Erik Compton News

It is an odd sort of tournament, not a major championship, unless you're playing in it, in which case it is at least that important.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. Paul Azinger's name is etched into it, as is John Daly's and Peter Jacobsen's. Steve Stricker's on there too, twice, in consecutive years no less.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Bennington native Dustin Cone shot a 68 to finish at 12 under par in the first round of PGA Q-School competition in Port St.

Sponsor's exemptions are all about hope. Kevin Weickel of the Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney World understands that truth as intimately as any tournament director on the PGA Tour.

Christopher Johnson scored 17 of his 22 points in the second half, including a three-pointer with 8.3 seconds remaining, and Division II Le Moyne stunned Syracuse 82-79 in an exhibition game.

With young guns Rickie Fowler and Jamie Lovemark given last-minute reprieves into the event via other means, tournament officials at Walt Disney World went a different direction with their last free pass into next week's PGA Tour season finale.

Blasting into the week ahead with Pascal, Galileo and Mozart. With 20-year-old Rickie Fowler making a fast start on the PGA Tour, we set the week's storylines with prodigies guiding us: Compton and the heart to persevere "It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist." French mathematician, ...

Ryan Cobb of Vero Beach watches his shot during play Friday at the PGA Tour Q-school in Port St.

Tadd Fujikawa got off to a solid start at the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament's first-stage qualifier Wednesday at St.

Danny Lee. Photo by NZPA. New Zealand golfer Danny Lee today made a steady start on his long road toward qualifying for the PGA Tour, shooting an even par 72 in Texas.

Rescuers searching for a U.S. diplomat led sniffer dogs over beaches Wednesday as technicians prepared to comb the sea floor with a robotic device for traces of a vice consul who vanished on this Dutch Caribbean island last week.

Tiger Woods makes the cut, noteworthy only because he's never missed consecutive weekends on Tour as a professional, and yet Buick officials, who have benefited the most from his celebrity, will be slamming trunks, perhaps for forever.

BETHESDA, Md. - " AT&T National may be the worst cut to miss all year. If you're two and out at Congressional you miss Saturday's fireworks display at the National Mall, the best crab cakes outside of Baltimore and a chance to play perhaps the Tour's best layout outside the majors.

They met for almost two hours at a Panera Bread cafe in the Columbus suburb of Powell, not far from Muirfield Village Golf Club.

Five members of the Georgia men's golf team have been selected for All-America honors by PING and the Golf Coaches Association of America.

Isaac Klosterman was living life to the fullest. A tall, good-looking 26-year-old in perfect health, the former Chaminade Julienne and University of Dayton athlete was living in Columbus with some UD friends when he decided to take a trip to Florida with a few of his motorcycling buddies 13 months ago.

By RUSTY MILLER Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio - " If not for a 28-year-old named Isaac, Erik Compton would not be alive.

"I've accomplished more medically than I have in golf. The greatest shots I've ever hit have been in the hospital." - Erik Compton Flat on his back and full of surgical staples, Erik Compton watched the 2008 Memorial Tournament on television and thought to himself, "I want to play there next year." It was a crazy thought -- he was only a few days ...