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Golf's Storylines for 2011: Tiger's Major Rebound, PGA Tour's Health in the Mix

Back from a short winter nap, the PGA Tour returns to Hawaii this week to start another season, bringing with it an assorted shopping list of questions, needs and challenges. After play begins Thursday at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Kapalua, the new season will drag out for more than 11 full months. If history...

Ryder Cup Bringing Out the Worst of America's Best

NEWPORT, Wales -- In honor of the cream of the U.S. golfing crop, the soup special at the Ryder Cup cafeteria Sunday was leek and blue cheese. You could smell it a kilometer away. Europe tossed the Americans into a boiling pot and stirred up the biggest one-day rout in history. It won't take a miracle for the U.S. to...

Video: Jeff Overton Holes Amazing Eagle

The U.S. Ryder Cup team struggled during the early portion of Sunday's fourball session, but the team of Jeff Overton and Bubba Watson received a huge jolt when Overton holed a spectacular fairway shot for an eagle on the par-4 eighth hole. Overton's second shot landed a bit past the pin on the green, and then bit all the...

Unlikely Pair of Bubba Watson, Jeff Overton Power US to Early Lead

NEWPORT, Wales -- The combined Ryder Cup experience of Americans Bubba Watson and Jeff Overton added up to zero matches played. If that weren't enough to make them pucker upon arriving at Celtic Manor, American captain Corey Pavin turned to the first-timers to anchor his team's opening session, slotting them for the fourth...

US Leads Ryder Cup After Session 1

A day later than expected, the first session of the Ryder Cup wrapped up on a sunny Saturday morning at Celtic Manor with the U.S. leading Europe 2 1/2 points to 1 1/2. Matt Kuchar had an opportunity to make that lead even larger, but just missed a birdie putt on 18 that would have would secured the hole and a 1-up win...