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Phil Mickelson has taken the 54-hole lead in the HSBC Champions with a 5-under 67, setting up a Sunday matchup with Tiger Woods in the final World Golf Championship of the year.

Three wins on the Professional Golf Association Tour is a pretty good career. Three wins in a year? Not many golfers get a sniff of that rarified air.

David Sutherland, director of Sacramento State golf, is a 10-year Professional Golfers' Association of America veteran and has coached men's and women's golf at Sac State for three years.

It's a Different Game With the circumstances of the fantasy golf environment this week - we are one week away from the final tourney of the season and the vast majority have secured whatever finishing spot they will have earned in fantasy leagues this season, those that are in position to make a difference get a new-found shot of hope with the ...

Heath Slocum hadn't lost confidence in his game, but he wasn't exactly fired up about it either.

Janzen has hardly seen the glass half full in recent Octobers, when he's been too low on the PGA Tour money list to earn the right to play the next season.

Three wins in a year? Not many golfers get a sniff of that rarified air. But throw in a ranking of third best golfer in the world , more than six million in earnings for '09, membership in the exclusive "Tiger's buddies" club, a reputation as one of the truly good guys in golf and a Madison, Wisconsin, ZIP code on his driver's license and we've got ...

The Kohl Center was home to basketball again on Sunday night. The Badgers annual red and white scrimmage was held.

Now he's done it twice in a row to set a PGA Tour record. His second straight 9-under round at the Frys.com Open on Saturday gave him a three-shot lead at 16-under 194 heading into the final day of the third stop in the tour's Fall Series.

Attorneys General of New York, New Jersey and Montana say they are planning to sue FedEx Ground, claiming the unit's classification of workers as independent contractors rather than employees violates state labor laws.

Since launching Our Lives magazine in 2007, Farabaugh has given a clear and candid voice to Madison's LGBTQA community by sharing individuals' stories.

The awards are starting to pile up for Tiger Woods again. Woods has won the points-based award as player of the year from the PGA of America, which was virtually a lock when the FedEx Cup ended and became a mathematical fact this week.

MADISON -- Steve Stricker and Andy North will serve as honorary coaches for the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team's Red and White intrasquad scrimmage Sunday.

Lee Westwood won for the 19th time on the European Tour on Sunday and that helped him jump six places to No.

Fred Couples paid tribute to his victorious USA team after they retained the Presidents Cup with a 19.5 to 14.5 win over the Internationals in San Francisco last night.

The PGA is, for now, done with Milwaukee. After 42 years with pro golfers, the Milwaukee Golf Charities Board voted to dissolve itself.

Monday, October 12, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO: It all changed so suddenly on Saturday at the Presidents Cup, from a probable tie to a 10-7 lead for the Americans.

The U.S. Bank Championship of Milwaukee, formerly known as the Greater Milwaukee Open is over, according to a report in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper.

Woods is rarely at his best in team tournaments, but he was inspirational in San Francisco as Greg Norman's International team were defeated 19.5-14.5. In five previous Presidents Cup appearances, Woods had 13 victories and 11 defeats, while his Ryder Cup record is 10 wins, 13 defeats and two draws.

About two hours before the final putt fell, the United States clinched the Presidents Cup by sweeping the first five singles points.