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UNKIND COMMENTS ABOUT Lorena Ochoa are as rare as rain in the desert. But the world of professional sports is a catty place where people whisper words to undercut even […]

Officially, the heads of professional golf don't believe they have a problem with performance-enhancing drugs, but they feel they must act to eliminate any suspicious spillover from the headlines in […]

THE ROAD NORTH FROM KIGALI FOLLOWS A PATH LIKELy cuT by TRIbESMEN 1,000 years ago, clinging to a ridge that climbs toward the volcanic peaks that separate Rwanda from congo […]

TIME IS NOT SO MUCH measured in minutes and hours as it is events. Ten minutes of root canal can seem like all day while an hour with your favorite […]

LATE SUNDAY MORNING, AS Lorena Ochoa arrived at the Old Course for the final round of the Ricoh Women's British Open, Louise Suggs settled into a window seat in the […]

THE WALK FROM THE EIGHTH GREEN TO THE ninth tee at the Evian Masters gC is a steep, lengthy climb away from Lake geneva and through a corn-field, eventually opening […]

HISTORY SAYS THE FIRST WOMAN TO PLAY THE OLD COURSE at St. Andrews was Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, sometime in the mid-1500s. But likely the real first female on […]

THE RHYTHMIC RAP OF HAMMERS accompanied by the shrill whine of power saws played an appropriate overture for the 2007 season at the Golf Channel. But the carpenters and electricians […]

THE WATERFALL BEHIND THE 17TH GREEN AT TRUMP INTERNATIONAL GC IN WEST PALM Beach, Fla., is an artificial stone structure more appropriate for a zoo, where a habitat totally out […]

ON A BLUSTERY MORNING AT ROYAL LYTHAM during one of those uniquely British days in which all four seasons occur in a matter of hours, Annika Sorenstam paused during a […]

THE RICH ARE GETTING RICHER, ACCORDING to the findings of the second annual Golf Digest 50, an all-encompassing world-earnings list that includes every dollar tour players earned on and off [...]

Byline: EDITED BY RON SIRAK ASHLEY MAYO Into the Wild Want a refreshing twist to your next golf trip? Try Northern Michigan There are golf trips and then there are [...]

Byline: -Ron Sirak (@RonSirak) 4 CAN YANI TSENG FIND HER GAME? The numbers are astounding, making the slump even more confounding. Yani Tseng won 15 of her first 100 LPGA [...]

Byline: -Ron Sirak (@Ron Sirak) AMY YANG'S STEADY ASCENT Amy Yang attracts little attention but has earned the respect of her LPGA Tour competitors as someone always on the leader [...]

HERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS you need to know about the 2008 version of Lorena Ochoa: Already a long hitter, she is noticeably--almost scarily--longer. Although a few putts got […]

LORENA OCHOA HAS EMERGED CLEARLY AS THE BEST player in women's golf over the last two years, with 15 victories since April 2006, and she also has learned a lesson […]

ANY QUESTIONS? WELL, OK, ONE: Did she pull the shot? Maybe, maybe not. Doesn't really matter. The point is when Annika Sorenstam needed to, she executed. And when she needed […]

EVEN AFTER ALL LORENA OCHOA HAS ACCOMPLISHED this year--eight victories, winning the Ricoh Women's British Open and obliterating the LPGA single-season money record--there remains a demon called doubt that pays […]

A PERFECT FIT Wearing his newly arrived title as world No. 1 comfortably, Adam Scott stops Jason Dufner in a playoff at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial As Adam [...]

PGA TOUR Toms tough at Colonial After a great par-save on No. 9 that enabled him to turn in 33 on Sunday at Colonial CC, it seemed as if David [...]

ALL GROWN UP A happier, more mature and genuinely appreciative Michelle Wie is having a great 2014. And the best may be yet to come Michelle Wie laughs more now [...]

NOTHING FOREIGN ABOUT IT Germany's Martin Kaymer rediscovers winning when he prevails in a Sunday showdown with crowd favorite Jordan Spieth at the Players Before we get started on Martin [...]

LPGA Lewis wins by six in North Texas If LPGA commissioner Mike Whan had been asked to draw up his dream team of winners through the first 10 events, this [...]

SAN FRANCISCO TREAT From Lydia Ko 's gritty victory over Stacy Lewis to the challenges of Lake Merced GC, the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic's debut was top-notch The inaugural Swinging [...]

LPGA Shin shines at S.F. event Nearly lost in the wonderful shootout between Lydia Ko and Stacy Lewis at the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic was Jenny Shin, the 21-year-old South [...]

Jiménez right at home The first thing that gets your attention is the red pony-tail. It's as if Willie Nelson has wandered his way off the stage and onto a [...]

COMPETITION Koch named European captain for 2015 Carin Koch, the Swede who was 10-3-3 for Europe in four Solheim Cups, will captain the 2015 team when it tries for its [...]

DEVELOPMENT Drive, Chip and Putt proves promising On a cool, overcast Sunday morn-ing, behind the hedges that hide Augusta National GC from curious eyes, the future of golf couldn't have [...]

Change (finally) on the horizon R&A VOTE TO ADMIT WOMEN SIGNALS PROGRESS IN THE GAME On the morning of the final round of the 2007 Ricoh Women's British Open, the [...]

LPGA International Crown teams finalized The teams and seedings for the inaugural International Crown were finalized after last week's Kia Classic, and the United States edged South Korea as the [...]

JOANNE CARNER 74, 43 LPGA VICTORIES, EIGHT USGA CHAMPIONSHIPS, LAKE WORTH, FLA. I started playing at 10 on a nine-hole course near my home in Kirkland, Wash. My two sisters [...]

ARNOLD PALMER 84, 62-TIME PGA TOUR WINNER, LATROBE, PA. I designed the first golf course in China 30 years ago, but I'm still a boy from western Pennsylvania. My father [...]

'IT'S A WEIRD GAME' Matt Every 's take on his own victory (and Adam Scott's Sunday 76) sums up this year's Arnold Palmer Invitational Among the many ways Tiger Woods [...]

PGA TOUR Compton in the hunt One of the things Erik Compton has on his to-do list is winning a PGA Tour event, and he's getting closer. Compton, 34, closed [...]

LPGA LPGA players voice Pinehurst concerns How do you think the conversation will go when Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson get ready for an 18-hole playoff at noon Monday at [...]

PGA TOUR Monahan named tour's deputy commissioner THERE IS GROWING REASON TO THINK FINCHEM WILL STEP ASIDE AFTER 2016. When Tim Finchem took over as PGA Tour commissioner in June [...]

LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR Park victorious in China The strong way Suzann Pettersen finished 2013, taking the final major of the year at the Evian Championship on her way to a [...]

LPGA Creamer victorious At no time during her 0-for-79 streak that began after winning the 2010 U.S. Women's Open did Paula Creamer lose her great ball-striking ability. It was her [...]

LPGA Nordqvist a winner again An interesting LPGA season in which 20-year-old Jessica Korda won the first tournament, followed by Karrie Webb, 39, winning the second, turned into a tale [...]

Transition time for the USGA NEW CHIEF O'TOOLE SETS SIGHTS ON A MORE WELCOMING GAME When it came time for outgoing president Glen D. Nager and his successor Thomas J. [...]

END GAME Twenty-year-old Jessica Korda makes the most of her opportunities on the Ocean Course's 18th hole to capture the season-opening Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic for her second career [...]

LPGA Offseason weddings the norm On Saturday morning, before his new bride, Natalie Gulbis, teed it up in the third round of the Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic, Josh Rodarmel [...]

LPGA Lewis back on Twitter with new strategy Twitter is the Wild West of the Internet, a lawless firing range that, at best, is an immediate exchange of information by [...]

GD 50 CASHING IN HOW HENRIK STENSON WON ALMOST $20 MILLION AND WHY WINNING A MAJOR IS WORTH WAY MORE THAN A MILLION The formula devised by Mark McCormack for [...]

ONE TOUGH READ Stoic and talented, Humana Challenge winner Patrick Reed is fast earning the respect he didn't always get as a collegian About halfway through Patrick's Reed's session with [...]

HUMANA CHALLENGE Leonard contends Justin Leonard, the 1997 British Open champ, had 12 wins and 98 top-10 finishes in 534 PGA Tour starts before the Humana Challenge, but a T-3 [...]

Moving on at the USGA FENCE-MENDING A PART OF O'TOOLE AND DAVIS' POST-NAGER AGENDA Glen D. Nager's two-year stint as USGA president produced significant successes for the association. But because [...]

LPGA Season-long points race to pay winner $1M bonus LPGA COMMISH WHAN SAYS THE ONGOING COMPETITION WILL ADD MORE DRAMA TO THE 2014 CAMPAIGN In the depths of the Great [...]

THE FAILED COUP AT THE USGA CORPORATE GUYS VS. GOLF GUYS: GLEN NAGER IS OUT, AND MIKE DAVIS WINS SPECIAL REPORT After losing a power struggle to bring broad organizational [...]

No. 17 STACY LEWIS After taking over No. 1 in the Rolex Rankings for four weeks, Lewis lost it to Inbee Park though she did not play badly. Park simply [...]