Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer.
Lucas Glover won the battle of the year's major champions as he took the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda.
Padraig Harrington may have missed out on the British Open title but the mischievous Irishman showed how much the Claret Jug means to him by stealing the trophy from current holder Stewart Cink.
There is one man who will be pacing around the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota this week hoping to make it three majors in a row -- but you won't find his name when you trail your finger down the list of starters at the 91st PGA Championship.
Tiger Woods claims he escaped a fine for his outspoken comments about a tournament official after his four-shot win at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday.
Tom Watson is backing a ruling to set an age limit of 60 for former champions to take part in the British Open - despite coming within a whisker of taking the title at Turnberry on Sunday - aged 59.
Padraig Harrington's British Open title defense ended with a three-over 73 for a 12-over-par total of 292, but he defended the swing changes which have come under scrutiny after a poor season.
U.S. golfing legend Tom Watson will seek to become the oldest man to win a major golf tournament when he takes a one-shot lead into Sunday's final round of the British Open at Turnberry in Scotland.
Tiger Woods is out of the British Open as 59-year-old Tom Watson shared the joint lead after a dream finish to his second round at Turnberry.
Martin Kaymer has played down his chances of winning his first major in the British Open at Turnberry despite his sensational back-to-back victories on the European Tour.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer.
Lucas Glover won the battle of the year's major champions as he took the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda.
Padraig Harrington may have missed out on the British Open title but the mischievous Irishman showed how much the Claret Jug means to him by stealing the trophy from current holder Stewart Cink.
There is one man who will be pacing around the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota this week hoping to make it three majors in a row -- but you won't find his name when you trail your finger down the list of starters at the 91st PGA Championship.
Tiger Woods claims he escaped a fine for his outspoken comments about a tournament official after his four-shot win at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday.
Tom Watson is backing a ruling to set an age limit of 60 for former champions to take part in the British Open - despite coming within a whisker of taking the title at Turnberry on Sunday - aged 59.
Padraig Harrington's British Open title defense ended with a three-over 73 for a 12-over-par total of 292, but he defended the swing changes which have come under scrutiny after a poor season.
U.S. golfing legend Tom Watson will seek to become the oldest man to win a major golf tournament when he takes a one-shot lead into Sunday's final round of the British Open at Turnberry in Scotland.
Tiger Woods is out of the British Open as 59-year-old Tom Watson shared the joint lead after a dream finish to his second round at Turnberry.
Martin Kaymer has played down his chances of winning his first major in the British Open at Turnberry despite his sensational back-to-back victories on the European Tour.
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 138th British Open Golf Championship begins at the Scottish resort of Turnberry on Thursday with Tiger Woods spearheading the array of U.S. star players aiming to capture the world's oldest major.
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.
Three-time major winner Padraig Harrington admits that his game is in poor shape ahead of his bid for a third successive British Open title this month.
Defending champion Tiger Woods carded a one-under-par second round 69 to make the cut for the last two rounds of the U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, but he goes into the final 36 holes a whopping 11 shots off the pace.
Thursday's play at the 109th U.S. Open golf tournament at Bethpage Black has been cancelled for the day because of heavy and persistent rain which left the New York course completely saturated.
Defending U.S. Open champion and world number one Tiger Woods may be the player that everyone is watching, but the Tiger's great rival Phil Mickelson is the man who is grabbing everybody's heartstrings here at Bethpage Black.
Veteran American golfer, Kenny Perry, has told CNN he is focused on winning this year's U.S. Open at Bethpage Black because time is running out on his career.
The world's most famous golf tournament, the Masters, takes place at Augusta National Golf Club every year. And so while relatively few golfers ever play the highly exclusive course, any fan is familiar with its signature features, from "Amen Corner" to the "Big Oak."
Richie Ramsay is CNN Living Golf's resident European Tour player. He is also the first Scot to win the U.S. Amateur Championship in over a century. In his second blog for Living Golf, Ramsay talks about his approach to practising and physical fitness, the importance of a good short game, and the five P's. When going out to practice I will always sit down beforehand alone, or with my coach, and identify weaknesses in my game. I will form a structured practice, which will generally look at the technical side of things.
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.
Since 1955, Sports Illustrated has been on the scene at the Masters. Here is a look back at 54 years of golf's greatest tournament:
It was third time lucky for Tiger Woods in his comeback to golf after knee surgery as the world number one claimed the title in the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.
The world's number one golfer hasn't hit a ball in competition since he won the U.S. Open in June last year. Now Tiger Woods faces a challenge to hold on to his place at the top of the rankings.
Swedish duo Johan Edfors and Mikael Lundberg both carded six-under-par rounds of 66 to share the lead after a weather-affected first round of the Abu Dhabi Championship on Thursday -- reports the official European Tour Web site.
Ireland's Padraig Harrington has landed another prestigious award after a 2008 season which saw him win back-to-back majors.
Ireland's Padraig Harrington was named European Tour Golfer of the Year on Tuesday, reward for winning two majors in quick succession this summer to firmly establish himself as one of the top players in the world.
Jim Furyk conjured a superb eagle at the first playoff hole to stun double major winner Padraig Harrington and claim the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda.
Germany's Martin Kaymer and Jarmo Sandelin of Sweden hold a one-shot lead going into the final round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship after battling performances in tough conditions on Saturday.
NEW YORK -- Still awash in the afterglow of her Olympics win in Beijing, Elena Dementieva soaked in the magnitude of her golden moment as she flew back to her native Russia two weeks ago. Upon landing at Sheremetyevo Airport in a Moscow suburb, she was greeted by fans waving signs, flowers and flags.
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.
Duped tourists visiting St. Andrews will sometimes send postcards home describing the beauty of the city's most ancient links, the Old Course. Wish you were here! It's amusing, really. To me, the real postcard courses are in Ireland and Hawaii and on Scotland's west coast. Rolling duneland, crashing surf, long shadows, spongy green turf -- that whole thing. The Old Course -- in Fife, on the east coast -- is an ugly ole bastard, to my eye. The game's original 18-holer is hard and knobby, gray and urban and crowded, with weird, toothy animals darting in and out of the bushes at dusk. It's my favorite place in all of golf and all of sport. The place makes me happy. What can I say?
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.
Ernie Els narrowly avoided missing the weekend cut at the British Open for the first time since his debut in 1989, but the brutal conditions at Royal Birkdale took its tool on several high-profile names.
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.
Padraig Harrington carded a battling four-over-par 74 in difficult conditions at rain-hit Royal Birkdale on Thursday following fears he would have to pull out of his British Open title defense due to a wrist injury.
British Open champion Padraig Harrington suffered fresh injury anguish on Wednesday to leave his title defense at Royal Birkdale in the balance.
Open champion Padraig Harrington is battling to overcome a strained right wrist with the defense of his title scheduled to start at Royal Birkdale on Thursday.
Padraig Harrington will launch the defense of his Open golf title in the company of 1997 winner Justin Leonard and twice U.S. Open champion Retief Goosen at Royal Birkdale on Thursday.
Englishman Luke Donald will miss next week's British Open Championship at Royal Birkdale with a wrist injury which might require surgery.
Golf's U.S. Open teed off Thursday at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego. We dug through the championship's history to find some crucial details (and trivial moments, too
Tiger Woods remains confident he will be a competitive force when the U.S. Open begins at Torrey Pines on Thursday, despite not having played a full round of golf as he recovers from knee surgery.
Europe's Ryder Cup captain Nick Faldo will miss the British Open for the first since 1975 after declining an invitation to play at Royal Birkdale this year.
World number one Tiger Woods will begin his much-vaunted bid for a sweep of this season's majors when he tees off on Thursday morning at Augusta National.
Through the mist he appeared in a doorway of the Augusta National clubhouse, his forehead creased, his eyes heavy from haunted sleep. Out stepped Lee Elder, dressed in shades of green, carrying his thoughts into the moist Georgia morning. For months the hate mail had said he would never make it to this day in April 1975. Watch your step when you get to Augusta, other letter writers warned him. There will be blood.
A quartet of Australians earned a place at this year's British Open by filling the top four positions in the Australasia qualifying event at The Lakes in Sydney.
Children will be admitted to the Masters for free starting in 2008 and the Par-3 contest will be televised, said Augusta National Golf Club chairman Billy Payne.
Sweden's Niclas Fasth and Kevin Stadler of the United States led after the opening day of the HSBC Champions in Shanghai, closely pursued by a clutch of the $5 million tournament's star attractions.
Nick Dougherty overcame an attack of nerves to capture his second European Tour title in the Alfred Dunhill Links championship at St Andrews.
Nick Dougherty took a three-stroke lead in the Dunhill Links championship with a six-under 66, his best round at St. Andrews.
Australian Peter O'Malley equaled the Carnoustie course record with a blistering eight-under-par 64 to share the lead at the halfway stage of the Dunhill Links Championship with England's Nick Dougherty and Hennie Otto of South Africa.
Englishman Steven Webster marked his return to competitive action by taming the rigorous links of Carnoustie and powering to the head of the field after the opening round of the Alfred Dunhill Links championship.
Padraig Harrington returns to the scene of his British Open triumph as he defends his Alfred Dunhill Links Championship over three famous Scottish courses.
The United States pulled off their first President's Cup victory away from home when they defeated the Internationals by 19½ to 14½ at Royal Montreal but the Canadian fans were able to cheer Mike Weir's one-up triumph over Tiger Woods.
Roger Federer described his Cincinnati Masters victory on Sunday as the perfect preparation for his bid to win a fourth consecutive U.S. Open title.
TULSA, Okla. -- It seemed like 2000 again in Akron, Ohio, on Sunday, when Tiger Woods won the Bridgestone Invitational by eight strokes, lapping the field at Firestone Country Club. It was the sixth time he's won on Firestone's South Course.
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) -- Lorena Ochoa won her first major title Sunday with a four-stroke victory at the Women's British Open - the first women's professional tournament played at venerable St. Andrews.
Mexico's world number one Lorena Ochoa is heading towards her first major title after taking a six-shot lead at windswept St Andrews in the Women's British Open on Saturday.
AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- No longer affiliated with Tiger Woods or the tournament he won five times, American Express signed an endorsement deal Friday with the PGA of America that showed how it has shifted its strategy in golf.
AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- No longer affiliated with Tiger Woods or the tournament he won five times, American Express signed an endorsement deal Friday with the PGA of America that showed how it has shifted its strategy in golf.
The knock on Woods
Jim Furyk's back-to-back Canadian Open titles doesn't even merit a blip on the radar of this season's surprises.
Sergio Garcia put memories of his previous disastrous major showing at Carnoustie firmly behind him with a superb opening round of 65 to lead the Briitish Open on Thursday.
Scotland's Colin Montgomerie has withdrawn from this week's BMW International in Munich after falling ill, his manager said.
What ever happened to Tiger Woods? You remember him, right? Big smile, flawless putting stroke and an aura so intimidating that other players' mock turtlenecks would get tighter at the very sight of his name on the leader board. Woods may lead the PGA Tour in victories, scoring average and all-important FedEx Cup points, but the story of the year in golf is that something has gone missing in Tiger's game. The most ruthless closer the sport has known has developed a vulnerability when it matters most, and it cost him last week's U.S. Open, just as it did the Masters earlier this year.
Teenage phenomenon Ryo Ishikawa is setting his sights on Augusta Masters glory after becoming the youngest winner on the Japanese men's tour at the tender age of just 15.
So far, 2007 has not resembled golf's Golden Age. Here are the ten biggest disappointments thus far in golf this year:
In his heyday Seve Ballesteros would periodicallygive us Statesiders a chanceto know him. Never amountedto much. He'd play our windlesscourses and eat our dull foodand retreat quickly to his homein Spain and to his tour in Europe,where he was king.
Tim Finchem was asked if The Players was a major earlier this week. After saying that he's been asked that for 13 years, and that he's been consistent on the matter, the PGA Tour's commissioner artfully dodged the question. (Although this fact pretty much sums up the Tour's position: the winner of the Players gets as many FedEx Cup points as the winner of any of the four majors.)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Unlike many, Trevor Immelman had to work to gain weight.
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) -- The Old Course at St. Andrews is giving women's golf a new look.
The most pressing question in golf is not who will win the Smurfy blue jacket that goes to the winner of the Wachovia Championship. It's not whether Phil Mickelson can get any less popular with the rank and file after getting a free pass out of last week's EDS Byron Nelson pro-am.
World number seven Vijay Singh will be going for a unique double in the PGA Championship at Wentworth next month.
(AP) -- The Viking Classic in Annandale, Miss., already was feeling minimized by getting a spot on the PGA Tour calendar after the FedEx Cup competition was over. Then came the announcement from Augusta National that PGA Tour winners again would automatically qualify for the Masters -- but only those events that offered full FedEx Cup points.
Phil Mickelson is changing coaches, saying Monday he will start working with Butch Harmon with hopes of sorting out driver issues that cost him a chance to win the U.S. Open last year at Winged Foot.
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) -- Tiger Woods got his first look at Oakmont Country Club on Sunday as he began preparations for the U.S. Open.
Ernie Els has been beaten down the stretch by Vijay Singh, by Retief Goosen, by Phil Mickelson and, of course, by Tiger Woods. Add a new guy to the list: Boo Weekley of Jay, Fla. Ernie has it all, the major titles and the big contracts and the private jet, but on Monday afternoon at gusty Hilton Head, S.C., Weekley had something Els did not: tremendous good luck. On the final two holes Weekley duffed pitch shots for birdie, then holed pitch shots for par. Now he has the tartan coat, the delightfully gaudy wrap the winner of the Verizon Heritage Classic is draped in each year. (Els is still looking for his first one.) Now Weekley has secured a berth in the 2008 Masters, thanks to the reintroduction of the win-and-you're-in rule. (Els hasn't officially qualified yet.) Now Weekley is ninth on the 2007 money list. (Els is 19th.)
In a final-round duel between the legendary Ernie Els and the career grinder Boo Weekley, you know who wins, right?
HILTON HEAD, S.C., April 16 -- All stand now for the re-emergence of the Tour character, the Tour character with game, the golfer out of an old Dan Jenkins novel. Thomas (Boo) Weekley is not a smoothie, not a schmoozer, not even a good putter. What he is is an excellent ball-striker with a hard, simple swing, an action that brings to mind another self-taught player who, like Boo, never sniffed the American college golf factories, Ian Woosnam.
Nobody had Zach Johnson penciled in on the list of the game's best players who hadn't won a major. Now that he's won the Masters, he'll never make the list.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) -- Jerry Kelly's hole-in-one helped move him past a fading Ernie Els on Saturday in the Verizon Heritage.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) -- Jerry Kelly routinely overcomes his own quirky emotions to excel on the PGA Tour. So he's not going to let a spring cold stand in his way at the Verizon Heritage.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) -- The Big Easy is making it look, well, easy again.
The golfing great offers a hole-by-hole guide to the links he personally designed for the Red Sky Golf Club in the Colorado mountains.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) -- Ernie Els smiled after his 6-under 65 to open the Verizon Heritage. He wasn't in front, but he wasn't out of it either, as he's been so often at tournaments the past few seasons.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) -- Twenty years ago, Davis Love III began a personal tradition like no other -- dominating the Verizon Heritage.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) -- Between chats with presidential contender Barack Obama and late-night talk show host David Letterman, Masters champion Zach Johnson barely has had time to swing a golf club since slipping on the green jacket.
Musings, observations and the occasional insight in reaction to the release of the NFL's 2007 regular-season schedule ...
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- Billy Payne got off to a memorable start in his first Masters as chairman of Augusta National.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- Tiger Woods called it the hardest Masters he had ever seen, and the numbers back him up.
From Arnold Palmer to Phil Mickelson, the Masters has a long history of decisive final-hole dramatics, but this year's tournament was a Masters unlike any other, and so the ending was destined to be a little messy. After four days of exasperating golf, it figured that Zach Johnson would win his green jacket while slouched in the locker room, averting his eyes from a television because he couldn't bear to watch his fate unfold.
Amy Mickelson likes to say of her husband, "With Phil, it's all about the fun." With Phil, it's all about the numbers, too. Both Phils were on display last week at the Masters.
Jack Taylor, father of Vaughn, is a master of hyperbole.
The Masters rookie approached the two-time major winner last Thursday looking for advice. "I'm Dave Womack," said the 28-year-old from McDonough, Ga., sticking out his hand. "I won the U.S. Mid-Amateur and played in the Masters today. What do you do after you shoot an 84?"
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- The man who beat Ben Hogan in the 1955 U.S. Open to claim one of the biggest upsets in golf said Monday the similarities between his win 52 years ago and Zach Johnson's victory over Tiger Woods at the Masters are outnumbered by the differences.
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