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The world's best female golf players will no longer be required just to be able to drive and chip, but also to speak English, according to a report. Golfweek reported on its website that the LPGA informed players last week that those on the tour at least two years will have to pass an oral evaluation of their ability to speak English. Those who fail would have their memberships suspended, though LPGA deputy commissioner Libba Galloway told Golfweek that players would be helped out in such a scenario. “Hopefully what we’re talking about is something that will not happen,” said...

Golfing for just the third time, 11-year-old Allan Saylor was whacking the ball around with a friend, not even keeping score. A hole-in-one? No big deal. The sixth-grader fired the ace Wednesday on the 150-yard, par-3 sixth hole at the neighboring Mandan Municipal Golf Course, using a driver borrowed from his buddy. --snip-- "I didn't even know what a hole-in-one was," she said. "We're not golf people."

Michelle Wie's eighth start in a PGA Tour event will not end in her first made cut. Wie shot a second-round 80 in the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open to finish at 9 over par through 36 holes. The cut will be at around even par by the time play ends Friday afternoon. Wie shot an opening-round 73, 1-over par. But a quintuple-bogey nine on the eighth hole (her 17th of the day) ended any hopes of Wie surviving to play the weekend at the par-72 Montreux Golf and Country Club.

Michelle Wie returns to playing tournament golf with the professional men this week, and given her propensity to produce drama of all sorts, it should be interesting. We know this: She'll have somebody baby-sitting her while she signs her scorecard. Wie learned yet another lesson the hard way two weeks ago when she was disqualified from the LPGA Tour's State Farm Classic after forgetting to sign her scorecard after the second round. At this week's PGA Tour Legends Reno-Tahoe Open, it will be the scores on the card that will create the buzz, positive or not. Wie, 18, is competing...

His dad made it big in politics, but Andrew Giuliani’s dreams veer toward a career as a professional golfer, he explained as he smacked golf balls Thursday on Randalls Island, which is one reason, he said, that he sued Duke University and its head golf coach for pushing him off the varsity team this spring... ...In the lawsuit, he acknowledged that he may have misbehaved in February when he tossed an apple in a teammate’s face, flipped his putter a few feet, threw and broke a club and gunned his engine in a parking lot......An e-mail message to Andrew Giuliani...

But New York City's former first son is swinging back hard. Late Wednesday, his attorneys filed a federal lawsuit in North Carolina, contending the university has violated its obligations to him as a student-athlete and demanding he be invited back to Duke's state-of-the-art golf-training facility.

SOUTHPORT, England — The last time a golfer did what Greg Norman has a chance to do in the British Open, this name was Old Tom and the American Civil War had recently ended. So it is fitting that here in the land where 100-year-old golf courses are regarded as new, Norman is one step from rewriting his own history, and one of golf’s oldest records.

AUBURN, Wash. – For some, the game of golf can be strict, but on Sunday at the Auburn Golf Course, one golfer not only broke the rules, he broke the law. Auburn Police say a golfer used a 6-iron to assault another golfer, hitting the victim so hard he broke the club. "There's a lot of rules in golf and if you break the rules some people tend to take it really seriously out here, so I'm not really surprised someone got assaulted," said golfer Ryan Aker. "There was a group of golfers ahead of another group of golfers and...

The competition determines a champion. It also determines the greatness of a champion. What would Larry be without Magic, Ali be without Frazier, and the Yankees be without the Red Sox, just to name a few. While certainly not his fault, Tiger has no Magic, Frazier, or Red Sox. A recent study by a college student showed that pro golfers shot higher scores when Tiger Woods was in the tournament than when Tiger was not in the tournament. If this isn’t the definition of choking, I don't know what is. This study should come as no surprise to anyone who...

The spread of golf courses threatens Britain's traditional landscapes, a report from the leading conservation authority will warn this week. The sport's growing popularity has led to dozens of important parks being turned into 18-hole courses, leading to what English Heritage claims is "irreversible damage to the historic environment". Grounds for concern: Rudding Park as it used to be before it was converted into a golf course The warning comes as the organisation prepares to launch the first comprehensive register of the country's neglected historic treasures this week. Its "Heritage at Risk" report will identify listed buildings, monuments, churches, battlefields...

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2008 – Wounded warriors and the PGA tour kicked off their Independence Day celebration a couple of days early with food and festivities yesterday at Mologne House, on the Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus here. PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem, right, and Dan Nevins, Tour community outreach manager, welcome wounded warriors and their families to the “Birdies for the Brave” barbecue July 2, 2008, at Mologne House, on the Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus in Washington, D.C. Defense Dept. photo by Army Staff Sgt. Michael J. Carden   (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available....

BETHESDA, Md., July 2, 2008 – They may not be on the pro tour yet, but two military children got a taste of the big time when they helped pro golfer Fred Couples kick off the second AT&T National at Congressional Country Club here today. Jeffrey Dahl, 9, of New Jersey, left, professional golfer Fred Couples, and Margaret Rollins, 13, of Virginia hit the ceremonial first shot to open the second AT&T National golf tournament July 2, 2008, at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. Both children’s fathers are servicemembers, serving in Pakistan and California, respectively. Defense Dept. photo...

June 30, 2008 -- CHICAGO -- Capt. Dan Rooney delivered a perfect strike Thursday afternoon in Wrigley Field. But, the pitch he made off the mound meant much more. The 35-year-old PGA Professional from Broken Arrow, Okla., and founder of Patriot Golf Day and the Folds of Honor Foundation, Rooney will be serving his country once again this fall by making his third tour of Iraq as an F-16 fighter pilot.

Over the past two years, Estes, 43, has conducted a free golf clinic for the [catastrophically wounded] soldiers every Saturday morning in the spring. A section of the range is cordoned off for use by the men and women who make the 30-minute trip from Walter Reed. Every week, in a more formal group session, Estes focuses on a different aspect of the game: bunker shots, chipping, putting, the driver. But he and other staff members also offer individual instruction for anyone who asks. Somehow, Estes manages to find a way to get them to make contact with the golf...

Tiger Woods, who went 91 holes on a wounded knee to win the U.S. Open on Monday, will have reconstructive surgery on the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the 2008 PGA TOUR season. No date has been set for the surgery. Suddenly a season that had dawned with Woods saying the Grand Slam was "easily within reason" became clouded with doubt and uncertainty as he prepares for a second surgery on his left knee within 10 weeks. By missing the rest of this season, Woods will not play in either of the...

Tiger Woods has decided to have surgery on his left knee, which will end his 2008 season, according to a source close to Woods. A report on the Golf Channel, citing unnamed sources, said Woods would have surgery on his ACL. The Golf Channel and Associated Press reported that Woods suffered a small stress fracture in his left leg about two weeks before the U.S. Open. The AP reported that Woods is expect to discuss his future on his Web site later Wednesday. Woods had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee on April 15, two days after he finished second...

SAN DIEGO — With a throbbing knee and a pounding heart, Tiger Woods made one last improbable escape Monday and won the U.S. Open in a 19-hole playoff over Rocco Mediate, his 14th career major and maybe the most amazing of them all. One shot behind after a collapse no one saw coming, Woods birdied the 18th hole to force sudden death at Torrey Pines against a 45-year-old with a creaky back who simply wouldn't go away. But that one extra hole was enough to doom Mediate, trying to become the oldest U.S. Open champion at 45 years, 6 months.

The San Diego Father's Day at the U.S. Open started out with the usual domestic contenders and foreign suspects, but in the end it narrowed down to a classic duel between an unlikely duo, the once and future king of golf, Tiger Woods, and the journeyman jester of the links, Rocco Mediate. In the end you didn't WANT it to end, so compelling was the drama between the new dad and wounded warrior Woods, and the over-the-hill hacker but beloved father Mediate, you almost wished it could end in a tie, and in effect it did, at least for a...

Professional golfers are generally a conservative lot -- after all, they're the ultimate "country-club types" -- so it was surprising to see Rocco Mediate's belt buckle on Sunday: a peace sign. Was it a protest against the war? A remnant of a secret hippie past? A good-luck charm for the serious poker player? After the even-par round he shot to get into Monday's 18-hole playoff with Tiger Woods, the normally talkative Rocco wasn't saying. "I'm not talking about the peace sign," Rocco joked when he entered the media interview room. "Tomorrow I'm wearing Metallica or AC/DC. We can't have any...

 

Tiger Woods will face Rocco Mediate Monday in an 18-hole playoff for the US Open Championship. Both Woods and Mediate finished -1 Par.

SAN DIEGO — Tiger Woods delivered a performance worthy of prime time Saturday in the U.S. Open. He kept an East Coast television audience and a sellout crowd at Torrey Pines in suspense when his left knee buckled and he nearly dropped to the ground from the sheer pain, limping along with his club as a cane. The drama came on the last six holes, when he turned a five-shot deficit into a one-shot lead. And the amazing array of shots that put him atop the leaderboard? Pure science-fiction. "The stuff he does, it's unreal," said Rocco Mediate, who watched...

​​​​​ POS PLAYER TODAY THRU TO PAR R1 R2 R3 R4 TOTAL 1 T. Woods 1:30 PM --   -3 72 68 70   210 2 L. Westwood 1:30 PM --   -2 70 71 70   211 3 R. Mediate 1:20 PM --   -1 69 71 72   212 T4 D. Trahan 1:10 PM --   +1 72 69 73   214 T4 G. Ogilvy 1:20 PM --   +1 69 73 72   214 T6 R. Karlsson 12:50 PM --   +2 70 70 75   215 T6 M. Jimenez 12:50 PM --   +2 75 66 74   215 T6 R. Allenby...

Brian Kortan Gets Second Chance to Live Dream At U.S. Open By EDDIE PELLS The Associated Press Published: Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. SAN DIEGO - Brian Kortan felt the pain in his chest, then his jaw, then the heaviness in his arms. He put on his T-shirt and shorts, walked upstairs to his buddy's room and said, "C'mon, we've got to get to the emergency room." He was having a heart attack, and when a man is 35 years old and having a heart attack - a so-called "widow maker" that's caused by blockage of the left...

Morning Edition, June 11, 2008 · I have always thought that golf courses are perhaps the finest collaborative work between God and man. Yes, only God can make a tree, but golf course architects can make trees seem prettier, and golf course superintendents can make the grass greener and the flowers brighter, so that even when you can't hit a fairway or sink a putt, it certainly is an awfully lovely place to be frustrated. The only thing is, the whole experience, the whole sport, is utterly dependent on one thing: H2O ... water. And, of course, we don't have...

BETHESDA, Md., May 28, 2008 – Professional golfer Tiger Woods understands the sacrifices military families make and the importance of acknowledging those sacrifices. Tiger Woods, professional golfer and host of the AT&T National golf tournament, laughs at a question from the media during a news conference at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., on May 27, 2008. Woods is joined by Bret Hart, president of Congressional, where the July tournament is held, and Greg McLaughlin, president of the Tiger Woods Foundation. Defense Department photo by Samantha L. Quigley  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “I was raised in a...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE ISKAN, Iraq – Soldiers stationed here received a pallet of golf gear May 20 from golf enthusiast military veterans back in the States.The veterans donated the “gift of golf” – which included clubs, balls and bags – after reading an article written by 1st Lt. Matthew Setters with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.Setters, from Portsmouth, Ohio, wrote the article in response to one written by Butch Harmon — one of the world's best known golf instructors — on “Operation Links,” a Morale, Welfare and Recreation sponsored...

Audio of the Keith Olbermann Special Comment segment on MSNBC Countdown this evening - 05/14/08. Rant against George Bush over the "no more golf" announcemnt the President made today. In the audio Keith calls W pretty much every name in the book and ends it with "shut the hell up". Regardless of your feelingins about the war, keep in mind MSNBC is a news organization....they just came out of the liberal closet.

President Bush said yesterday that he gave up golfing in 2003 "in solidarity" with the families of soldiers who were dying in Iraq, concluding that it was "just not worth it anymore" to play the sport in a time of war. "I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf," Bush said in a White House interview with the Politico. "I feel I owe it to the families to be as -- to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a...

Dwight Monreal narrowly escaped the jaws of an alligator eager to take him down Saturday. "It was the most frightening thing I've ever seen," said Matt Johnson, a golf cart attendant ... Monreal, 62, of Port. St. Lucie is a professional golf ball diver who's been in the business for years... Johnson, who has worked at the club for two years, said everything looked fine around 4:30 p.m when Monreal waded into the lake in his scuba gear. But in a matter of seconds the 10- to 12-foot gator seized his arm and took him into a spin preparing to...

Most campaigns will donate to a golf outing "Goody Bag"by donating a logo'd item and believe they've promoted their campaign. Wrong! This article helps Republican campaign candidates and staff turn a donation into a powerful promotion. Tells why and how Goody Bags are effective Republican campaign promotion tools and gives a couple of specific examples you can actually use. The best part about goody bag marketing is that it's free!

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) ― Luck doesn't even to begin to describe golfer Ted Kemp's round on Monday. Kemp, a 12-handicapper, knocked in holes-in-one on back-to-back par 3s at the Muscatine Municipal Golf Course in Iowa. Kemp used a pitching wedge to sink his tee shot on the 3rd hole from 130 yards out. Then, after remarking to his group that it would be something if he repeated his feat, he did just that. Kemp grabbed an 8-iron and nailed a hole-in-one from 182 yards out on the 8th hole. Kemp says the feat was more luck than skill, calling...

Tiger Woods had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Tuesday to repair cartilage damange, his second operation in five years on the same knee. He is expected to miss at least a month while he recovers. The surgery, announced on his Web site, came two days after Woods finished two shots behind Trevor Immelman in the Masters. He likely will miss The Players Championship, but should return in time to play the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. "I made the decision to deal with the pain and schedule the surgery for after the Masters," Woods said. "The upside is that...

The last person I want to be on a basketball court with is Michael Jordan and the last person I want to be near a golf course with is Tiger Woods. The only way I would play with them in either sport is if I could fake my way into some sort of special olympics where they were hosting. In any event watching either of them play makes you believe that anything is possible. As David Halberstam said of Michael Jordan in "Playing for Keeps, Michael Jordan and the World he made", he is 'the best that ever was, the...

Another ethnic slur has reared its ugly head from the golf world, and once again, it's from a golf announcer. Bobby Clampett, a former pro and CBS announcer, referred to Chinese golfer Wen-Chong Liang as "the Chinaman," on the air on Friday. Clampett issued an apology, albeit a rather weak one, on the air: "It has been a privilege to be here with you the last two days describing action of the players. In describing the Asian player Wen-Chong Liang if I offended anybody please accept my sincere apolgies." These are sensitive times in the golf world. Golf is trying...

Feherty's Tour of Duty He came. He saw. He inhaled half the desert. David Feherty spent six days in Iraq & Kuwait on a USO tour. His mission: Make our brave troops laugh. This is his personal journal — both hilarious and heartbreaking — from the front lines

Dealing with border-jumping duffers Enhanced security putting the future of unique Aroostook Valley Country Club at risk By Mark Rickard and Madeleine LeClerc Published Friday April 11th, 2008 Appeared on page A2 Will the only golf course that sits on both sides of the Canada-United States border fall victim to enhanced border security? The future of the Aroostook Valley Country Club – which has served both Americans and Canadians for 81 years – is in doubt if United States Customs border patrol officers enforce entry regulations at the club. For more than eight decades, Aroostook Valley has been a unique...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)—John Daly woke up Wednesday morning to read that swing coach Butch Harmon fired him. Then he got a phone call when he was at the entrance to Bay Hill letting him know he had been kicked out of the Arnold Palmer Invitational for missing the pro-am. “Hasn’t been a good day,” Daly told The Associated Press. “This is the last thing I needed in my life. I feel like I let Arnold down.” The wild ride of golf’s most unpredictable figure took another hairpin turn when Daly said he was given wrong information that caused him to...

John Daly has been cut loose by swing coach Butch Harmon, who said Tuesday he was not going to waste his time with a two-time major champion who is more interested in drinking than working on his golf game. ``My whole goal for him was he's got to show me golf is the most important thing in his life,'' Harmon said from his golf school in Las Vegas. ``And the most important thing in his life is getting drunk.'' Harmon said he has worked three times this year with Daly, but he said Daly's behavior at the PODS Championship was...

Using absolutely poor judgment and acting un-professionally, PGA tour golfer Tripp Isenhour is about to pay the consequences for his selfish act from last December 12 when, at the Grand Cypress Golf course, he purposely killed a migratory bird. Showing no compassion for the habits of creatures, Isenhour, who was filming a segment for 'Shoot Like A Pro,' apparently got frustrated when the red shouldered hawk began making noises and forcing take after take. In a rage, Isenhour,

"Professional golfer Tripp Isenhour is charged with killing a bird on purpose with a golf shot...." "...According to court records cited by the Orlando Sentinel, Isenhauer hit a number of shots, once hitting a tree trunk. The paper reported that on Isenhour's 10th swing, the ball hit the bird."

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - PGA Tour golfer Tripp Isenhour was charged with killing a hawk on purpose with a golf shot because it was making noise as he videotaped a TV show Isenhour was with a film crew for "Shoot Like A Pro" on Dec. 12 at the Grand Cypress Golf course. The 39-year-old golfer, whose real name is John Henry Isenhour III, was charged Monday with cruelty to animals and killing a migratory bird. According to court documents, Isenhour got upset when a red-shouldered hawk began making noise, forcing another take. He began hitting balls at the bird, then...

A man apparently decided to fly his plane onto a golf course in north suburban Lincolnshire so his teenage son would not be late for a tennis lesson, CBS station WBBM-TV in Chicago reports. Police came to the Marriott Resort Crane's Landing Golf Course, at 10 Marriott Dr. in Lincolnshire, around 1:50 p.m. Saturday for a call that a plane had landed on the course. Robert Kadera of Lake Villa and his 14-year-old son, Isaac, were standing outside the aircraft, a 1949 Piper Clipper, which was sitting in the middle of the golf course about 20 feet south of the...

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. — The men gathered in a new golf clubhouse here a couple of weeks ago circled the problem from every angle, like caddies lining up a shot out of the rough. “We have to change our mentality,” said Richard Rocchio, a public relations consultant. “The problem is time,” offered Walter Hurney, a real estate developer. “There just isn’t enough time. Men won’t spend a whole day away from their family anymore.” William A. Gatz, owner of the Long Island National Golf Club in Riverhead, said the problem was fundamental economics: too much supply, not enough demand. The problem...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Tiger Woods birdied five of his final seven holes Sunday to rally from a four-shot deficit and grab a dramatic victory at the Dubai Desert Classic for a sixth title in his last seven events. One week after winning the Buick Invitational by eight shots, Woods fired a seven-under 65 for a 14-under total of 274 and then waited to see if Ernie Els could catch him. Needing a birdie on the par-five 18th to force a playoff, overnight leader Els hit his tee shot into the water and made bogey...

The weeks-long brouhaha over Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman’s use of the word “lynch” reached its next logical point last week, when football legend Jim Brown called out Tiger Woods for failing to speak out right away about the comments, and for waiting until it was “politically correct” to say something. Originally about an announcer’s unfortunate use of a phrase, the controversy has mutated into one about media ethics and now, finally, about how much responsibility the world’s most dominant athlete has to right the wrongs of the world. A quick overview, for those who haven’t been following it: On...

2008 Buick InvitationalMickelson Fit for Play at BuickBy Associated Press - January 23, 2008SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- The Buick Invitational will have the Nos. 1 and 2 players in the world, after all.  After three days of bed rest and antibiotics for respiratory problems, Phil Mickelson said Tuesday he was feeling better and will play in the pro-am Wednesday at the Buick Invitational, paving the way for him to make his '08 debut at Torrey Pines. He also has a practice session planned with swing coach Butch Harmon.  "I'm feeling much, much better," Mickelson said. "I'm happy about that and...

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. today announced that the City has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the design and management of construction services of a golf course at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx. The golf course, to be a world-class 18-hole links-style layout for use as a public course, will be built as a City-funded capital project. Once a designer has been selected and construction work is underway, the City will release a separate RFP for an operator to run the course as a concession. If an acceptable proposal is selected,...

"The closer we get to Baghdad, the more I suspect that the smartest Americans are in Iraq, and they get progressively dumber the closer you get to Washington."Photo courtesy of Michael Clifton/USO tour Feherty's Tour of Duty He came. He saw. He inhaled half the desert. David Feherty spent six days in Iraq & Kuwait on a USO tour. His mission: Make our brave troops laugh. This is his personal journal — both hilarious and heartbreaking — from the front lines By David Feherty Contributing Writer, GOLF Magazine What the hell am I doing going to a war zone?...

Ten days after a Golf Channel anchor was suspended for her use of "lynch" in commentary on Tiger Woods, an editor was fired Friday for illustrating the controversy with a noose on the cover of Golfweek magazine.