Ernie Els News

The European Tour plays one of its flagship events this week when the BMW PGA Championship is played over the famed Burma Road layout at Wentworth Golf Club in Virginia Water in Surrey.

This July 19, 2012 file photo shows Ernie Els of South Africa reacting to a putt on the 11th green at Royal Lytham & St Annes golf club during the first round of the British Open Golf Championship in Lytham St Annes, England.

In this 2003 photo, Sergio Garcia puts an arm around Tiger Woods after he and Phil Mickelson defeated Woods and Ernie Els in the Battle at the Bridges.

The four-time major champion, who won last year's British Open with a belly putter, says the PGA Tour should accept the decision by golf's ruling bodies to ban anchoring and long-handled putters in 2016.

I remember the time when Luke Skywalker and Obi-wan Kenobi and I were sitting around the hut when we accidentally discovered a holographic recording stored in that annoying little droid of his Uncle Owen's. It was video of some chick wearing hair-bagels over her ears and ended with her whining, "Help me, Obi-wan Kenobi! You're my only hope!" She ... (more)

World number one Tiger Woods wants the U.S. PGA Tour to enact a ban on anchored putting "as soon as possible" if golf's governing bodies impose a ban on the stroke on Tuesday.

Within the next 24 hours, professional and amateur golfers will likely know whether or not they will be permitted to use long putters anchored to any part of their body from 2016 onwards.

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

The introductions didn't take very long. "Getting players to come back has always been a bit of a challenge over the years," PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said.

There's a phrase that describes Sergio Garcia's two balls into the water at the 17th hole at The Players Championship, just as he was tied with Tiger Woods after 70 holes, on the same weekend in which he engaged in some venomous woofing with Tiger, and that phrase is: The Sergio who rinsed two balls en route to a quadruple-bogey seven on Sawgrass' ... (more)

Ernie Els has returned to Asia to shoot a strong opening round of four-under-par 68 and lie two shots off lead at the Indonesian Masters in Jakarta.

He has played in the past two U.S. Opens at Oakmont Country Club, most recently in 2007.

By the time Billy Horschel got to No. 18 late Friday, he had had made five birdies in a stretch of 11 holes to be in good shape at The Players Championship to extend his tour-leading streak of consecutive cuts made to 24.

Davis Love III is returning to the PGA Tour just in time to extend his streak at The Players Championship.

Masters champion Adam Scott admits he has been "floating in the clouds" since his Augusta win, but has shunned celebrations in Australia.

Open champion Ernie Els believes he has a chance to improve his poor record at The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, in Florida, United States, starting on Thursday.

Tiger Woods hopes he can put all the pieces of the jigsaw together and win the Players Championship for just a second time.

Tiger Woods Tiger Woods shows off the trophy after winning the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, where he shot a 12-under par 272 en route to a 15-shot win over Ernie Els and Miguel Angel Cabrera.

With a gentle smile extending across his face, Bob Virgalla waggled his Adams Tight Lies 5-wood as he set up behind the par-3 first hole at Newtown Country Club.

Fred Couples , Colin Montgomerie, Willie Park Jr., Ken Schofield and Ken Venturi will be honored at the St.