Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Tiger Woods denies Jason Dufner's plea to alter World Challenge so he can watch Auburn-Missouri

One of Auburn's most famous alums and biggest superfans attempts to change the schedule of an officially sanctioned PGA Tour event. The host was unsympathetic. For all intents and purposes, the 2013 golf year is over. But 18 of the best and most recognizable players in the world will drop in on the Los Angeles area this week for the World Challenge event, an annual silly season party hosted and put on by Tiger Woods. With all the big names...

Inbee Park’s 3 straight major wins is No. 15 of 2013’s Top 25 golf stories

Inbee Park, with six tour wins, dominated the LPGA in 2013 -- but the three straight major championship wins by the world No. 1 and her quest for a record-breaking fourth made the golf world sit up and take notice. Inbee Park wrapped up an historic season on the LPGA with two top-5 finishes in the tour’s season-ending events -- the first Player of the Year honor ever bestowed on a Korean golfer -- and as the world No. 1. What propelled...

Spieth set to end year with bang at World Challenge

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Everything's bigger in Texas – except Jordan Spieth's noggin. The Lone Star megastar has every reason to stick out his chest, raise his head to the sky and boast about his fantastic feats, especially when he knows he took the world by storm in 2013 as a teen-ager. A storm, mind you, that included nearly $4 million in earnings, his first PGA Tour win (that came with a John Deere tractor, no less, and an invitation to next year's Masters), nine top-10s, PGA Tour rookie of the year honors and becoming the youngest U.S....