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US Open Notebook: Was Too Hard Too Much at Pebble Beach?

Can a golf course be too hard to watch? After Sunday's last-man-standing round of the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach won by Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell, the best answer would be, "YESSS!" It's no secret golf fans get a kick from occasionally seeing pros struggle. The game can be so frustratingly difficult for many...

Lorena Ochoa Breaks Winless Streak

Imagine for a minute Tiger Woods going over five months without winning a PGA Tour event. The world, as golf journalist know it, would stop. We'd be calling for his head, his swing and his spikes. It would be Armageddon, birdie edition.Well, that was the current situation in the LPGA. Lorena Ochoa, the best female golfer...

Alexis Thompson Eight Shots Back of Ochoa After Saturday 74

It would have been fun. It would have been fun to see a girl two years shy of earning a driver's license make a run at a professional golf tournament, becoming the youngest player to ever win an LPGA event. That is what Alexis Thompson was trying to do after a first round 65 was followed up with a 3-under 69 on Friday,...

Alexis Thompson, 14, Still Atop the Leaderboard in Navistar LPGA Classic

Alexis Thompson's Web site proudly proclaims her as "golf's next big star," and if she keeps up the play she's brought to the first two rounds of the LPGA Navistar Classic, it might just be true. After a first round 65 that had her a shot back of the leader, the 14-year-old Thompson joined an elite group at 10-under after...

Alexis Thompson Is Leading the Navistar LPGA Classic ... and She's 14

Update: Janice Moodie, a LPGA veteran, birdied six of her last seven holes on Thursday to take the lead over Thompson by one shot.Most 14-year-olds are focused on one thing and one thing only ... getting ready for the leap into the nasty world of freshman year of high school. Alexis Thompson is currently worried how she's...

Alexis Thompson News From the Web

05/18/12 Drama Dynamite set to explode Source: The Sierra Vista Herald - Sierra Vista AZ With two of her six hands curled sternly at her hips, 8-year-old Alexis Thompson pursed her lips and slowly enunciated three words, as if they were stiff jabs. "
03/29/12 Afterbirth: Study Asks If We Could Derive Benefits... Source: Biocompare Almost all non-human mammals eat placenta for good reasons.
03/29/12 The Back Nine: 5 women who could challenge Yani Tseng... Source: Toledo Free Press - Toledo OH Yani Tseng has won four of the last eight women's major championships.