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Pettersen ousted, Tseng fights on at Match Play

by Admin on May 17, 2012

Defending champion Suzann Pettersen was ousted by England’s Jodi Ewart in the first round of the LPGA Match Play Championship Thursday, while World No. 1 Yani Tseng barely advanced.

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Snedeker bags victory after clubs go missing

May 17, 2012

Visiting American Brandt Snedeker made the most of having to compete with just 10 clubs in handing Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn a shock 5 and 4 defeat on day one of the World Match-Play Championship on Thursday.

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Golf-Snedeker beats Bjorn after bag goes missing

May 17, 2012

May 17 (Reuters) – Using fellow competitor John Senden’sback-up driver, American Brandt Snedeker pulled off a stunning5&4 victory over Dane Thomas Bjorn in the World Match PlayChampionship in Spain after his bag was delayed in transit. The world number 26, already a winner this year on the PGATour at Torrey Pines in January, shrugged off the disruption totake the first three holes with just 11 borrowed clubs

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Afghanistan: Home to ‘world’s most extreme golf’

May 15, 2012

“Welcome to the most extreme golf in the world,” says the European Union ambassador to Afghanistan, as half-a-dozen heavily armed bodyguards fan out around him and scan the Kabul Golf Club course.

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Donald, McIlroy square off at Players Championship golf

May 10, 2012

Luke Donald has a chance to wrestle the world No. 1 ranking back as he and Rory McIlroy go head-to-head for one of the few times this season at this week’s Players Championship.

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Mickelson and Woods illustrate two sides of golfing coin

May 8, 2012

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida (Reuters) – Rarely has the contrast between golf as an enjoyable game and torturous frustration been as evident in two players as in the appearances of Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods at the Players Championship on Tuesday. Mickelson, a four-time major winner fresh from his induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, sat casually with reporters ahead of Thursday’s opening round and chatted about how much he loves the game. ..

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Mickelson heads 2012 Hall of Fame class

May 8, 2012

Three-time Masters champ Phil Mickelson headed a group of five people who were inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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Mickelson joins 5 others in Hall of Fame induction

May 8, 2012

Phil Mickelson has been inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame for 42 wins and four majors in a career that is still going.

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