Sponsor change: 'Bye Nationwide, Hello Web.com
6/28/2012
Say farewell to the Nationwide Tour, and prepare to welcome the Web.com Tour, the PGA announced Wednesday.With a revenue now exceeding $500 million and a customer base of 3 million, the company has agreed a 10-year deal with the PGA to be the sponsor of its developmental tour.Web.com is a provider...
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6/27/2012
From 2013, the PGA Tour will move the season's start from January to October, the PGA policy board announced. The season will conclude with the Tour Championship in September 2014. The Fall Series tournaments will also be awarded full FedEx Cup points. "With the fall tournaments moving to the front...
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6/25/2012
Jose Manuel Lara had his caddie to thank for disqualification from the BMW International Open in Cologne after the bagman tried to hide an extra club in some bushes during last Thursday's first round.Argentine caddie Mathias Vinson realised that his golfer, Spain's Lara, was inadvertently carrying...
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6/21/2012
Patrick Cantlay, formerly the world's No.1 amateur in golf, announced what many had been expecting several months ago: his intention to turn professioanlTwo days
after tying for 41st place at the U.S. Open at the Olympic Club in San
Francisco, the 20-year-old
has signed up with Mark Steinberg...
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6/20/2012
Newly crowned U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson is unlikely to go back-to-back and take on the British Open next month, with news that wife, Dowd, is expect to give birth to their second child in July.Simpson, who outlasted countryman Michael Thompson and Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell to win at...
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6/19/2012
Despite missing out on glory at the weekend's 2012 U.S. Open, Ernie Els said he was just happy to be amongst the contenders once again, with a tie for ninth his best major performance since the same event at Pebble Beach in 2010."I'm contending again ... and that means a lot," Els said Monday, refe...
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6/13/2012
At the age of 45, Steve Stricker's major hopes are starting to slowly edge away, making this weeks U.S. Open perhaps one of the most important in the Wisconsinite's career.The man know as Mr. September has not had a May to remember leading up the championship, with uncharacteristic problems on the...
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6/12/2012
When Andy Zhang narrowly missed a 33-footer for eagle in regulation play, he thought it was all over for U.S. Open dream. The 14-year-old went on to lose the subsequent playoff to Brooks Koepka, eight years his senior, in the first extra hole of play.But destiny hadn't finished with him quite yet,...
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6/8/2012
Tour Comissioner Tim Finchem re-affirmed the PGA's stance on mobile-phone policy today after Phil Mickelson and other players called for change following events at last week's Memorial Tournament.Mickelson left the tournament after he completed a dismal first round 79, but not before texting Finche...
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6/7/2012
Rory McIlroy wouldn't normally line up a tournament just a week before a major championship, let alone the U.S. Open the title he will be defending. But then he doesn't normally miss cuts, let alone three consecutively.Desperate to recapture his early season form that saw him win the Honda Classic...
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6/5/2012
Last year, Davis Love III thought he knew what he was getting into when he was named captain of the 2012 U.S. Ryder Cup team but he's been taken aback by the sheer scope of biennial tournament - even though it is still three months away!"I thought I knew what it was going be like and it's much bigg...
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