Golf Strike Is Called Off
Field staff officials today called off -- at least temporarily -- a strike against the PGA Tour and its showcase Players Championship. The strike of the Professional Association of Golf Officials was scheduled to begin at midnight on the eve of one of the most prestigious events in pro golf. In a letter to the deputy commissioner, Tim Finchem, the officials attorney, Richie Phillips, said the unions board of directors decided to lift the midnight strike deadline and offered to submit the contract dispute to binding arbitration.
Rory in perfect position
Round 1 of the Players Championship is in the books, and it was a good one. Hideki Matsuyama is the best player in the world nobody talks about. He shares the lead at 5 under after 18 holes along with Charley Hoffman, David Hearn and Kevin Na. Theres.
Brown and Olazabal Share One-Shot Lead
As the wind began to blow and the greens started to harden, two players with three names shared the lead today after the second round of the Players Championship. The first-round leader, Billy Ray Brown, and Jose Maria Olazabal of Spain were tied for the 36-hole lead with totals of 10-under-par 134. They led Craig Parry and Davis Love 3d by one shot and Phil Blackmar and Nick Faldo by two.
Tiger Woods shoots 1-over 73 in Round 1 of PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
That was Hal Sutton in 1983 and only eight golfers total were under par for the entire tournament that year. Woods shot 1-over 73 on Thursday. After chipping in on No. 17 to get to 1 under for the tournament, Woods made double bogey at the final hole.
Rain Delays Golf Tourney
LEAD: Heavy rain today forced an overnight delay in third-round play of the Players Championship and may have diminished the chances of some veteran contenders.
Tiger Woods at Players Championship 2015: Thursday Leaderboard Score.
Tiger Woods battled at The Players Championship on Thursday. He battled himself. He battled the TPC Sawgrass course. Perhaps he battled the still lengthy divide between the player he once was and the player he currently is. But he battled, eventually .
Wild first round for Brooks Koepka at Players Championship
The first round of the Players Championship was a colorful one for Brooks Koepka at TPC Sawgrass on Thursday. Koepka, winner of the Waste Management Open earlier this season, is teeing it up in his first Players Championship this week. No doubt, itll.
Golf; Azinger Leads Zoeller by One Shot in T.P.C.
Paul Azinger continued to match what is statistically the best all-round game on the PGA Tour against its most variegated course today and took a one-shot lead going into the final round of the Players Championship. Azingers three-round total of 12-under par 204 over the heavily mounded, hazard-intensive T.P.C. Stadium Course was one shot better than Fuzzy Zoeller, and three better than Tom Watson and Bob Lohr.
GOLFWEEK | Live blog PGA Tours Players Championship.
Live updates from Round 1 of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass with Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.
THE PLAYERS Championship 2015: Tee Times, Channel and Odds
The PGA Tour tees off this weekend at the famous TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, with THE PLAYERS Championship. Thanks to the top-notch field, the purse (a tour-richest $10 million) and general prestige, THE PLAYERS is often referred to .
Rory McIlroy aims to crack the TPC Sawgrass code
The home to the Players Championship has always been a bit perplexing to him. He claims to like the course, but it is clear the Pete Dye-designed layout that has been the site for the PGA Tours signature event since 1982 is not among his favorites.
How to Watch The Players Championship Live Stream Online
Dustin Johnson is one of the many big-named pros playing in The Players Championship. (Getty). The field is full of the worlds best players, the purse is the richest on the PGA Tour and the course is one of the most recognizable on the schedule. Its.
How to live stream The PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP online.
The 42nd edition of The Players Championship tees off this week, and weve put together this streaming guide for catching every putt, birdie, and sand trap.
PGA Tour Faces Work Stoppage
The PGA Tour, facing the threat of an unprecedented strike at one of its premier tournaments, will make a final offer Tuesday in contract negotiations with field-staff officials. Richie Phillips, negotiator for the Professional Association of Golf Officials, said the union will strike Wedneday at the high-profile Players Championship if demands for an improved economic package are not met.
Courier Falls to Chang And Loses No. 1 Spot
Jim Courier threw down his racquet as if the handle were burning him, and then, using his fingertips, he picked it up by the frame and dangled it, like a piece of refuse, at arms length. He spit in the general direction he wished one of his many forehand miscues had taken -- across the net rather than into the stands. He reviled himself and midway through a point in the third game of the second set called himself a moron who was committing tennis suicide instead of forcing his opponent to depose him.
We still have no idea what to expect from Tiger Woods at.
Tiger Woods, if recent history involving his Nike brother Rory McIlroy is any indication (and were pretty sure its not), should be the odds-on favorite to win this weeks Players Championship -- and a few more tournaments as��.
Faldo Leads but Competition Looms
Armored by a cocoon of concentration against what has been a grating nemesis, Nick Faldo continued to smoothly make his way around the sharp edges of the T.P.C. Stadium Course to take a one-stroke lead into Sundays final round of the Players Championship.
WATCH: Tiger Woods gets down at PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
Tiger Woods is starting a non-major for the first time since February and seems to be quite loose and relaxed as he heads into it. This was Woods stretching and getting loose before his first tee shot.
The Players Championship 2015: Tee times, pairings for.
The single best tee time of the PGA Tour season will go off Thursday morning at The Players Championship. Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy have dominated world golf since last July, winning majors and ascending to world��.
A Course Dominates A Tourney
LEAD: The Players Championship will start Thursday on one of golfs most controversial courses: the Tournament Players Club adjacent to the PGA Tours national headquarters.
Players Championship 2015: Live updates, scores, leaderboard, highlights and.
The Players Championship is often called the fifth major in golf. A win does not count as a major on a players resume, but the PGA Tour does everything it can to ensure its the most prestigious tournament in the world outside of those first four.
2015 PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP leaderboard: Rory McIlroy runs.
The PGA Tour paired Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy at the Players this week in what was billed as the start of golfs rivalry of the century. Golf Channels Brandel Chamblee said earlier in the week that we may be on the cusp��.
2015 PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP odds: Rory McIlroy, Jordan.
All you have to do is look at the odds to understand why this may be the most anticipated Players Championship in recent years. The Nos. 1 and 2 players in the Official World Golf Rankings, who have won the last two big��.
Players Championship 2015 predictions and picks - SB Nation
Mark: Both are obviously playing well leading in. Its been a weird tournament for McIlroy historically. A few missed cuts early, but back-to-back top 10s. Ill still give the edge to Spieth, who I think will play very well this week.
Tiger Woods over-par after front 9 full of shaky shots at The.
Nothing is easy for Tiger Woods in Thursdays opening round at The Players Championship.
Seles Defends Title With No. 1 Style
Monica Seles, the defending champion of the Lipton International Players Championships, used her first tournament since she seized Steffi Grafs No. 1 ranking two weeks ago to prove why she deserves her label as the best match player of the moment in womens tennis. In the sizzling early afternoon sunshine today, the 17-year-old Seles improbably rebounded from a 0-4, 0-40 second-set deficit against Gabriela Sabatini, who currently bills herself as the best fighter in the womens game, to successfully defend that Lipton title with a 6-3, 7-5 victory.
PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP 2015: Live updates, scores.
The years Players Championship is one of the most anticipated in recent years with the return of Tiger and the ascendance of Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth. Heres a background primer on the fifth major and updated��.
How to watch PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP at TPC Sawgrass live.
The PGA Tour hypes THE PLAYERS Championship as the fifth major in golf and the coverage it gets from Golf Channel/NBC all week would corroborate that. This is the deepest and strongest field of the year, on a venue��.
GOLFWEEK | PGA Tour Players Championship 2015
Not surprisingly, a star-studded field is committed to the Players Championship this week. Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Jim Furyk and Jason Day are among the favorites, but Tiger Woods is teeing it up for the first time since��.
The PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP 2015: Tiger Woods, Phil.
At the start of the opening round on Thursday at The Players Championship, all the hype focused on the return of Tiger Woods and the power pairing of Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth. Those three big names, especially the��.
BECKER PAYS THE PRICE, GLADLY
Boris Becker is learning that sometimes the best place to hide is in a crowded room. That is the paradox of New York City, and the appeal it holds for the West German teen-ager who generates nationwide news coverage at home just about every time he ventures outdoors. Becker goes to the movies; film at 11, is a news report that will keep many adoring West Germans glued to their television sets. In the United States, athletes are stars or superstars, but in West Germany Becker is a national hero, a star of the highest magnitude. His life changed dramatically last July when he became the youngest winner of the mens singles championship at Wimbledon. He was only 17 - too young to appreciate the achievement, it was said, too young to receive such acclaim.
PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP Should Focus on What It Is
The criteria to be considered for the World Golf Hall of Fame smacks of yet another effort by the PGA Tour to make The Players Championship something its not.
Lendl and Sabatini Lose at the Lipton
LEAD: On a sunny day where tenacity meant more than tenure, the Lipton International Players Championships lost both its defending champions.
2d Victory in a Row for Kite
LEAD: Victory came a lot more easily and in a much more classic fashion for Tom Kite today than it did a week ago, as the 39-year-old Texan called Mr. Consistent became the second man this year to win two consecutive tournaments on the PGA Tour.
Elkington Captures The Players Title
Steve Elkington rose out of a pack of golfers and a shallow divot today to birdie the final hole and win the Players Championship by one shot over Fuzzy Zoeller. Elkington, a 28-year-old native of Australia, fired a four-under-par 68 to finish 72 holes at 12-under 276. The victory, the second of his five-year career, was worth $288,000 and a 10-year exemption to co-sponsored PGA Tour events.
Inch Putt Evades McCumber
LEAD: Missing a golf ball completely is the most ineffective stroke in golf. Mark McCumber, whose ball was one inch from the 17th hole today, may have come up with the second most ineffective shot when he stroked the ball and it did not reach the cup.
Here are some fun prop bets for the PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
The Players Championship is always one of the more bettable golf tournamnts of the season. Between the 17th hole, deep field and great course, theres plenty to throw your well-earned cash away on. Here are a few of the better ones this season.
GARY PLAYER TAKES SENIORS
LEAD: Gary Player birdied the last hole today for a final-round 69 and a one-stroke victory over Chi Chi Rodriguez and Bruce Crampton in the Senior Tournament Players Championship.
Upsets Galore: Edberg Loses; McEnroe Wins
The upsets were the opposite of the bookend variety. In the staid daytime version, an unheralded upstart erased 287 steps on the ranking ladder to eliminate the worlds No. 2 player, Stefan Edberg, whose forte it is to remain mild-mannered in victory or defeat.
The PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP 2015: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson chasing Hideki.
At the start of the opening round on Thursday at The Players Championship, all the hype focused on the return of Tiger Woods and the power pairing of Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth. Those three big names, especially the two young guns at 1-2 in the.
Caddies Get Their Shot Before Players Championship
It was the Wednesday practice round at TPC Sawgrass, and Rose was taking aim at the island green of the signature 17th hole, a par 3 that was playing 134 yards into the wind. On the eve of the Players Championship, golfs hierarchy is turned upside down.
Woods Endures Brutal Stretch Ahead of PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
Tiger Woods admitted on Tuesday to sleepless nights in the lead-up to this weeks Players Championship as he wrestles with the anniversary of his fathers death and recent breakup with Lindsey Vonn.
PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP Odds 2015: Final Lines and Predictions for Top Contenders
The Players Championship will feature most of the top golfers in the world, but only one can come away with the $1.8 million first-place prize. TPC Sawgrass is one of the more unique courses in the world, and it usually takes some perfect shots to be .
The Players Championship Stays Tied At The Top With $10 Million Purse
The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass is set to begin, with $1.8 million guaranteed to the winner and a total purse of $10 million attached to the tournament. That purse ties The Players Championship with the Masters and PGA Championship in .
The Players Championship field: Tiger Woods headlines.
The annual stop at TPC Sawgrass is hyped as the games 5th major and its best argument for that is its field, which is often the deepest in golf.
Muster Injured in Accident Shortly After Gaining Final
LEAD: Thomas Muster of Austria suffered a serious leg injury in an accident tonight less than two hours after he won a semifinal match in the International Players Championships, a tournament official said.
The PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP 2015: Leaderboard, live.
Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy play together in the morning and Tiger Woods makes his return to TPC Sawgrass on what should be a fantastic start at The Players.
PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP 2015 live stream: Time, TV schedule.
The PGA Tours marquee event tees off Thursday morning at TPC Sawgrass, and there will be multiple ways to watch The Players Championship throughout the first round. Golf Channel will have the six-hour broadcast��.
All of the best images from the week at the Players Championship.
The Players Championship 2015. All of the best images from the week at the Players Championship. More. View Gallery Next. Jason Day plays in the mornings marquee group alongside Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth. Jason Day escapes from trouble .
McIlroy, Spieth Linked Closer Now at PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rory McIlroy remembers a 19-year-old Texan who had secured a spot on the PGA Tour and seemed very polished for his age. That was the first time he played with Jordan Spieth two years ago in the Texas Open.
Tiger Woods hit one of the worst shots of his career in.
One of the Golf Channel announcers said the shot was so bad that in nearly 30 years of covering and attending The Players Championship, he had never seen anybody hit a ball into that area of the creek on the 8th hole.
LOOK: Ben Crane likes to photobomb at the Players Championship
Why is Ben Crane tweeting year-old photos? I dont know, but the Players Championship is this week so I supposed its mildly relevant. Its also very funny. For more golf news, rumors and analysis, follow @KylePorterCBS on Twitter and link up with CBS .