Louis Oosthuizen News

Louis Oosthuizen, the No. 8 player in the world golf rankings and top-rated player on the commitment list for this week's Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, withdrew Monday because of a neck injury sustained while competing at last week's HP Byron Nelson Championship.

World No. 7 Louis Oosthuizen withdrew from the final round of the HP Byron Nelson Championship with neck stiffness, putting in jeopardy his start as the only top 10 player in the field in this week's Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial.

The 2010 British Open champion was at 3-under 207 and tied for 32nd place after shooting even-par 70 in the third round.

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

For years, golf fans in Dallas-Fort Worth have fretted about the presence of gate magnets Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in gauging the quality of fields at their local PGA Tour stops.

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 CVS Caremark Charity Classic has added four more top PGA TOUR and Champions Tour professionals to the 2013 CVS Classic: Louis Oosthuizen, Bill Haas, Jeff Sluman and Fuzzy Zoeller.

Luke Donald won the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan last November, and part of his winnings included a Miyazaki cow.

Jason Dufner outwardly showed little emotion last year when he won the Byron Nelson Championship in the midst of his incredible stretch of golf.

Louis Oosthuizen isn't making big plans to see Merion ahead of the U.S. Open because he's not sure he will be there.

Jason Dufner, Keegan Bradley and Matt Kuchar : Dufner is the defending champion and Bradley won in 2011.

World No. 1 Tiger Woods collected his fourth PGA Tour win of the season on Sunday and that helped him extend his lead atop this week's world golf rankings.

When a weather delay halted the third round of The Players Championship on Saturday, 49-year-old Jeff Maggert was the surprise clubhouse leader after his best round of golf in years.

The par-5 ninth hole was pivotal both ways during the third round. Seven players who were among the top 10 birdied the three-shot hole, including Henrik Stenson and Sergio Garcia.

Louis Oosthuizen reacts after putting from 10'8" from the cup on the 15th hole after birdies on the previous six holes, tying a course record for birdies in a row.

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.

Few golfers on Tour can get hot like Louis Oosthuizen can get hot, and that was on full display early on Saturday morning at the Players Championship.

The South African isn't all that pleased with the shot, which manages to hit the cart path to the right of the fairway.

Well, Louis Oosthuizen is still all about it. On the first hole of the Ballantine's Championship in South Korea, Oosthuizen hammers the ball onto the golf cart path, where it commences to roll for what seems like ages before finally coming to a stop fairly close to the hole.

PETER Whiteford has the "bottle" to bounce back from the bitter disappointment of missing a four-foot putt to claim his first European Tour title, according to the Fifer's long-standing coach.