Posts from — February 2008

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SINGAPORE — Top-ranked Lorena Ochoa increased her lead to seven strokes Friday in the HSBC Women’s Champions, shooting a 7-under 65 at Tanah Merah Country Club in her second tournament round of the year.

In her season debut at the LPGA tour’s HSBC Women’s Champions in Singapore, world No. 1 Lorena Ochoa didn’t have to look far …

LPGA players, miffed at a drug-testing procedure that took hours for some last week at the Fields Open in Hawaii, were slightly less than amused to find out the whole thing was merely a trial run and not the real thing.

Arnold Palmer’s tournament is moving — dates, that is, getting the plum clean-up spot in the four-tournament Florida Swing, writes Bob Harig.

SINGAPORE — Top-ranked Lorena Ochoa began her season by shooting six birdies to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the inaugural $2 million HSBC Women’s Champions tournament on Thursday.

The PGA Tour amended its divisive cut policy, giving players on the cut line one more day of competition to separate themselves from the bottom of the pack.

Florida is a welcome addition to abundant travel itineraries, with its plentiful sunshine, miles of beaches, numerous theme parks …

The PGA Tour amended its divisive cut policy, giving players on the cut line one more day of competition to separate themselves …

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Tiger Woods won the FedEx Cup so handily last year that he skipped the first playoff event and could have stayed home during …

Fred Couples and Greg Norman are the new captains for the 2009 Presidents Cup in San Francisco. It’s the first time both captains have previously competed in the matches.

Fred Couples and Greg Norman are the new captains for the 2009 Presidents Cup in San Francisco. It’s the first time both captains …

Can Tiger Woods go undefeated? Most observers scoff, and he is only two PGA Tour events into a 16- or 17-event season. But his …

Stewart Cink needed a life preserver. Tiger Woods never threw him one. Eight holes into Sunday’s 36-hole final of the World …

The LPGA Tour travels to the Far East this week for the inaugural HSBC Women’s Champions in Singapore, where world No. 1 Lorena Ochoa makes her 2008 season debut. The tournament features a $2 million purse, and the winner will earn the first of 13 automatic spots in the season-ending ADT Championship in November.

Paula Creamer rallied to win the Fields Open for her fifth LPGA Tour title, birdieing four of the final five holes for a one-stroke victory over South Korea’s Jeong Jang on Saturday.

As Tiger Woods plays away, the rest of us can only marvel and watch. Time to gather round the golf green, even if you can’t tell …

Tiger Woods has won the Accenture Match Play Championship. It’s his 15th World Golf Championship and the first time he has held …

Tiger Woods has won the Accenture Match Play Championship. It’s his 15th World Golf Championship and the first time he has held all three world titles at the same time.

Here’s a quick way to improve golf telecasts. Give fans something, anything, to yell besides “You da man!” and “Get in the hole!” …

Fuzzy Zoeller and Peter Jacobsen rallied to win the Champions Skins Game on Sunday, winning six skins and $320,000 in alternate-shot play to beat defending champions Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson.

Fuzzy Zoeller and Peter Jacobsen won six skins and $320,000 to score a come-from-behind victory over defending champions Jack …

Winless in his first 293 starts on the PGA Tour, Brian Gay shot a 1-under 69 in the final round to captures the Mayakoba Golf …

Brian Gay has won the Mayakoba Golf Classic, shooting a 1-under 69 in the final round for a 2-stroke victory and the first PGA Tour title in his career.