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PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) - Inbee Park birdied the third hole of a sudden-death playoff with Catriona Matthew to win the rain-delayed LPGA Championship on Sunday. Park made a 20-foot putt on the par-4 18th...
View ArticleCormac Sharvin keeps his nerve to claim Irish Amateur Close title
The tightly-knit gallery formed a human amphitheatre around the 18th green, oblivious to the rain that joined the AIG sponsored, Irish Amateur Close Championship final, on about the 12th green at...
View ArticleMerion not only area venue to host titles
Gear Up! Loading... Fan Shop MIKE KERN, Daily News Staff Writer kernm@phillynews.com Posted: Monday, June 10, 2013, 12:33 AM WHILE MERION GOLF CLUB is obviously the most renowned Philadelphia-area...
View ArticleU.S. Open: Tiger headlines staff predictions
ARDMORE, Pa. The U.S. Open will test the mettle of even the world's best golfers, and this year's stage at Merion promises to provide spectacular memories. Our staff of experts will be on the ground...
View ArticleMerion's meticulous design makes for many magical moments
The Merion Golf Club’s East Course near Philadelphia, the site of the U.S. Open this week, wasn’t designed by a famous architect. A Merion member and owner of an insurance firm, Hugh Wilson, did the...
View ArticleEnglish makes breakthrough in St. Jude Classic
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Harris English won the St. Jude Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, birdieing two of the final three holes to hold off Phil Mickelson and Scott Stallings by two strokes....
View ArticleEnglish Provides Final Push for FESJC Title (St Jude Classic)
(Source: St Jude Classic) Long-time watchers of the FedEx St. Jude Classic know that sometime things occur that are so eerie and uncanny that they're almost unexplainable. Through the years they've...
View Article'Landmark' Merion Golf Club braces for assault
ARDMORE, Pa. Are we celebrating the last U.S. Open to be held at Merion? I sure hope not. Neither does Mike Davis, the USGA’s executive director, who called the decision seven years ago to bring the...
View ArticleThe forgotten story of ... David Graham's US Open victory at Merion
David Graham's victory in 1981 was his second major – as many as his countryman Greg Norman – yet he remains underappreciated David Graham lines up a putt on his way to victory at the 1981 US Open....
View ArticleNotes: U.S. Open a surprising struggle for Donald, Johnson
ARDMORE, Pa. Look up and down the entry list and you’ll find curiosities with players when it comes to the U.S. Open, but nothing confounds quite like the overall record of Luke Donald and Zach...
View ArticleGreystones teenager David Byrne shows great resilience to see off Gary McDermott
The birdsong of late evening provided a pleasant musicality to an absorbing tussle between Greystones schoolboy David Byrne (17) and Co Sligo’s Gary McDermott under slate grey skies at Connemara Golf...
View ArticleMerion one of golf ghosts' favorite haunts
Merion Golf Club is the Yankee Stadium of its sport. It is the Boston Garden with nasty bunkers. Tucked in the bosom of the Main Line, there is no other club in the United States like Merion. It is...
View ArticleChris Patton knows a thing or two about Merion Golf Club
The year is 1989, the place is Merion Golf Club and the glittering field includes Phil Mickelson, David Duval, Jim Furyk, Steve Stricker, Allen Doyle and Jay Sigel. Chris Patton, the self-deprecating...
View ArticleU.S Open: The Five Best Playoffs in Tournament History
Tiger Woods of the US celebrates his birdie putt on the 18th hole in the fourth round of the 108th U.S. Open golf tournament at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California on June 15, 2008....
View Article>The 5 best playoffs in US Open history
ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Open is known as the toughest test in golf, and it's even more difficult when more than 72 holes are required. Willie Anderson won the first of 33 playoffs in U.S. Open...
View ArticleThe 5 best playoffs in US Open history
AP Golf Writer ARDMORE, Pa. — The U.S. Open is known as the toughest test in golf, and it's even more difficult when more than 72 holes are required. Willie Anderson won the first of 33 playoffs in...
View ArticleShots heard 'round the world in 1913
This week's U.S. Open golf tournament marks the 100th anniversary of a major milestone in American golf. In 1913, a 20-year-old amateur, Francis Ouimet, won the U.S. Open by beating two of Great...
View ArticleGolf Course Review - National Golf Links of America
FACTS AND STATS: Course Architects: Charles Blair Macdonald (1910), Seth Raynor. Year Opened: September 1911. Location: Southampton, New York. Slope: 145. Rating: 75.2. Par: 72. Yardage: 7,079....
View ArticleSpecial Moments in PGA Championship History (PGA - Professional Golfers'...
(Source: PGA - Professional Golfers' Association of America) Special Moments in PGA Championship History (The PGA of America- November 2012) The Professional Golfers' Association of America 100 Avenue...
View ArticleTourney has Ouimet flavor
Francis Ouimet put Massachusetts and amateur golf at the forefront of the game’s landscape a century ago with an unprecedented transformation from caddie to 1913 U.S. Open champion at The Country Club...
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