Ryder Cup News

Sang-Moon Bae shot a one-under-par 69 to win the 2013 HP Byron Nelson Championship by two strokes on Sunday, beating out major champion Keegan Bradley at the TPC Four Seasons Resort in Irving, Texas.

Dow Finsterwald Jr. arrived in Fort Worth 26 years ago as green as historic Colonial's lush fairways, but what he lacked in résumé credentials he more than made up for with a princely golfing pedigree and gumption.

Watson will be playing a lot of golf as well as keeping an eye on things as captain of the U.S. team for the 2014 Ryder Cup competition.

Ken Venturi walks on the 18th green of the renovated Olympic Club golf course, one the S.F. native knew well.

Golf's governing bodies are widely expected to announce whether they will go ahead with a controversial proposed ban on players anchoring putters to their body when they hold simultaneous news conferences next week.

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.

DREAM final at 2014 Ryder Cup venue Gleneagles is up for grabs for amateur Nick Apperley and his Ludlow PGA professional Russell Price in Europe's biggest pro-am competition - The Lombard Trophy.

Dottie Pepper is returning to golf broadcasting, signing a deal with ESPN that she calls a perfect fit of TV work and promoting junior golf.

Sergio Garcia, of Spain, left, shakes hands with Tiger Woods at the conclusion of the third round of The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.

His triumph at Muirfield came completely out of the blue, but for the Northern Irish veteran Darren Clarke, it was just reward for what had been a good career.

AS THE countdown clock to the Ryder Cup returning to Scotland for the first time in 40 years reaches 500 days, there's surely no-one better placed to set the scene for next year's match at Gleneagles than Tony Jacklin.

This past weekend at the Players got me thinking about Sergio Garcia's career as a whole.

OK, TIME out. Given all the nonsense in golf right now - Vijay Singh's use of antler spray and subsequent propensity for litigation, slower and slower play, the rumbling aftermath of Tiger's Masters drop and the banning or not of so-called "belly" and "anchored" putters - the time has come to ask the obvious question.

A BRIGHT future is being predicted for the Tartan Tour after the PGA in Scotland decided on something "totally different" when it appointed Brian Mair as its new secretary.

I saw an opening scene to the Players where they inscribe the player's name, flag of his Country, and Name of his Country.

Unheralded Roberto Castro fired a 63 to tie the course record for a three-shot lead over Rory McIlroy and Zach Johnson with Tiger Woods lurking after Thursday's first round of the Players Championship.

SOMETIME around 1:30a p.m. on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, I stepped outside of PJ Clark's, a saloon on Third Avenue in Manhattan.

RONAN Rafferty, the former Ryder Cup player who is Tony Jacklin's co-host at this week's World Corporate Golf Challenge at The Carrick, is expecting a highly competitive event.

Colin Montgomerie was very, very good -- he won a record 31 tournaments on the European tour and eight money titles, including seven straight from 1993 to '99. He played on eight Ryder Cup teams for Europe, earning 23 1/2 points while going unbeaten in singles play, and captained the 2010 European side to victory at Celtic Manor.

If you've spent upwards of $100 to drive to Rochester to witness without television filter the PGA Championship in August, you likely are a fan of the game.