Australia's Nick O'Hern shed hisreputation as golf's perennial runner-up when he chipped in from agreenside bunker on the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff ... Starting the season in Hawaii usually means a player is coming off a good year on the PGA Tour. Most of the winners congregate on Maui to kick off the new campa ... Michelle Wie didn't hit a fairway off the tee, didn't hit a green in regulation. And through the first nine holes Thursday, it was becoming increasing clear tha ... Tiger Woods decided Friday to skip the season-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship, meaning the PGA Tour's ``new era in golf'' will begin next week amid old quest ... Karrie Webb took a big step toward her third Women's Australian Open title, moving four shots clear of the field with a 4-under-par 68 on Saturday at Royal Sydn ... Ernie Els had a 4-under-68 for a two-shot lead after the third round of the Dubai Desert Classic on Saturday, and Tiger Woods had another difficult day on the g ... MIAMI (AP) _ Tom Lehman hasn't played Doral in 15 years. What he wouldn't give for one of the 74 tee times this week on the Blue Monster. Instead, the former Ry ... MIAMI (AP) _ Tiger Woods felt stiffness in his neck from a bad night of sleep on his boat. For the first time in 3{ years, he couldn't break par when he had ent ... AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) _ Arnold Palmer stepped up to a first teebox that used to be the practice green Thursday and kicked off the Masters with a tee shot that looks ... AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) _ Tiger Woods lost a golf club but saved a par at the Masters on Sunday. Already enduring a difficult day, Woods snapped one of his middle ... AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) _ A four-iron wasn't the only thing that Tiger Woods broke Sunday at the Masters. Fractured, too, was the myth that the man couldn't be beat o ... AUGUSTA, Ga. (CP) _ One of Mike Weir's golf balls is lying at the bottom of Rae's Creek after an exhausting week at the Masters. The Canadian lefty didn't hit i ... REUNION, Fla. (AP) _ Annika Sorenstam withdrew Thursday from the Ginn Open because of a ruptured disk in her back that will keep her from playing on the LPGA To ... OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) _ Jack Nicklaus figures at least one of hismajor championship records is safe. Tiger Woods left Oakmont having squandered another chance to wi ... PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) _ Lorena Ochoa vanquished the playoffdemons. Now the world's No. 1 player is aiming for her first majortitle. Ochoa erased a three-shot def ...