Golf
Golf adopts rule to ban anchored putting stroke
Golf's governing bodies approved a rule Tuesday that outlaws the putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions, a move opposed by two major golf organizations that contend long putters are not hurting the game. The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and U.S. Golf Association said Rule ...
Sophomore leads Lambert girls to state golf title
Sophomore Michaela Owen shot a 71 to lead Lambert to the Class AAAAAA championship at Sunset Country Club in Moultrie. The Longhorns scored 220 and beat defending champion Milton by five shots. Owen, the daughter of longtime Oglethorpe golf coach Jim Owen, tied for medalist with Kayla Jones of Milton, ...
Burger is lone Bulldog representing UGA golf in NCAAs
Emilie Burger has had a decorated career at Georgia. She will end it this week as a four-time All-American and four-time All-SEC player. But all she can think about as she gets ready to tee it up Tuesday in the NCAA Championships at the UGA Golf Course is what she ...
Chinese 14-year-old will tee it up in Memorial
Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old Chinese amateur who made history at Augusta National, is bringing his game to Jack Nicklaus' backyard. Guan, who last month became the youngest player to make the cut in a major championship when he finished 58th at the Masters, has accepted an exemption to play at ...
Bae wins Byron Nelson for 1st PGA Tour title
Sang-Moon Bae led by four strokes in the final round of the Byron Nelson Championship when his tee shot at the ninth hole went way left. After getting to his ball, Bae hit a high-arcing shot over the trees in front of him, clearing the green and apparently going into ...
Jennifer Johnson wins Mobile Bay LPGA Classic
Jennifer Johnson got a hug and congratulations from the defending Mobile Bay LPGA Classic champion before it even sunk in Sunday that she had won her first tour title. "It was fun there at the end, because Jennifer was making putts and I don't think she realized what she was ...
Bae wins Byron Nelson for first PGA Tour title
Sang-Moon Bae watched anxiously after hitting his tee shot at the par-3 17th hole Sunday in the Byron Nelson Championship. When the ball landed on the front edge of the green fronted by water, he bent his knees and leaned backward obviously relieved. He was only a few shots away ...
McDowell beats Jaidee to win World Match Play
Graeme McDowell won the Volvo World Match Play Championship on Sunday, beating Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee 2 and 1 in the final at Thracian Cliffs. McDowell won a year after losing the final to Belgium's Nicolas Colsaerts at Finca Cortesin in Spain. The 2010 U.S. Open champion fought back from 2 ...
Colquitt could take boys and girls high school golf tournament
The Colquitt County boys have an opportunity to bring the state golf championship back to South Georgia.The Packers, who won their last championship in 2006, have the depth necessary to win the team title. Other than Lowndes in 2011, a metro Atlanta team has won the boys title in the ...
Georgia, Georgia Tech headline NCAA golf championship at Milton
Georgia and Georgia Tech will carry the flag for the state in the NCAA men’s golf championship, which will start at the Capital City Club’s Crabapple Course in Milton on May 28 with the championship match on June 2.The Bulldogs and Yellow Jackets are two of the 30 teams and ...
Chella Choi takes lead at Mobile Bay LPGA Classic
Anna Nordqvist was putting like a rookie again — and that's a good thing. The Swede said she had perhaps her first "really good putting day" since her rookie year in 2009 with a course-record 61 on Saturday in the third round of the Mobile Bay LPGA Classic. South Korea's ...
Bradley keeps lead after 3 rounds at Nelson
Keegan Bradley still hasn't gotten things right on the 18th hole at the Byron Nelson Championship, even when finally going left. The bogeys on the closing hole at TPC Four Seasons haven't cost him the lead yet. Bradley overcame consecutive bogeys early and bogeyed No. 18 for the third round ...
Report: Michael Phelps planning comeback
Is Michael Phelps planning a comeback? A report Friday night from WBBH, an NBC television affiliate in Fort Myers, Fla., said Phelps will return to swimming with an eye toward competing at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The three-paragraph story on the station's Web site was posted by news anchor Peter ...
McDowell beats Colsaerts at World Match Play
Graeme McDowell reached the semifinals of the World Match Play Championship after knocking out defending champion Nicolas Colsaerts, whose day include the bizarre moment of taking a penalty drop inside a restroom. McDowell rallied from an early deficit to win 2 and 1 over his European Ryder Cup teammate on ...
Venturi had precious friendship with Byron Nelson
Ken Venturi was a 14-year-old with a camera trying to get a picture of Byron Nelson when he first met the golfer who would become a mentor and dear friend. "He was, like, getting under the ropes a little bit, " Nelson's widow, Peggy, recalled Saturday of that moment during ...
Venturi, US Open champion and CBS analyst, dies
Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon. He was 82. His son, Matt Venturi, said he died in a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the last two months for ...
Jessica Korda leads Mobile Bay LPGA Classic
Jessica Korda shot a 7-under 65 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead over Hall of Famer Karrie Webb after the second round of the Mobile Bay LPGA Classic. Korda had seven birdies in her second straight bogey-free round to reach 13 under on The Crossings course at the Robert ...
Bradley has 3-stroke lead after 2 rounds at Nelson
Keegan Bradley again bogeyed Nos. 1 and 18 in the second round of the Byron Nelson Championship. Unlike the first round, Bradley didn't set a course record. But he still finished with a three-stroke lead. Bradley started and ended his round Friday with those bogeys, part of a 1-under 69 ...
Woodson says he's look for fit in Raiders visit
Charles Woodson pushed back a visit to Oakland to pursue a reunion with the Raiders because extending his career in the NFL isn't his only mission. The 2009 NFL Defensive Player of the Year would've traveled to the Bay Area from Denver after meeting with the Broncos on Wednesday, but ...
AP source: McIlroy to set up own management group
Two-time major champion Rory McIlroy is leaving Dublin-based Horizon Sports Management to set up his own management group. A person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press that McIlroy will create his own team run by his father, Gerry, along with close friends and associates. The person spoke ...
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