LPGA Tour event shortened to 18 holes
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The LPGA Tour shortened the rain-soaked NW Arkansas Championship to 18 holes, setting up a bizarre finish Sunday that will be closed to the public.
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The course was too long, the competition too good. Michelle Wie has an exceptional golf game for a 16-year-old, except when she's playing against the men.
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Kristi Albers turned her day around with one swing. Michelle Wie's round ended when she was barely halfway through.
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The WTA Tour wants to shorten its season, reduce the number of mandatory tournaments and give the top women more of a break after Grand Slam events.
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There was afternoon thunder to interrupt yesterday's first round of the 62d US Women's Open at Pine Needles Lodge &amp; Golf Club. That was courtesy of Mother Nature.
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Whereas a week ago the backdrop was more exotic and casual, the PGA Tour event this week is a comparative button-down affair. The Hawaiian locale has shifted from the quiet romance of Maui to the hustle and bustle of Oahu, from a cozy lineup of 31 players to a full-field 144, but the business at hand is still ...
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Instead of running away, Annika Sorenstam had to catch up yesterday. Sorenstam lost her three-shot lead in five holes, then had to make three birdies during the final six holes to salvage
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The scoreboard at Travelers Championship made the U.S. Open seem like a distant memory. A week after only eight sub-par rounds were carded at the U.S. Open, 62 players broke par on Thursday before play was suspended with 39 golfers still on the course.
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Event: PODS Championship. When: Today-Sunday. Course: Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club, Cooperhead Course (7,230 yards, par 71), Tampa.
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Swedenâs Annika Sorenstam has won the LPGA Tour Championship after Cristie Kerr made an untimely bogey on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff while Australian Karrie Webb finished tied for third.
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Heather Daly-Donofrio wasnât supposed to be in the select field of the LPGA Tournament of Champions. But the former Yale womenâs golf coach took full advantage of the opportunity, closing with a 2-under
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This might have been one of the few times Michelle Wie was happy with a 73 on the LPGA Tour.
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The LPGA Tour season might best be defined by leaps and bounds, although that's more literal than figurative.
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It was a story all too familiar to the other players on the LPGA for the last 11 years. Annika Sorenstam grinds around the golf course, waits for other golfers to make mistakes, then pounces on another tournament title.
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Golf finally felt easy to Jeff Sluman, and it wasn't hard to see why. From a fairway bunker on the 18th hole, he had to play a 20-yard hook to avoid the trees and reach the elevated green. His 7-iron stopped 16 inches from the cup for his ninth birdie, a course-record 62 and a two-shot lead in the Chrysler Championship on Thursday.
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The last time the Links course at Fancourt held a major golf event, Tiger Woods and Ernie Els made one dramatic putt after another until it was too dark to declare a winner in the Presidents Cup. Now it's the women's turn.
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(Corrects yardage in para eight after official PGA Tour amendment)