Lanny Wadkins

As a golf event, it has become a biennial tradition, and not a good one. The Ryder Cup rolls around, the European team rolls over the U.S. team, the U.S. captain says he can't for the life of him understand why the ball rolls the way it does, and the...

It hasn't been a great nine years for U.S. Ryder Cup fortunes. Despite encouraging words from captain Paul Azinger, the fact that Tiger Woods will be sitting out when the matches start Friday at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville means it's likely to get...

On a free day during his week at the Commerce Bank Championship, which begins tomorrow at Eisenhower Park, Chip Beck drove to Southampton and played the National Golf Links of America. David Ogrin was hoping to sneak out to play Bethpage Black. Danny...

Some golfers enjoy Shinnecock Hills so much that they say the U.S. Open ought to go back there every year. They know it can't happen, but it is just their way of saying the championship seems to be at home there. Raymond Floyd, who won the Open at...

Rodger Davis proved in 2003 that he was stealth around the greens. Winning the eighth Toshiba Senior Classic for his first victory on United States' soil might have been the launching ground. The Australian native fended-off a mild charge from Larry...

The man and the golf course were a perfect match. When gracefully aging veteran Raymond Floyd and the venerable Shinnecock Hills Golf Club met for the first time last Monday, they discovered they had a lot in common. Both are subtle, versatile and...