Davis Love III News

Brandt Snedeker had questions about the Wyndham Championship's new home course, so he turned to a North Carolina native.

Tom Sherreard of Georgia State finished in a tie for 19th at the British Open last week at Royal Birkdale.

Greg Norman will become the oldest ever winner of the Open Championship if he maintains his lead in the final round.

It's not like he was the first American to skip the British Open. Curtis Strange played only 13 times in his career, missing five starts in the 1980s when he was at the peak of his game.

Greg Norman, a 53-year-old, part-time golfer, reclaimed a spot he used to know, putting the Shark one more solid round away from becoming golf's oldest major champion in its oldest major.

He's not a surprise any longer, though the way Ben Curtis played Saturday in the British Open, overcoming wind gusts that proved disastrous to virtually everyone else, was hardly expected.

The cut has been made and a weekend field of more than 80 players will tackle Royal Birkdale Saturday and Sunday for the Open Championship.

The claret jug deserves an asterisk. How else to describe a British Open in which the winner did not have to beat the best player around? Your name is engraved on the oldest trophy in golf, but did you really ...

Here's what we know - at least two PGA Tout professionals have been drug-tested. Noted street toughs Charles Howell III and Davis Love III were reportedly tested last week, when the PGA Tour's drug-testing ...

TRAVERSE CITY Don't be surprised if the ground shakes a little bit early Sunday morning around Grand Traverse Resort.

The world's tenth-ranked golfer, Vijay Singh, has committed to play in the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro next month.

Phil Mickelson, who is second in the FedExCup standings, could earn a $10 million bonus by finishing on top in the cup's second season.

With the Tiger-less PGA Tour going through the doldrums - as detailed in yesterday's article by Don Markus in The Sun - Mr.

Rocco Mediate has gained legions of fans since he dueled with Tiger Woods in a 19-hole playoff at the U.S. Open a little more than two weeks ago. Yesterday at the AT&T National at Congressional Country Club, Mediate drew some of the biggest galleries on the course. At No. 10 -- his first hole of the round -- fans lined up 10 deep to watch him tee off.

One man held up a sign that read: 'Greensburg, Pa. Loves Rocco.' Mediate was born in Greensburg, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Another fan yelled: 'Thanks for making Tiger earn one!' as Mediate came off the 11th green.

Steve Stricker celebrated the Fourth of July with a round of 64 and an invitation to the White House.

In the 237 times Charles Howell III has teed it up on the PGA Tour, he never had a round end like Thursday at the AT&T National.

Two-time winner Davis Love III is among the latest round of players to commit to playing in this year's Wyndham Championship.

ASSOCIATED PRESS SUNNINGDALE, England - ' Two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal failed to qualify for the British Open on Monday when he took bogey on the third hole of a playoff.

Qualifying for this month's British Open at Royal Birkdale has given Davis Love III a much-needed boost in a frustrating 2008 campaign.

Jeff Overton fired a 14-under 130 at the TPC at Michigan while Paul Goydos shot a 13-under 131 at Dearborn Country Club, as both earned medalist honors in Monday's British Open International Qualifying.