Ryan Palmer, who earlier this month claimed his second career title, will be joined by three other 2008 PGA Tour tournament winners in the 37th annual Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational presented by Merrill Lynch. The unique 72-hole event, which features 81 professionals from the four major tours as well as mini-tour players and club [...]

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — One week after completing the most successful season of his nearly 30-year PGA Tour career, Tommy Armour III will begin defense of his 2007 title at the 37th annual Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational presented by Merrill Lynch. After playing this week in the Children’s Miracle Network Classic in Orlando, [...]

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Bernard Langer is no different than many golfers who’ve transitioned from the PGA Tour to the Champions Tour. He hesitated, not knowing if he wanted to compete, or if the circuit on which he became one of golf’s finest international players was finally leaving him behind. What a difference a season makes.

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The most unique moment I’ve ever seen in a golf tournament wasn’t a monster Tiger Woods’ shot or a missed short putt prohibiting a win. The most unique thing I’ve ever seen was also viewed by millions of others on national television, and it was something you may not want to see again. I know [...]

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With the completion of the Champions Tour’s AT&T Championship won by John Cook, the field is now finalized for this week’s Charles Schwab Cup Championship, one of the most anticipated events on the Champions Tour schedule. Comprised of the top 30 players on the current Champions Tour money list, the field represents one of [...]

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In-Kyung Kim, the second-year LPGA Tour member, won the Longs Drugs Challenge last Sunday, shooting 10-under 278 to defeat Angela Stanford by three strokes. Kim earned $180,000 and increased her yearly earnings to about $850,000. The cool thing, however, was Kim’s closing remarks about her parents, especially her mother.

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I am a rookie. I admit it. A rookie golfer, see Bogey Golfer. I am also a rookie at covering golfing events. But everyone has to start somewhere, right? I started at the Walmart First Tee Open in Pebble Beach. And now I am attending the LPGA Samsung World Championship in Half Moon Bay, Calif. [...]

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For the first time in nine years, the United States has won the Ryder Cup.
It was great shot after great shot, pressure putt after pressure putt that gave the match to the American continent, a 12-player squad of golf’s top echelon of players, unheralded veterans and a group of youngsters who rose the occasion.
The Ryder [...]

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It’s arguably the world’s most famous golf course and Jeff Sluman, like many veteran pros, has played Pebble Beach Golf Links more than 100 times.
Sluman, a Champions Tour rookie, had the successful but dubious distinction of finishing second twice on the picturesque layout in the same year — in the 1992 AT&T Pebble Beach National [...]

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Like the Super Bowl, Olympics or soccer’s World’s Cup, U.S. Open Golf Championship sites are awarded years in advance.
As such, during the Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links (Aug. 29-31), the merchandise store for the 2010 U.S. Open on the famed Monterey Peninsula was open and doing a brisk business.
The spacious [...]

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