Recovering from a late collapse, Troy Matteson birdied the second playoff hole to beat Jamie Lovemark and Rickie Fowler in the Frys.com Open on Sunday at Grayhawk Golf Club.
Luke Dempsey, Chris Pascoe and Sean Young earned All-State honors in leading Potomac State to Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association golf championship last week at Penn National.
Nothing has come easily to Tadd Fujikawa.
Tiger Woods provided a fitting conclusion Sunday to a perfect week at the Presidents Cup, for him and an American team that remains perfect at home.
The Potomac State College golf team claimed its fourth straight victory at the Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference (WPCC) Championships Saturday, making it four in a row for the second time in school history, the first being 2000-03. The current streak started in 2006 and continued on Saturday with a 50-shot win over Butler County Community College.
Lorena Ochoa successfully defended her Navistar LPGA Classic title, overcoming early troubles to shoot a 2-under 70 on Sunday for a four-stroke victory over Michelle Wie and Brittany Lang.
Jay Haas took advantage of Tom Watson’s uncharacteristic bogeys and passive play to steal the final Champions Tour major of the year.
Even after eight decades of golf, Arnold Palmer is vulnerable to a few surprises.
Phil Mickelson had the smaller check and felt like the biggest winner. Tiger Woods was congratulated after he finished second in the Tour Championship.
Sunday was the eighth time that golf’s two biggest stars finished 1-2 in a tournament.
Kenny Perry already has had a week to remember at the Tour Championship.
The GKV team won the gross division in play at Rocky Gap, and the Chessie Federal Credit Union team won the gross division title at the Cumberland Country Club in the Western Maryland Health System Foundation Golf Classic, a 48-team event held at the two local golf courses on Friday.
PGA Tour officials would like you to believe no trophy is tougher to win than the FedEx Cup.
Brady Donaldson’s led the field with a 39 to Southern to victory in a tri-match with Northern and Fort Hill Tuesday at the Oakland Golf Club.
Berkeley Springs came in at 351 to claim the team championship in the annual Potomac Valley Conference Golf Championships Monday at Polish Pines Golf Course, with the Indians’ Zach Solomon taking low medalist with 82.
Butchy Blank knew he just needed to halve the final hole for Cumberland Country Club to retain the Carroll Boggs Cup with a tie, but the former Fort High High School football standout ended up winning the hole and his match to give his team a 12 1/2 to 11 1/2 victory over host Maplehurst Country Club in the two-day event that concluded with 12 singles matches on Sunday afternoon.
Tiger Woods’ only way out was a 3-iron through a 20-foot wide corridor of fans and 30-foot high canopy of trees. For his next shot, he had to hook a 9-iron around another big tree and try to bounce it up a ramp onto the green.
Kevin Robison, of the Maplehurst Country Club, lines up a putt on the 9th hole during the first day of the Boggs Cup at the Maplehurst Country Club
Moorefield’s Brandon Barr had the shot of the day, and it helped lift Moorefield to a one-stroke victory over Petersburg in high school golf action Thursday at the Valley View Country Club.
The Carroll Boggs Cup, an annual match-play battle between top golfers from the Maplehurst and Cumberland country clubs, resumes Saturday at Maplehurst with 9 a.m. fourball matches.
Austin Doerr shot a 78 to win low medalist honors and lead Northern to the Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference golf championship in convincing fashion Tuesday at The Wisp.
Steve Stricker was among eight players who had at least a share of the lead Sunday in the Deutsche Bank Championship. He also knew how much each shot mattered.
Jack Nicklaus has a tee time again at the Masters.
In a final hour of surprises, Heath Slocum delivered the biggest one Sunday at The Barclays.
Webb Simpson looked at the scores and the weather, neither of which indicated an easy time Friday at Liberty National.
Brady Donaldson shot a 41 and Billy Gindlesberger had a 43 to lead Southern to victory over Frankfort, Fort Hill at Mountain Ridge in a high school golf quadrangular Thursday afternoon at Rocky Gap.
Petersburg’s Cameron Oates set a high school course record at the Valley View Country Club, and Northern pulled out a team victory in a five-team Tuesday afternoon match that had the top four teams separated by just four strokes.
The United States didn’t want to be called the favorites at the Solheim Cup.
Ryan Moore spent plenty of time this week sitting around and waiting at Sedgefield Country Club. A few extra moments weren’t going to bother him.
Zach Evans had a match-low 37 to lead Tucker County in a high school quadrangular golf match Thursday at Canaan Valley Resort.
Seth Mongold, Jordan Maddy and Quincy Fraley carded 41s to help Moorefield to a win in a quadrangular high school golf match Tuesday at Valley View Country Club.
Tiger Woods is a step closer to adding another major title to his name: Olympian.
Tiger Woods has said he was not fined by the PGA Tour for his critical remarks about a rules official putting the last group on the clock at Firestone.
The battle was everything Tiger Woods expected. The finish was nothing anyone imagined, except for Woods hoisting another World Golf Championship trophy at Firestone.
Padraig Harrington responded to a late charge by Tiger Woods with one of his own Saturday and shot a 3-under 67 at rain-softened Firestone to build a three-shot lead going into the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational.
The practice sessions have been a little sharper, his optimism much greater. Phil Mickelson isn’t sure how that will translate on the golf course, and he’s not sure that even matters at the moment.
Twelve-time West Virginia Amateur winner Pat Carter likes to think he can still make a run at another championship.
Fred Funk took a back-nine victory lap in the U.S. Senior Open.
Tiger Woods played a lot like the guy who didn’t make the cut at the British Open.
Barring any scheduling surprises, Tiger Woods is about to try something new.
Loren Roberts of the United States won his second Senior British Open title on Sunday, beating Mark McNulty on the third hole of a sudden death playoff.
Fred Funk shot a 5-under 65 for a three-shot lead at the Senior British Open on Friday.
Tom Watson was among the British Open champions whom the R&A consulted when it decided the game was getting younger and it was time to lower the age limit to 60 for winners of golf’s oldest championship.
Hit a few loose shots or three-putt the first green at Nullarbor Links and you’ll have plenty of time to think about your errant ways before teeing off at the second.
Tom Watson has a plan to win the British Open. It no longer reads like a fairy tale.
Steve Marino got a kick out of playing links golf for the first time. Took right to it, in fact.
The obligatory handshakes were over, and there wasn’t much left for Tiger Woods to do other than sign his scorecard and tell his pilot to gas up the Gulfstream.
Adam Scott embraces his Australian golf heritage and the comparisons to major champions whom he would like to join someday, the sooner the better. This one, however, made him wince.
Cristie Kerr is feeling a sense of calm only a former U.S. Women’s Open champion could understand.
Tiger Woods is 33 and already has more PGA Tour victories than Arnold Palmer. One of these days, he might have the kind of influence on players that the King can wield with a mere glint in his eye.
Tiger Woods watched good friend Roger Federer in the championship match at Wimbledon for as long as he could before heading out to prepare for the final round of the AT&T National.
Anthony Kim pressed a cell phone against his ear as he listened to Tiger Woods, the tournament host of the AT&T National, congratulate him on another impressive victory that seemed to mark the arrival of America’s next great golfer.
David Bradshaw found some life in his putter to win his fourth West Virginia Open.
Morgantown’s Chris McGinnis could sleep a little easier knowing he put himself in contention at the West Virginia Open after riding a strong front nine to take the first-day lead at Oglebay Resort.
Somehow, the can’t-miss kid did.
Champions Tour golfer Ken Green, who was injured in a recreational vehicle crash in Mississippi that killed his brother and girlfriend, will have his lower right leg amputated, his agent said Sunday.
David Duval is playing an American major for the first time in nearly three years, excited to have qualified for the U.S. Open because of how much he likes the Black Course at Bethpage State Black.
Billy Hofmann, of Vienna, Va., found the Cumberland Country Club course to his liking in his first trip to Cumberland and shot a four-under par 67 to tie three-time former champion Dirk Schultz of Hagerstown for the championship in the 43rd annual Carroll Boggs Railey Realty Middle-Atlantic PGA Pro-Am on Friday.
The question came at John Daly a variety of ways Wednesday, and he tried deflecting them with jokes.
No one is surprised when Tiger Woods wins a golf tournament.
In-Kyung Kim crouched and grimaced when the ball stopped on the edge of the cup on her final hole. Moments later, she couldn’t hide her smile.
Two holes, two towering shots, two clutch birdies.
Top professional golfers from the region as well as some of the best amateurs from local clubs in the tri-state area will be teeing off in the 43rd annual Carroll Boggs Railey Realty Middle-Atlantic PGA Pro-Am at the Cumberland Country Club on Friday.
One last birdie for Jim Furyk put him one more stroke under par, which he found more gratifying than being in a share of the lead with Jonathan Byrd on Friday at the Memorial.
Tiger Woods hardly missed a fairway, a big improvement. Luke Donald hardly missed a putt, and that was far more rewarding Thursday at the Memorial.
Beneath a gray sky and dreary rain, thousands of colorful umbrellas framed both sides of every fairway at Muirfield Village. On a miserable day to watch golf, no one was about to miss a single shot.
The morning calm at Muirfield Village was shattered by a sound that was sure to be sweet music to players.
Steve Stricker blew a final-round lead right after he took it and gave away another stroke by missing a short par putt down the stretch.
With $12.7 million in career earnings on the PGA Tour, Tim Clark has the dubious distinction of winning the most money without winning an event.
From its Ben Hogan trophy room to its status as the longest-running event at its original site, the Colonial Country Club is among the most venerable stops on the PGA Tour.
Vijay Singh stopped playing at the Colonial Country Club when Annika Sorenstam showed up in 2003.
Potomac State College golfer Brian Affleck came up one hole short on his quest to be the first ever National Golf Champion for the school.
Rory Sabbatini had just finished detailing his four consecutive birdies when wife Amy reminded him about the hole before the streak that put him in the lead at the Byron Nelson Championship.
The third round is usually considered moving day in golf tournaments. Darton (Ga.) College took full advantage of moving day by closing the gap on South Mountain (Ariz.) Community College from five strokes to one stroke at the NJCAA Division II National Golf Tournament at Goose Pond Colony.
Phil Mickelson was gearing up for his favorite time of year, working his way toward Bethpage Black and another crack at the U.S. Open before a New York gallery that treats him like a rock star.
Zach Johnson successfully defended his Texas Open title, winning a sudden-death playoff with an unlikely contender.
Defending champion Zach Johnson matched the La Cantera course record with a 10-under 60 on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead in the suspended third round of the rain-soaked Texas Open.
Cristie Kerr made the putt that clinched her second Michelob Ultra Open at Kingsmill on Sunday and almost immediately began lobbying for Anheuser-Busch to renew its commitment to the tournament at the resort along Virginia’s James River.
Henrik Stenson kept bogeys off his card and clothes on his body, earning fame Sunday for a flawless round of golf and a surprising blowout victory in The Players Championship.
Brendan Dillon made it two in a row and so did the Potomac State College golf team, which beat the competition and handled Mother Nature pretty well, too, in repeating as Region XX champions Monday and Tuesday at Pittsburgh National Golf Club.
Standing on the 18th tee, Sean O’Hair asked his caddie where he stood in the Quail Hollow Championship and got word that he had a one-shot lead.
Tiger Woods was furious at how he hit the ball at the Masters, and he said after the final round that he used a “Band-Aid” swing to get around Augusta National in 68.
No longer can anyone say the World Golf Championships are only played in America.
Constant 20 miles-per-hour winds and cold temperatures didn’t seem to bother Brendan Dillon as he posted the best score of the spring season for the Potomac State College golf team in leading the Catamounts over Salem University, 308-321, at the Wisp Golf Resort.
Constant 20 miles-per-hour winds and cold temperatures didn’t seem to bother Brendan Dillon as he posted the best score of the spring season for the Potomac State College golf team in leading the Catamounts over Salem University, 308-321, at the Wisp Golf Resort.
Arnold Palmer can appreciate a good rivalry, even if he’s not part of it.
The Masters delivered the show everyone wanted and a champion no one expected.
A local membership program has returned to Rocky Gap Lodge and Golf Resort.
