Justin Leonard

LA JOLLA — Only Tiger Woods could so dramatically breeze to victory. Leave it to Woods to make things interesting at Torrey Pines even when the outcome was so under-par inevitable. Woods won the extended, fogged-over Farmers Insurance Open on...

This weekend brings a sharp contrast in sports fan viewing. Think of it as the concussive versus the cerebral. Across the country, NFL fans will be relieved at the departure of replacement refs. It will be a time to get back to business as usual —...

A year ago, Ernie Els and Padraig Harrington found themselves needing a boost. Both made the Wyndham Championship a late addition to their schedule, finding themselves outside the cut line to make the 125-man field for the FedEx Cup series. It was worth...

If you haven’t heard the line enough already, you will by the time the weekend reaches the finish. TPC Sawgrass favors no golfer. Bombers have won The Players Championship (Phil Mickelson, Fred Couples). Popguns have won it (Fred Funk, Tim Clark)....

Officially, the PGA Tour season raised the curtain last week with 27 pros at the Tournament of Champions. For the rest of the tour, though, this week’s Sony Open is the real starting line. The season’s first full-field event features 50...

Though Tiger Woods currently stands inside the FedEx Cup top 70 that advances to next week's third stage, he still has business to take care of at the Deutsche Bank Championship. Woods currently ranks 65th in the standings with 734 points. A year ago,...

It appears the Children's Miracle Network Classic won't have a defending champion when the PGA Tour makes its annual Disney visit, as a bad back forces Canada's Stephen Ames to end his season two weeks early. “I've been experiencing pain in my lower...

No sooner had the champagne corks popped to celebrate Lake Nona's third straight Tavistock Cup victory – and first to be played as a four-team event – talk already was in the air about expanding again. Tournament chief Andy Odenbach...

Memo to PGA Tour poobahs: See what happens when you mess with natural order? Not to harp on an old topic (OK, maybe just a tad), but Hilton Head worked for 28 years as the follow-up event behind the Masters because it was the perfect remedy for post-...

Tiger Woods and Justin Rose of England will play in the same group for the first two rounds of the British Open for the first time since 2002 at Muirfield. Back then Woods was on a hot streak, going for......

All times are Pacific Thursday / Friday 4:50 a.m. / 7:57 a.m. -- Nathan Green, Heath Slocum, Louis Oosthuizen 5:01 a.m. / 8:08 a.m. -- Craig Stadler, John Merrick, Jerry Kelly 5:12 a.m. / -8:19 a.m. -- Ian Woosnam, Brian......

Next year’s PGA Tour visit to Disney will take place the weekend before Thanksgiving – or not at all. That’s the scenario facing the tour’s longtime fall staple after the Mayakoba event announced new dates of Nov. 14-17. That&...