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She walked around Bighorn Golf Club, this star-struck teenager from Irvine, hanging out inside the ropes with two LPGA stars as she held a scoreboard up high.

Anthony Kim acknowledges the crowd after a birdie in last year's AT&T National. Kim's 65 in the final round produced a two-stroke victory.

Site: Bethesda, Maryland. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: Congressional Country Club, Blue Course .

Long considered one of the top sports cities in the United States, it has been almost six years since the stars of the LPGA Tour have competed in Houston, Texas.

Houston, we have a tour championship. The LPGA announced Tuesday that the Houstonian Golf & Country Club will stage the season-ending 2009 LPGA Tour Championship, returning women's professional golf to Houston after a nearly six-year absence and putting to rest weeks of speculation that the event would not take place.

The LPGA is returning to Houston after a six-year absence. The women's tour announced on Wednesday that the Houstonian Golf & Country Club will stage the season-ending 2009 LPGA Tour Championship.

Back in the 1990s, no place on the planet could boast more professional golf than the Coachella Valley.

RANCHO MIRAGE - Carolyn Bivens doesn't profess to have a crystal ball to tell her how long the current economic downturn will last or what the long-term impact will be on the LPGA Tour.

In women's golf, Michelle Wie gets the headlines and calendar girl Natalie Gulbis gets the reality TV show.

Pros may boycott events at Ikoyi Club -130309 By Eno-Abasi Sunday P ENDING their final decision at the meeting coming up next week Tuesday in Lagos, professional players have vowed to boycott further ...

Three-time Pro Bowl left tackle Tra Thomas signed a three-year contract with the Jaguars, filling the team's most glaring need and moving considerably closer to his Deland, Fla., home.

Maria Sharapova is returning to the WTA Tour this week, ending her injury absence of more than seven months by playing doubles at an event in Indian Wells, Calif.

Where : Torrey Pines South Course Purse : $1 million History : Started by IMG founder Mark McCormack in 1980 with a field of 12 players.

When the Samsung World Championship was being played for the third time at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert in 2006, the rumor racing around the course was the event desperately wanted to move to Torrey Pines ...

Guy Carbonneau was fired as coach of the Montreal Canadiens, hockey's most historic franchise that is in danger of missing the playoffs in its 100th season.

ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO a ' Torrey Pines Golf Course will host an LPGA event for the first time in 27 years under an agreement to hold the Samsung World Championship on the South Course in September.

Questions have always outnumbered answers in the Michelle Wie saga. What happened to her skills? How bad are her wrists? Is her dad too controlling? Does she still want to play against men? To the frustration ...

Seven months ago it was a parking lot, a driving range and a hospitality village for the U.S. Open.

Michelle Wie, the Hawaii teen who has been competing against golf's best players since she was in the seventh grade, turned professional Wednesday.

It's tempting to suggest everyone simply expected so much of Michelle Wie, there's no way she could've delivered.