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Rory McIlroy continues to struggle through an inconsistent 2013 season. He shot a very untidy six-over-par 78 on Thursday, but he did follow that with a three-under-par 69 to make the cut at three-over par on Friday. His scorecard for the first round on Thursday resembled a small child’s artistic effort with colorful circles and squares. The round included a double bogey on the par-three No....
Published: May 24, 2013
The LPGA Tour is visiting the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas for the inaugural Pure-Silk LPGA Classic, but with 12 inches of rain pelting the islands Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, tour officials have been forced to take some drastic measures. A huge lake has appeared on what was Nos. 9 and 18. Four other holes on the Ocean Course at the Atlantis Resort are also unplayable....
Published: May 22, 2013
Since golf fans watched a youthful Sergio Garcia close his eyes and attempt the go-for-broke shot from behind the tree at No. 16 in the final round at Medinah Country Club in the 1999 PGA Championship, he has been a media darling. His jubilant hop-skip-and-jump across the fairway to watch his golf ball slicing onto the green grabbed golfers across the world and everyone became immediate fans of the...
Published: May 21, 2013
A statue of Ben Hogan adorns the grounds at the Colonial Country Club where Hogan won the Crowne Plaza Invitational five times and resided in the Fort Worth area. Colonial Country Club is a tree-lined, 7,200-yard, par-70 golf course that requires players to work their tee shots both left and right around daunting dog-leg fairways. The last three winners—Steve Stricker, David Toms and...
Published: May 21, 2013
The USGA and the R&A made it official on Tuesday morning, May 21, on their respective websites and at a press conference that they will add rule 14-1b to the official rules of golf effective Jan. 1, 2016. The USGA and the R&A announced last November the proposed rule change to ban the use of the “anchored stroke.” The USGA rule change states: In making a stroke, the player must...
Published: May 18, 2013
John Daly’s win in the 1991 PGA Championship at Crooked Stick as the eighth alternate was certainly one of the most unexpected major victories of all time. Ben Crenshaw was 43 years old when he won his second Green Jacket in 1995. His longtime teacher Harvey Penick had died earlier in the week and the 43-year-old Crenshaw was on the back nine of his career. Here is a ranking of the ten most unexpected...
Published: May 18, 2013
Ken Venturi died yesterday at the age of 82. He won the 1964 U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in stifling heat and nearly suffered heat stroke during the final round. Even tough, Venturi was a former U.S. Open champion and top-ranked amateur golfer, he was best known for his 35-year career as the lead golf announcer for the CBS television network. He witnessed and announced some of the best...
Published: May 14, 2013
Jason Dufner won the 2012 HP Byron Nelson Championship and will defend his title this week at the TPC Four Seasons Resort Course in Irving, Texas. It was his second win on the PGA Tour in less than one month. He went on to post eight top-10 finishes last year and earned $4.8 million. Coming on the heels of a drama filled and exciting finish to the Players Championship last week, the pros will be happy...
Published: May 13, 2013
Tiger Woods may have had some added incentive to beat Sergio Garcia on Sunday at the Players Championship. Woods does not like being accused of being anything less than a consummate professional on the golf course, especially in front of the media and golf fans. Referring to his pairing with Woods in the third round on Saturday, according to Cindy Boren of the Washington Post, Garcia made this comment...
Published: May 11, 2013
After a very solid seven-under par 65 on Friday, Sergio Garcia leads The Players Championship at 11-under par. His round included eight birdies and just one bogey. Lurking just one shot back of Garcia is Tiger Woods. Woods has been keeping his ball in fairways and playing very efficiently through the first two rounds. Even though the leaderboard is littered with veteran players, there is a group of...