Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The United States Women's Open Golf Championship, one of thirteen national championships conducted by the United States Golf Association (USGA), is one of the LPGA Tour's major championships along with the LPGA Championship, the Women's British Open, and the Kraft Nabisco Championship.
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S. Women's Open, knowing that success in their home country is great but America is where the real fame — not to mention money — is earned.They lurked in the middle of the pack for the first two days, then made their move on the weekend — So Yeon Ryu and Hee Kyung Seo vaulting to the top of the leaderboard, tied after a 72-hole grind that felt much longer.They played a three-hole playoff Monday, and when it was over, Ryu was the champion.But their country — as it has often been in recent years — turned out to be the biggest winner."When I was started golf, Se Ri Pak won the U.S. Women's Open tournament, so this tournament is really special for me," Ryu said, invoking the name of the 33-year-old, five-time major winner who pushed golf to a new level in South Korea starting at the end of the 1990s.After this win, her first major and first victory in the United States , Ryu became the newest candidate to be the next Se Ri.Or maybe she'll ...OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — One more day like this, and Paula Creamer will no longer be the best LPGA golfer who hasn't won a major.Creamer kept her game together as a dozen...
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...
Things are starting to take shape before the first doubleheader of U.S. opens.In just over two years, Pinehurst's renowned No. 2 course will play host to the U.S. Op...
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Morgan Pressel inched closer to her first LPGA Tour title since 2008, posting two very different victories Saturday to reach the semifinals of the Sybase Match Play ...
Stacy Lewis is the top American left in the Sybase Match Play Championship, and it's really not a surprise.Lewis has been the best American on the LPGA Tour all seas...
It's an exciting week in the golf world, with the PGA in Texas for the Byron Nelson, and both the European Tour and LPGA running match play events.Don't get me wrong...
PGA TOUR - CROWNE PLAZA INVITATIONAL AT COLONIAL, Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas - The PGA Tour stays in Texas this week for its annual trip to Colonial.To...
Yani Tseng and Na Yeon Choi, the top two seeds, were both ousted Saturday morning at the Sybase Match Play Championship.Tseng, a quarterfinal loser the last two year...
Morgan Pressel rolled to a 5 & 4 win over Anna Nordqvist in Saturday's quarterfinals at the Sybase Match Play Championship.Pressel had never reached the quarterfinal...
Four-time major champion Phil Mickelson headlined a group of five people inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Monday.Mickelson was joined in the 2012 class b...
Tiger Woods never found his golf ball and received a free drop when it was pointed out a fan picked up the ball. He went on to miss the cut at Quail Hollow by one sh...
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Paula Creamer wondered a few months ago if she would ever play golf again the way her badly injured left thumb was hurting.What she couldn't have...
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Cristie Kerr didn't need to sink a long putt to gain a potentially significant advantage in the U.S. Women's Open, or whip a 290-yard drive down ...
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Normally, the USGA hides the water hoses located near all greens during any U.S. Open to keep them firm, fast and, to some golfers, fiercely unfa...
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Wie's misery, indeed.On a truly rough day for the world's No. 10-ranked golfer, Michelle Wie shot an 11-over 82 on Thursday to play herself out o...
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Sun Gyong Park, a South Korean amateur, has made a hole-in-one on the 141-yard, par-3 sixth hole at the U.S. Women's Open.Park used an 8-iron at ...
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Imagine 52 Red Sox-Yankees games all going on at about the same time.Given the speed of play — or, more precisely, the lack of speedy play — duri...
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Temperatures were in the 90s. Michelle Wie was in the 80s. On a demanding day when tough old Oakmont Country Club illustrated again that playing ...
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