The Gibson Golf Academy at Walden Lake Golf and Country Club, 2001 Clubhouse Drive, is offering three camps for junior players this summer. ...more

June 7, 2008

Not that she expected to be The Tampa Tribune's Pasco County Girls Golf Athlete of the Year, but Megan Van Etten is happy that she is keeping the streak alive. ...more

May 28, 2008

Annika Sorenstam knows there was speculation her best days as a golfer were behind her, and that an injury-plagued 2007 was the beginning of the end. ...more

May 11, 2008

The secret of Sergio Garcia's unfulfilled talent never has been well guarded. Over years of mounting misery, the putter has become to Garcia what fuel prices are to cross-country truckers. ...more

May 9, 2008

SEBRING –– Golf is a sport that requires an inordinate amount of time to improve. For a perfectionist like Aaron Snyder, it required years of dedication and sacrifice to become the player he yearned to be. All of the work paid off this past season, however, as Snyder, who played out of the No. 1 position, led the Class-2A Blue Streaks with a nine-hole average of 38.9 strokes. Snyder, a senior who played four years of varsity golf, led by example with his work ethic on and off the course. ...more

December 27, 2007

AVON PARK –– Sheila Chiarandini found a great way to cap off an outstanding year of golf. Chiarandini made a par on the first hole of a playoff to edge Bonnie Lennox to win the Highlands County Women's Amateur on Sunday at Highlands Ridge North. During the course of the year, Chiarandini won the Highlands Ridge Ladies Golf Association match-play event, the women's club championship, her club championship in Canada, as well as a senior district tournament. "This win means an awful lot," Chiarandini said. "This ends my perfect year of golf. "I wasn't even going to sign up to play in the tournament, but Melissa Doorlag talked me into it. "I'm glad she did." ...more

December 10, 2007

AVON PARK — With a field featuring some of the top women golfers in the area, the Highlands County Women's Amateur tees off on Saturday. The once popular tournament, which was last held in 1989, is a two-day, 36-hole stroke-play event and is being held at Highlands Ridge North. A field of 18 women, which includes Sun 'N Lake club champion Nela Hodge and Highlands Ridge club champion Sheila Chirandidni, tee off at 8 a.m. on Saturday. The field will be flighted after the first round and will play from the gold tees, which measure 5,600 yards with a par of 72. Melissa Doorlag, who works at Highlands Ridge North, will also be competing for the coveted title, and she thinks that a two-day total of 160 will contend for the championship. ...more

December 7, 2007

Donald Brown ran for 154 yards and a touchdown to lead No. 16 Connecticut past Rutgers 38-19 Saturday, giving the Huskies an 8-1 record for the first time in the program's 109-year history. ...more

November 4, 2007

Amy West's trouble Tuesday at the par-4 eighth hole at The Club at Eaglebrooke only seemed unfortunate at the time. By the time the Durant junior's round ended on the following hole, however, it seemed a bit symbolic. ...more

October 31, 2007

Mitchell's Megan Van Etten had the best score Thursday, but a pair of Wesley Chapel girls had some interesting stories. ...more

October 13, 2007