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| My friend Burt McHugh is about as mild-mannered as a man can be, but now he was being pushed to his limits. I could feel his pain. We had left Philadelphia, where we both live, on a recent Sunday afternoon in a driving rainstorm. We were intent on playing a late-afternoon game at the Yale course, a hilly Charles Blair Macdonald and Seth Raynor track that Burt -- High Orthodox, when it comes to golf, as am I -- played as a member of the Penn golf team 25 or so years ago. The storm followed us on our drive north, but when we got to the course it was merely showering. Still, the course was closed.
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August 18 |
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| Danny Lee, an 18-year-old from New Zealand coming off a tie for 20th in his first PGA Tour event over the weekend, opened with a 1-over 71 in the opening round of stroke play Monday in the U.S. Amateur at Pinehurst.
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| Tiger Woods won't be there; who will be for the Americans is up to Paul Azinger.
When does a no-win situation become a must-win situation? When the U.S. Ryder Cup team shows up at Valhalla Golf Club next month to play hugely favored and two-time defending champion Europe, starting Sept. 19. |
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| Pettersson, a local favorite and former North Carolina State golfer, prevails by two strokes in the tournament at Greensboro, N.C., for his first PGA Tour victory in two years.
Carl Pettersson won his hometown event for his first PGA Tour victory in two years, shooting a two-under-par 68 Sunday for a two-stroke victory in the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C. |
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| Carl Pettersson won his hometown event for his first PGA Tour victory in two years, shooting a 2-under 68 on Sunday for a two-stroke victory in the Wyndham Championship. |
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| ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- Zimbabwe's Brendon de Jonge won the Xerox Classic for his first Nationwide Tour title Sunday, closing with a 1-under 69 at Irondequoit Country Club for a two-stroke victory over Australia's Jarrod Lyle.
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August 17 |
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| Fred Funk won the JELD-WEN Tradition for his first Champions Tour major, closing with a 3-under 69 on Sunday for three-stroke victory over Mike Goodes at the Crosswater Club.
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August 17 |
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| Australia's Katherine Hull won the Canadian Women's Open Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, taking advantage of Yani Tseng's final-round meltdown for a one-stroke victory at Ottawa Hunt.
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August 17 |
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| Zimbabwe's Brendon de Jonge won the Xerox Classic for his first Nationwide Tour title Sunday, closing with a 1-under 69 at Irondequoit Country Club for a two-stroke victory over Australia's Jarrod Lyle.
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August 17 |
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| Carl Pettersson won his hometown event for his first PGA Tour victory in two years, shooting a 2-under 68 on Sunday for a two-stroke victory in the Wyndham Championship.
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| STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Peter Hanson shot 1-over 71 in cold, windy and wet conditions and held on to win the SAS Masters on Sunday for his second career European PGA Tour victory.
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| Swedens Lotta Wahlin beats Germanys Martina Eberl after a play-off at the Wales Ladies Championship of Europe in Machynys. |
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| SUNRIVER, Ore. (AP) -- Even with a widening lead in the final found of the JELD-WEN Tradition, Fred Funk pretended he was trailing.
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| GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Carl Pettersson was one imperfect hole from leading the full final two rounds of the Wyndham Championship. It was that brief slip-up that propelled the Swede to victory in his adopted hometown.
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| TRYON, N.C. (AP) -- There's little doubt Padraig Harrington's victories at the British Open and PGA Championships mark him as one of the world's best golfers.
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