Sports Briefing | Golf: Course Record at Bethpage Broken
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Craig Thomas of Metropolis Country Club broke a 71-year-old competitive course record with a seven-under-par 64 yesterday at the Black Course at Bethpage in the second round of the North Fork Bank New York State Open Championship. Thomas, who birdied the sixth through ninth holes, and the first-round leader Andrew Svoboda of Winged Foot are tied for the lead at 139, the only two players under par after 36 holes.
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Will MacKenzie tied a PGA Tour record with three eagles in one round, including a 52-foot putt, and shot a 9-under 63 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead over Bob Estes in the opening round of the Reno-Tahoe Open.
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Stacy Prammanasudh shot a 4-under 68 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead over Morgan Pressel before play was suspended because of rain in the second round of the Fields Open.
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Consistency was the key to Jeff Sluman&#39;s record-breaking round on Thursday on the difficult Copperhead Course at the Westin Innisbrook Resort.
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Tiger Woods's undefeated streak since the British Open is over. The No. 1 ranked golfer loses in the first round of the World Match Play Championship to Shaun Micheel.
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The first surprise at blustery Bulle Rock was that someone could make eight birdies and shoot 65. That gave way to a greater mystery Saturday at the LPGA Championship. Just who is Na On Min?
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Golf Tiger Woods played one shot 30 yards in the wrong direction and holed a 40-foot birdie putt that banged off the back of the cup, pivotal shots on his way to a 4-under-par 68 that gave him a one-shot lead over Henrik Stenson yesterday in the Target World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Woods, the host of the 16-man ...
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Play was suspended because of the threat of lightning at the Tour Championship on Thursday with Tiger Woods yet to complete the par-four first hole.
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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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Christina Kim made 11 birdies and tied the tournament record of 10-under-par 62 yesterday for a two-shot lead after the opening round of the LPGA State Farm Classic in Springfield, Ill.
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SEVEN of the eight first-round matches at the HSBC World Match Play Championship failed to finish before darkness on the opening day due to a two-and-a-half-hour rain delay, but Retief Goosen earned his quarter-final place with a record-breaking victory.
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The longest course for a major. A flap over the Ryder Cup. Tiger Woods hitting his stride. The PGA Championship returns to Medinah Country Club, and it doesn't seem as though much has changed in the seven years since it last was held at this tree-lined course outside Chicago.
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Tim Clark ties the course record at East Lake in Atlanta with an 8-under-par 62 Thursday at the Tour Championship.
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Golf entered a new era yesterday at 5:44 p.m., the moment Fiji-born Vijay Singh rolled in his short putt on the 18th hole and officially logged his three-stroke victory in the Deutsche Bank Championship. For the first time in more than five years -- a total of 264 weeks -- someone other than Tiger Woods walked off a ...
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1 Mickelson&#39;s tee shot - All square with Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood on the 18th tee in the Friday foursomes, Mickelson sliced his tee-shot way off target and up against a fence, forcing partner Tiger Woods to take a penalty drop before he could play
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Sometimes, the Rules of Golf make you scratch your head. Case in point: Last Friday, when Dudley Hart got disqualified from the Buick Championship at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn.
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The last putt on the last hole of the last match. Bernhard Langer playing Hale Irwin and Langer has a six-footer for Europe to retain the Ryder Cup.