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  • Garcia apologizes for "fried chicken" remark

    May 21, 2013

    Sergio Garcia apologized for saying he would ``serve fried chicken'' while making a joke about having Tiger Woods over for dinner.The British newspaper The Guardian reported Garcia was asked in jest while on stage at the European Tour's awards dinner Tuesday night if he would invite Woods to dinner during the U.S. Open.

  • Southern Cal, San Jose State share 1st-round lead

    May 21, 2013

    ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Southern California and San Jose State shared the lead at 4-under 284 after the first round of the NCAA Women's Golf Championships on Tuesday.USC, which won titles in 2003 and '08 and was runner-up in '10 and `12, came in as the top-ranked team in the country, while San Jose State - which last won the title in `92 - was 48th. The Spartans' had their lowest round in 19 appearances in the championships.

  • Quotes on the anchored stroke ruling

    May 21, 2013

    Selected quotes on the Royal & Ancient and U.S. Golf Association approving Rule 14-1b, which bans in 2016 the anchored stroke commonly used with long putters:``We are doing what we think is right for the long-term benefit of the game for all golfers, and we just can't write them for one group of elite players.'' - USGA executive director Mike Davis.

  • Golf adopts rule to ban anchored putting stroke

    May 21, 2013

    Golf's two governing bodies outlawed the anchored putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions, approving a new rule that starts in 2016 and urging the PGA Tour to follow along so the 600-year-old sport is still played under one set of rules.

  • Chinese teenager pulls out of US Open qualifying

    May 21, 2013

    FAR HILLS, N.J. (AP) - Guan Tianlang has decided not to try to play in the U.S. Open.The USGA said Tuesday that the 14-year-old from China has withdrawn from sectional qualifying in Dallas on June 3. Guan informed the USGA shortly after he received a sponsor's exemption to play in the Memorial, which ends June 2. The USGA offered to move Guan's qualifier from Texas to the Ohio to help with travel, but the teen declined.

  • Rules officials: Time better spent on course

    May 21, 2013

    The number of people calling PGA Tour events after seeing possible rules violations has gone up since Tiger Woods took what turned out to be an illegal drop at the Masters. That doesn't mean the number of violations is increasing.``The rate of irrelevant call-ins has gone up dramatically, too,'' said Tyler Dennis, the tour's vice president of competition.

  • Have driver, will travel: US golfer roams world

    May 21, 2013

    The quotation from the proud father was a version of Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous words, ``Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.''The path of Peter Uihlein took him inside a cage below the surface of the Indian Ocean, where a Great White Shark with jaws wide open approached while closing in on a tuna. The jagged, triangular teeth gnashed at the tuna's head against the cage, and the former U.S. Amateur champion could see black eyes roll over to white.

  • Garcia, Woods take their shots at each other

    May 21, 2013

    VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) - Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia don't like each other, and they're making no effort to disguise their feelings.The verbal feuding began May 11 during the third round of The Players Championship. It resumed this week on both sides of the Atlantic when Woods offered a one-word answer if he thought about contacting Garcia to put the matter to rest.