The joke on the driving range at TPC Boston on Tuesday concerned the new week-to-week volatility in the FedEx Cup playoffs. Scuttlebutt said that a player could advance all the way to the 30-man Tour Championship and still fail to finish in the top 125 on the money list, thus losing his Tour card.
But is [...]

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The LPGA boasts players from all over the world, and it wants all of them to be able to speak English.
 
The LPGA will require players to speak English starting in 2009, with players who have been LPGA members for two years facing suspension if they can’t pass an oral evaluation of English skills. The rule [...]

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Australia’s Katherine Hull won the Canadian Women’s Open on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, taking advantage of Yani Tseng’s final-round meltdown for a one-stroke victory at Ottawa Hunt.
Michelle Wie, using the last of her six LPGA Tour exemptions this year, tied for 12th at 3 under. She had rounds of 75, 70, 69 [...]

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Justin Rose and Oliver Wilson, eighth and ninth in the European Ryder Cup race entering the penultimate tournament, will go head to head in the first two rounds of the KLM Open starting Thursday.
Rose’s failure to make certain of a place in the Nick Faldo’s side has brought him back from America, where he had [...]

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Someone is going to win the golf tournament this week, and that will carry with it a range of important benefits, including a significant jump in the FedExCup standings, invitations to a number of big events next year and, of course, a sizeable check. However, the most interesting competition this week may be elsewhere on [...]

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The PGA TOUR’s Player of the Year honor, until Sunday at Oakland Hills, was being conceded to Tiger Woods. And with good reason.
In six starts, Woods won four times, finished in the top 10 in the other two, and capped it off with that awe-inspiring playoff triumph on wounded knee at the U.S. Open.

To deprive [...]

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What was billed as Annika Sorenstam’s farewell to the majors turned into yet another showcase for the young stars from Asia.
Hours after Sorenstam walked up the 18th at the Women’s British Open to a standing ovation and closed her final major with a birdie, Ji-Yai Shin won the last major of the year by three [...]

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Padraig Harrington is Europe’s best hope to end a 78-year wait for a winner at the PGA Championship.
Ever since Scotland’s Tommy Armour beat Gene Sarazen 1-up to win the 1930 tournament (then following a match-play format) fans across the pond have had little to cheer about in the last major championship of the season.

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