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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.

Evan Vollerthum goes from caddying for members at Caves Valley to carrying victor Scott McCarron's bag at the Constellation Senior Players Championship.

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

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

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

With on-course temperatures in the 80s when the first group teed off a little bit before 8 a.m., and the heat index expected to reach triple digits later, several players took advantage.

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

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.

Phil Mickelson has withdrawn from the U.S. Open, realizing there was no chance to get from his daughter's high school graduation in California to make his tee

Billy Andrade hopes to slow Bernhard Langer's dominance of the Champions Tour when the Constellation Senior Players Championship comes to Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills in July.

Under Armour to debut Jordan Spieth signature golf shoe

Everyone is watching, everyone is curious, and Jordan Spieth had the perfect view of Tiger Woods for his return to golf.

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

Curry didn't finish how he wanted but his widely lampooned "Chef" shoes and Under Armour appear to have come out ahead.

A lot of Father's Day narratives will unfold between the time I submit this on Sunday morning and the time you read it on Monday (or maybe even Tuesday or

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.

Under Armour opens 'immersive' gold experience in Chicago

The rust — not to mention his lack of pliability — was painfully evident when he put three straight shots with a sand wedge Monday into a pond by the 10th green at Congressional Country Club, where Woods made an appearance to publicize next month's Quickens Loans National, which he hosts each year.

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

His score of 17 under par wasn't quite good enough to overtake Jason Day at the PGA Championship, but runner-up Jordan Spieth walks away with a nice consolation.

The South Carroll rising senior is learning how to control his mental game as the tournaments and levels of competition get better.

On July 13, Clifton Park will celebrate its 100-year anniversary with a reunion outing -- replete with hickory-shafted clubs and replica turn-of-the-20th-century golf balls -- the first of three commemorative events over the next three months

Spieth¿s ascent means mIllions in Under Armour media exposure. Company charting his progress.

Like gnats, wind gusts and plodding players, cellphones can be surpassingly irritating on the golf course.

South Korea's International Crown golf team wants to lift a country that's in mourning after a ferry accident that took the lives of more than 300 — most of them high school students — after the MV Sewol capsized and sank in April.

Lexi Thompson first asked her parents the question when she was 12 and had become the youngest player ever to qualify for the U.S. Women's Open. She wanted to know when she could play regularly on the LPGA Tour.

Rich Thomas has run more than two dozen professional golf events over the past 14 years, but from its inception more than year ago the LPGA's International Crown at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills has felt different to its tournament director. "It's not even close," Thomas said.

After making a 15-footer to avoid double-bogey on the final hole of regulation, Justin Rose beat Shawn Stefani on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.

Patrick Reed is not interested in talking about being top five in the world. He only cares about PGA Tour victory No. 4.

Tiger Woods never felt so good after playing so badly. Taking two shots to escape a plugged lie in a bunker put him a hole. Four straight bogeys on the back nine Friday in the Quicken Loans National buried his chances of making it to the weekend. Over two rounds at Congressional, he missed 16 greens and managed to save par only three times. Woods was back ¿ just not for very long.

Birdie runs seemed to be the biggest difference between an average score and a good score in the opening round of the Quicken Loans National on Thursday at Congressional Country Club.

Tiger Woods said earlier this week that he didn't know what to expect in his first competitive round in more than three months after back surgery.

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.

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.

Six-time Rolling Road club champion Bassler tried to qualify for U.S. Open

Peter Chen has come to realize that golf is a game that old men can play well. While it's difficult for the game's current stars to shoot their age, the now 87-year-old Chen does it all the time.

No round of professional golf can be played on the Blue Course at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda without, it seems, comparing it to the events of two years ago, to the 111th U.S. Open in which Rory McIlroy appeared to make a mockery of the place.

Baltimore's homegrown all-time Olympic hero was willing to serve his golf apprenticeship in front of a cable television audience as part of the Golf Channel series "The Haney Project." Now Michael Phelps is ready to take his new avocation to another level.

Tiger Woods probably won't say it -- at least not yet -- but he could say of Rory McIlroy, "He plays a game with which I was once familiar."