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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Michelle Wie has heard the criticism of her decision to play in the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open this week instead of attempting to qualify for the Women’s British Open.
Like most teenagers, the 18-year-old just wants to have a good time. She isn’t worried about what Annika Sorenstam and other top LPGA players think of her decision, [...]

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Annika, Michelle. Michelle, Annika. It’s open for debate which player will capture the most headlines this week.
Ultimately it comes down to performance. If Annika Sorenstam works her way into contention at the Women’s British Open, her last appearance in a major championship, she deserves a bulk of the ink. The only way she wouldn’t get [...]

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Padraig Harrington has two British Open titles, and it all started with a miss.
But it wasn’t his.
The morning after he defended his title at Royal Birkdale, the Irishman already was looking ahead. He now is in the same company as Greg Norman, Curtis Strange, Ben Crenshaw, Dave Stockton and others who have won the same [...]

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Greg Norman used last week’s British Open as a warmup and almost made history. The warmup over, he is now setting his sights on the Senior British Open.
Leading the tournament at Royal Birkdale with nine holes to play, the 53-year-old Australian was on course to become the oldest winner of a major, but finished six [...]

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MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Kenny Perry is tired of being criticized for choosing to play in the U.S. Bank Championship instead of the British Open.
Perry, who has won three of his last five events on the PGA Tour, said his goal is to make the U.S. Ryder Cup team.
“I just don’t understand it. I don’t know [...]

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John Daly says he’s more Mild Thing than Wild Thing these days, and he’s still steamed at Butch Harmon, who cut ties with Daly earlier this year after reports of Daly drinking in a Hooters hospitality tent during the PODS Championship in Tampa in March.
Harmon told the Associated Press that “my whole goal for [Daly] [...]

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