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  • Artifacts missing after burglary at NJ USGA Museum

    May 16, 2012

    BERNARDS TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - The U.S. Amateur trophy is among the artifacts missing after a burglar broke into the U.S. Golf Association Museum in northern New Jersey.Somerset County prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano says police responded to the building in Bernards Township after a burglar alarm was activated there around 2:40 a.m. Wednesday.

  • Winning Nelson set Bradley up for major victory

    May 16, 2012

    IRVING, Texas (AP) - Keegan Bradley sometimes looks at the PGA Championship trophy sitting on his mantel and starts laughing.``It seems so bizarre that the Wanamaker Trophy, it's in my room,'' Bradley said. ``Definitely, sometimes I have to ask myself, `Is this really real?' ... It's cool to be living with it.''

  • Winless Pettersen set to defend Match Play title

    May 16, 2012

    GLADSTONE, N.J. (AP) - A year after meeting for the Sybase Match Play Championship, defending champion Suzann Pettersen and Cristie Kerr are in the same position on the LPGA Tour.The two veterans are ranked in the world's top five. And they are in the mid-teens in earnings. Yet they're both doing something neither expected in May - looking for their first win of the year.

  • Poulter is match-play specialist to beat in Spain

    May 16, 2012

    CASARES, Spain (AP) - Given his excellent Ryder Cup record and his unprecedented double in individual match-play tournaments, Ian Poulter's preferred format for the 2016 Olympics is no surprise.``I don't know where they are with their decision-making ... but I think match play would suit the Olympics better than a stroke-play event,'' the Englishman said Wednesday.

  • Snedeker in midflight drama for 1st trip to Spain

    May 16, 2012

    CASARES, Spain (AP) - Deprived of his clubs and sleep following an emergency landing en route to Spain, Brandt Snedeker's first appearance in Spain isn't exactly going as planned.The 26th-ranked American's journey from Miami to Madrid ahead of the World Match Play Championship in Spain was interrupted on Monday when his plane was forced to land after a passenger suffered a heart attack.