Forum: Tour Talk

Decisions by world number one Lee Westwood and fellow Briton Rory McIlroy to skip this week's Players Championship at the TPC Sawgrass have drawn stinging criticism from American sports commentators. More...

Chris Wood played rather conservatively all day Saturday, shooting a one-under 69 to increase his lead after three rounds of the Iberdrola Open. More...

Anyone know what putter David Toms is using at the Players? Just curious...

The Players Championship is set for a showdown between home favourites and British challengers with American David Toms the unlikely leader after Friday's second round. More...

Australian Geoff Ogilvy withdrew from the Players Championship on Friday due to a shoulder injury. More...

Troubled Tiger Woods needs help to deal with his growing problems, former Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger said on Friday. More...

American Nick Watney fired an eight-under-par 64 to grab the first round lead at the Players Championship on Thursday while an injured Tiger Woods limped out of the event after just nine holes. More...

A young crop of Europeans may be battling it out atop of the world rankings, but 40-year-old American Phil Mickelson has a shot to spoil the party and grab the number one spot that has long eluded him. More...

Seve Ballesteros, one of golf's greatest showmen, was given an emotional send-off by hundreds of mourners at a funeral service in his hometown of Pedrena on Wednesday. More...

Three former European Ryder Cup captains, royalty, politicians and sports administrators will all join players at the funeral of five-times major winner Seve Ballesteros in the small parish church of San Pedro de Pedrena on Wednesday. More...

Seve Ballesteros proved golf does not have to be a "robotic" sport, Phil Mickelson said on Tuesday in a tribute to the Spaniard who died last week aged 54 after a long battle with brain cancer. More...

Tiger Woods returns to competitive golf at this week's Players Championship after hardly striking a ball since suffering a knee injury at last month's Masters. More...

Fresh off Sunday's victory at the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow, Lucas Glover has committed to the 2011 Telus World Skins Game at Banff Springs. More...

Ernie Els and former President George H.W. Bush were among those inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Monday. More...

Thoughts of Seve Ballesteros filtered into the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame induction dinner last Wednesday as news of the Spanish star's deterioration in health began making the rounds. More...

The great matador Manuel Benitez announced to his young sister that he would dress her in the finest clothes - or in mourning. His compatriot Seve Ballesteros never made such a declaration. More...

Lucas Glover won his first title since the 2009 U.S. Open by beating his former college team mate Jonathan Byrd on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff at the Quail Hollow Championship on Sunday. More...

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - Five-time major winner Seve Ballesteros withdrew from this week's Senior PGA Championship for personal reasons. More...

Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros has died after a deterioration in his condition, having undergone treatment for a brain tumour in 2008, the Spanish television channel TVE said on Saturday. More...

Tiger Woods will return to action from a minor knee injury to compete in next week's Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, the PGA Tour said on Friday. More...

http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,2069658,00.html Sabbatini has always been a psycho but this is totally insane, even for him. :thumbsdow

Lexi Thompson, all of 16, nearly made LPGA Tour history this week. More...

Mike Weir is struggling to find his form after an elbow injury, the up-and-comers have suddenly up and faded, and Stephen Ames More...

There was a time, not so long ago, when any kind of injury to Tiger Woods would have had PGA Tour officials, TV types and fans wringing their hands so tightly there was the ever-present danger of heads popping. More...

Lee Westwood erased a three-stroke deficit in the final round Sunday to come from behind and win the Ballantine's Championship. More...

In this age of advanced medical technology, it's almost unthinkable that Tiger Woods could become the Bobby Orr of golf: the game's best, sidelined by bad knees. More...

Almost overlooked as Charl Schwartzel surged clear of a congested leaderboard to clinch this month's U.S. Masters with a sizzling finish was the fact that he eclipsed Tiger Woods with his breakthrough. More...

Tiger Woods announced on Tuesday that he will miss the Wells Fargo Championship from May 5-8 because of a minor knee injury. More...

World number one Lee Westwood is growing increasingly weary with being asked about his failure to win a first major title and told reporters in Seoul on Tuesday the question was getting on his nerves. More...

Who do you think have the prettiest and ugliest swings on tour? I could watch Fred Couples and Vijay Singh hit balls all day long :not-worth. As for ugly swings, my God I want to gouge out my eyes when I watch Matt Kuchar, or Tommy Gainey hit a shot. I know they're amazing golfers, and I know...

Britain's Lee Westwood will replace Germany's Martin Kaymer as world number one when the new rankings are published on Monday after Luke Donald failed to win The Heritage on Sunday. More...

Unlike its record against the Europeans in contemporary Ryder Cup play, the United States has managed to maintain its dominance in the Presidents Cup, but it remains to be seen if that will be the case later this year at Royal Melbourne. More...

How refreshing was it to see this guy play! He's got to be one of the quickest players on tour and I loved every shot. Shows you how you dont have to grind over every shot! Many amateurs should copy his style!

It can't continue, can it? Rookies, teens and twentysomethings continue to thrive in the pro ranks and, every week, those in the know say this is the tournament where experience will win out. More...

For the second week in a row, under much less pressure and under many fewer cameras, Rory McIlroy blew a tournament he was leading on Sunday. More...

Seventeen-year-old Matteo Manassero's Malaysian Open win has catapulted him from 57th to 33rd in the world rankings, earning him a place at this year's U.S. Open, British Open and U.S. PGA Championship. More...

American Brendan Steele held his nerve on an error-free back nine for a one-shot victory over compatriots Kevin Chappell and Charley Hoffman to clinch his maiden PGA Tour title at the Texas Open on Sunday. More...

Even the most optimistic among us had to believe that Rory McIlroy was going to trip up at some point in the Masters, but since Augusta was sealed off for another year to the rest of the world, you'd think McIlroy's collapse in the final round was one of the great mysteries of life, like the...

The pair of Sophie Gustafson and Anna Nordqvist combined to shoot a four-under 68 on Sunday to give Sweden a successful title defense at the European Nations Cup. More...

Italy's Matteo Manassero closed with a four-under 68 Sunday to pick up a one-stroke win at the Malaysian Open. More...

Just watched Kevin Na butcher the 9th hole. Tee shot into the forest. Evaluates the situation and takes an unplayable and heads back to the tee. So far so good. Hits #3 back into the same forest. Oops. This is where the brain disconnects. Hits a provisional off the tee. Turns out this...

Rory McIlroy fired a second round eight-under-par 64 to soar joint top of the Malaysian Open on Friday, defying the jet-lag and exhaustion that nearly got the better of U.S. Masters winner Charl Schwartzel. More...

Banff Springs is getting another visit from the shooting stars. It won't be announced until some of this snow melts, but multiple sources have confirmed the 2011 Telus World Skins Game will be contested at Stanley Thompson's award-winning golf course in Banff National Park. More...

A young golfer tries to sleep Saturday night, knowing a major championship is within his grasp. More...

It would appear that Rory is one hell of a resilient guy. He just shot 69, 64 in the first two rounds of the Malaysian Open tying him for first at 11 under par. I hope he finishes with the same confidence. Go Rory! *

U.S. Masters champion Charl Schwartzel was just happy to stay awake after carding an opening round one-over-par 73 at the Malaysian Open on Thursday. More...

Embarrassing revelations about Tiger Woods's personal life and the golfer's subsequent decline in form have done little to quell Asia's adulation for the former world number one, Nike's head of golf has told Reuters. More...

South Africa will stage the richest single tournament in the sport when it launches a new World Golf Championship (WGC) event next year, Sunshine Tour commissioner Gareth Tindall said on Tuesday. More...

Aside from his experience, his love for the course and his uncanny short game, for defending champ Phil Mickelson, this Masters will be about two things: long and longer. More...