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- Champions Tour weathering the economic storm
- SONOMA, Calif. - The Champions Tour is holding its own in a tough economy. In a 2010 schedule given to players at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship Sunday that will be presented to the PGA...
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- Champions Tour thinking globally
- More international opportunities might be on the horizon for the Champions Tour. Golf World has learned that tour officials are exploring the viability of a tournament in Dubai, perhaps as early as next year, though...
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- Funk Says He's Young At Heart
- SUNRIVER, Ore. -- The Champions Tour hasn't seen the last of Fred Funk, but neither will it see as much of him. Funk, 52, has temporarily abandoned his plan of playing both the PGA Tour...
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- Ken Green: Rebuilding his life, a few tentative steps at a time
- Eight days ago, Champions Tour golfer Ken Green began walking again, however tentatively, with the aid of a prosthesis that he hopes will help him return to golf as soon as Sept. 28, in a...
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- The Tradition: From Agony to Ecstasy
- SUNRIVER, Ore. -- The Jeld-Wen Tradition began Thursday in the wake of a gamut of emotions, from sorrow to joy, for which the Elysian Fields otherwise known as Sunriver is an appropriate setting for either....
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- Did They Balk at the Walk?
- ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The number of players who passed on the opportunity to play the Senior PGA Championship at Oak Hill CC begs the question: Why? "Guys have to walk for four days?" Scott Simpson...
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- A Home Game For Sluman
- ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Handicapping golf tournaments that don't include Tiger Woods or Lorena Ochoa tend to be a fruitless endeavor given the vagaries of the game, but there is an evident favorite at the Senior...
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- Fields: Lessons Learned While Playing with the Pros
- SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Playing 36 holes with a tour pro is an education you don't quite get watching on television or walking in the gallery. You can hear the sound of the shots and feel...
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- No Substitute For Talent At 7:30AM
- SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Nerves, rust and a good old-fashioned talent deficit were a potent cocktail at 7:30 Wednesday morning. The first day of the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf pro-am began with a shotgun start,...
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- Fields: Nothing to Fear About Playing in a Pro-Am
- SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Flying down to the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, the smart play for a golfer of questionable ability with a long winter behind him and two days of pro-am golf ahead of...
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- Tom Watson Continues Fight for ALS Cure
- SONOMA, Calif.--It's impossible to watch Tom Watson in action at Sonoma G.C., in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, and not think of his late friend and caddie, Bruce Edwards (right). Stricken with ALS (Lou...
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- Watson Expects Low Scores In Sonoma
- SONOMA, Calif.--Pars don't figure to cut it this week at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Sonoma Golf Club. "The course is playing very soft," said Tom Watson, who won here in 2005 on the...
