Tournament News
Palmer Leads After 62
Colonial member Ryan Palmer matched the best round of his career on Tour to
take the first-round lead at the Crowne Plaza Invitational.
PGA Tour Confidential
Good Moon Rising
Is Byron Nelson winner Sang-Moon Bae the next great young player on the PGA
Tour? Our panel discusses this, the best Texas stop and more.
New year brings new equipment to some players
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) - Nick Watney was in the local Honolua Store at Kapalua earlier this week when he saw a familiar face and quickly placed his hand over his chest, covering up the swoosh on his shirt. Add that to the files of worst-kept secrets. ...Go to article
Pettersson: Long putter ruling is like a 'witch hunt'
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) - Carl Pettersson says the proposed rule to ban the anchored stroke for long putters feels like a ``witch hunt,'' and that golf's governing bodies were only reacting to three of the last five major champions using a b ...Go to article
Stricker headed for semi-retirement
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) - At the end of another long year, and only a month away from the start of another season, Steve Stricker quietly posed a question that sounded out of place for a guy with more than $25 million in PGA Tour earnings over the last six ...Go to article
McIlroy says he may skip 2016 Rio Olympics
LONDON (AP) - Rory McIlroy says he may skip the 2016 Olympics because of the dilemma over which country to represent. The No. 1-ranked player from Northern Ireland is eligible to compete for either Britain or Ireland when golf returns to the Olympic ...Go to article
Henry honors victims of Conn. school shooting
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) - J.J. Henry slipped on a white golf cap that prompted questions because of the four letters stretched across the front. That was the whole idea. S.H.E.S. Perhaps it was only fitting that Henry wore the cap during the pro-am ...Go to article
PGA Tour season under way at Kapalua in rain and wind
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) - The PGA Tour's 2013 season has begun in a setting that hardly feels like paradise. Rickie Fowler hit the opening tee shot in the 30-man field of players who won last year in a strong wind accompanied by occasional bursts ...Go to article
First-day play washed out at PGA Tour opener
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) - The PGA Tour season now starts on Saturday. Wind squalls that howled down off the mountains above Maui were so severe Friday that tour officials scrapped the first round of the Tournament of Champions. All scores were erased - ...Go to article
More wind brings prospect of Tuesday finish
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) - Another day in paradise brought yet another delay to the PGA Tour's season opener. Gusts so strong that rules officials had a hard time walking led to at least a four-hour delay Sunday in the Tournament of Champions, the ...Go to article
PGA Tour opener at Kapalua delayed once again by high wind
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) - Another attempt to start the PGA Tour season was blown away Sunday. Just more than an hour into the opening round of the Tournament of Champions, play was suspended when more 40 mph gusts came roaring down the Plantation Cours ...Go to article
PGA Tour's season opener at Kapalua delayed again; event reduced to 54 holes
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) - For those who think the PGA Tour season never ends, here's a new twist: This one can't get started. For the second straight day, the Tournament of Champions was postponed Saturday because of gusts topping 40 mph that ...Go to article
LPGA adds tournament in Bahamas for 2013
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The LPGA Tour has a new tournament this year that will be played in The Bahamas. Commissioner Mike Whan said Monday that Pure Silk will be the title sponsor of the Bahamas LPGA Classic, to be played May 23-26 at Ocean Club ...Go to article
Play begins, and Dustin Johnson takes control at Kapalua
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) - The PGA Tour season finally got under way on Monday, and Dustin Johnson wasted no time taking control in the Tournament of Champions. Johnson had not played the Plantation Course at Kapalua since Thursday. Once he got started, ...Go to article
Jumeirah Group ends sponsorship with Rory McIlroy
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Jumeirah Group has announced that it is not renewing its five-year sponsorship deal with top-ranked Rory McIlroy amid expectations that the Northern Ireland golf star will sign with Nike next week. The global luxur ...Go to article
Former No. 1 David Duval willing to go back to minors
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) - David Duval spent his first full season of professional golf in the minor leagues, finishing No. 8 on what was then the Nike Tour money list to earn his PGA Tour card. Nearly 20 years later, after a career in which he has ...Go to article
Memorial out to battle cell phone distractions
DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) - There isn't a pro golfer who doesn't have a story about a "Play That Funky Music" ringtone coming from the gallery during a backswing, or the time a tourist with a flip phone was snapping photos in the middle of a ...Go to article
