 12 singles matches after extending their Presidents Cup advantage on day three in San Francisco.
My gracious, but this has been a difficult time for us sports troubadours. We do better with simple games, with the tic-tac-toe offensive and defensive Xs and Os, as opposed to the exes and ohs that refer to past marital tense and current romantic joy. I mean, hardly had I begun to digest the news that Lamar Odom of the NBA had married Khloe Kardashian of reality show fame -- ohhh! -- than comes word that Chris Evert and Greg Norman, America's senior sweethearts, had broken up, potential exes-to-be.
A few thoughts from the tennis world ...
The tennis legend and golf star call it quits after 15 months of marriage
He may not be hitting the fairways with the same bite as he did in his 1980s heyday, but the man sports commentators nicknamed "The Great White Shark" still has plenty of appetite for the game.
World number one Tiger Woods cruised to a three-shot victory in the Buick Open to claim his 69th PGA Tour title and his fourth of the year.
Ricardo Gonzalez stormed home with five birdies in his last six holes to snatch a two-shot victory at the SAS Masters in Sweden on Sunday.
Lee Westwood will take a commanding five-shot lead over European Tour money list rival Rory McIlroy into the final round of the season-ending Dubai World Championship on Sunday.
While Europe's best golfers were focusing their attention this year on chasing a share of the $15 million on offer for the Race to Dubai the event's organizers were in a mad scramble to just get the tournament up and running.
How the sports legends' marriage went from romantic to over in just 15 months
The United States will take a three-point lead over the International team into the final day's 12 singles matches after extending their Presidents Cup advantage on day three in San Francisco.
My gracious, but this has been a difficult time for us sports troubadours. We do better with simple games, with the tic-tac-toe offensive and defensive Xs and Os, as opposed to the exes and ohs that refer to past marital tense and current romantic joy. I mean, hardly had I begun to digest the news that Lamar Odom of the NBA had married Khloe Kardashian of reality show fame -- ohhh! -- than comes word that Chris Evert and Greg Norman, America's senior sweethearts, had broken up, potential exes-to-be.
A few thoughts from the tennis world ...
The tennis legend and golf star call it quits after 15 months of marriage
He may not be hitting the fairways with the same bite as he did in his 1980s heyday, but the man sports commentators nicknamed "The Great White Shark" still has plenty of appetite for the game.
World number one Tiger Woods cruised to a three-shot victory in the Buick Open to claim his 69th PGA Tour title and his fourth of the year.
Ricardo Gonzalez stormed home with five birdies in his last six holes to snatch a two-shot victory at the SAS Masters in Sweden on Sunday.
English golfer Lee Slattery made the best of his early start to take a one-shot lead after a weather-affected opening round of the SAS Masters in Sweden on Thursday.
Five-time champion Tom Watson enjoyed a "spiritual experience" as his superb opening 65 at Turnberry evoked memories of his classic head-to-head duel with Jack Nicklaus in the 1977 British Open.
The Ailsa course at Turnberry will offer a degree of difficulty worthy of a major championship, world number one Tiger Woods tells CNN as he bids to win his fourth British Open at the Scottish links.
Richard Green rediscovered his swing to take a one-shot lead at the Scottish Open after firing a seven-under-par 64 in the opening round at Loch Lomond on Thursday.
Golfing legend Gary Player and 1979 winner Fuzzy Zoeller bade emotional farewells to the Masters while Greg Norman, quite possibly the best player never to win the hallowed major, may well have played his last competitive round at Augusta as he narrowly missed the halfway cut.
Phil Mickelson's hopes of a third successive victory on the PGA Tour all but disappeared as he stumbled to a five-over 77 in the first round of the Houston Open.
Veteran Tom Lehman takes a one-shot lead going into the final round of the Transitions Championship in Florida on Sunday.
March's edition of Living Golf will feature an exclusive interview with arguably the greatest golf coach on the planet, we'll also be teeing up with one of golf's most colorful characters, and be reporting on how the golf industry is continuing to entice customers in such gloomy economic times.
The golfer says his marriage to Chris Evert "is better than I expected"
I had another post more or less ready to go, a congratulatory post to the Tampa Bay Rays. It dies in the same trash bin where my Yankees-win-the-2001-World-Series column, my Memphis-wins-the-national-championship column and my Greg Norman-wins-the-Masters column now have book club meetings.
The newlyweds act like high-school sweethearts when discussing their marriage
The happy newlywed tells PEOPLE her new hubby is even "a good tennis player"
Bruce Vaughan took advantage of a back nine collapse by fellow American John Cook to win the Senior British Open at Royal Troon in a playoff on Sunday.
British Open hero Greg Norman came down to earth with a bump when he returned to action on Thursday at Royal Troon.
Greg Norman says he has to tell the U.S. PGA by Thursday whether he will accept their invitation to play in the final major of the year, the PGA Championship.
Irishman Padraig Harrington successfully defended his British Open title at Royal Birkdale on Sunday, carding a final round of 69 for a three-over total of 283 to beat England's Ian Poulter by four strokes.
A smiling Irishman wins with good cheer, while Norman soars with brio and then does an all-too-familiar fade
Greg Norman of Australia leads the British Open by two strokes after Saturday's third round at Royal Birkdale.
Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell, American Rocco Mediate and Robert Allenby of Australia all took full advantage of beneficial weather conditions to share the first round lead in the British Open.
The tennis and golf legends say "I do" before 140 guests at a sunset ceremony
Dutchman Robert-Jan Derksen and Chinese veteran Zhang Lianwei share the halfway lead at the Asian Open after many of the big names failed to master the strong winds at the tight Tomson Pudong course in Shanghai.
Australian Peter O'Malley shot a sparkling five-under-par 67 to give him a one-stroke lead after the opening round of the Asian Open on the Tomson Shanghai Pudong course.
The rock from fiancé Greg Norman is "big," says an impressed Winfrey
Sports legends Chris Evert and Greg Norman are engaged, they told the press at a golf tournament in South Africa on Friday.
James Kingston moved to the top of the leaderboard at the South African Airways Open on Friday to head the field by one stroke after a three-under round of 69.
Robert Rock overcame gusty and treacherous conditions at the Pearl Valley Golf Estates on Thursday to lead the South African Airways Open with a two-under-par opening round.
(AP) -- One of the intriguing aspects of the Presidents Cup is that the captains fill in the players one game at a time, instead of blind draw, meaning they can orchestrate matches. That led to Tiger Woods playing Ernie Els in South Africa, and Fred Couples playing Vijay Singh in 2005.
This month Living Golf celebrates its 50th edition and as a way to commemorate the achievement, Justin Armsden spent time with the legendary Jack Nicklaus at St Andrews, a course which holds a special place in the heart of the Golden Bear as it was there that he retired from the game at the 2005 British Open.
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) -- Kevin Sutherland shot a 7-under 65 infavorable scoring conditions Thursday to take a two-stroke leadafter the first round of the AT&T Classic.
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) -- Former British Open champion Greg Norman has withdrawn from next week's Senior PGA championship for personal reasons.
We don't know what Eddie Lowery or Rodney Dangerfield or Byron Nelson thought about the game in the gathering darkness, but we do know what Tom Hearn thought. He was an insurance man and a duffer, and John Updike would have put him in his novels had he ever known him. Tom Hearn spent a day when his days were numbered assessing how golf fit into the last 66 years of his life, the freckled early ones and the speckled ones at the close.
I grow all reds -- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Shiraz, Cabernet Franc, Petite Verdot, Malbec, and Pinotage. I made a blend in 2002 -- Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot. It's a nice drinking wine, called the David Frost Par Excellence 2002.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- Nothing could drag Geoff Ogilvy out of bed before dawn when he was growing up.
Augusta, Ga., April 2 -- Remember Olympic runner Michael Johnson's gold cleats in the 1996 Games? They've returned, but this time they're laced onto the reigning 2006 U.S. Open champ, and they include soft spikes.
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 2 -- Nick Faldo was playing a Monday practice round for the 1996 Masters when the awful truth hit him like a 7-iron between the windshield wipers of his Porsche: He had absolutely no idea what he was doing.
(AP) -- I know the Masters is coming up and I've been excited, but I haven't really had the eagerness to get there.
THE SITUATION
Promising young English golfer Oliver Wilson grabbed two eagles on the back nine to claim the halfway lead at the Johnnie Walker Classic in Thailand on Friday.
By now everyone has seen the outtakes of Tiger Woods unexpectedly decking his costar in a Buick commercial, but no one has heard from the deckee, Al Nowicki. "It was a lot of fun," says the actor, who has appeared in about 50 commercials. "It was Tiger's idea, and I was fine with it. I haven't played football since high school, but it was a good hit." This was not, however, Nowicki's only experience with a sports legend: "A few years ago I appeared in an AFLAC commercial with Yogi Berra. Nice man. He didn't hit me; he just sat there." ... While Nowicki was upgraded to stunt pay (he also received a bruise on the forehead), Tiger made some extra cash that day too. At one point director Steve Chase spotted a vertically mounted light, a four-foot-by-eight-inch unit known as a Kino Flo, about 80 yards away. He bet Woods $10 that Tiger couldn't hit it. Woods dropped a ball, pulled a three-iron and busted the light on the first try. (A clip of the shot and other outtakes are scheduled to appear on buick.com.) Ch
Left-hander Richard Green celebrated Australia Day by joining South African Retief Goosen in a share of the lead after the second round of the Qatar Masters on Friday.
The new season began last week, at the Sony Open, the tournament the players all call Hawaii. The Mercedes-Benz Championship, the one Vijay Singh won at Kapalua in the first week of January? That's a dressed-up exhibition, winners only, another chance for the rich to get richer. The real start -- caddie changes in place, new gizmos on the practice tee, virgin irons in the bag, the exquisite grind of the Tour, all in the name of staying out there -- began for real last week. Charles Howell, who finished a shot back, said you start every season with all manner of golfing resolutions, but they're all on a short leash, one bad shot away from being discarded. The veteran Paul Goydos, a master of deadpan with a fitting nickname, had only one good week in 2006, a second-place finish in the Chrysler Championship, the final full-field event of the year, providing him with a $466,400 paycheck that allowed him to save his card. "I spent 10 weeks hoping that what worked at the end of last year would work in the new o
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- The PGA Tour's much-trumpeted new era, starting this week with the Mercedes-Benz Championship in Hawaii, has earned a mixed response from the players.
Nathan Green defied buffeting wind and rain and nerves about partnering Greg Norman to shoot five-under par 67 to lead the first round of the Australian Open at chilly Royal Sydney on Thursday.
Eight-times PGA Tour winner Stuart Appleby and defending champion Robert Allenby have been added to the line-up for next month's Australian Open at the Royal Sydney Golf Club.
On my first dat at Mission Hills in southern China, on one of the resort's ten courses, I knock my ball into a sand trap, where it rolls next to the parched carcass of a wayward frog. In a glance, ...
South African Retief Goosen defends his title at the £5.5 million PGA tour event in Castle Rock, Colorado but the main domestic focus will center on U.S. players looking to seal their places in their Ryder Cup team.
A new wave of major winners is about to join the senior tours and could dominate over-50s golf for the next decade.
Twice former champion Greg Norman will miss the British Open at Hoylake later this month.
Former world number one Greg Norman and current number nine Adam Scott will head the field for this year's Australian Open at the Royal Sydney Golf Club.
The 2009 British Open will be played at Turnberry, 15 years after it last took place at the Scottish links course, the Royal & Ancient have said.
Greg Norman has been named Australia's golfer of the century, after a vote by members of the country's PGA.
BEFORE THERE CAN BE DRINKING, there must be driving. And his drive just went 320 yards. My golfing opponent has some other things working in his favor. He designed this course (a distinct home-field advantage). With a wave of an extremely tanned hand--and a few days' notice--the grounds crew will "double-cut" the greens to mimic the conditions at Augusta or firm up the fairway so that he can practice for a tournament at St. Andrews. My opponent also caught a 1,083-pound great white shark and laminated it. It's hanging above the bar in the clubhouse. But, as I said, the drinking doesn't come till later. First I must hit a tiny white ball while the former No. 1 golfer in the world watches from about four feet away. "You're teeing the ball too high," says Greg Norman, grinning. He mentions this after I hit my drive, which nobody could argue lacks sufficient height. We're standing on a wind-whipped tee at the Medalist, Norman's home course in Hobe Sound, Fla. We're here to indulge in his old livelihood (golf)
World number six Sergio Garcia has been fined by the European Tour following an incident at last week's European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre in Switzerland.
THESE DAYS EVERYONE IS slapping his name on a bottle of wine: Greg Norman, Bob Dylan, even Joe Montana. (A 1999 Montagia cabernet sauvignon, anyone?)
Tiger Woods has been drawn with U.S. Open champion Michael Campbell and veteran Greg Norman for the first two rounds of next week's U.S. PGA Championship.
What does it mean to be the largest of the 48 contiguous states? Plenty of space to play golf, of course.
Former world number one Greg Norman has undergone back surgery to alleviate the persistent pain that has made him consider retirement.
About to tee off at a golf tournament Wednesday, former President Clinton appeared unconcerned about his surgery the following day to drain fluid from his chest.
Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez upstaged tournament favorite Ernie Els to take a two-shot lead in the Dubai Desert Classic second round.
Tournament favorite Ernie Els fired a six-under-par 66 in the Dubai Desert Classic first round to put himself on track for an unprecedented third title at the Emirates Golf Club.
I am in no man's land between Hong Kong and China. Since the handover in 1997, the former British colony and its new ruler are on the same side but, for the time being, there is still a division between them.
Rookie professional James Nitties shot a flawless second round 65 to take the outright lead in the Australian PGA Championship.
Australian Richard Green will take a three-shot lead into the Dutch Open final round, hoping to end a seven-year title drought after "playing like Monty" on Saturday.
Tiger Woods has equalled Greg Norman's record total of 331 weeks as world number one after the American again topped the rankings list announced on Monday.
Australian Richard Green is on course to capture his second European Tour title at the Dutch Open, seven years after his only success.
Australian Adam Scott stretched his lead to six shots in the Booz Allen Classic third round in Avenel, firing a four-under-par 67.
American Steve Flesch has become the third left-hander in the world's top 25 after winning the Colonial tournament in Fort Worth, Texas on Sunday.
Spain's Sergio Garcia has returned to the top 20 in the world rankings after winning the Byron Nelson Championship in a playoff on Sunday.
David Park extended his rich vein of form with a six-under 64 in the Canaries Spanish Open first round for a one-shot lead over fellow Briton Jamie Donaldson.
Australia's Adam Scott, a leading contender for this week's U.S. Masters, has been named the European Tour's player of the month for March.
Vijay Singh has closed the gap on world No.1 Tiger Woods in the official golf rankings after his win in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am at the weekend.
I have golfed like Tiger Woods for years. Unfortunately, this happens only after midnight, in the clarity of my dreams, when the game suddenly seems simple, my swing achieves a slashing perfection,...
"An amazing day. Amazing. I don't know how it happened. He had played so great. It was the strangest turn of events I've ever seen. I feel so sad for him." So said Nick Faldo about Greg Norman, whi...
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