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US Open readies for lost balls, deep bunkers and fescue grass on steroids
It's somehow fitting that Erin Hills was a golf course sculpted by colliding glaciers about 20,000 years ago.
It's somehow fitting that Erin Hills was a golf course sculpted by colliding glaciers about 20,000 years ago.
Jason Day has welcomed potentially brutal conditions for the US Open, saying complaints from competitors about the course set-up and weather are music to his ears.
Tiger Woods told police he had taken the anti-anxiety drug Xanax when he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant in Florida last month, golf.channel.com reported on its website
Adam Scott has urged the United States Golf Association to refrain from dishing up a brutally difficult golf course at next week's US Open.
Adam Scott has clawed his way back into the US PGA Tour's Memorial Tournament with a blistering second round at Muirfield Village.
Jason Day and Adam Scott have made it into ESPN's annual World Fame 100 list.
Despite his problems with the law, Tiger Woods is a sporting champion because of his feats on the golf course.
Tiger Woods' arrest for driving under the influence is now part of his public story, somewhere alongside his 14 major championships, his serial adultery and subsequent divorce, his worldwide brand and his efforts to be the best father he can be to his two young children.
A video of Tiger Woods' arrest shows the golfer disoriented and unsteady on his feet.
A reinvigorated Jason Day has targeted victory at this week's Memorial Tournament as the springboard he needs heading into the US Open next month.
​Golf great Jack Nicklaus is concerned embattled star Tiger Woods may not be able to play golf again, just two months after the 41-year-old underwent spinal fusion surgery.
This control-freakery was fine so long as Woods was winning; yet the character trapped inside that play has turned out to be a lot more normal - more human - than the sweetly declining-elder-statesman script would allow.
Police documents said the golfer was taking a range of prescription medications.
The former world number one said alcohol was not a factor in his DUI arrest, and instead blamed an unexpected reaction to prescribed medications.
What is it about Tiger Woods and cars in the dead of night?
The 14-time major winner was booked for DUI at 7.18am on Monday, May 29.
Four-times major winner Ernie Els underlined why golf has a proud reputation for integrity and fair play by calling a two-shot penalty on himself at the BMW PGA Championship.
Australian misses a three-foot putt to keep a playoff alive at the Byron Nelson PGA tournament.
Misfiring Australian reignites his spluttering game to produce his best round of golf for the year.
Unheralded South Korean golfer Si Woo Kim has become the youngest winner of the Players Championship, obliterating the mark previously held by Australia's Adam Scott.
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