David Leadbetter

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Bob Toski has been honored many times in many ways as a golf professional, a professional golfer and a teacher. In March, he received one of his biggest honors when he was inducted into the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame. “There are 27,000...

Only the most diehard LPGA follower may realize this, but the Women’s British Open this week has a chance to complete a historic sweep of all four major women’s titles. Not by any single player, though. This milestone would belong to Greater...

Andy Zhang has aspirations of becoming the next Beau Hossler. The 14-year-old Chinese golfer missed the U.S. Open cut after Friday’s 8-over-par 78 at the Olympic Club, but he didn’t have to look far to find an inspiration to keep him motivated...

The Waldorf Astoria GC has unveiled plans for a golf academy, bringing noted swing coach Brian Mogg across town to oversee the venture. Mogg, whose list of pros includes 2009 PGA Championship winner Y.E. Yang, will move his operations from Keene's...

Historically speaking, Orlando got a late start in golf. The sport didn't arrive in Central Florida until 1893, when English businessman Leslie Pell-Clarke had six holes carved out around the northwest shore of Lake Eola. It only lasted a decade or so,...

WASHINGTON — Politics in the Internet age can make for some pretty drastic swings in fortune — sometimes over the course of several hours. Enter congressional candidate Karen Diebel. This morning, she earned a major endorsement from...

Gabrielle Weiss thought it was a good idea, but her father needed convincing. Could his 13-year-old, 80-pound daughter really qualify for the U.S. Women's Open? Should she even try? ''He didn't think so, but I changed his mind,'' Weiss said. ''It's going...

OF THE roughly 16,000 books that have been published on the game of golf, a disproportionate number -- perhaps as high as one-third -- lie in the area of instruction. The reason for this is simple: They sell. A lot. But how does the average golfer sift...

DIRK WIETSTOCK made a vow. He would become a better golfer . . . no, he would become a really good golfer. He wasn't intent on shaving a couple of strokes off his 18 handicap; he wanted to lop off a dozen or more. Vice president of a City of Industry...

If you need an excuse to drive to Cecil County for a round of golf, Chesapeake Bay Golf Club may be it. Tucked away in tiny North East, Chesapeake Bay is part of a two-course ownership, the sister course being the former Chantilly Manor, now called...