India ready for team golf league
After successfully applying the pro-league formula in a revamp of domestic cricket, India is set to welcome international golf stars including two-time major winner Angel Cabrera, British Open winner Darren Clarke and 2005 US Open champion Michael Campbell in a franchise-based Golf Premier League.
Devised by local player Shiv Kapur, the new tournament comprises eight teams of four...
India ready for team-based Golf Premier League
After successfully applying the pro-league formula in a revamp of domestic cricket, India is set to welcome international golf stars including two-time major winner Angel Cabrera, British Open winner Darren Clarke and 2005 U.S. Open champion Michael Campbell in a franchise-based Golf Premier League.
Devised by local player Shiv Kapur, the new tournament comprises eight teams of...
Beem to travel far and wide in 2013
Maybe the Auto Club would route him differently. Likewise, one of those talking GPS contraptions. But Rich Beem has settled on a unique and personal direction of travel. The road from his home in Austin, Texas, back to the PGA Tour will run through Ahmedabad and then continue in Pune before winding up in Panama City.
Ahmedabad and Pune, as in cities in India?
Panama City along...
5 big surprises at the PGA Championship
The PGA Championship has delivered its share of unlikely winners over the years, particularly one stretch in the 1990s when eight of its 10 champions that decade won their first major.
Go back to 1990, and the PGA Championship produced the most players who won only one major in their careers.
A year ago at Atlanta Athletic Club, Keegan Bradley was tied for the lead through 36 holes...
The Final Major, PGA Championship
Glory’s last shot, it has been said, culminates this weekend at Kiawah Island, South Carolina. And if form holds, it is anyone’s guess who will take it. Up until this year’s British Open, when Ernie Els took the Championship, it had been 15 majors in a row of first time major winners. Could it happen this week? If so, who will be the fortunate darkhorse? Why not local favorites...
John Daly closes gap at Sicilian Open
John Daly shot five birdies and an eagle in his second round to move to 6 under and challenge the leaders at the Sicilian Open on Friday.
With afternoon winds blowing in off the Mediterranean, the 46-year-old Daly managed the conditions to post a 5-under 67.
''The last eleven holes were very, very difficult.'' Daly said. ''The winds just got stronger and...
GF,MGSPINTL *2080 AP-GLF--Sicilian Open Scores,0132
Sicilian Open Scores Leading scores Thursday at the Sicilian Open, a European Tour event on the par-72, 6,766-meter (7,375-yard) Verdura Golf and Spa Resort:
First Round Peter Lawrie, Ireland 64
Soren Kjeldsen, Denmark 65
Jamie Donaldson, Wales 65
Tano Goya, Argentina 65
James Morrison, England 66
Joakim Largergren, Sweden 66
Alex Haindl, South Africa 66
Gary Orr, Scotland...
Daly to return to Euro Tour after injury
John Daly will return to the European Tour for the Hassan II Trophy tournament, confident he's recovered from an injury to his right elbow.
Daly tore tendons in his elbow hitting a submerged tree root at the ninth hole during the final round of the Avantha Masters last month in India.
''My elbow was very swollen and hurting really bad for about a week after playing...
Daly back on tour after elbow injury
Double major winner John Daly has returned to the European Tour and this week's Hassan II Trophy in Morocco confident he has fully recovered from an injury to his right elbow.
Daly tore tendons in his elbow hitting a submerged tree root at the ninth hole during the final round of the Avantha Masters in India last month.
The 1991 PGA and 1995 British Open winner immediately...
Daly back on European Tour after elbow injury
John Daly has returned to the European Tour for the Hassan II Trophy tournament, confident he's recovered from an injury to his right elbow.
Daly tore tendons in his elbow hitting a submerged tree root at the ninth hole during the final round of the Avantha Masters last month in India.
The 1991 PGA and 1995 British Open winner flew home to seek treatment, which included a cortisone...
The painful downside of Q School’s used-to-be’s
The upside of golf fandom is that you can follow your favorite players for literally decades, from the brief golden moment that they're youthful phenoms to the creaky-backed sunset of their Champions Tour years.
The downside of golf fandom is that players can't ever escape you. We all hold memories of how players used to be, or could have been, or might have been had one...
Tour Report: Four major winners in Q-school field (PGATOUR.com)
Four former major winners are among the 173 players who will begin play Wednesday at the Q-school finals at PGA West. The four are: Rich Beem – The 2002 PGA Championship winner played on a major medical extension in 2011. He tees off at 1:03 p.m. ET. David Duval – Winner of the 2001 British [...]
A Few Q-School Players to Watch at Final Stage
The most brutal, grueling golf event of the year kicks off on Wednesday. No, not the U.S. Open or the British Open. Miles past the U.S. Amateur or a Ryder Cup. It's the final stage of PGA Tour Q-School, where dreams go to die, and six rounds take you from obscure or forgotten player to the big show. Here are a few players to watch that will tee it up at PGA West this week. ...
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