Phoenix Open (golf)

J.B. Holmes started this year’s PGA Tour superbly, but in recent months his play dropped off for reasons that were very obvious to those around him. “It’s hard to put the ball in the hole when you are seeing three of them (holes),&...

Phil Mickelson, who has struggled mightily at times this year, heads a big-name field with some star power on the leaderboard in the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow. Mickelson sank a 40-foot birdie putt at No. 9 during a round of five-under-par...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jack Nicklaus was trying to remember the last time Tiger Woods won a major title.  Three and a half years ago?  Nope, longer than that.  ‘‘Really?’’ Nicklaus shot back incredulously, when told Woods&...

Saturday was moving day at the Northern Trust Open and no player was more moved than Bill Haas. He was also inspired and motivated even if he was relatively unchallenged. The tournament's defending champion shot up the leaderboard with a brilliantly...

Let's call it "The Differential" — the difference between the weather at the golf course you're on and the weather you've just escaped. Here's an example: Chicago: cloudy, high of 28, low of 12, wind from the southwest at 16 to 23 mph, chance of...

Ben Hogan bought the fairway to heaven, Humphrey Bogart no longer stands pickled and perched beneath the sycamore on No. 12 and member Jim Murray isn't around to describe Riviera Country Club, as he once did, as "like a coquettish woman who winks at you...

The top player in golf isn't in the Northern Trust Open field this week at Riviera Country Club and his name isn't Tiger Woods. Rory Mcllroy, the Northern Ireland four-club clover who is still ahead of No. 2 Woods in the World Golf Rankings, took a...

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Brandt Snedeker goes into the weekend at Pebble Beach with another chance to win, this time without golf's biggest stars in his way.   Snedeker played bogey-free at tough Spyglass Hill on Friday for a 4-under 68,...

Phil Mickelson held off a last-day charge by playing partner Brandt Snedeker to end a week of scintillating golf with a four-shot triumph at the Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona on Sunday. Left-hander Mickelson birdied three of the last six holes to...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Phil Mickelson's 5-iron shot sailed long and right on the par-3 seventh, stopping an inch from the fringe and leaving him in danger of losing at least a stroke to playing partner Brandt Snedeker. Mickelson ended up...

Phil Mickelson continued his near-record-setting pace on Saturday at the Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Ariz., when he shot a seven-under-par 64 to open a six-shot lead after three rounds. His 54-hole total of 24-under 189 is tied for second on the PGA...

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