Michelle Wie skipped a major to play on the PGA Tour this week. Count Annika Sorenstam and Helen Alfredsson among those wondering why. After all, Wie has yet to win on the women's tour and has not made the cut on the PGA Tour. ...more

July 31, 2008

GOLF On the next tee: the final of the three World Golf Championship events, the second of three consecutive majors on the Champions Tour and the final LPGA major of the season. And that doesn't even take into account Michelle Wie's appearance at the PGA Tour's Legends Reno-Tahoe Open, which features on the year's weakest fields since it is played opposite a WGC event. ...more

July 28, 2008

Padraig Harrington never tires of reading the fine print on the silver claret jug, and as he stood up from a table at Royal Birkdale after winning his second straight British Open, he slowly turned golf's oldest trophy to see his name on consecutive rows. ...more

July 24, 2008

The first time I saw Michelle Wie play, she was a 13-year-old with her dad on the bag and her mom just outside the ropes. She was already a 6-footer blasting her drives 300 yards, but like any young teenager she was self-conscious about her braces and ill at ease when it came to talking to adults. ...more

July 24, 2008

Turns out Padraig Harrington's wrist was strong enough to hit all the right shots in the British Open. Better yet, it was strong enough to lift the silver claret jug. ...more

July 21, 2008

Tiger Woods, Olympian? Golf's major governing bodies stepped up its campaign to get the sport added to the Olympic program in 2016, naming former LPGA commissioner Ty Votaw to lead the effort. Votaw, now an executive vice president of the PGA Tour, will be loaned out from that post during the next 15 months to represent seven of the bigger hitters in the game: both the American and European tours, Royal & Ancient, LPGA, U.S. Golf Association, PGA of America and Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters. ...more

July 20, 2008

Similar to America's addiction to oil, the PGA has an insatiable craving all its own. Sure, the links version isn't polluting the atmosphere or cause for civil strife. Nor is it making families around the globe suffer, but it is an obsession none the less. ...more

July 19, 2008

Tiger Woods on crutches was supposed to be a chance for someone else to seize the spotlight at the British Open. Greg Norman wasn't the guy anyone had in mind. ...more

July 19, 2008

From sunny San Diego to bleak and blustery Royal Birkdale, the expression on Rocco Mediate's face didn't change. ...more

July 18, 2008

SOUTHPORT, England (AP) - Adam Scott and Justin Rose, friends since they were teenagers and top contenders in this British Open without Tiger Woods, passed each other on the putting green Wednesday and stopped to discuss their final day of preparation. ...more

July 17, 2008