May 23, 2013

Mahan storms into lead at Doral

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DORAL, Fla. (AP) — A storm packing 50 mph gusts toppled two TV towers, uprooted 17 young palm trees and sent the monster scoreboard at the 18th hole crashing to the ground Thursday at Doral. When the Cadillac Championship resumed, Hunter Mahan and most of the world’s best players tore up the golf course. The [...]

Fowler ousts Mickelson, McIlroy bounced at Match Play

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MARANA, Ariz. — That was no way to treat your mentor. Rickie Fowler, all of 22, needed just 13 holes Thursday in the second round of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship to dispatch friend, four-time major champion and 40-year-old Phil Mickelson. “I played great and I had a lot of fun playing against [...]

Tiger Woods not adding Honda Classic

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Tiger Woods, middle, finds himself in the rough on the first playoff hole at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club on Wednesday. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images) Tiger Woods will not play in the Honda Classic next week at PGA National in Palm Gardens, Fla., his agent said Thursday. Speculation had begun that Woods would play at the Honda [...]

Golf – Woods, Poulter and Stricker go out on wild day

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(Reuters) – Tiger Woods, Steve Stricker and holder Ian Poulter made early exits as the opening round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship lived up to its reputation of wild unpredictability on Wednesday. There were 14 upsets in all from the 32 matches at Dove Mountain’s Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, fulfilling world number one Lee Westwood’s [...]

England’s Paul Casey, at Match Play, in a perfect place to win

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MARANA, Ariz. — Winning, swing coach Peter Kostis has told his prized pupil, Paul Casey, breeds winning. Victories, Kostis has stressed for nearly a decade now, sharpen the mentality and swell confidence needed to win on golf’s biggest stages. “Kostis is always asking me how do I expect to win major championships against the best [...]

Baddeley ends title drought with Riviera victory

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(Reuters) – Australian Aaron Baddeley ended a four-year title drought on the PGA Tour with a gritty two-shot victory at the Northern Trust Open Sunday. On a glorious day of sunshine at Riviera Country Club, the 29-year-old held off a fast start by veteran crowd favorite Fred Couples and a mid-round charge by Vijay Singh [...]

Top seed Westwood to face former winner Stenson in Arizona

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(Reuters) – The draw for next week’s WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Marana, Arizona was formally announced on Sunday, pairing Lee Westwood with Swede Henrik Stenson in the opening round. British world number one Westwood, who ended Tiger Woods’s reign of more than five years at the top of the rankings in November, is the [...]

Couples back in the hunt at Riviera

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fred Couples does not look like he belongs atop the leaderboard on the PGA Tour. Except that he’s at Riviera. Despite a bad back that hurts when he stoops over a short iron, Couples navigated around his favorite tour course without a bogey Friday for a 5-under 66 that gave him [...]

Logjam at Riviera leaderboard

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ten years after Robert Allenby won a six-man playoff at Riviera, he was part of a nine-way tie for the lead Thursday in the Northern Trust Open. Allenby kept it simple on a gorgeous day along Sunset Boulevard with a 4-under 67 that turned out to be enough for a share [...]

Tiger Woods apologizes for spitting in Dubai event

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VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) — Tiger Woods apologized after he was fined an undisclosed sum by the European Tour on Monday for spitting on the green during the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic. The tour said in a statement that tournament director Mike Stewart reviewed the matter and “feels there has been a [...]