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Heart In Texas
Sang-Moon Bae surged past Keegan Bradley midway through his final round, then
hung on at the Byron Nelson Championship for his first career PGA Tour title.
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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.
Elder cruises to 4-shot victory on Nationwide Tour
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Brad Elder shot a 6-under 65 Sunday to win the Nationwide Tour's Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open by four strokes. Elder finished at 19-under 264 and his winning margin over second-place Fabian Gomez of Argentina was the ...Go to article
Sabbatini has fan kicked off course
AKRON, Ohio (AP) The ninth hole is where all the action is at Firestone Country Club. Tiger Woods struck a ball that landed in the crook of a woman's arm and he later chipped in for par. Then Rory Sabbatini, in second place six shots back of ...Go to article
Woods blows away field for 8-shot victory at Firestone
AKRON, Ohio (AP) Tiger Woods looked as unbeatable as ever Sunday at Firestone. Woods erased a one-shot deficit in two holes, then buried Rory Sabbatini and the rest of the field to win the Bridgestone Invitational for the third straight year and s ...Go to article
Ochoa gets first major title at British Open
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) Splashed with champagne, Lorena Ochoa was certain her first major victory would come at the home of golf. She completed a runaway four-stroke victory in the Women's British Open on Sunday following a 1-over-par 74. Af ...Go to article
Flesch's lead grows to 5 strokes at Reno
RENO, Nev. (AP) Steve Flesch overcame windy conditions Saturday with five birdies for his second straight 69 and a five-stroke lead after the third round of the Reno-Tahoe Open. Flesch, who birdied the last two holes to finish at 15-under 201, als ...Go to article
Weibring shoots 66, leads at 3M Championship
BLAINE, Minn. (AP) A simple birdie lifted D.A. Weibring into the lead after two rounds of the Champions Tour's 3M Championship. Weibring shot a 6-under 66 Saturday in a round that included four birdies on the last six holes. His two-round score ...Go to article
Sabbatini gets another shot at Woods on Sunday
AKRON, Ohio (AP) Rory Sabbatini gets his rubber match in the Rubber City. Sabbatini, one of the few players bold enough to call out Tiger Woods, gave himself another shot at the world's No. 1 player by getting his double bogey out of the way ...Go to article
Ochoa takes 6-shot lead at Women's Open
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) Lorena Ochoa equates playing golf tournaments to running marathons. After going six shots ahead of the field at the Women's British Open on Saturday, the top-ranked Mexican can at last see the finishing line for her f ...Go to article
Amex dumps Woods, signs PGA
AKRON, Ohio (AP) No longer affiliated with Tiger Woods or the tournament he won five times, American Express signed an endorsement deal Friday with the PGA of America that showed how it has shifted its strategy in golf. American Express, which in ...Go to article
Chef tells how he pocketed Tiger's ball
AKRON, Ohio (AP) One year ago, Josh Stuber was back on the loading dock at Firestone Country Club putting some of the restaurant's famous crunchy-cream pies into a cart. Within an hour, he was, as he puts it, "the most wanted man in Ohio ...Go to article
Sabbatini builds 2-shot lead; Tiger four back
AKRON, Ohio (AP) Rory Sabbatini would gladly take two more days like the two he's already had at the Bridgestone Invitational. "I'd take that with that $1.35 million in a heartbeat," Sabbatini joked Friday after his second 3-un ...Go to article
Wie's nightmare season continues at British
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) If Michelle Wie's scores matched the disappointing summer temperatures that have depressed the Brits for weeks, she'd still be playing in the Women's British Open. Wie would like to have been in the high 60s ...Go to article
Three tied after a tough day at Firestone
AKRON, Ohio (AP) It has reached the point where everyone expects to see his name atop the leaderboard, and he got there Thursday at the Bridgestone Invitational with five birdies in a seven-hole stretch on a course that felt like a major. Indeed, ...Go to article
Mickelson will play the FedEx Cup
AKRON, Ohio (AP) Phil Mickelson has committed to play in The Barclays, set for Aug. 23-26 at Westchester Country Club in Harrison, N.Y. That's noteworthy because Mickelson rarely plays much after the final major, the PGA Championship, in mid- ...Go to article
Ochoa shoots 67, leads at St. Andrews
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) If Lorena Ochoa has been saving her first major for the home of golf, it gave her the ideal start. The Mexican compiled a bogey-free 6-under 67 at St. Andrews in calm, sunny conditions on Thursday to take a two-shot lead i ...Go to article
