(Reuters) – The royal and ancient game of golf, renowned for its etiquette and self-imposed penalties, has undergone many changes to the rules over its 600-year history but few issues have triggered as much debate as the proposal to outlaw the anchoring of putters. In a genteel sport where an inadvertent cough on a downswing [...]
Golf: Anchors away! Golf adopts rule to outlaw putters anchored to the body
May 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(Darron Cummings, Associated Press – Ap) (PhatzRadio / AP) — Golf’s two governing bodies outlawed the anchored putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions, approving a new rule that starts in 2016 and urging the PGA Tour to follow along so the 600-year-old sport is still played under one set of [...]
Golf: Tiger’s breathtaking victory was tempered by a soap opera sideshow
May 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(PhatzRadio / Golf.com) — There is the golfer and there is the man, and both are great, as Jay Gatsby was great, as Barry Bonds and Mickey Mantle and Michael Jordan were great. Can you imagine someone more exciting and flawed and unknowable than Tiger Woods? For a half-hour there at the finale of the [...]
Golf: Tiger Woods wins Players Championship as Sergio Garcia collapses on 17th hole
May 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(Richard Heathcote/Getty Images. Tiger Woods at No. 18 at the Players Championship as he won his 78th title. Sergio García was six over on the final two holes.) PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A weekend filled with sharp words between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia came down to one last showdown Sunday in The [...]
Where the deer and the antlers play: Singh’s lawsuit against Tour draws little outcry at TPC
May 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(PhatzRadio / AP) — PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – One spectator wore fake deer antlers. Another yelled about eating venison. And a group of guys shouted, “Stay off the spray, Vijay.” But for the most part, there was little public reaction to Vijay Singh’s lawsuit filed against the PGA Tour during the opening round of [...]
Golf Recap: Great debut for Castro, solid start for Woods and McIlroy
May 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy had their best start ever Thursday in The Players Championship. It still wasn’t enough to catch Roberto Castro, who had never played the TPC Sawgrass and made a debut he won’t soon forget. Castro hit shots into tap-in range on the famed 17th and [...]
Golf: Vijay Singh v. PGA Tour – Why Singh sued
May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(PhatzRadio / Golf.com) — When Vijay Singh spoke to Sports Illustrated in January about using deer antler spray, he clearly didn’t expect the PGA Tour to suspend him. After all, Mark Calcavecchia admitted to using deer antler spray in 2011 and did not face discipline from the Tour. Singh also insists the PGA Tour is [...]
Golf: Tour drops its doping case against Vijay Singh
May 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The PGA Tour dropped its doping case against Vijay Singh on Tuesday based on new information from the World Anti-Doping Agency, which said using deer antler spray is no longer prohibited because it contains such small amounts of a growth hormone factor. “The bottom line is that given the change by [...]
Golf: Greg Norman says golf needs blood testing to fight doping, calls current rules ‘disgraceful’
April 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(PhatzRadio / AP) — SYDNEY – Greg Norman described golf’s anti-doping procedures as “disgraceful” and called for blood testing to be instituted by the sport’s governing bodies. “You only have to look at what happened to Vijay Singh just recently to know the drugs issue is there,” Norman told The Australian newspaper in comments published [...]
Golf – The Masters 2013: Tiger still on major record pace, says Golden Bear
April 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(Hot favorite and four-times champion Tiger Woods has been grouped with Britain’s Luke Donald and American Scott Piercy for the first two rounds of this week’s Masters.) (Reuters) – Jack Nicklaus was startled to learn that Tiger Woods has not won a major in nearly five years but the golfing great is convinced his younger [...]
