Rhoden swings for golf career
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His quest began four years ago, when Rick Rhoden moved to Ponte Vedra, Fla., joined a golf club and got serious about his game. The former All-Star pitcher had dominated celebrity tours for more than a decade.
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American Colt Knost earned a possible invitation to next year's Masters by winning the U.S. amateur public links championship in Wheaton, Illinois on Saturday.
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After waiting 12 years to win his first  major at Augusta National last April, U.S. Masters champion  Phil Mickelson has targeted the next six seasons to apply the  finishing touches to his career.
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The Masters will have a guy named Palmer playing at Augusta National next year -- just not the King. Ryan Palmer was among five Nationwide Tour graduates who earned a spot in the 2005 Masters on Monday, when
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K.J. Choi has won tournaments hosted by Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods over the last nine months during a steady climb into the top 10 in the world. Further proof of his staying power came Thursday on a cool, windy morning at Riviera.
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BROCKTON -- He has won the Massachusetts Amateur Championship twice, the second title some 22 years ago. The first time, Steve Tasho was a young golfer whose chief priority was getting better at the sport he loved. Beginning today at Concord Country Club, the now 48-year-old Easton resident will try to rekindle the magic he generated in 1981 and '85.
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NORTON -- Golf isn't only about Tiger Woods. There were other players out there at TPC Boston yesterday swinging in the September sun, trying to establish their own reputations.
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Palmer and Woods. How's that for a leaderboard? Too bad it's tour rookie Ryan Palmer &#151; not Arnold &#151; sharing the lead with Tiger Woods after one round in the Deutsche Bank Championship. The two shot 6-under 65s Friday on the TPC of Boston to take a one-stroke lead over Mark O'Meara and two others.
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Sport: Interview: Having survived a third round at Oakmont with the Tiger, Nick Dougherty says he is ready for anything at The Open.
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He returns to the US Open as its defending champion and is ranked No. 2 in the world. He&#39;ll turn 22 on Monday and already he has achieved pop culture status -- which means Web sites and magazines
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Phil Mickelson&#39;s 59 Wednesday at the PGA Grand Slam of Golf may not have come in an official 72-hole event, but it certainly put him in some elite company.
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Vijay Singh has a golf swing to envy, even when fooling around. A few days ago on the driving range at the Tour Championship, Singh grabbed Steve Flesch&#39;s golf clubs.
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CONCORD -- There will be golf for Kirk Hanefeld tomorrow, as planned. It just won't be what he had hoped for.
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The PGA Tour Playoffs figured to be somewhat of a homefield advantage for someone like Vijay Singh, a three-time winner at Westchester and a past champion at TPC Boston and East Lake.
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STEPHEN Gallacher won a European Tour event at the 188th attempt yesterday. The talented Scot, who turned professional nine years past, birdied the first extra hole of a sudden death play-off at the Old Course
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Dwight Brewington went 5 for 5 from 3-point range and scored a career-high 21 points last night, leading host Providence to an 89-52 win over Pennsylvania in the second round of the Preseason NIT.
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The Masters will have a guy named Palmer playing at Augusta National next year &#151; just not the King. Ryan Palmer was among five Nationwide Tour graduates who earned a spot in the 2005 Masters on Monday, when the final world ranking of the year was published and allowed Augusta National to start putting invitations in the mail.