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LPGA Tour makes first North Texas stop since ’91

IRVING, Texas (AP) ― Angela Stanford gets to experience a first in her 13 seasons on the LPGA Tour. She gets to stay at home and sleep in her own bed during a tournament. “It’s great to be home. ...

Updated : 2013.04.25 20:07

Golfers focus on short game ahead of Ballantine’s

ICHEON (Yonhap News) ― Ahead of South Korea’s only European Tour golf tournament, key golfers on Wednesday emphasized the importance of the short game. Blackstone Golf Club in Icheon, about 100 ki...

Updated : 2013.04.24 19:40

McDowell wins in playoff at RBC Heritage

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South Carolina (AP) ― For all the big moments in Graeme McDowell’s career, his resume was short on PGA Tour victories. McDowell relished what he called his first authentic tour...

Updated : 2013.04.22 19:34

Pettersen downs Salas in playoff for Lotte win

KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) ― Suzann Pettersen won the LPGA Lotte Championship on Saturday, beating Lizette Salas with a par on the first hole of a playoff after Salas chunked her approach shot into the wa...

Updated : 2013.04.21 20:16

Pettersen leads Miyazato at Lotte

Korea’s Ryu So-yeon plays her second shot on the 10th hole on Thursday. (AFP-Yonhap News) KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) ― Suzann Pettersen rebounded from her lone bogey with three back-nine birdies Thursda...

Updated : 2013.04.19 20:23

S. Korean golfer Park In-bee rises to No. 1 in women's world rankings

Park In-bee (Yonhap) South Korean LPGA Tour star Park In-bee is the new world No. 1 in women's golf. Park moved up a spot to supplant Stacy Lewis of the U.S. as the top player in the latest women's...

Updated : 2013.04.16 09:38

[Newsmaker] Scott first Aussie to win the Masters

Adam Scott ended Australia’s long wait for a Masters win on Sunday. Scott, 32, beat Angel Cabrera of Argentina at the second playoff hole of the 77th Masters to become the first Australian to win t...

Updated : 2013.04.15 20:26

Great Scott!

AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) ― Adam Scott finished the job this time, and put an end to more than a half-century of Australian misery at the Masters. With the two biggest putts of his career, Scott holed ...

Updated : 2013.04.15 19:41

Cabrera, Snedeker lead Masters by one shot

AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) ― Tiger Woods made two significant moves Saturday at the Masters ― one to stay in the tournament, the other to stay in the hunt. A day filled with high drama before a shot was ...

Updated : 2013.04.14 19:25

Garcia, Leishman tied for lead

AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) ― Sergio Garcia might have written himself off too quickly at the Masters. When last seen walking off the course at Augusta National, the impetuous Spaniard was moping about h...

Updated : 2013.04.12 21:13

Golf: China’s Guan fires 73 in historic Masters debut

Chinese 14-year-old schoolboy Guan Tianlang turned his historic first round at the 77th Masters on Thursday into one for the ages, firing a one-over par 73 to stand as the low amateur player. When h...

Updated : 2013.04.12 09:44

The Masters not always kind to favorites

AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) ― The first tee shot clattered through a pair of pines on the left side of the 13th fairway, finally landing on the wrong side of Rae’s Creek. Tiger Woods tried again, and thi...

Updated : 2013.04.11 19:32

Golf body removes restrictions on foreign circuits

South Korean female golfers will no longer be forced to play on the domestic tour before joining an overseas circuit. The Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association announced Thursday that it has sc...

Updated : 2013.04.11 19:31

Yang says Masters ‘winnable’

AUGUSTA, Georgia (AFP) ― Asia’s history-maker Yang Yong-eun believes he has the game to win the Masters this week as he seeks to land a second major victory. The Korean star, who became the first ...

Updated : 2013.04.10 19:45

Tiger Woods eyes another Masters win

AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) ― Around every corner at Augusta National is another reminder that Tiger Woods isn’t getting any younger. He played a practice round with a teenager from China who wasn’t ev...

Updated : 2013.04.10 19:44