Officially, the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs, and therefore the biggest part of the tour’s calendar year, ended Sunday when Camilo Villegas won the Tour Championship in a playoff over Sergio Garcia.
Unofficially, the season ended for many fans when Tiger Woods had knee surgery in June, ending his season and sending a lot of casual [...]

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On the face of it, the notion that Vijay Singh, Phil Mickelson and other members of the USA’s Ryder Cup winning team want to join the European Tour can only be good for the game this side of the Atlantic.
Mickelson would undoubtedly help drive up attendances, at least in [...]

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Even with his golf done for the year, Tiger Woods found something to celebrate Tuesday: His wife is pregnant with their second child.
Woods said on his Web site that Elin is expecting in late winter without being more specific on a due date.
He has not played since his U.S. Open victory in June, and two [...]

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Assuming he finishes — i.e., doesn’t have a disqualification (DQ) or withdrawal (WD), or doesn’t play (DNP) — he needs to have a 10,501 point lead over second place to guarantee he’ll win the FedExCup. As of now, his lead over Sergio Garcia in second is 12,225, so the only way Singh can control whether [...]

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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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