For a moment, it looked like the lore of Alexis Thompson might include a page from the Tiger Woods handbook.
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John Hahn didn’t have much match play experience heading into this week’s 107th Western Amateur Championship at Conway Farms Golf Club.
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How’s this for a PGA Championship preview? Padraig Harrington and Tiger Woods in the final group Sunday at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. Paddy leads by three shots.
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Jennifer Song will go for history Sunday at the U.S. Women’s Amateur. Golfweek’s College Player of the Year will face Jennifer Johnson with the chance to win two USGA titles in the same year.
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John Rollins doubled his lead in the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open, shooting a 5-under 67 on Saturday to move four strokes ahead of Ryan Palmer.
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Masters champion Angel Cabrera made a special detour on his way to the Bridgestone Invitational so he could slip on a green jacket at the club where he won a major.
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Two months after wrapping up his college career at Florida, Billy Horschel cashed a big check as a newly-minted professional.
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Scores with relation to par from the third round of the Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open, played Aug. 8 at the par-71, 6,886-yard Crestview Country Club in Wichita, Kan.:
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It’s easy to draw parallels between Jennifer Song’s decision to watch the hyper-active, hyper-violent action flick “Shooter” Friday night and the fact that she cruised into the finals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur the next day.
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Eight players, including Rickie Fowler (pictured), have been named to the U.S. Walker Cup team. Fowler, the world’s top-ranked amateur, helped the U.S. to victory in 2007. An official announcement is scheduled for 1 p.m. today.
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The Greenbrier Resort and the PGA Tour signed a six-year deal Wednesday. The agreement, which was first reported on Golfweek.com, calls for the Greenbrier Classic to be staged next July 29 to Aug. 1, in dates previously held by the Buick Open.
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Nationwide Tour president Bill Calfee told Golfweek he is “99 percent certain” the Nationwide Tour Players Cup, one of the tour’s original $1 million events, will not return in 2010.
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USC teammates, friends and college stars Jennifer Song and Lizette Salas (pictured, inset) meet Thursday in the second round of the U.S. Women’s Amateur. As Ray McCarthy writes, it’s a meeting they both would have liked to schedule for Saturday’s finale.
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Nathan Smith and Mike McCoy both know how difficult it is for a mid-amateur to be selected to the Walker Cup team. They are well aware that only one player from the over 25 set was among the 10 players on the 2007 U.S. team and that no mid-ams were on the 2005 squad.
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Phil Mickelson makes his return to the PGA Tour in what he calls a “much better place” after a summer of watching his wife and mother cope with breast cancer.
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