Ben Crane

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Rickie Fowler and the Masters clash. Let us count the ways. First, there is the color thing. Masters green has a pureness that presents a cooling combination of grass and lime. Fowler green, a shirt-and-pants outfit he wore during...

Running off at the typewriter. … Even Jeff Van Gundy is flabbergasted at how his brother, former Magic coach Stan Van Gundy, has become Dwight Howard's biggest advocate in the past few months. While Dwight has been getting criticized unmercifully...

On the first tee of the first day of Ryder Cup practice this week at Medinah, the surprising intensity of the ovation touched Bubba Watson. To touch Watson's soul, even slightly, is to reach deep inside and turn on his emotional faucet. He might be the...

If you haven’t heard the line enough already, you will by the time the weekend reaches the finish. TPC Sawgrass favors no golfer. Bombers have won The Players Championship (Phil Mickelson, Fred Couples). Popguns have won it (Fred Funk, Tim Clark)....

Phil Mickelson, a two-time winner of the Humana Challenge golf tournament in La Quinta, formerly known as the Bob Hope Classic, has a double bogey, a bogey, three birdies and four pars on the first nine holes of his second round Friday....

Mark Wilson could challenge course-record 59 at Humana Challenge....

Winds halt play at Humana Challenge golf tournament....

Mark Wilson leads after three rounds of Humana Challenge as Phil Mickelson makes the cut....

Phil Mickelson is back, teeing it up for the 23rd time not far from his back yard. Dustin Johnson and Bubba Watson are around, too. And Ernie Els and Vijay Singh and Nick Watney and Hunter Mahan. Not bad for a “lackluster” event. That’...

After a roller-coaster tandem of weekends, Kyle Stanley is taking this week off to catch his breath. After rising from Torrey Pines’ ashes to Phoenix Open victory, we’d say he’s earned it. At some point, he might want to take a few...

Tiger Woods will take on a WGC Match Play newcomer when he opens against Spain’s Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano this week at Dove Mountain, with an eye on a couple of potential marquee matches in the second and third rounds. British Open champion...

The body feels as good as anytime in recent memory. The major swing overhaul is done. He's filled the caddie vacancy. All that's left is for Tiger Woods to test himself in the heat of battle. And there may be no better place than at the Frys.com Open,...