Paul Goydos

The PGA Championship looked a lot like the U.S. Open, with only seven players under par when darkness finally covered Oakland Hills yesterday and put "The Monster" to sleep. It sounded like a U.S. Open, too. "There's only one guy who's going to like...

J.B. Holmes and his monster length turned out to be a good fit for Oakland Hills. With a black glove on his hand and a scowl on his face, Holmes hammered one tee shot after another Friday and kept most of them in the short grass, leading to a 2-under...

PGA CHAMPIONSHIP AT OAKLAND HILLS G.C. Second round, par-70 139 (1-under) J.B. Holmes 71-68 140 (Even) Charlie Wi 70-70; Ben Curtis 73-67; Justin Rose 73-67 141 (1-over) David Toms 72-69; Henrik Stenson 71-70 142 (2-over) Angel...

The PGA Championship had been building a reputation as the major to make birdies. That gave way Thursday to the reputation of Oakland Hills. Round one went to The Monster. "It was a real beast today," Ernie Els said. Only seven players from the 156-man...

In betting parlors and inside the ropes, Sergio Garcia has never had better odds of winning a major. No one has more top 10s in the British Open this decade than Garcia, who has gone into the final round within four shots of the lead six times in the...

Royal Birkdale has a reputation as the fairest of all links courses in the British Open rotation. Its fairways have been shaped alongside the picturesque sand dunes of the Lancashire coast in England, instead of going through them, which eliminates...

Two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal failed to qualify for the British Open on Monday when he took bogey on the third hole of a playoff. Olazabal has been struggling with fatigue after returning in March from seven months out with rheumatism....

Identifying an upside to Tiger Woods' sabbatical is as daunting a task as locating a flaw in his game, but it appears as if we will have at least until the end of 2008 to conduct such a search. For starters, though, our first impulse is that his...

The youth movement in golf was going strong in the summer of 1997. Tiger Woods was coming off his first major championship, a 12-shot victory at the Masters to become its youngest champion at 21. Two months later at Congressional, 27-year-old Ernie Els...

Superstar Tiger Woods and journeyman pro golfer Paul Goydos don't have a lot in common other than they both make a living hitting a little white ball around a big backyard on weekends.Woods has won more tournaments in a single month than......

With a smiling kiss of that Scotty Cameron putter, the demons were lifted. Sergio Garcia can be a golfer instead of a bad putter. Now that's what a champion looks like as Garcia stood on the par-3 17th green after winning a one-hole playoff Sunday at...