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Byline: BY RON SIRAK Unassuming and un-Tigerlike, McIlroy wins on many levels From the very beginning, Tiger Woods was almost too good to be true. He was a heroic figure [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI By Ron Sirak Premier group fails to deliver Welcome to the brave new world of professional golf without Tiger Woods. The first U.S. Open since [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak VIOLATIONS Was free golf a factor in OSU football scandal? The latest twist in the Ohio State football scandal involves golf, according to [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak TELEVISION After $4.3B Olympic deal, what's left for golf? The fact NBC blew ESPN and Fox out of the water with a $4.38 [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK A little moonlighting for Steve Williams TIGER WOODS' CADDIE PICKED UP ADAM SCOTT'S BAG FOR THE U.S. OPEN. IS IT ONE FRIEND TEMPORARILY HELPING ANOTHER OR [...]

Byline: BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak LPGA Lincicome holds on at ShopRite Brittany Lincicome hadn't won an LPGA event since making the 2009 Kraft Nabisco her first major championship, but [...]

Byline: Ron Sirak EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI BUSINESS IMG restructuring starts to take shape The pieces to the puzzle continue to be rearranged in the aftermath of the departure of [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK Who's coming with him? TIGER WOODS IS LIKELY TO FOLLOW MARK STEINBERG'S LEAD AFTER THE AGENT'S SUDDEN DEPARTURE FROM IMG. WHERE ARE THEY GOING AND WHAT [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK WIN HAS A NICE RING TO IT Keegan (nephew of Pat) Bradley edges Ryan Palmer for the HP Byron Nelson title and his first PGA Tour [...]

Byline: BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak PGA TOUR Bradley wins Nelson in playoff Of the final 24 players to tee off Sunday at the HP Byron Nelson Championship, only one [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak PGA TOUR Hail to the grounds crew after hail pelts course As daylight gave way to darkness on May 24, the tornado sirens [...]

Byline: Ron Sirak EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI PGA TOUR After a 77, Spieth won't rethink college plans If you listen closely to the words of 17-year-old Jordan Spieth, you might [...]

Byline: Ron Sirak EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI AGENTS Steinberg leaves IMG after contract dispute The May 24 announcement that Mark Steinberg was leaving IMG as managing director of golf operations [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK DELAYED GRATIFICATION A WEEK AFTER HIS PAINFUL NEAR-MISS AT THE PLAYERS, DAVID TOMS WINS AT COLONIAL, HIS FIRST TITLE SINCE 2006 This was the longest tournament [...]

Byline: BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak PGA TOUR Toms takes down Wi at Colonial David Toms and Charlie Wi seemed to be ships headed in opposite directions Sunday at the [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak TELEVISION After 22 years, Ebersol leaves NBC Sports The words commonly used to describe Dick Ebersol, the 63-year-old programming wizard who resigned as [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK, PHOTOGRAPHS BY J.D. CUBAN INTO THE VOID With his playoff victory over David Toms in the Players, K.J. Choi becomes the latest to take aim at [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK, PHOTOGRAPHS BY J.D. CUBAN TIGER'S TROUBLES Nine holes raise questions about the former No. 1's game, health and outlook Remarkably, shockingly even, Tiger Woods' career is [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak PGA TOUR Choi prevails in Players playoff At one point Sunday, after the rain-delayed third round of the Players resumed, Irishman Graeme McDowell [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK Attendance issues THE WORLD GOLF HALL OF FAME'S INDUCTION CEREMONY WILL AGAIN BE HELD DURING PLAYERS WEEK IN 2012, BUT TO SUCCEED IT NEEDS MORE MEMBERS [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK It's time to make disciplinary actions known to the public On May 24, songwriter Bob Dylan turns 70, which is remarkable in its own right. No [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak WORLD GOLF HALL OF FAME Els, Ozaki among those inducted in to WGHOF The somewhat contentious decision to move the date for the [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak BUSINESS Forstmann's health to impact future of IMG IMG, the global event and player-management giant founded in 1960 on a handshake between Mark [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK When she needed a helping hand, Suggs found a hero and a friend Several years ago, I asked Louise Suggs to identify her strongest attribute as [...]

Byline: Ron Sirak BY JOHN ANTONINI LPGA TOUR Hjorth gains Avnet crown A bright Sunday in tornado-ravaged Alabama that began with the eager anticipation of history16-year-old Lexi Thompson was tied [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK Filling the void CORPORATE OUTINGS, MONEY MATCHES WITH FRIENDS AND TRAVELING KEEP LPGA PLAYERS OCCUPIED AS THEY WAIT FOR THE HEART OF THE TOUR SEASON TO [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak SPONSORSHIPS Clinton, Humana save the Bob Hope Classic The Bob Hope Classic, which was on the endangered tournament list when Jhonattan Vegas won [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK Tiger's Masters was a tale of missing magic and missed putts Late in 1997, Tiger Woods took time to reflect on his hectic first full season [...]

Byline: Ron Sirak EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Turning back the clock In recent years, as yardage has been added to Augusta National, the British Open has replaced the Masters as [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak PRESIDENTS CUP Prez Cup/SA Open schedule snafu resolved The PGA Tour and the International Team already have Presidents Cup victories even though the [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak AUGUSTA NATIONAL 2012 Masters tickets are available online For the first time, applications for practice-round tickets for the 2012 Masters are available only [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak CHARITY Ishikawa's generous gesture to his homeland Masashi (Jumbo) Ozaki, the 64-year-old patriarch of Japanese golf who enters the World Golf Hall of [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak LPGA Sorenstam's son is born nine weeks premature Annika Sorenstam, 40, was rushed from her Lake Nona home in Orlando to Winnie Palmer [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK LPGA-PGA Tour partnership: An idea whose time has come For 61 years, the LPGA has been hanging by a threadstronger at times and weaker at othersbut [...]

Byline: Interviewed by Ron Sirak, Photographed by Darren Carroll Dan Jenkins 81, Sportswriter and Author, Fort Worth The first professional tournament I ever saw was the 1941 U.S. Open at [...]

Byline: Interviewed By Ron Sirak, Photographed By Brent Humphreys Judy Rankin 66, LPGA Hall of Famer, Midland, Texas Every young player now has a team of people around themparents, swing [...]

Byline: Ron Sirak CHARITY BEGINS at HOME The RR Donnelley Founders Cup, won by Karrie Webb, didn't cure what ails the LPGA, but its warm bow to the past offers [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak LPGA Webb snares Founders Cup title Angela Stanford came into the final round of the inaugural RR Donnelley Founders Cup three strokes clear [...]

Byline: Ron Sirak EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI LPGA Kerr honored with Ali Achievement award Cristie Kerr has been the best American player for years now, having won at least once [...]

Byline: Ron Sirak EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI JAPAN JLPGA remains in limbo after disaster The Japan LPGA Tour remained shut down for a second week, canceling the T-Points Ladies event [...]

Byline: Ron Sirak Photographs By J.D. Cuban Beyond Tiger (And Phil) Nick Watney's 22-putt Sunday wins the WGC-Cadillac Championship, putting him squarely in the group of six young guns pursuing [...]

Byline: BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak PGA TOUR Watney gets the best win of his career The WGC-Cadillac Championship was a tournament won, not lost. Dustin Johnson took a two-stroke [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK Coping half a world away FOR JAPANESE PLAYERS AND MEDIA AT THE WGC-CADILLAC CHAMPIONSHIP, THE HORROR OF THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI THAT HIT BACK HOME MADE [...]

Byline: Ron Sirak EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI PGA TOUR A Sunday 66 provides inspiration for Tiger Overnight sensations are years in the making, the wags like to say. And that [...]

Byline: Ron Sirak EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI PGA TOUR Kaymer's No. 1, but how long will he stay there? The WGC-Cadillac Championship was the first tournament Martin Kaymer played since [...]

Byline: Ron Sirak EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI PGA TOUR S.A. Open among issues facing Finchem, O'Grady The news conference March 13 by PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem and European PGA [...]

Byline: BY RON SIRAK / PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEPHEN SZURLEJ STEADY AS HE GOES Bearing little resemblance to his former self, Rory Sabbatini wins the Honda Classic displaying cool, calm and, [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak PGA TOUR Will Honda success lift Yang, as it did in 2009? Y.E. Yang, the 39-year-old Korean who took down Tiger Woods in [...]

Byline: EDITED BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak PGA TOUR For Kelly, the camera sees what he cannot Jerry Kelly, an all-city hockey player for Madison (Wis.) East High School, has [...]

Byline: BY JOHN ANTONINI Ron Sirak PGA TOUR Sabbatini gets first win in two years All week, the infamous and oft-mentioned Bear Trap had been all about bogeys as wind-blown [...]