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Golf's Power Shifting From U.S. to Europe; PGA Tour Feeling the Heat

The Europeans' recent domination of men's professional golf in 2010 is going be an ongoing topic heading into next season. You know the reasons. England's Lee Westwood is the world's new No. 1. The Europeans have seven of the world's top 11 players compared to four Americans. Europe won the Ryder Cup. Young stars Rory...

FedEx Cup Searches for Relevance as Ryder Cup Looms

ATLANTA -- By design the Tour Championship closes the PGA Tour season with a big bang -- at least in theory. Forget that five more golf tournaments remain to be played as part of the Fall Finish (all official money), the Tour's big finale is this week's visit to East Lake Golf Club. Along with paying Sunday's winner a...

PGA Tour Suspends Rule That Led to Jim Furyk's Barclays Disqualification

PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem has suspended the regulation that resulted in Jim Furyk's disqualification last week from the Barclays after he was late to his pro-am starting time. For the remainder of the year, a similar situation will be handled as a matter of unbecoming conduct. A player guilty of a similar offense...

Matt Kuchar for Player of the Year? Yeah, It's Been That Weird of a Year

The only way the PGA Tour 2010 season could get much stranger is if right in the middle of this week's Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston -- the second in the four-event FedEx Cup playoff series -- a hurricane hits the New England coastline and ... Uh, oh. So far this year Tiger went tabloids and Phil went to an...

Absurd Prop Bets Follow Tiger Woods to Masters

Great news for Tiger Woods fans who love prop bets. With his personal life now in order, the world's best golfer is set to return to the sport he invented* at next week's Masters. This means a few things: PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem can expect a huge ratings boost, Joslyn James will convene a press conference to...

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05/23/12 The problem of sllllooooowwww play Source: USA Today During the final round of a golf tournament, a camera zoomed in on two baby ducks frolicking on the bank behind the 18th green, and, in a nod to the pace of play, the CBS announcer said the cute chicks were eggs when the last group of the day began play.
05/21/12 Morgan Pressel's slow-play penalty from the LPGA... Source: Sporting News She must have thought she was on the PGA Tour.
05/18/12 Glen Day the last player with a penalty stroke Source: Lincoln Daily News - Lincoln IL May 18, 2012 ] P ONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. It turns out that Glen Day -- not Dillard Pruitt -- was the last player penalized a stroke for slow play on the PGA Tour. Pace of play became an issue last week at The Players Championship when Kevin Na's group was put on the clock in the third and fourth rounds.
05/18/12 Just for men Source: WORLD Magazine Some things are too important to bow to political correctness.
05/17/12 Slow play shows up at the worst time for PGA Tour Source: Wilmington News Journal - Wilmington OH (AP) In more peaceful times, when Tiger Woods had gone six months without losing and golf seemed to revolve around him, he ended a monthly newsletter with a rare trip to the soap box to complain about the pace of play on the PGA Tour.