PGA Tour
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Matt Kuchar made a 12-foot birdie putt at the 16th hole, the same place where his long Saturday at Colonial began, and led four players by a stroke after three rounds.
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Players spent more time in the clubhouse than the golf course Saturday at the Players Championship, a rain-shortened day that left enough time for some high entertainment.
Martin Kaymer made four straight birdie putts that traveled a combined 71 inches.
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Mark O'Meara believes it would do Tiger Woods good to chill out with him.
The 54-year-old was one of Woods' closest confidants when he first turned professional, but now plays most of his golf on the Champions Tour.
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With his ball nestled near a tree on the par-4 fifth at TPC Sawgrass, Mark Wilson decided to turn around and hit a left-handed chip shot.
It ended up being a costly mistake.
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David Toms has gone five years without winning, and 10 years since his lone major at the 2001 PGA Championship. Now he has to fend off a host of players who have won big events a lot more recently.
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Phil Mickelson hit a shot onto the green and it rolled into the water. Ben Crane hit a shot over an island and it wound up on dry land. Tiger Woods played the shortest tournament of his career.
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Ben Crane plucked his ball out of the cup at the famed 17th, smiling the whole time, and then heaved it into the gallery.
It certainly was a lucky souvenir. A battered and scuffed one, too.
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Tiger Woods limped off the golf course and into a future that is murkier than ever Thursday when he withdrew with leg injuries after his worst nine holes at the Players Championship.
“I’m having a hard time walking,” he said.
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This time, Johnny Miller came to Tiger Woods’ defense.
At least he tried.
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The Players Championship has all the ingredients of the fifth-biggest tournament in golf.
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Seve Ballesteros was considered a genius for inventing shots, usually after he found himself in trouble off the fairway. On the eve of the great Spaniard’s funeral, he was remembered by a player who could at times relate.
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Tiger Woods heard a series of shutters from a spectator’s camera and stopped his swing at the last minute, knees flexed, club shaft parallel to the ground, holding his pose until he could regain his balance.
10 May 2011 - 5:46pm - 3 Comments
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Matteo Manassero was always looking for a game, even when he was 4.
And even when Seve Ballesteros was in town.
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Phil Mickelson gave the Players Championship -- golf's richest event -- his seal of approval on Tuesday and said the absence of Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy didn’t change his view of it.
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Padraig Harrington must be wondering what else could possibly happen to him as he prepares for golf's richest event -- the $9.5 million Players Championship this week.
10 May 2011 - 5:15pm - 1 Comments
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Tim Clark will be at the TPC Sawgrass this week for the Players Championship, where last year he captured his first PGA Tour victory with the greatest 36-hole comeback in tournament history.
Whether he plays golf remains the question.
10 May 2011 - 12:24am - 0 Comments
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The European Tour sent out a news release on Lee Westwood, the No. 1 player in the world, hopeful of capturing what he considers to be the fifth major. That would be the BMW PGA Championship in England later this month, not the Players Championship, which Westwood is skipping.
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Tiger Woods has dropped to eighth in the world golf rankings after being overtaken by Paul Casey of England.
9 May 2011 - 9:36am - 2 Comments
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Lucas Glover figures he has played more than 100 rounds with Jonathan Byrd, from junior golf when they were teenagers to their years together at Clemson and nearly a decade on the PGA Tour.
8 May 2011 - 5:44pm - 1 Comments
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J.B. Holmes didn't see it go in. The television cameras didn't catch it, either.
But the thunderous cheer around the 15th green at Quail Hollow on Saturday made it clear Holmes had one of golf's ultimate rarities: an albatross.
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