Archive for 'December,2012 '

Top Five: Arizona/Phoenix

Top Five: Arizona/Phoenix

Where’s the best place to play golf on the West Coast? We’ll give you hundreds of choices. Golferswest.com begins its annual assessment of the Top Five courses to play within 12 West Coast states and British [...]

Top West Coast courses series begins

Top West Coast courses series begins

It’s that time of year when most of us have swung all that we can swing. The golf clubs are standing idle in the corner, the handicap has been locked in for the winter, you’re taking equipment inventory [...]

Florida golf: Gators and grabby grass

Florida golf: Gators and grabby grass

NAPLES, Fla – For many regions on the West Coast, this time of year anywhere north on a line from Denver to San Francisco you just sit and simmer. Our golf clubs are hung in the [...]

Watch: Watson Ryder captain

Watch: Watson Ryder captain

Tom Watson,  an eight-time major winner who won four of his five Open Championships in Scotland, will captain the team for the second time — 21 years after a 1993 U.S. victory at The Belfry in [...]

‘Best of’ PGA Tour awards

‘Best of’ PGA Tour awards

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL — Nine PGA Tour tournaments were honored with “Best Of” Awards at the Tour’s year-end Tournament Meetings in La Quinta, Ca., on Dec. 6, with the BMW Championship earning “Tournament of the [...]

Heart recipient Erik Compton among the Q-School qualifiers

Heart recipient Erik Compton among the Q-School qualifiers

LA QUINTA, Ca. – Double heart-transplant recipient Erik Compton was among the 26 players who earned fully-exempt PGA Tour cards on the final day of the six-day Qualifying School. The Tour next year will end a [...]

Dong-Hwan Lee wins Q School

Dong-Hwan Lee wins Q School

LA QUINTA, Ca. — Dong-Hwan Lee of South Korea wiped away a single tear when he realized he had earned a ticket to the on the PGA Tour. Moments later, Edward Loar stood tall as he [...]

GMac conquers the World Challenge

GMac conquers the World Challenge

THOUSAND OAKS, Ca. – There was no better way for Graeme McDowell to end the golf season than to win his first tournament in the past two years – at the same course he last won [...]