
Golf adopts rule to ban anchored putting stroke
Golf's two governing bodies outlawed the anchored putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions, approving a new rule that starts in ...

Davis back in contention at RBC Heritage
Brian Davis is tired of being celebrated solely for his sportsmanship at the RBC Heritage. He's ready to add a championship at Harbour Town Golf Links

Day, Leishman in contention at RBC Heritage
Jason Day and Marc Leishman kept the Australian flag flying high at the RBC Heritage. Four days after countryman Adam Scott became the first ...

McDowell ends Lowry's run through Match Play
Graeme McDowell ended what was still a big week for Shane Lowry at the Match Play Championship. McDowell made three birdies in a five-hole stretch to ...

Shane Lowry keeps right on rolling at Match Play
Shane Lowry said it would be one of the great days of his career if he were to beat Rory McIlroy in the Match Play Championship. He just didn't want ...

Watson the only top 10 seed left at Match Play
Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods now have plenty of company — somewhere other than the Match Play Championship. One day after the best two players in the ...

Same story: Tiger, Rory gone early at Match Play
Different month, different desert, same shocking outcome. Any thoughts of Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods going head-to-head late Sunday afternoon came ...

A 1-2 knockout: McIlroy, Woods lose in Match Play
Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods knocked out in the first round of the Match Play Championship? Not many would have given that a snowball's chance in the ...

Snow in Arizona delays resumption of Match Play
Bundled in a winter jacket in a chilly tent near the snow-covered driving range, Mark Russell was asked where the opening day of the Match Play ...

Snow stops first round at Match Play
Bundled in a winter jacket in a chilly tent near the snow-covered driving range, Mark Russell was asked where the opening day of the Match Play ...

Snow halts opening round at Match Play
The best 64 golfers in the world got together for the first time this season and a snow fight broke out. In the most bizarre episode of a PGA Tour ...

Johnson in tie for lead after 1 round at Kapalua
Dustin Johnson got off to a good start Monday in the Tournament of Champions. Then again, just starting was good. Three days behind schedule because ...

A Monday finish turned into a Monday start
As expected, Monday at the PGA Tour's season opener figures to be filled with anticipation at the Tournament of Champions. Not because of who might ...

First-day play washed out at PGA Tour opener
The PGA Tour season now starts on Saturday. Wind squalls that howled down off the mountains above Maui were so severe Friday that tour officials ...

Pettersson: Golf on 'witch hunt' of long putters
Carl Pettersson says the proposed rule to ban the anchored stroke for long putters feels like a "witch hunt," and that golf's governing bodies were ...
On the back roads of golf, tales from the tour
Dave Kindred, a preeminent American sports writer who has worked his trade for the better part of four decades, was walking down the right side of the ...

A ban on anchors, a long way to go
The putt was meaningless because it was the final hole of a pro-am in what amounts to an 18-man exhibition at the end of the year, even though ranking ...

Golf's guardians want long putters to go belly-up
Brace yourself — just not your putter. In a proposal that would affect major champions as well as amateurs at their local clubs, the guardians of the ...

Long putters to go belly up
Golf's governing bodies, worried that players will turn to long putters as an advantage instead of a last resort, proposed a new rule Wednesday that ...