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- PGA Tour tweaks tournament eligibility categories
- MADISON, Miss. -- Not that it's likely to have a significant impact on tournament fields, but the PGA Tour has made a change to some of its bottom-tier membership categories beginning in 2010. Players in...
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- PGA champions a noble cause
- Kudos to the 16 PGA of America professionals representing 13 PGA sections for their participation in the 34th Marine Corps Marathon that helped raise $80,000 for the Folds of Honor Foundation and other charitable endeavors...
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- Missed by that much (92 strokes)
- Occasionally players get into the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament (in this case the Pre-Qualifying Stage) who don't belong. The recent pre-qualifier at Seaside, Calif. was a case in point. One player had rounds of 97,...
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- Any idea what the top news story in Korea is?
- It isn't Kim Jong-il's meeting with Hyundai Group chaiorwoman Hyun Jung-eun in North Korea, which was bumped from the top of the page in probably every leading South Korean news site. Here's one South Korean...
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- William Powell and a night to remember
- We all attend lots of awards ceremonies. Awards to benefactors, awards for longtime service, awards to retirees, awards for great performances, awards, honestly, to keep an award alive. Most are well earned, occasionally one is...
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- Hart: Comeback Player of the Year?
- ATLANTA -- It was just a year ago that Dudley Hart was looking at a few months of being snowbound in Buffalo, NY, and then facing the prospect of having to scramble to keep his...
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- Fields: Harrington Sets Sight on Another Major
- BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Can Padraig Harrington win back-to-back major championships? His chances at the 90th PGA Championship sure were a lot better late Sunday morning than when storms halted play Saturday afternoon. The Irishman...
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- Fields: Play Suspended for the Day
- BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Play has been called for the day at 6:30 p.m. in the PGA Championship, setting up a marathon conclusion Sunday at Oakland Hills. Play is scheduled to resume at 7:15 a.m....
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- Rosaforte: Toms, Gneiser reunite
- BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- With 12 wins, including the 2001 PGA Championship, David Toms and Scott Gneiser were among the best player-caddie teams in the 21st century. But after eight years, the relationship grew stale...
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- Antonini: A Hectic Week for the Thompson Family
- BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- The schedulers at the PGA of America and the USGA didn't do Nicholas Thompson and his family any favors this week. Thompson, a third-year tour player, is competing in his first...
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- PGA Championship: Kenny Perry Listed as Questionable
- BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The Golf Channel reported last night that Kenny Perry suffered a scratched cornea late Tuesday while taking out a contact lens and was questionable to start the PGA Championship today. Perry,...
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- PGA Championship: Baltusrol gets 2016 PGA
- BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The PGA of America is going back to its New York-area roots for its centennial PGA Championship. Baltusrol GC's Lower course in Springfield, N.J., was announced Wednesday as the site of...
