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 strokes after a final round 6-under 66 on Sunday.
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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, either.

“There are going to be criticisms entering this tournament, but at the same time I’m just doing what I feel like I want to do and it’s going to be a lot of fun,” Wie said.
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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 that ink is if Michelle Wie makes the cut at the PGA TOUR’s Reno-Tahoe Open.

History says that Sorenstam has a better chance of winning than Wie has of making the cut, but stranger things have happened.
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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 major twice. Next on his list is winning a third major, perhaps one in America.
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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 shots behind Padraig Harrington in a tie for third.
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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 why they’re ripping me,” Perry said before the pro-am Wednesday.
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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] was he’s got to show me golf is the most important thing in his life. And the most important thing in his life is getting drunk.”

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Tiger Woods does not know when he can play golf again, but he said Monday his rebuilt left knee has been sore his entire PGA Tour career and he looks forward to playing on two good legs.

“My left knee has been sore for 10 to 12 years,” Woods said during a conference call for his AT&T National tournament, his first public comments since reconstructive surgery last Tuesday. “It will be nice to finally have a healthy leg. They assured me my longterm health will be a hell of a lot better than it’s been over the last decade. I’m really looking forward to that.”

Woods said doctors in Utah used a tendon from his right hamstring to rebuild the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, which he said had always been weak and finally snapped while jogging on a golf course last July.

He is in a brace and will be on crutches for three weeks to keep weight off his knee.

Woods said he most likely would not be able to attend the AT&T National, which starts Thursday at Congressional, because there was swelling on the flight home from Utah after surgery and doctors have advised him to avoid planes.

Relive the Momment

Kenny Perry has picked the perfect time to play his best golf in two-plus decades on the PGA Tour.

Perry shot a 6-under 66 on Sunday to win the Buick Open by a stroke at 19 under, giving him two victories in June and his fourth top-six finish in a six-tournament run.

“This is probably the longest sustained stretch in my career where I’ve played tremendous golf each and every week,” said Perry, who also won multiple times in 2005 and 2003.
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