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Retired NBA player Jayson Williams agreed to a plea deal that could send him to prison for up to three years for accidentally shooting a driver at his New Jersey estate in 2002, a person with knowledge of the case said yesterday.

Those three words summed up both the season-ending LPGA Tour Championship and the organization's troublesome season on Monday when rookie Anna Nordqvist, who finished 25th at Q-School, won the LPGA Championship and played in the Solheim Cup for Europe, shot a final-round 7-under-par 65 at Houstonian Golf and Country Club to win the Tour ...

Michelle Wie withdrew from the season-ending LPGA Tour Championship because of a sprained left ankle Thursday, a few hours after Lorena Ochoa shot a 6-under-par 66 in breezy conditions to take a one-shot lead over Reilley Rankin.

Kristy McPherson fired a five-under 67 on Sunday to move atop the leaderboard during the suspended second round of the LPGA Tour Championship.

The 2010 LPGA Tour schedule is out and it features 23 money events next season. Word was leaked last night by a slew of players that contacted Steve DiMeglio, Beth Ann Baldry, and/or Ron Sirak with a copy of the schedule .

SUGAR LAND, Texas The LPGA released a 2010 schedule Wednesday with the fewest tour events in nearly 40 years.

The Ladies' Professional Golf Association is alive. How well? Maybe give it another year to two to see.

The U.S. LPGA Tour is adding a new $1.7 million tournament at La Costa Resort & Spa outside San Diego in 2010.

The LPGA's struggles to hang onto sponsors was reflected in its schedule for next season as the women's pro golf tour has reduced its number of tournaments to 24 from 27.

The 2010 LPGA season will begin in Thailand on Feb. 18 and end at the LPGA Tour Championship Nov.

Michelle Wie poses with the trophy after winning the Lorena Ochoa Invitational on Sunday in Guadalajara, Mexico.

A list of firsts accomplished by Honolulu golfer Michelle Wie: 10-Youngest to qualify for U.S. Golf Association amateur tournament, the 2000 Women's Amateur Public Links 11-Youngest winner of Jennie K. Wilson Invitational, considered most prestigious women's amateur tournament in Hawai'i 11-First female to qualify for match play in Manoa Cup, ...

AS IF qualifying for an LPGA tournament at age 13 and shooting a hole-in-one during the first round wasn't enough to cap a phenomenal year in amateur golf, Casie Cathrea delivered the knockout encore this past week.

Yesterday, the Huffington Post unveiled its new sports section . The left-leaning site has been covering sports in passing from time to time, but finally announced an official sports function.

In men's golf, when someone mentions "Tiger," we know who they mean. In women's golf, the next big first-name-only star may be "Lexi." All 14-year-old Alexis "Lexi" Thompson has done this year is win the prestigious South Atlantic Ladies Amateur, finish 21st at the LPGA's Kraft Nabisco Championship after receiving a special invitation to play in ...

If the Kraft Nabisco Championship wants to grow its reputation in the golf world, Gabe Codding says the tournament needs the LPGA Tour to be strong and vibrant.

LOS ANGELES, CA, October 30, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Rising LPGA player Brittany Lincicome, keeps her game in top form by spending hours a day putting on a green in her family's backyard.

Amy Alcott, who's playing in the Legends Tour's Kinoshita Pearl Classic at Kapolei this weekend, is the answer to the trivia question: Name the winner of the first LPGA event in Hawai'i. She beat Nancy Lopez and JoAnne Carner by one stroke to win the 1982 Women's Kemper Open at Ka'anapali, Maui.

This is the week that the Kapalua LPGA Classic was to have been played at the Maui resort's Bay Course.

Well it seems that I have started the first of my two off seasons now. After my two tournaments in California, the Samsung World Championship and CVS Pharmacy Shootout, I have started into my stretch of six weeks off.