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Presidents Cup Trivial Pursuit

SAN FRANCISCO -- Anything with the name Presidents Cup sounds like it is ripe for a Golf Czar appointment.Are you qualified to rule over this week's PGA Tour team matches between the United States and an International squad of non-Europeans that tees off Thursday at Harding Park Golf Club?Take this test and decide for...

Gary Player Speaks Out Against Muirfield's Men-Only Policy

The British Open will be at Turnberry next month, but it's Muirfield, which last hosted the tournament in 2002, that has drawn sharp criticism from Gary Player, who won there in 1959. At 23, he became the youngest Open Champion in history, but it's the club's antiquated men-only policy that has him speaking out now, a...

Friday's Frenzy at Augusta

Round 1 of the Masters was interesting. We saw a hefty 38 players break par at Augusta National, and Chad Campbell (65) and Hunter Mahan (66) both finished within striking distance of the course record. Now comes Friday ... the day where people make or miss the cut, and the day where people can start to make a move before...

2009 Masters Has Makings of a Classic

Sebastian Junger wrote a non-fiction book about a 1991 Halloween Nor'easter that was, as you probably know, known as "The Perfect Storm". Play just started at Augusta National in the 2009 Masters (the gentleman above starts his day at 1:52 PM ET), but the story lines are quickly adding up to what could quickly become a...

Tim Clark Won't Win the Masters

Golf is a game of superstitions. People mark their balls the same way every time (tails up for me), prepare the same, and, if things are going well, even eat the same meal all week. If golf had a Taj Mahal of superstitions, it would be winning the Par-3 Tournament at the Masters, a nine-hole event played every year since...