Rory Sabbatini

TODAY HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' HOCKEY Aberdeen Cougars at Huron, 2 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING Aberdeen Swim Club at Sioux Falls Snowfox Meet MEN'S CITY LEAGUE BASKETBALL at Washington Street Gym 12:30 p.m. - House of Glass vs. Culver's/Expectec....

Introducing what’s envisioned as a new weekly staple to The Downswing blogosphere. Monday Niblicks will compile a series of short “chip shots” flying beneath the weekend’s top golf headlines – be they from the marquee...

Before hitting town Wednesday, Rory Sabbatini had played PGA National's Champion layout just once for a charity event. No backlog of knowledge to mess with. And with the 20 mph winds at the Honda Classic, maybe that's not so bad. “Most of it's...

Sergio Garcia, working his way back from a lengthy slump, will return to the Arnold Palmer Invitational in what stands to be his first PGA Tour appearance of the year. Garcia, who owns two top-5 finishes at Bay Hill, will be making his 10th start in the...

Tiger Woods can sleep in Thursday. And really sleep in Friday. Woods will tee off Thursday at the Masters in the 7:41 a.m. (all times Pacific) group with reigning U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell and Australia's Robert Allenby. His Friday......

Let's be honest, what qualifies as controversy in golf might not make a bottom-page note if it happened in another sport. Remember the uproar when Phil Mickelson joked that Tiger Woods had “inferior equipment?” Or Rory Sabbatini essentially...

It's not every day that you get to hit a bucket of balls at the TPC Las Colinas, especially when you're just 16 years old, but Jordan Spieth is not your average 16 year old and he'll be a whole lot more nervous next week at this time as he shares the...

Here are the Bay Hill Pro-Am pairings for Wednesday. Among the highlights: Arnold Palmer is playing with Tom Ridge and singer Vince Gill. TIME PROFESSIONAL 1st Tee – Morning 7:30 Sean O'Hair Mark Simmons, Dan Mullally, Chris Knott 7:40 Mike Weir...

Thanks to the threat of rain, Arnold Palmer Invitational tournament officials paired players in threesomes with a split tee start between 8:24 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. with an expected finish time of 3:30 p.m. for the final round Sunday. The Weather Channel...

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......

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...

"She looked at me with this look, like, 'Mom, are you dumb or what?' She said, 'These are my friends. I want to be with them.'" Deborah McFadden, whose wheelchair athlete daughter, Tatyana, has challenged the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic...