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President Obama's $1,400 putter

John Strege — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:46:00 GMT

By John Strege The catalog of gifts that President Obama received from foreign dignitaries in 2011, released last week by the State Department, included a Kramski HPP 340 putter, courtesy of Chancellor Angela Merkel of...

David Fay, Laura Davies win GWAA honors

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:40:00 GMT

Former USGA executive director David Fay, LPGA star Laura Davies and three-time National Blind Golf Championship winner David Meador have been honored with three of the top awards given by the Golf Writers Association of America.

Fay (left), who guided the U.S. Golf Association for 21 years and was the driving force behind bringing the U.S. Open to two of the nation's top public courses, was honored with the William D. Richardson Award, given annually to recognize individuals who have consistently made an outstanding contribution to golf.

Meador, who lost his sight in a car accident at age 18, won the Ben Hogan Award for remaining active in golf despite a physical handicap or serious illness. Davies, one of the most outspoken, fun-loving and entertaining players in women's golf, was honored with the ASAPSports/Jim Murray Award, which recognizes a golfer for cooperation, quotability and accommodation with the media.

They will be honored, along with GWAA Players of the Year Rory McIlroy, Stacy Lewis and Roger Chapman at the Annual GWAA Awards Dinner, April 10 in Augusta, Ga.

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Double Take: Golf Doppelgangers

Derek Evers — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

We compare professional golfers with their celebrity look-a-likes

Sirak: Did Europe blow the Solheim Cup?

Alex Myers — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:31:00 GMT

DUNSANY, Ireland -- This Solheim Cup feels like one of those baseball games where a team leads the entire way, leaves a lot of runners on base, and then loses in the last inning...

Euro Squad

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 04:00:00 GMT

Points have been added and votes have been made, which means it's time to meet your 2011 European Solheim Cup team.

Q&A: Laura Davies: All Hail The Queen

Interviewed by Stina Sternberg — Wed, 18 May 2011 04:00:00 GMT

Twenty-seven years into her professional career, Britain's winningest female golfer -- 47-year-old Laura Davies -- still has little interest in practice. But cooking, shopping, gambling? Now we're talking

Davies still trying to earn her way into HOF

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:16:00 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Laura Davies' English lilt perfectly summed up her 2010 season on the Ladies European Tour. "It's lovely," said Davies, hoping some of the magic abroad will travel to the LPGA Tour Championship at Grand Cypress GC this week.

Although Davies has only two top-10 finishes this year on the LPGA Tour and hasn't won an LPGA event since 2001, at age 47 she has had a grand season on the LET with five victories, giving her 75 career worldwide tour wins.

"It's all about confidence for me," said Davies, who will be miked for Golf Channel's first-round broadcast Thursday afternoon. "If I lose that confidence, then I really start struggling. It's as basic as that. I really do feel good on the golf course. I'm putting well again. I'm driving it much better. It's a good snowball effect."

Putting has long been the part of the game to slow her down, but this season she has putted better. "I changed my technique," Davies said. "I stay down over the ball and I don't look up. I hit the putt and I listen for it to go in. Everything is the same apart from I keep my head down and listen. A lady at my club when I was a junior used to call it 'harkers,' which means listening for it. I remembered she told me that years ago and I had ignored her."

Davies' stellar season in Europe has revived talk that she should be in the World Golf Hall of Fame, even though she needs to win one major or two regular events to earn her way on points into the LPGA's hall. She remains adamant that she wants to qualify that way instead of getting voted in on the international ballot.

"I'm not interested in that," she said. "I've been on tour long enough to have accumulated enough points and I haven't done it. Sometimes if you're not good enough, you've got to doff your cap and say you're not good enough. It's a shame but that's the way it is. But that's why I'm still here playing -- I think I am still good enough and hopefully I'll do it. The LPGA Hall of Fame is all about being good enough on the course, not about popularity. One day hopefully I'll be in there."

-- Bill Fields

Whan: Transgender vote was 'one-sided'

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:45:00 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. -- It was, according to LPGA commissioner Mike Whan, "a one-sided vote" by players to change their constitution Tuesday and remove a stipulation that someone must be "female at birth" to compete on the LPGA Tour. The association, which was sued in October by 57-year-old California transgender golfer Lana Lawless, now will be open to persons who have undergone gender-reassignment surgery, putting it in line with other golf tours and athletic organizations around the globe.

"We got together as a membership and discussed it and walked through everything," Whan told Golfdigest.com. "It takes a little bit of education. All the lawsuit did is make us look at something we probably would have to look at anyway. It just forced us to look at it now. It was more of an education process. I can speak to that personally -- I got educated a lot in the last two months. All I did last night is share some of that education with the players."

As players prepared Wednesday for the opening round of the LPGA Tour Championship at Grand Cypress Resort, most seemed to take the development in stride.

"The girl on the Ladies European Tour [Mianne Bagger] is really nice, and I don't think there seems to be an issue over there," said Janice Moodie. "That's a big change [to have gender-reassignment surgery]. You have to go through all the psychological testing. A lot of stuff has to go on before you can actually say you're female. It's a lot more than someone saying, 'I'm on the PGA Tour and now I'm going to come play the LPGA Tour.' "

"If everything is in place, so to speak, then good luck," Laura Davies said of competing against transgender athletes. "You just want to beat the best players. If someone's the best player, how that came about it is none of my business really. It's not something that I would wake up and worry about."

-- Bill Fields

Monday Qualifier

John Strege — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT

A quiet week precedes a hectic, crucial stretch

Women's British Open: Shin, Inkster In Front Early

AP — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:15:00 GMT

Jiyai Shin and Julie Inkster shot opening-round 71s to take the early clubhouse lead at Royal Birkdale.