Category: Feature Articles

Associated Press LA QUINTA, Calif. – Jhonattan Vegas’ path to the PGA Tour started in the remote reaches of Venezuela, where the toddler imitated his father’s golf swing with sticks and stones while growing up in an oil-drilling camp.

FORMER BOB HOPE CLASSIC CHAMPIONS WEIR, DUVAL, PERRY, TRAHAN AND PEREZ COMMIT TO 2011 CLASSIC FIELD      Classic’s early field now includes 10 of the past 11 Bob Hope Classic champions, 10 PGA TOUR champions from 2010, and four 2010 Ryder Cup players     LA QUINTA, Calif. – 2003 Bob Hope Classic and Masters champion Mike Weir, former World No. 1 and 1999 Classic champion David Duval, author of the greatest round in Bob Hope Classic history with his final-round 59 in 1999, 1995 Classic champion and 2009 Masters runner-up Kenny Perry, 2008 Classic champion D.J. Trahan and 2009 Classic champion Pat… Read More »

How many more negative articles can be written about past-told events that came to light more than a year ago?  Is the nation’s appetite for negative-based journalism so prevalent that not one editor of any news organization will stand up and say, “THE TIGER WOODS’ SCANDAL?? THAT’S ENOUGH ALREADY!!

A quarter-century later, Bramlett breaks down barrier By Brian Wacker  |  PGATOUR.com WINTER GARDEN, Fla. — More than a decade after Tiger Woods became the first African American to win the Masters, another black golfer with mixed race parents who learned the game by emulating the swing of his father in a mirror and later matriculated at Stanford University cut his own little slice of history. Monday, Joseph Bramlett became the first African American in 25 years to successfully advance through the final stage of q-school to earn a PGA TOUR card for 2011. He also becomes the first African… Read More »

DonorsChoose.org, Project Lead the Way, Teach For America and TELACU join  Tiger Woods Foundation as Tournament Nonprofit Partners By Herschel Caldwell Two of the four major championship winners from the summer – Graeme McDowell and Martin Kaymer – plus a trio of other major winners and 13 Ryder Cup participants will make up one of the most impressive, elite fields of the year when they compete at the Chevron World Challenge, Dec. 1-5, at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif. 

The sport of golf has challenged and charmed people for generations. By Herschel Caldwell   The game is believed to have originated in Scotland as early as the 15th century, and was imported to the U.S. in 1888.  For many years, the sport was the exclusive province of wealthy, Anglo-Saxon males, but in recent years, the passion for playing golf has sparked what some would call a spiritual revival among the “baby boom” generation.

MEXICO CITY (AP)—Lorena Ochoa retired Tuesday, following the path of Annika Sorenstam and marking the second time in the last three years the biggest star on the LPGA Tour left the game. The 28-year-old Mexican announced her decision on her website and will discuss her plans Friday. Ochoa, who has been No. 1 in the world the last three years and won 27 times over the last six years, may well be the best-known athlete in her country who is not a soccer player.

By Herschel V. Caldwell It is generally agreed that until 1977, the 1975 Masters was the year that held a special significant for people of color, particularly African Americans. That was the year Lee Elder became the first African American ever to compete in the Masters’ tournament. That fact pales in comparison to Tiger Woods’ record setting performance in 1997 and what Tiger has accomplished in the eleven years since. Looking back to that year, one is struck, to begin with, by the fact that the 1997 field included the world’s greatest and highest ranked player and as each day… Read More »