Shin Ji-yai was not even a member of the LPGA Tour prior to the Women’s British Open at Sunningdale, England.
She now becomes the latest Korean to join a multitude of her compatriots on the premier women’s tour, as well as sealing her place in the Open for the next 10 years, after her brilliant victory [...]
It took a while for her peers to react, but once they did, there was little admiration for Michelle Wie and her decision to skip a major tournament in favour of a PGA Tour event.
Wie, who has yet to make the cut in seven previous PGA Tour attempts, will be playing this week at the [...]
Greg Norman was again in contention at an Open event but, like before, failed to land the top prize as American Bruce Vaughan fought back from nowhere to win the Senior Open Championship at Royal Troon.
Norman birdied five of the first seven holes on the final day but failed to sustain his charge, finishing tied [...]
Michelle Wie, still aching after disqualification from an LPGA Tour event last week, believes it is the right time to once again slug it out with the men.
Next week she will take part in the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open, hoping to make the cut on a PGA Tour event for the first time after seven previous [...]
According to his good friend Mark O’Meara, Tiger Woods has been watching the Open on television, as a golf fan.
If so, then he must be as excited and intrigued as all of us on how things will eventually pan out at Royal Birkdale this weekend.
Greg Norman, KJ Choi, Padraig Harringon and the new kid on [...]
Kenny Perry won for the third time in five starts as he emerged from a three-way play-off to lift the John Deere Classic title in Silvis, Illinois.
Perry’s ambition at the start of the year was to quietly make the US Ryder Cup team without any fuss or fanfare. No such luck if he keeps winning [...]
The premier event of the international golfing season takes place next week when The Open welcomes all the best players in the world to Royal Birkdale. Well, almost all the best players, given the absence of Tiger Woods.
Woods is forced to miss the final two majors of the season so he can recover from knee [...]
His initials are studded around his belt buckle in diamonds. And Anthony Kim certainly knows how to sparkle.
Kim flashed his winning smile for the second time this season when he lifted the AT&T National, the tournament hosted by Tiger Woods, over the weekend.
The 23-year-old shot a closing round of five-under-par 65 to overturn a three-stroke [...]
Tiger Woods has said that he has no idea when he will return to the circuit and also revealed that last month’s US Open would have been his final tournament of the year, whatever the outcome.
In his first live interview since undergoing surgery on his knee, the world number one and US Open champion has [...]
Inspired by Pak Se-ri’s triumph 10 years ago, Park In-bee became the youngest winner of the US Women’s Open title when she triumphed by four strokes at Interlachen in Edina, Minnesota.
Just short of her 20th birthday, Park replaced Pak as the youngest winner, having first been introduced to the game by watching her older compatriot [...]
Stewart Cink ended a four year title drought when he lifted the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut.
Cink shot a three-under-par 67 to finish at 18-under-par 262, a career best effort for him. It was also only the second time out of 10 tournaments in which he actually ended up winning after going into the final [...]
Tiger Woods’ strength-sapping victory at the US Open on Monday has come at a heavy cost. The world number one will need to have further surgery on his left knee and is out for the rest of the season.
This means he will miss the final two majors of the year, the British Open at Royal [...]
At times during Monday’s US Open play-off between world number one Tiger Woods and veteran Rocco Mediate, it was difficult to determine who was mentally bullying whom.
Woods’ standing as world number has been due in no small part to his ability to psyche out his opponents. But that didn’t seem to work against the 45-year-old [...]
“I’ll never be as good as Tiger Woods. I don’t want to be as good as Tiger Woods.” These are the words of Rocco Mediate, several years ago, when Woods was enjoying one of the best periods of his career.
For much of Sunday’s fourth round of the US Open at Torrey Pines, Mediate was actually [...]
Justin Leonard tuned up for the US Open in fine style with victory at the Stanford St Jude Championship, beating Trevor Immelman and Robert Allenby in a play-off.
He did it the hard way, squandering a one-stroke lead with two holes remaining, failing to get one last roll of a putt on the 72nd green and, [...]