Phoenix Open (golf)

The Sports Xchange By Tom LaMarre, The Sports Xchange Golf notebook: Fans cheer, jeer Singh --Vijay Singh received a mixed reception from fans in round one at the Players Championship after filing suit against the PGA Tour for, in part, "public...

The Sports Xchange By Tom LaMarre, The Sports Xchange Golf notebook: Singh escapes PED controversy without sanction --We might never know exactly what went down behind the scenes in the Deer Antler Spray Incident, in which Vijay Singh admitted using...

Phil Mickelson, who has struggled mightily at times this year, heads a big-name field with some star power on the leaderboard in the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow. Mickelson sank a 40-foot birdie putt at No. 9 during a round of five-under-par...

The Sports Xchange By Tom LaMarre, The Sports Xchange EditorsNote: Making fixes in 9. Webb Simpson and No. 19. Graeme McDowell Golf rankings, player capsules The Sports Xchange's 2013 PGA Tour rankings, selected by TSX Golf Staff, based on 2012-2013...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jack Nicklaus was trying to remember the last time Tiger Woods won a major title.  Three and a half years ago?  Nope, longer than that.  ‘‘Really?’’ Nicklaus shot back incredulously, when told Woods&...

Saturday was moving day at the Northern Trust Open and no player was more moved than Bill Haas. He was also inspired and motivated even if he was relatively unchallenged. The tournament's defending champion shot up the leaderboard with a brilliantly...

Let's call it "The Differential" — the difference between the weather at the golf course you're on and the weather you've just escaped. Here's an example: Chicago: cloudy, high of 28, low of 12, wind from the southwest at 16 to 23 mph, chance of...

Ben Hogan bought the fairway to heaven, Humphrey Bogart no longer stands pickled and perched beneath the sycamore on No. 12 and member Jim Murray isn't around to describe Riviera Country Club, as he once did, as "like a coquettish woman who winks at you...

The top player in golf isn't in the Northern Trust Open field this week at Riviera Country Club and his name isn't Tiger Woods. Rory Mcllroy, the Northern Ireland four-club clover who is still ahead of No. 2 Woods in the World Golf Rankings, took a...

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Brandt Snedeker goes into the weekend at Pebble Beach with another chance to win, this time without golf's biggest stars in his way.   Snedeker played bogey-free at tough Spyglass Hill on Friday for a 4-under 68,...

Phil Mickelson held off a last-day charge by playing partner Brandt Snedeker to end a week of scintillating golf with a four-shot triumph at the Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona on Sunday. Left-hander Mickelson birdied three of the last six holes to...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Phil Mickelson's 5-iron shot sailed long and right on the par-3 seventh, stopping an inch from the fringe and leaving him in danger of losing at least a stroke to playing partner Brandt Snedeker. Mickelson ended up...