Jordan Spieth’s efforts to get his game back on track before the season’s first major continue. Struggling for much of the season, Spieth showed brief signs of his former self last week in Austin before failing to advance from group play. Thursday at the Valero Texas Open, he put together a solid round of 4-under […]
Monthly Archives: April 2019
SAN ANTONIO – Si Woo Kim birdied five of his final eight holes Thursday for a 6-under 66 and the first-round lead at the Valero Texas Open. Kim, the 2017 Players Championship winner, leads by a shot over Abraham Ancer, J.T. Poston, Brian Stuard and Jhonattan Vegas. He’s two ahead of a group that includes Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth at the PGA Tour’s last stop […]
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Nobody experienced the range of emotions Annie Park felt in Thursday’s first round of the ANA Inspiration. She awakened excited to play the year’s first major, only to discover the back window of her car was smashed and her golf clubs were stolen from the parking lot of her Palm Desert […]
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Michelle Wie looked as if she might be staggering to another disappointing start Thursday at the ANA Inspiration. Maybe another short-lived one. At 5 over through eight holes, she looked as if she were quickly playing herself out of the year’s first major championship, a development sure to ignite new questions […]
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Cristie Kerr’s growing family and wine business raised questions last year about how much she could continue pouring herself into golf. She’s delivering some feisty answers with her clubs again. At 41, she doesn’t look as if she’s ready to fade away anytime soon. With a 2-under-par 70 Thursday at the […]
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Ally McDonald would love to follow in Pernilla Lindberg’s footsteps. She would love to pull a giant upset and win the ANA Inspiration. Yes, McDonald says it’s way too early to start thinking about that, but she is the first-round leader at Mission Hills after an opening 68. Like Lindberg, she’s bidding […]
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After an opening, 4-under 68 that left him two shots off the 18-hole lead at the Valero Texas Open, most wondered how Jordan Spieth would follow up his performance on Day 2. Pretty, pretty, pretty good. After bogeys on two of his first three holes – having started on the back nine Friday – Spieth […]
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – The Spaniards, English and Swedes are lining up as a potentially formidable nucleus of this year’s European Solheim Cup team with qualifying intensifying at the ANA Inspiration. Carlota Ciganda is off to a promising start this season. She tied for second at the Bank of Hope Founders Cup two weeks ago […]
Leonie Harm’s presence at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur is nothing less than a miracle. In 2013, Harm was in a German hospital with doctors telling her family she had less than a 1 percent chance of living. Instead, she recovered and has made the most of her second chance at life, becoming one of […]