No exemptions, no sponsors’ invites – just plain hard work. Michelle Wie is going back to basics in her attempts to play on the LPGA Tour next season, and she’s doing alright.
The Hawaiian advanced to the final round of qualifying for the Tour when she finished fourth at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, [...]
Sweden’s Robert Karlsson ended a two-year period without a European Tour victory to triumph at the Mercedes Benz Championships in Cologne, Germany.
Although he was given a one-stroke penalty after the third round, he still led the field by three shots going into the final day.
He closed with a 71 for a total of 13-under-par 275, [...]
The LPGA Tour has back-tracked on its initial decision to force non-native English speaking professionals to learn the language as soon as they can in order to prevent suspension.
The LPGA had previously instituted the rule to make the players, and hence its tour, more marketable to the fans and sponsors.
Many saw it as targeted at [...]
The first-ever LPGA Tour event in China received a nice boost when organisers were able to confirm the participation of world number four Suzann Pettersen and Morgan Pressel.
In a press release on Wednesday, it was announced that the pair will join already-confirmed Annika Sorenstam and Tseng Yani in the line-up for the October 24-26 tournanet [...]
Camilo Villegas has the look that would fit nicely in the first month of a golfing calendar featuring PGA Tour stars.
In fact, female fans may even insist that he take up the whole year, given his competition in the male model-like stakes.
Now, the 26-year-old is also a winner, after shooting a 68 on the final [...]
Vijay Singh is the hottest player in the world right now. He would be the prize drawcard for any tournament, anywhere on the globe.
Singh, though, is looking forward to going back to his roots, which is why he has signed on for the Johor Open in Malaysia this October.
The FedEx Cup leader and three-time major [...]
Phil Mickelson paid an unlikely tribute to absent rival Tiger Woods during the Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton, Massachusetts, thanking the injured world number one for the state of golf and the state of Mickelson’s bank account.
Lefty won the tournament last year, beating Woods by two strokes. The two players have not enjoyed the best [...]
The language of golf is marketing and, as far as the LPGA Tour is concerned, it is also English.
The multi-national and multi-ethnic LPGA Tour is implementing a new rule from 2009 requiring all member players to have a reasonable grasp of spoken English, or face suspension.
This also applies to non-native English speakers who have been [...]
There was a time when the big four of golf was Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh and Enrie Els.
A couple of names have dropped off that list, hopefully, to bounce back again. Vijay Singh is determined to stay there as long as he can.
And with his victory at The Barclays, the gentle giant from [...]
In previous years, the United States Ryder Cup team would have been announced by now.
The tradition is that the 10 players who had garnered the most Ryder Cup points plus the two captain’s picks would have already been decided by the end of the PGA Championship, which finished two weeks ago.
However, US captain Paul Azinger [...]
For Sweden’s Carl Pettersson, Greensboro, North Carolina is his adopted hometown. Therefore, he had to win the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club.
That is what he told himself in order to get out of a rut and shoot two-under-par 68 in the final round to win the tournament by two strokes.
Pettersson led going into the [...]
With the Beijing Olympics nearing the halfway stage, fans from all over the world can look at the medals standings to check on how their country is doing or who is vying for gold in various sports.
Golf fans are not included in the vast group of people as the sport still tries to convince International [...]
Tiger Woods has congratulated Padraig Harrington for his PGA Championship victory, while at the same time expressing frustration that he wasn’t there to battle it out with the Irishman.
Writing in his newsletter, Woods said he watched some of the action unfold at Oakland Hills last week when Harrington won his second straight major after the [...]
If he hadn’t done so already at last month’s British Open, Ireland’s Padraig Harrington sealed his status as a true golfing heavyweight with his epic and draining victory at the USPGA Championship at Oakland Hills.
Battling through 36 strength-sapping holes on the final day, and then scrapping with Spain’s Sergio Garcia in a tussle reminiscent of [...]
Two names were being bandied about on the eve of the 90th PGA Championship at Oakland Hills, those of Anthony Kim and Lee Westwood.
Of course, the usual suspects are high among the list of favourites, such as Phil Mickelson, Padraig Harrington and even former champion Vijay Singh, who returned to form last week with victory [...]