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Dottie Pepper is returning to golf broadcasting with ESPN in what she calls a perfect fit.Pepper retired from NBC Sports in December after eight years because she was weary of the travel and wanted to devote her time to promoting junior golf. She tells The Associated Press her deal with ESPN gives her a limited golf schedule and still allows her to work on junior golf as a PGA of America board member.Pepper will start work at Merion next month at the U.S. Open. ESPN televises the weekday rounds. She also plans to work the U.S. Senior Open, U.S. Women's Open, British Open, British Women's Open and Senior British Open. And next year, she'll add the Masters and Ryder Cup.An announcement from ESPN is expected later today....
Lance Ten Broeck has taken the lead at the U.S. Senior Open.The full-time caddie for Tim Herron and part-time player shot a 68 Friday at Indianwood. His 6-under 134 ...
Roger Chapman is a lot more recognizable in his hometown of Ascott, England, after winning two majors on the Champions Tour last year.Chapman would have been best de...
Scioto Country Club is returning to the national spotlight in golf for the first time in decades.And Jack Nicklaus wants to be ready for it."I just have to work to g...
Unflappable Olin Browne fought off the heat to shoot a 65 and forge a two-shot lead over Mark O'Meara through Saturday's third round of the U.S. Senior Open.Browne, ...
Back when he was just another kid with big dreams and not so much game, Olin Browne and his then-girlfriend used to go to a hardscrabble par-3 course nearby and imag...
The fans following Fred Couples and Tom Watson early Thursday morning were sometimes six- and seven-deep, wedging themselves between tree trunks and ducking under li...
When Fred Couples was struggling to stay near par in the first round, the cheers he heard were mostly from friends and family out to exult the Seattle native.On Satu...
Bernhard Langer waited much of Friday morning for the soupy fog on the Sammamish Plateau to finally lift. He spent the evening waiting for someone to make a charge u...
Fred Couples took the safe route. It likely cost him a chance at winning his first major on the Champions Tour before his adoring hometown fans.Instead, Bernhard Lan...
Chien Soon Lu shot a 2-under 68 on Saturday to move into a tie for third in the U.S. Senior Open, five strokes behind leaders Fred Couples and Bernhard Langer with o...
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Roger Chapman had a lot of thoughts running in his head as he closed in on the U.S. Senior Open title.One of them was proving that his Senior PGA Championship victor...
Tom Kite set a U.S. Senior Open record with a 28 on the front nine at Indianwood and finished a 5-under 65 on Thursday.Corey Pavin's sixth birdie on his 17th hole pu...
Fred Couples joked that someone will have to close with a 60 to catch Bernhard Langer at the U.S. Senior Open.That might not be low enough.Langer shot a 6-under 64 o...
Roger Chapman earned the right to be mentioned in the same sentence with Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Hale Irwin.Not bad for a self-described former European Tour ...
Nick Price of Zimbabwe has withdrawn from the U.S. Senior Open because of a family emergency.The U.S. Senior Open starts Thursday at Indianwood. Price, who was named...
Tom Watson has accomplished a lot in golf, winning the British Open five times, the Masters twice along with a U.S. Open.The 62-year-old has had success on the Champ...
Tiger Woods cruised to an easy victory at the Buick Open in 2009 — before a scandal in his personal life stunted his career — the last time a significant golf tourna...