After his second-round loss at last week’s WGC-Accenture Match Play, Tiger Woods will play his first stroke-play tournament since his ACL surgery at the WGC-CA Championship starting Thursday. The March 12-15 tournament will be played at Doral, site of three victories in Woods’ professional career. He took home the title every year from 2005 to [...]
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Alker wins New Zealand PGA Championship
March 9, 2009 – 3:13 am
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — New Zealand’s Steve Alker won the New Zealand PGA Championship on Sunday, closing with his second straight 5-under 67 for a two-stroke victory over countrymen Josh Geary and David Smail. The 37-year-old Alker, a stroke behind American Steve Friesen at the start of the round, had a 15-under 273 total on [...]
PGA Tour Wives Classic raises $100K for charity
March 4, 2009 – 2:40 pm
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Bob Estes was 140 yards from the hole, standing over a pink ball and wearing a sombrero. As if that wasn’t daunting enough, his wife and three other women wearing short white skirts and knee-high Argyle socks were jumping nearby and yelling, “Hole it, hole it, hole it!” He did [...]
Wilson holds on for second PGA title
March 4, 2009 – 2:29 pm
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Mark Wilson came south of the border to work. Although his job took him to a Mexican resort, and he stayed at a hotel near the beach, never once during the Mayakoba Golf Classic did he hear any mariachis play. Not until the eight guys in sombreros and matching cream-colored [...]
Hong sinks six birdies for Thailand lead
February 26, 2009 – 12:22 pm
PATTAYA, Thailand — Jin Joo Hong of South Korea emerged as a surprise first-round leader Thursday after shooting a 6-under 66 at the $1.45 million LPGA Thailand. In a field boasting all the world’s top 10 players, it was the unheralded Hong who fired six birdies and an eagle against two bogeys to open a [...]
