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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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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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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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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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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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Final match play scores from the Women’s Trans National Amateur, played July 20-25 at the par-72, 7,400-yard Tennessee National Golf Club in Loudon, Tenn.:
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Scores with relation to par from the third round of the RBC Canadian Open, played July 26 at the par-72, 7,222-yard Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ontario:
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Final scores with relation to par from the Cox Classic, played July 23-26 at the par 71, 7,145-yard Champions Run Golf Course in Omaha, Neb.:
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Final scores with relation to par from the SWALEC Wales Challenge, played July 23-26 at the par-72, 7,266-yard Vale Hotel and Golf Spa in Cardiff, Wales (note: a-amateur):
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Ricardo Gonzalez has won the SAS Masters by two strokes, making birdies on five of the final six holes for his first European Tour victory.
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Final scores with earnings and relation to par from the Indonesia President Invitational, played July 23-26 at the par-72 Damai Indah Golf (Bumi Serpong Damai) in Jakarta, Indonesia (Note: a-amateur):
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Final scores with earnings and relation to par from the Nagashima Shigeo Invitational, played July 23-26 at the par-72 The North Country Golf Club in Hokkaido, Japan (Note: earnings in yen; a-amateur):
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Final scores with relation to par from the USI Championship, played July 24-26 at the par-72, 6,620-yard Beaver Meadow Golf Course in Concord, N.H. (Note: a-amateur):
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Tom Watson had a few words to describe his two-week visit to Britain.
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Loren Roberts has won his second Senior British Open title, beating Mark McNulty of Zimbabwe on the third hole of a sudden death playoff.
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