
Rookie's unusual week ends in win at Wells Fargo
Derek Ernst didn't come out of nowhere to win the Wells Fargo Championship. He actually was driving a rental car toward Athens, Ga., the fourth ...

Rookie Derek Ernst wins Wells Fargo in a playoff
One phone call changed his plans. One shot changed a whole lot more for Derek Ernst. Six days after Ernst received a call that he was in the Wells ...

Mickelson, Watney tied for lead at Quail Hollow
Phil Mickelson's ball was just above the edge of the cart path, slightly below his feet, when he decided to hit a hard fade around the trees toward ...

Mickelson takes 2-shot lead at Quail Hollow
The bunker shot showed the magic of Phil Mickelson. He blasted out of the sand with so much side spin that the ball landed about 5 feet to the right ...

Mickelson takes charge at Quail Hollow
Phil Mickelson has figured out the secret to the greens at Quail Hollow. Or maybe he's just had a lot of good bounces for two days. Mickelson opened ...

McIlroy opens with 67 at Wells Fargo
For all the talk about the greens, Rory McIlroy's most important club was his driver Thursday in the Wells Fargo Championship. McIlroy kept the ball ...

Dufner among 8 past Zurich champs in Big Easy
One year ago, Jason Dufner's victory at the Zurich Classic made him the fifth player in the last eight years to celebrate his maiden PGA Tour triumph ...

Players seem OK with Woods penalty instead of DQ
Tiger Woods still has a chance to win the Masters. Most of his fellow players seem OK with that. Woods was assessed a two-stroke penalty Saturday ...

Par 3 Contest: A chance to unwind at the Masters
Lee Westwood's mum walked away from the ninth hole, waving her hand in front of her face on a balmy spring day. "I feel sorry for the caddies," Trish ...

Rose gets hot with the putter to lead Bay Hill
He didn't miss a putt inside 15 feet. He watched good shots and answered with better ones. He ran off a string of birdies to pull away. That's how ...
Rose takes lead with 65 at Bay Hill; Woods 4 back
Justin Rose started out as another guy in Tiger Woods' group Thursday at Bay Hill. He wound up in the lead. Rose put on a clinic with the putter and ...

Copperhead has some bite at Tampa Bay
Defending champion Luke Donald was angry about three bogeys over the last four holes that ruined a great round Thursday in the Tampa Bay Championship.

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 ...

Woods makes short work at Torrey Pines
Tiger Woods never looked so irritated winning a golf tournament so comfortably. His record eighth victory at Torrey Pines was all but over when Woods ...

Woods wins at Torrey Pines for 8th time
Tiger Woods was so good for so long at Torrey Pines that it didn't matter how bad it looked at the end. In a finish that was fitting for such a long ...

Tiger headed toward another win at Torrey
The Pacific air was so cold at the end of a 10-hour day at Torrey Pines that Tiger Woods thrust both hands in the front pockets of his rain pants as ...

Tiger Woods in control at Torrey Pines
Due to the fog that wiped out an entire day of golf, the Farmers Insurance Open was never going to end on Sunday. Tiger Woods just made it look as if ...

Woods atop the leaderboard at Torrey Pines
Tiger Woods made one last birdie as the rain picked up strength Friday, and what he left behind was a gloomy forecast for everyone else at Torrey ...

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 ...
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 ...

McDowell heads for finish line at World Challenge
Perhaps it was no coincidence that Graeme McDowell finally had a good night of sleep and then put together the best round at Sherwood Country Club, ...

McDowell opens up 3-shot lead at Sherwood
Graeme McDowell has done a lot right this year, except for win. He now has one last chance to fix that. Back on the course that has provided two key ...

Bradley motivated by the putting ban
Keegan Bradley has earned nearly $8 million in his two years on the PGA Tour, enough to buy his own hamburger joint. But work in one? Such was the ...

Watney takes 2-shot lead at Sherwood
Sure enough, putting was all the rage Thursday in the World Challenge. One day after golf's governing bodies proposed a new rule that will ban the ...