Webb Simpson News

Daily Dispatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE Kerr-Vance's Beau Cutts watches his tee shot during his NCISAA 1A state championship winning round last May.

SCOTTSDALE : Troy Matteson, who had never shot a 61 until this week, did it twice in a row to set a US PGA Tour record at the Arizona Open on Saturday.

Troy Matteson had never shot a 61 until this week. Now he's done it twice in a row to set a PGA Tour record.

Last year, Black Creek Club was the third easiest course on the 2008 schedule. No course saw more eagles , and only one course had more birdies over four days.

Now that the PGA TOUR Playoffs are over, the focus is on keeping playing rights for the 2010 season.

Flipping on the parking-lot lights in the middle of the afternoon is no way to greet patrons on the opening day of any golf tournament.

Tiger Woods ended a consistent year by winning his 2nd FedEx Cup The 2009 FedEx Cup playoffs came to a gripping conclusion with the 2009 Tour Championship, where Phil Mickelson won his second Tour Championship and Tiger Woods claimed his second FedEx cup title.

Webb Simpson , Paul Casey and Rory Sabbatini were the first members of the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs to get a look at Cog Hill's renovated Dubsdread course as BMW Championship week began Monday.

An is the 22nd-ranked junior in the AJGA Polo golf rankings and will follow through with his previous commitment to the 54-hole Junior Players, which begins Friday at the Stadium Course.

In a roller-coaster rookie season on the PGA Tour , Webb Simpson currently is on the ascent.

A golfer with a hockey mentality has become quite a combination for Wake Forest.

Webb Simpson had quite the performance in the Barclays last week. Yep, Heath Slocum generated Monday morning headlines with his tournament-winning 20-foot par putt on the 72nd hole Sunday of the first event in the PGAPlayoffs, holding off golf giants Tiger Woods, Ernie Els and Paddy Harrington at the Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey.

The calm, clear, postcard weather that graced the start of The Barclays and produced such sparkling images of Manhattan was replaced yesterday by sprinkles and fog, shrouding the Statue of Liberty and giving the day a glimpse of fall.

Webb Simpson looked at the scores and the weather, neither of which indicated an easy time Friday at Liberty National.

Tiger Woods has moved within six shots of leader Webb Simpson in the third round of the U.S. PGA Toura s Barclays tournament.

Count Padraig Harrington among the biggest fans of Liberty National, The Barclays' love-it-or-hate-it site nearly at the foot of the Statue of Liberty.

Simpson, a 24-year-old rookie, took the outright lead with an approach to 10 inches on the fifth hole Friday.

Sergio Garcia made the most of his opportunity as he surged into the lead after the first round of The Barclays at Liberty National.

Paul Goydos and fellow-American Steve Marino shared the early first-round lead with 65s in the Barclays Classic at Liberty National on Thursday with Tiger Woods five shots off the early pace.

Webb Simpson has followed golf's fast track -- junior standout, high school star, college All-American, PGA Tour.