In-Kyung Kim couldn’t help but cry after holing a 30-foot birdie putt on the final hole to wrap up her first LPGA Tour victory. “I was overwhelmed,” Kim said. “It was a happy cry.” The 20-year-old South Korean player birdied the final two holes in windy conditions Sunday for a 1-over 73 and a three-stroke victory over Angela Stanford in the Longs Drugs Challenge. Kim, the 2005 U.S. Girls’ Junior winner, had a 10-under 278 total on the Blackhawk Country Club course. The second-year player... Read Full Story
D.A. Weibring can remember times when he played exceptionally well and still ended up watching someone else receive the winner’s trophy at a major tournament. And so he made no apologies after it finally became his turn to take home the hardware. Down by four strokes with 14 holes to play, Weibring soared past a fading Nick Price and held off a host of challengers Sunday to win the Senior Players Championship, his first career major victory in 65 tries. Weibring closed out a 2-under 68... Read Full Story
Zach Johnson found his putting touch in time for a season-salvaging victory in the Texas Open. “I’ve been working on my putting over the last six weeks with my teachers and it really paid off this week,” Johnson said. “I had a tough year, but the putts started to fall into today and that why I’m at the top of the leaderboard.” The 2007 Masters champion who entered the week with only one top-10 finish this year, Johnson followed his third-round 62 with a 64 on Sunday for a two-stroke victory... Read Full Story
MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Seve Ballesteros has a brain tumor and will undergo a biopsy Tuesday.
The five-time major winner announced the news Sunday in a statement issued by Madrid's La Paz Hospital. It was unknown whether the tumor was benign or malignant.
The 51-year-old golfing great was admitted to a hospital for tests after briefly losing consciousness last week. Ballesteros, who made the announcement after telling his three children and their mother, said doctors will decide how to... Read Full Story
Major champion Padraig Harrington, Trevor Immelman, Retief Goosen and Jim Furyk will be highlighted on-air and online during Oct. 14 and 15 event
TNT and PGA.COM tee off the 2008 PGA Grand Slam of Golf on Tues., October 14 as four of the world's best professional golfers hit the greens at Mid Ocean Club in Bermuda to determine who's the best of the best in the 36-hole event. To compete in this elite tournament golfers must be a major championship winner and this year's field features 2008... Read Full Story
