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After 30-Month Dry Spell, Tiger Wins PGA Tour Event

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:50:18 CDT

Tiger Woods finally brought the buzz back to the very thing that made him famous—winning. Two weeks after another injury scare, and two days before his former coach's book goes on sale , Woods looked dominant as ever today in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. It was his first PGA Tour...

Tiger Returns to Golf, Gets Hot Dog Thrown at Him

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:26:23 CDT

Tiger Woods was back on the green yesterday playing his first tournament in seven weeks, but he didn’t make headlines because of his performance. No, he finds himself a newsmaker because of the hot dog that got thrown at him. Woods was standing over a putt at CordeValle in the...

Tiger Plays Worst-Ever Round at PGA

Matt Cantor — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:36:02 CDT

Tiger Woods may be back in the game, but he’s not on his game. Woods suffered his worst round ever at the PGA Championship, struggling to 7-over-par 77. Much of his game was spent in water and on sand, with three double-bogeys and five bogeys, the AP reports. “I'm not...

Golf's Seve Ballesteros Dead at 54

Sat, 07 May 2011 05:50:46 CDT

Seve Ballesteros, a five-time major champion whose passion and gift for imaginative shot-making invigorated European golf and the Ryder Cup, has died from complications of a cancerous brain tumor. He was 54. A statement on Ballesteros' website early today said the golf great died peacefully at 2:10am local time,...

Sleepy Golfer DQ'd for Missing Pro-Am Tee Time

M. Morris — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:59:00 CDT

Jim Furyk is the most newsworthy golfer of the day— sorry, Tiger —for something he didn't do: show up for his pro-am tee time. The third-ranked player's cellphone died overnight, and with it, his alarm, reports the Newark Star-Ledger . He overslept, but not by much, and was just 5 minutes...

Tiger Fails to Make Cut at PGA Event

M. Morris — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:10:05 CDT

In his second tournament back from self-imposed exile, Tiger Woods missed the cut at the Quail Hollow Championship today, shooting a 79 to finish the first two rounds 9 over. It's just the sixth time in his pro career he has failed to advance to weekend play, the Charlotte Observer...

Practice Round With Tiger Awkward: Fellow Pro

Will McCahill — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:07:00 CDT

A recent practice round with Tiger Woods proved awkward, a fellow pro golfer says—with Woods seeming nervous to be playing with a PGA Tour colleague for the first time after months of rumor and scandal. “He was a bit rusty,” 2003 British Open champ Ben Curtis said of Woods’...

John Daly Tweets Sportswriter's Cell Number

Kevin Spak — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:37:56 CST

John Daly, outraged over a Florida Times-Union article yesterday, published the cell phone number of the journalist who wrote it on Twitter. “Call and flood his line and let’s tell him how we feel,” he urged his followers. He then sent two more tweets complaining about the story. “This isn’t...

PGA Faces Life Without Tiger

Nick McMaster — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:16:06 CST

As the PGA Tour season gets under way, it has become painfully clear how important Tiger Woods has been to his sport. With the megastar conspicuously absent, the Tour has been struggling to sell sponsorships and attract ratings. Three of this year's events still lack a corporate sponsor, and the...