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• On Course

Renditions Golf Course

A spotlight look at Renditions Golf Course in Davidsonville, an 18-hole facility playing to a par 72 that features replica holes from courses that have previously hosted golf's major championships. This year, three of the PGA tour's major championships are at venues featured by Renditions.

By Brent Kennedy

Jun 1, 2018

• Sports

Tiger Woods heads to Augusta, giving golf a Masters boost many did not see happening

Twenty-one years after Woods shook the game’s landscape with his first, record-breaking, barrier-shattering victory in the Masters, and nearly five seasons removed from his last PGA Tour victory, his extraordinary comeback from four back surgeries is giving golf a boost many never saw coming.

• Tennis

Digest: Frances Tiafoe ends Alexander Zverev's 10-match win streak

Digest: Frances Tiafoe ends Alexander Zverev's 10-match win streak

• Sports

Jordan Spieth leans on Michael Phelps to help with mental approach 

If Jordan Spieth needs some help with the mental aspect of his game during this pressure-packed week of golf, he knows exactly where to turn. Michael Phelps is right there for him.

• Golf

Once struck by lightning, Scooter Clark hopes to bottle it at The First Tee of Greater Baltimore

Former Maryland golfer comes home to help grow the game for Baltimore-area youth.

By Don Markus

Jul 19, 2017

• Sports

Langer takes one-shot lead into final round at Senior Players Championship after Jobe's two late bogeys

After Brandt Jobe bogeyed the 16th and 17th holes, Bernhard Langer took a one-shot lead into final round at Caves Valley.

By Don Markus

Jul 15, 2017

• Maryland

Notes: Scott McCarron 'solid' in keeping pace at Senior Players Championship

Scott McCarron's third year on the PGA Tour Champions has been a successful one.

• Golf

Bernhard Langer takes lead at Caves Valley before second-round play is delayed a second time

Langer moves into the lead at the Constellation Senior Players Championship.

By Don Markus

Jul 14, 2017

• Golf

McCarron jumps into second-round lead in Senior Players Championship at Caves Valley

With five birdies in is first eight holes, McCarron moves past first-round leader Larry Mize

By Don Markus

Jul 14, 2017

• Golf

Thirty years after career chip, first-round leader Larry Mize hopes to add his first big Senior moment

Larry Mize takes a one-shot lead over Bernhard Langer, Corey Pavin and Steve Flesch in the Constellation Senior Players Championship.

By Don Markus

Jul 13, 2017

• Golf

Langer, Pavin take early first-round lead at Caves Valley at 7-under par 65

Three-time defending champion Bernhard Langer is looking for his third major title this year while Corey Pavin is seeking only his second overall win on the PGA Tour champions

By Don Markus

Jul 13, 2017

• Golf

Wide-open field, demanding Caves Valley stand between Bernhard Langer and senior golf history

Langer is trying to become the first player in the history of what is now called the PGA Tour Champions to make it four straight wins at a major.

By Don Markus

Jul 12, 2017

• Golf

After being 'fed up' with golf and nearly retiring, rejuvenated Kenny Perry eyes second straight major title

Kenny Perry, 56, wants to replicate his two-major stretch in 2013.

• Sports

Hitting stretch run of careers, PGA Tour Champions golfers spend a lot of time ... well, stretching

Training and treatment are part of the daily regimen on the PGA Tour Champions, especially for three-time defending Senior Players Championship winner Bernhard Langer.

By Don Markus

Jul 11, 2017

• Golf

Caves Valley is setting up to be the 'crown jewel' of courses used for the Constellation Senior Players Championship

Caves Valley golf superintendent Steve Glossinger, who has been at the Owings Mills club for the past 20 years, will be prepping the course for its second major on the PGA Tour Champions

By Don Markus

Jul 10, 2017

• Golf

Former Senior Players champion Fred Couples withdraws from Caves Valley event with back injury

The Constellation Senior Players Championship has lost one of its biggest draws -- former Masters champion Fred Couples.

By Don Markus

Jul 10, 2017

• Golf

Q&A: Four! Bernhard Langer seeks to extend streak of three straight Senior Players titles

Three-time defending Constellation Senior Players Championship titlist considers himself 'fortunate and blessed.'

By Peter Schmuck

Jul 9, 2017

• Maryland

Caves Valley Golf Club, exclusive as ever, survived changing corporate landscape

Created with a goal of enhancing Baltimore's prestige and ability to attract businesses to the region, Caves Valley Golf Club has weathered waves of national corporate consolidations and relocations that thinned the pool of prospective members. Many of the companies whose leaders were instrumental in the Owings Mills club's 1991 opening have long since been acquired by others.

By Jeff Barker

Jul 9, 2017

• Sports

John Daly, Fred Couples on mend as PGA Tour Champions heads to Baltimore

John Daly and Fred Couples nursing injuries headed into Senior Players Championship

By Don Markus

Jul 5, 2017

• Golf

Bernhard Langer is on a roll heading into the PGA Tour Champions’ gantlet of 3 majors in 5 weeks

PGA Tour Champions golf star Bernhard Langer doesn't do much extra to prepare for senior golf majors like this weekend's U.S. Senior Open Championship. All he does is win them.

By Don Markus

Jun 24, 2017

• Business

Pimlico likely needs 'complete rebuild' to preserve Preakness, owner says

Pimlico is reimagined but hard realities remain. The 147-year-old track could be part of new, mixed-use development but the owner said that represents a 'high-risk gamble.'

By Jeff Barker

May 15, 2017

• Horse Racing

Digest: Jockey McCarthy, trainers Rice, Magee claim Laurel winter-spring meet titles

Digest: Jockey McCarthy, trainers Rice, Magee claim Laurel winter-spring meet titles

• Obituaries

Kyle M. Anderson, federal Department of Housing and Urban Development worker

Kyle Matthew Anderson, 58, a retired federal department of Housing and Urban Development branch chief, died of cancer Nov. 24 at his home in the Milford Mill section of Baltimore County.

By Jacques Kelly

Nov 30, 2016

• Golf

A year after losing his father, Billy Hurley III finds first PGA Tour victory

Billy Hurley III got more than just his first PGA Tour victory Sunday in the Quicken Loans National at Congressional Country Club. The 2004 Naval Academy

By Don Markus

Jun 27, 2016

• Golf

Champions Tour stars play Caves Valley, 'fantastic venue' for 2017 Senior Players Championship

Bernhard Langer had a busy weekend. He won the wind-swept Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship in Philadelphia on Sunday, then joined 11 other members of the PGA Champions Tour for an outing Monday at Caves Valley Golf Club.

By Peter Schmuck

Jun 13, 2016

• Opinion

Maryland-Kansas call comes in midst of remarkable run by Jim Nantz

Jim Nantz is heading down the home stretch of another remarkable run behind the play-by-play microphone for CBS Sports.

By David Zurawik

Mar 23, 2016

• Golf

Senior Players Championship coming to Caves Valley in 2017

Caves Valley Golf Course, which hosted the 2014 LPGA International Crown, will again be home to another professional golf event in 2017.

• Business

Under Armour gets boost from Jordan Spieth, Paul Dunne at British Open

Jordan Spieth and Paul Dunne showcased Under Armours golf brand Sunday at the British Open, and the Baltimore apparel company is hoping for more in Mondays final round.

By Jeff Barker

Jul 20, 2015

• Jordan Spieth

Under Armour's gamble on Jordan Spieth paying off

Jordan Spieth's extended courtship by Under Armour provides a high-profile example of how the Baltimore-based sports apparel company scouts potential endorsers, often targeting young up-and-comers, and how it pays off.

By Jeff Barker

Jun 26, 2015

• Masters Tournament

Shown in Orioles shirt as a kid, Masters winner Jordan Spieth very connected to Baltimore

Jordan Spieth, signed to Under Armour and shown in an Orioles shirt as a child, might need to make a stop in Baltimore on his Masters victory tour.

By Jon Meoli

Apr 13, 2015

• Maryland

Signs of spring finally arrive

All of the harbingers that annually announce the true changing of the seasons are in evidence

• Sports

Sports on TV

• Baltimore County

Catonsville golfer set to tee off in United States Mid-Amateur tournament

Saucon Valley welcomes US Mid Amateur golfers to field

• Golf

Oliver Goss moves into lead after two rounds at Quicken Loans National

• Golf

Tiger Woods shakes off rust in practice round day before Quicken Loans National

Tiger Woods has long been known for wearing red and black on Sunday, his wardrobe of choice for nearly all of his 79 victories on the PGA Tour.

• Golf

Tiger Woods says he's pain-free, but preaches patience as he returns for Quicken Loans National

Tiger Woods returns from a three-month layoff with a slightly different mindset than at other times when he came back from injuries during his career.

• Bar review

After years of inactivity, Silks off to a strong restart

Canton corner bar Silks is a far cry from what it was years ago.

By Wesley Case

Apr 16, 2014

• Maryland

Little-known Castro leads at Congressional

• Maryland

Commentary: Sports is like no other

• Baltimore County

Charles Bassler Sr. had passion for golf until the very end

Charlie Bassler and Sam Snead were friends on golf tour

• Maryland

Dear Coach: Upgrade your subscription and make calls like The Masters

• Golf

Instant analysis on Tiger Woods' two-stroke penalty at the Masters

How some of our columnists and editors feel about the two-stroke penalty given to Tiger Woods at the Masters Saturday.

• Maryland

Commentary: Woods has found his game again, and we can all take pleasure in that

• Golf

Will Tiger Woods win a major this year?

• Maryland

Local golfer playing less, enjoying it more

• Sports

First-time winner Mulieri wins Rolling Road Golf Club crown

Bassler dethroned in bid for sixth Rolling Road title

• Science

On last try, local angler wins White Marlin Open

William Woody, whose love of fishing grew out of his grandparents taking him on the Chesapeake when he was a child in Baltimore, won the biggest prize in this year's White Marlin Open

• Opinion

Women finally fitted for green jackets at Augusta

• Golf

Who will win the PGA Championship?

• Sports

Tiger Woods, if not nature, calls

I swore off 4:30 a.m. wakeup calls for the British Open two years ago, when Louie Oosthuizen introduced himself to the golfing world -- and me -- by winning at St. Andrews in a runaway. But back then, Tiger Woods was in the midst of what seemed to be a never-ending free fall from the top.