Blog: Local Knowledge
- LPGA Player of the Year scenarios take shape
- RICHMOND, Texas -- For the first time since 1994, the LPGA Player of the Year race is coming down to the last tournament. Lorena Ochoa got off to a great start Thursday with a 66,...
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- Nickent Golf out of business
- Nickent Golf, which at one time enjoyed considerable popularity on the Nationwide Tour in particular for its hybrids, appears to be out of business. The company, which was put into receivership in May, terminated its employees...
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- Disaster Tour: From floods to bugs
- The PGA Tour has had some difficult weather situations this year, topped off by the cancellation of the Viking Classic two weeks ago in Madison, Miss., due to unplayable conditions from near-Biblical amounts of precipitation.Now...
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- Grooves dilemma
- SONOMA, Calif. -- How much of a transition will it be for tour players to make the switch to the new conforming grooves regulation in 2010? If what Nick Price has gone through this week...
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- Champions Tour rallies around an ailing Sindelar
- SONOMA, Ca. -- The visitors filed into Joey Sindelar's room at Sonoma Valley Hospital on Saturday night, guys he'd known for thirty years: Andy Bean. Jeff Sluman. Brad Bryant. Mike Stevens, president of the Champions...
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- Nick Price breezes around
- SONOMA, Calif. -- Nick Price got his work done in a hurry Saturday at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Eschewing a non-competing marker and playing by himself, Price breezed around Sonoma GC in two hours, 28...
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- Blackmar and Sluman go head to head. Or more precisely, head to neck...
- SONOMA, Calif. - Great pairing in the final group of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship Friday: Phil Blackmar and Jeff Sluman, a foot of difference in their height, none on their scorecards Thursday as both...
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- Mississippi mud doesn't dampen Tour hopes for Fowler, Lovemark
- MADISON, Miss. -- The potential cancelation of the rain-plagued Viking Classic is dampening the spirits of those Tour players fighting for the top 125 on the money list and full exempt status next year, but...
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- Prospects are bleak for playing Viking Classic
- It looks like those players who came to Mississippi this week hoping to improve their standing on the PGA Tour money list are going to go home empty-handed. The first round of the Viking Classic...
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- West Coast Swing to look different in 2010
- The 2010 PGA Tour schedule hasn't officially been released but with the Winter Olympics in the network mix, there has been some shifting of events on the West Coast that will benefit the AT&T...
Blog: Editors' Blog
- I'm glad Obama is a golfer
- Barack Obama's politically correct round of golf with a female this week gives me an excuse to talk about the best round of golf I ever played. There was Roger, Bill and our hostess,...
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- And they say nothing happens in the Fall Series
- When you think of golf pioneers, you think of giants of the game like Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, and of course, Parker McLachlin.Wait, what? Well, think about it: while Palmer and Woods have both been...
