Posts Tagged ‘Pga Championship’

LOS ANGELES - Phil Mickelson has suspended playing on the PGA Tour indefinitely after his wife was diagnosed with cancer, officials said Wednesday. The breast cancer in Amy Mickelson was discovered after an "extensive battery of tests," the golfer's manager T.R. Reinman said in a release. More tests are scheduled but the treatment process is expected to begin ...
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Twice major winner John Daly's latest bid to resurrect his career is for his benefit and not to prove his detractors wrong, the American said on Wednesday. Daly, 43, is rehabilitating by losing weight and trying to give up a diet and lifestyle that saw him balloon to nearly 280 pounds less than three months ago. A surgical ...
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Jerome Patrick Kelly (born November 23, 1966) is an American professional golfer. Kelly was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Hartford in 1989 and turned professional that year, but didn't make it onto the PGA Tour until 1996. This followed a successful 1995 season on the second tier Nike Tour, when he won ...
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Augusta, GA (Sports Network) - Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry each had their chances on Sunday at the Masters, but could not seal the deal and collect their first major championship title. Campbell, who was trying to become the second player in the last 19 years to come from outside the final pairing and win the Masters, closed with a three- under 69 to get in ...
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – Shingo Katayama is still quite the showman. It’s just been eight years between performances. Katayama reprised the carefree style and nifty shot-making – and don’t forget the hat – that first got him noticed outside of Japan. He closed an impressive week at the Masters with a 4-under 68 Sunday, the best score ...
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Teenage golf superstar Rory McIlroy has been told to pace himself by a man who also found himself thrust into the spotlight at a tender age. Sergio Garcia made a name for himself by pushing Tiger Woods at the US PGA Championship at the age of 19. But ten years later, he still has not won a single ...
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Years ago, when I was VP of sales and marketing at Cleveland Golf, I had the opportunity to spend time with John Cook. Over the years John has played some fantastic golf, but many observers think he never reached his potential. One thing for sure is he is one of the nicest PGA Tour pros out there. In January 1992 John stopped by the company to ...
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Vijay Singh (born 22 February 1963), nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian professional golfer who was number one in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005. He has won three major championships (The Masters in 2000 and the PGA Championship in 1998 and 2004) and was the leading PGA Tour ...
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Paul Alexander Casey (born 21 July 1977) is an English golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S.-based PGA Tour and the European Tour. Casey was born in Cheltenham, but moved to Weybridge at the age of six. After attending Cleves School, Weybridge and then Hampton School, he studied A ...
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