PGA Golf News

There are plenty of golfers in contention for the HP Byron Nelson Championship , but some players need a bigger performance than others.

Former US Open champion Rory McIlroy is set to split with his Irish-based management company and organise his own business affairs, says a friend.

There are two options, basically. One, find a comfortable spot and stay there while the golfers parade past.

John Daly's win at the 1991 PGA Championship is certainly one of the most unexpected major victories of all time.

Much like in the business cycle, golfers on the PGA Tour boom and slump. Perhaps, it's not over such predictable intervals, and without such apparent cause as in the world of commerce, PGA Tour golfers are apt to find their games a bit frostier, their mechanics a bit mushier and their paychecks a bit smaller at times.

Keegan Bradley still hasn't gotten things right on the 18th hole at the Byron Nelson Championship, even when finally going left.

Officials at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial will welcome nine of the top 30 players in the world golf rankings to Fort Worth for next week's PGA Tour stop.

The last time she was at Colonial, there were so many people she couldn't see much beyond the grass in front of her.

Nicolas Colsaerts and Graeme McDowell contested the final 12 months ago and today set up a quarter-final clash at the Volvo World Match Play Championship after both almost blew massive leads at the last-16 stage.

His was a life in two acts, neither of which he would have scripted for himself.

Professional golfers are not, and rarely ever have been, elite athletes in the traditional sense.

Former UT Arlington golfer Zack Fischer made his first cut on the PGA Tour after firing a bogey-free 65 in Friday's second round of the HP Byron Nelson Championship Fischer and another former UTA golfer, Bobby Massa, each shot 5 under in the Monday qualifier at the Lakes at Castle Hills in Lewisville to earn two of the four qualifying spots.

Australia's Mark Leishman fired five first-round birdies at the US PGA Tour's Byron Nelson Championship, but remains six shots off the pace thanks to a sizzling start by American Keegan Bradley.

The USGA will announce its final decision on whether to ban anchored putting -- in other words, belly putter and long putters that are "anchored" against the body -- at a news conference Tuesday at USGA headquarters in Far Hills, N.J. The 8 a.m. press conference will be broadcast live on Golf Channel.

A person with knowledge of the decision tells The Associated Press that McIlroy will build his new company with his father, close friends and associates.

Tom Watson wanted it that way. As the United States captain for the 2014 matches at the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, Scotland, Watson wanted an additional player to qualify on merit.

Ian Poulter and Nicolas Colsaerts face a battle to remain in the Volvo World Match Play Championship after losing their opening group games.

The latest evidence comes from well-established Tour nice-guy Rocco Mediate, who, during a recent appearance on Golf Channel's "Feherty," recalled a Tiger memory from the 2009 Players Championship.

Available online through www.hpbnc.org or Ticketmaster.com. Tickets can be purchased at the gate.

Late on Wednesday afternoon, I watched Keegan Bradley on the range, nearly by his lonesome, pounding 6-irons into the Dallas mist.