Pro golfers may consider it a quandary, but it’s an enviable circumstance. Just what’s a pro to do when he turns age 50 — remain on the PGA Tour or embrace the Champions Tour as a new home? It’s not a difficult choice for some players. Many Champions Tour players have only found success on [...]

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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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Scott Simpson, the former U.S. Open winner on the PGA Tour who won the First Tee event in 2006, is playing with a new junior this year in the Walmart First Tee Open after two years of partnering with Robert Carter of Little Rock, Ark.
“Playing with the kids is really fun,” said Simpson. “I heard [...]

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It’s not often junior athletes get to experience what it’s like to be a professional athlete. But in the Walmart First Tee Open that’s exactly what happens.
It’s not quite playing in the National Basketball Association, National Hockey League or National Football League.
But for the fifth straight year, 78 junior players from around the country are [...]

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