Posts from — April 2008

Four days after he finished in a tie for third in last year’s Wachovia Championship, Rory Sabbatini ignited a storm of controversy …

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Golf instructor Butch Harmon spoke to John Daly last week, but said he did not offer an apology for parting ways with the troubled golfer after reports that Daly had been drinking in a hospitality tent at a March PGA Tour event.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — More beatable than ever.

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• Tiger Woods’ first place standing is safe for the 10th straight week, but Phil Mickelson could cut into his lead, and nine others have a chance to move into second with a victory. Eight of those nine, plus Mickelson, made the cut at Wachovia last year, including Steve Stricker, who finished second. Andres Romero was not in the Wachovia field in 2007. If Imada wins and Mickelson misses the cut, they will be tied for second behind Tiger.

VALDOSTA, Ga. — The Nationwide Tour tees it up this week at the longest course in TOUR history, Kinderlou Forest Golf Club, site of the South Georgia Classic presented by First State Bank. At a monstrous 7,781 yards and a par of 72, Kinderlou Forest GC, designed by Davis Love III, was the sixth most difficult course on Tour last year, averaging 73.55. It is more than 300 yards longer than Quail Hollow Club, the venue for this week’s PGA TOUR event, the Wachovia Championship. Kinderlou was recently ranked No. 14 on Golfweek magazine’s “Best Courses You Can Play” list.

For a plain-spoken country boy who was named after Yogi Bear’s sidekick, a self-professed simple man who lives in a lakeside …

Fellowship and camaraderie have lured football great Darrell Green to golf, but he has no illusions of competing professionally

PGA golfer John Daly is interviewed while he plays a round of golf at Murder Rock Golf Club in Branson, Missouri. Shirtless and shoeless, with a cigarette in his mouth, of course. Classic Big John.

Appearance with John’s playing partner for the day, country singer Johnny Lee, at the end of the video.

Definitely one person I did not want to see topless.

British Open champion Padraig Harrington will skip next month’s PGA Championship at Wentworth, the European Tour’s flagship event, because it would disrupt his preparation for the U.S. Open.

Drug testing at the British Open at Royal Birkdale will be delayed a year because some international players have not been exposed to doping education programs.

Sixteen of Royal Birkdale’s 18 holes have been altered for the British Open in July, organizers the Royal & Ancient said on Tuesday.

Phil Harison, who introduced everyone from Ben Hogan to Jack Nicklaus to Tiger Woods during his 60 years as the starter on the first tee of the Masters, has died. He was 82.

Annika Sorenstam made a par on the first playoff hole Sunday, good enough to beat Paula Creamer and win the Stanford International …

Tom Watson and Andy North got what they wanted, but had to work for it, edging Craig Stadler and Jeff Sluman by a stroke Sunday …

Adam Scott made a 9-foot birdie putt on No. 18 to force a playoff, then made a 48-footer playing it again on the third playoff …

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Tom Watson and Andy North got what they wanted, but had to work for it, edging Greg Stadler and Jeff Sluman by a stroke Sunday in the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf.

Greg Chalmers became the fifth Australian winner in eight Nationwide Tour events this season, beating Norway’s Henrik Bjornstad with a bogey on the second hole of a playoff Sunday in the Henrico County Open.

Annika Sorenstam made a par on the first playoff hole Sunday, good enough to beat Paula Creamer and win the Stanford International Pro-Am.

A long birdie putt on the final hole gave Darren Clarke a one-shot victory Sunday in the Asian Open, his first title in five …

Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland made a 30-foot birdie putt to beat Dutchman Robert-Jan Derksen by a stroke to clinch the Asian Open on Sunday.

Adam Scott again topped the leaderboard at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. His solid finish Saturday, and Kevin Sutherland’s bad one, made sure that happened.