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First Round at US Open Not What Tiger Had Hoped For

For amateur golfers, not men like Tiger Woods, the end of the round is when your knees start a-knockin'. Your hands clam up, your brow starts sweating and you're not exactly sure what you did right the first 14 holes. On Friday at Bethpage Black, in what was the second day of the first round of the U.S. Open (say that five...

Poulter Claims Kim Hit Him With His Shoulder, Westwood Complains About Prank Calls

The Ryder Cup is one of the only events in golf where you can really mess with someone's psyche. Stories of players jangling change in their pockets, or staring their opponents down do happen, and it even gets to the point where not conceding a short putt is tactical. Ian Poulter is claiming one American player, who wasn't...

Americans Stumble a Bit In Morning Matches, Still Lead 7 to 5

For the first time in these Ryder Cup matches, the American team looked like the inferior group, but still managed to maintain the lead over the Europeans.In the morning foursomes, where the Americans won 3 to 1 yesterday, the Europeans gained some ground, winning 2.5 points to the U.S. 1.5. The biggest blow came to the...

Nick Faldo Might Be Worst European Ryder Cup Captain Ever, U.S. Leads After Day 1

Somewhere in the United Kingdom, Colin Montgomerie and Darren Clarke are having a good chuckle. It's early -- we're only one day into the 37th Ryder Cup -- but the European squad is in an unfamiliar position: down after seven matches. Specifically, they trail the United States, underdogs on paper and in real life, 5-2. And...

Handicapping the European Ryder Cup Team

The Ryder Cup starts Friday, which is another way of saying the Europeans are just three days from Operation Beatdown '08. It's hardly surprising that our friends across the pond are favored -- they've won the last three events, and the only reason it's not six straight is because Justin Leonard holed a "no way that goes...

GraemeMcdowell News From the Web

05/29/12 Wentworth in the past as G-Mac relishing summer... Source: Irish Examiner Graeme McDowell is moving quickly on from his missed cut at Wentworth by looking forward to a golfing summer to savour.
05/25/12 A trio of reloads for Westwood, McDowell and Bjorn Source: Maktoob Business - UAE Lee Westwood, Graeme McDowell and Thomas Bjorn are titans of the European Tour but all three were forced to hit provisional balls after finding trouble off the 17th tee at the PGA Championship on Friday.
05/24/12 Els leads, frustration for McIlroy, McDowell at... Source: CBSSports.com Veteran South African Ernie Els used his knowledge of a course he helped redesign to upstage exasperated playing partner Rory McIlroy and take a share of the lead midway through the first round at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth on Thursday.
05/24/12 'Freak' incident costs McDowell Source: Streatham Guardian Graeme McDowell has joined the long list of players to fall foul of golf's rules.
05/24/12 Els sets pace as McIlroy, McDowell struggle Source: Seven News Ltd South Africa's Ernie Els gave his fellow professionals a lesson in how to play his course as he took an early lead at the PGA Championship here at Wentworth on Thursday.