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Greg Norman and Chris Evert married in Bahamas

Golf legend Greg Norman and tennis great Chris Evert were married during a beautiful sunset ceremony in the Bahamas yesterday. They exchanged vows before a group of 140 friends and family. Golf legend Greg Norman and tennis great Chris Evert were married during a beautiful sunset ceremony in the Bahamas yesterday. They ex... more

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PGA party animal John Daly drives one off of Kid Rock's beer can

While John Daly is the lovable portly party animal of pro golf, this display during the Buick Open was quite fun to see.

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Rocco Mediate returns with a 71 at the Buick Open

First round at the Buick under way.

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Tiger Wood's game used apple core fetching $36,000 on Ebay

But somehow the auction disappeared.
Boy, wouldn't it awesome to own a true relic like this from this epic U.S. Open...
If only someone got maybe the game used napkin he used to wipe his mouth... But somehow the auction disappeared. Boy, wouldn't it awesome to own a true relic like this from this epic U.S. Open... ... more

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Children + Strippers = Hilarious Hole-in-One!

So what happens when a golf course accidentally books a youth golf tournament AND a strip club charity golf game at the same time? A hilariously sexy mishap!

Young golfers, ages 7 to 12, had not completed their Monday morning tournament before participants arrived in limousines for the Shotgun Willie's Charity Golf Tournament.

The latter event featured patrons of the strip club paired with dancers who served as caddies. Police later broke up the event after complaints from neighbors.

The cool kids however were fine with sticking around for the action on the back 9. So what happens when a golf course accidentally books a youth golf tournament AND a strip club charity golf game at the same time? A ... more

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Perfect

Ian Eaton has made a life of his own despite his Cerebral Palsy. Competing in the Golf Tournament at the 2008 Summer Special Olympic Games, Ian continues to live his "Perfect" life showing us that nothing is impossible. Ian Eaton has made a life of his own despite his Cerebral Palsy. Competing in the Golf Tournament at the 2008 Summer Special Olympic G... more

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Tiger Woods Website: Woods to Undergo Season-Ending Knee Surgery, Golf Channel Say...

June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Tiger Woods has decided to undergo season-ending knee surgery just two days after winning the U.S. Open championship in a playoff over Rocco Mediate, the Golf Channel said on its Web site.

Woods sustained a ``small stress fracture'' in his left leg about two week before the Open, which was causing him pain throughout the tournament, the Golf Channel said, citing unidentified people. Woods's agent, Mark Steinberg, didn't immediately return a phone call and e-mail message seeking comment.

The world's top-ranked golfer needs surgery to repair his anterior cruciate ligament and rest ``to get him back to 100 percent,'' Golf Channel said. He's expected to be able to return for the 2009 season, the cable network added on its Web site.

Woods's win at the U.S. Open, his third at the tournament and 14th major title overall, came in his return from a knee operation he had in April. He limped at times over the five days at Torrey Pines Golf Course, grimaced after some swings and even used his club as a cane at several points. June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Tiger Woods has decided to undergo season-ending knee surgery just two days after winning the U.S. Open champio... more

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Colombian golfer, Camilo Villegas cashes in at Skins Game,

Colombian Camilo Villegas made his first Telus World Skins Game appearance a very lucrative one today as he won all 10 skins up for grabs and pocketed $230,000.

Colombian Camilo Villegas made his first Telus World Skins Game appearance a very lucrative one today as he won all 10 skins up for gr... more

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Tiger Kicks Butt Again

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Tiger puts away Mediate on 91st hole to win U.S. Open

SAN DIEGO -- Looking as vulnerable as he ever has during a run toward a major, Tiger Woods is nonetheless the U.S. Open champion for a third time.

On the 91st hole at Torrey Pines, Woods stood strong on his wobbly left knee in putting away a determined Rocco Mediate in sudden death to win his 14th major title.

The two shot even-par 71 Monday, so the playoff continued, starting on the par-4 seventh hole. Woods two-putted for par, then looked on as Mediate missed his par-saving try from 15 feet.

It also was Woods' seventh victory at Torrey Pines, the most victories of any golfer on one course.

Woods blew a three-shot lead he built by the 10th hole and trailed by one, but got onto the par-5 18th hole in two and made a 4-foot putt for birdie. Mediate had a chance to win the tournament with a 20-foot birdie putt of his own, but he missed and had to make a testy 3-foot comebacker to stay tied.

This marked only the third time a U.S. Open playoff has gone beyond 18 holes. The last was 1994, when Ernie Els and Loren Roberts played to a draw, then went two extra holes before Els won his first championship.

Mediate trailed by three heading into the 11th hole, but made three straight birdies on Nos. 13, 14 and 15 to grab the lead and force Woods to birdie the 18th to stay in the tournament.

Woods did the same thing Sunday on No. 18 to force the playoff and stay in contention for his 14th major. He has never lost when holding at least a share of the 54-hole lead, as he did heading into the final round this time.

Mediate, meanwhile, is seeking his first major victory. At 45 years, 6 months, he would become the oldest first-time major winner and the oldest man to win the U.S. Open. SAN DIEGO -- Looking as vulnerable as he ever has during a run toward a major, Tiger Woods is nonetheless the U.S. Open champion for a... more

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Rocco Mediate just barely loses sudden playoff to Tiger at Torrey Pines

In what could have been one of the great Cinderella stories of the 2008 U.S. Open 45 year old Rocco Mediate who had never won a major tournament, falls just short in sudden death against Tiger after playing 90 holes of even golf with Tiger.
Still a truly valiant effort for Rocco in an amazingly well played U.S. Open. In what could have been one of the great Cinderella stories of the 2008 U.S. Open 45 year old Rocco Mediate who had never won a major ... more

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Tiger Woods forces an 18-hole playoff at the US Open 2008

Tiger Woods is still good at golfing the ball.

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Mediate and Tiger force Monday playoff to determine U.S. Open winner...

Mediate at 45 years old will vie to try and become the oldest man to win the U.S. Open at 45.
In what has been a truly exciting U.S. Open. Mediate at 45 years old will vie to try and become the oldest man to win the U.S. Open at 45. ... more

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Water-Thirsty Golf Courses Need to Go Green

Audubon International estimates that the average American course uses 312,000 gallons per day. In a place like Palm Springs, where 57 golf courses challenge the desert, each course eats up a million gallons a day. That is, each course each day in Palm Springs consumes as much water as an American family of four uses in four years. Audubon International estimates that the average American course uses 312,000 gallons per day. In a place like Palm Springs, where 57 ... more

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US Open | The Open Course Is at Its Best

SAN DIEGO — Right in the middle of June, a cold sense of dread used to descend on the afternoon before the opening day at the United States Open. All out of preparation time and looking down the narrow fairways of another penal golf course layout, many of the 156 golfers were beaten right then, the day before they showed up on the tee looking as if they were in line for the root canal chair.

But that was then. The 108th United States Open, which begins Thursday at Torrey Pines Golf Course, arrives with a different, almost hopeful, vibe, a sense of anticipation that something special rides on the freshening breeze that blew away the coastal fog and poured sunshine across the golf course for the first time all week.

“There is nothing we can do now to make Torrey Pines play any better,” said Mike Davis, the senior director of rules and competition for the United States Golf Association. “Here it is Wednesday, and I almost wish today was a championship day because the greens are firm and the golf course is perfect.”

The whole scene is almost too good, bursting with story lines and intrigue. Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Adam Scott, the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 players in the world, will be on the tee at 8:06 a.m. here. Rarely is there an opportunity to see the best players perform for stakes this high on a test that most players agree is among the toughest and possibly the fairest United States Open setups in memory. All week, a procession of players has sung the same chorus of praise for Davis’s setup, so different from that sung on the eve of the Open in the old days that a gray-haired viewpoint is required for perspective.

“I was in Des Moines at a Champions Tour event the week before the sectional qualifier,” said 51-year-old Mark O’Meara, the winner of the Masters and the British Open in 1998 and of 16 PGA Tour events, including the 1997 Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines. “When we finished, I got in the car like the old days and drove five and a half hours to Chicago, got in at 11 o’clock on Sunday night for the 36-hole qualifier the next morning at Conway Farms.

“I was fortunate enough to shoot two 70s and get into the field. It’s pretty cool, cool to be here, to be honest with you, because this is Torrey Pines and it’s a special event, for sure. This setup is great — tough, but not so brutal there’s no chance if you miss a shot.”

Then there is the U.S.G.A. plan to move tees around to create variety in how the players approach the course. The thought of a hole playing 158 yards shorter one day to the next — as will happen at the 435-yard, par-4 14th hole when it plays as a 277-yard, reachable par 4 — would have been fanciful just a few years ago. [Read More...] SAN DIEGO — Right in the middle of June, a cold sense of dread used to descend on the afternoon before the opening day at the United S... more

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Tiger Woods Is 2-Over in Early US Open Play

Playing in the tournament's power pairing with Phil Mickelson and Adam Scott, Tiger Woods opened with an unsightly double bogey at Torrey Pines on Thursday, a bad start to his first competitive round since knee surgery after the Masters. The world's top-ranked player opened with a big hook into the caked-down kikuya rough. He hacked out with a wedge, then flew his approach over the green into more tangly grass. Unable to control that shot, either, he knocked the next shot about 8 feet past the hole and two-putted to start the day at 2-over.

That put him four shots off the early pace set by K.J. Choi and Steve Stricker, who each had two birdies over their first four holes.

Mickelson and Scott each hit their opening drives straight and wound up with pars.

Woods came to the tee box with his game face on. He was trying to avoid a repeat of what happened the last time he took this long a break. Returning from a layoff after the death of his father in 2006, Woods missed the cut at the U.S. Open at Winged Foot — the first and only time he failed to make it to the weekend in a major.

Scott, ranked third in the world, greeted everyone with a left-handed handshake; he recently broke his right pinkie finger.

Mickelson, second in the world behind Woods and not even carrying a driver for the longest course in major championship history, came to the first tee box and stood behind the lecturn used by the starter to organize his scorecard and pin sheet as several in the gallery shouted "Speech, speech."

Indeed, this was no usual threesome.

The USGA manipulated the pairings to put the world's top three on the course together for the first two days. About 100 media and photographers, as crowded as anything Woods has ever seen, lined the inside of the ropes to walk with the group down the first fairway. There were thousands of fans in the stands and lining the route to the green.

That was quite a contrast to the scene D.A. Points saw about an hour earlier. He hit the first shot of the tournament to near silence — but that shot went straight down the fairway, a far cry from where Woods ended up. Playing in the tournament's power pairing with Phil Mickelson and Adam Scott, Tiger Woods opened with an unsightly double bogey at Tor... more

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While Bush Gives Up Golf For The Troops; McCain Sells Golf Gear On His Website

Talking Points Memo points to a bizarre little detail on John McCain’s Web site. The front page currently promos four things: the “Decision Center,” the “General Election,” “Obama & Iraq,” and “Golf Gear.” Click on that last tab, and it takes you to the campaign store, where you can buy your old man a “Father’s Day McCain Golf Pack.”

There’s just one problem here. George W. Bush gave up golf out of respect for the troops: “I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.” (Stories like this may have also influenced his decision.)

Yet here’s McCain, practically shoving golf clubs into our hands during a time of war. Granted, you won’t find McCain playing much golf himself. “I hate golf,” he told reporters on his bus last year. “Churchill said, it’s a good walk wasted.” *


Perhaps this is just another count—like his stances on Katrina and global warming—on which McCain intends to distance himself from Bush.

Talking Points Memo points to a bizarre little detail on John McCain’s Web site. The front page currently promos four things: the “Dec... more

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This is either a stunt, or the world's dumbest golfer!

This is ONLY interesting because you won't believe what you are seeing. From YouTube.

Warning, this is disturbing and dangerous...Don't try this at home, or ANYWHERE! This is ONLY interesting because you won't believe what you are seeing. From YouTube. ... more

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The fittest guy in America!

Tiger named the fittest of them all

This week, as Woods rehabbed his knee in Florida, Men’s Fitness magazine named him the “Fittest Guy in America.” The award might not be on the level of a Masters title, but Woods did face some competition from the likes of Will Smith, Browns quarterback Brady Quinn, Phillies second baseman Chase Utley and someone called “Mark Steines.” Tiger named the fittest of them all ... more

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