Peter Lonard

COOLUM, Australia (AP) — Australian Paul Sheehan birdied the 18th hole early Friday to finish the first round with a 6-under-par 66 for a share of the lead at the storm-delayed Australian PGA championship. Sheehan and New Zealand's Tim Wilkinson,...

John Daly plans to end his troublesome year in Australia, where, in his last appearance six years ago, he was disqualified from a tournament for failing to sign his scorecard after throwing his ball and putter into a lake. Australian Masters officials...

Argentina's Andres Romero walked off the TPC Louisiana a happy man Sunday afternoon. Three hours later, he felt even better. Romero won the Zurich Classic in his 12th career start on the PGA Tour, closing with a 4-under 68 hours before the other...

Ouch. Golf always has been known as a painful game, but the hurting goes way beyond the angst that grips golfers' minds. Among pros, golf is an internal contact sport: contact produced by a powerful swing that can take as much of a toll on the player...

Eighteen years after Shinnecock Hills grabbed modern pro golf by the throat with an unbelievably tough first U.S. Open round, pro golf got even. The first round of this Open, in an even more modern era, was a landslide win for the golfers. Before 9 a.m....

(a-amateur) 9:30 a.m. - Cliff Kresge, Scott Hoch 9:40 a.m. - Alex Cejka, Charles Howell III 9:50 a.m. - a-Chez Reavie, David Toms 10 a.m. - Joe Ogilvie, a-Bill Haas 10:10 a.m. - Jerry Kelly, Tom Carter 10:20 a.m. - Tim Petrovic, Jim Furyk 10:30 a....

SCORING Scores and earnings after the final round of the U.S. Open, on the 6,996-yard Shinnecock Hills Golf Club course; par-70; a-indicates amateur; purse $6.25 million: Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd. 4 Total Score Retief Goosen, $1,125,000 70 66 69 71 276 -4...

Despite the many times over the years that people have said the United States Golf Association is all wet, they never really meant it like this. At about 11:30 yesterday morning, USGA officials ordered the Shinnecock Hills greens staff to bring out a...