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The inaugural Golfweek Midwest Junior Invitational will take place June 13-14 at Cog Hill Country Club’s famed Dubsdread Course near Chicago.

As with most stories there are two sides to be told. This case is no different, especially since the two sides were separated by fifty yards. The scene of this controversy was The Players Championship in the delayed third round in the final pairing of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia. On the second hole, Garcia, away and hitting his second shot in the fairway was distracted by the gallery that was gathered around Tiger's drive in the left pine straw. Several seconds prior to Sergio's swing, Tiger pulled his fairway wood out of this bag and the crowd reacted favorably to his choice to go for it. This favorable cheering distracted Sergio and caused him (his own words) to miss the ball way right into the trees on the right. Sergio bogeyed the hole. (...)Read the rest of Why Tiger was Wrong, Sergio was Right (657 words) © mchepp for The Sand Trap, 2013. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

Colsaerts’ drop gives a new meaning to ‘taking relief’. Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts played Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell in the quarter final of the Volvo World Match Play on the weekend and found himself taking a drop in the toilet. Colsaerts wayward tee shot on the 10th hole (at the spectacular Thracian Cliffs Golf Resort in Bulgaria) crossed straight over the toilet block which also happens to be the line of the hazard. Related posts: Rules of Golf: Embedded Ball Winter has begun to clasp it’s cold hands around much... Immovable obstructions and local rules: video Ossie Moore took viewers through an important rule concerning immovable obstructions, that... What happens when your drive bounces off your partners golf ball? Another week, and another rules reminder courtesy of the PGA...

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May 19 (Infostrada Sports) - Scores from the European Tour World Match Play Championship Semifinal on Sunday in Kavarna Thongchai Jaidee (Thailand) beat Thomas Aiken (South Africa) 3 and 2 Graeme McDowell (Britain) beat Branden Grace (South Africa) 3 and 2

Graeme McDowell reached the final of the Volvo World Match Play Championship for the second year in a row thanks to a 3&2 victory over Branden Grace.

(Reuters) - Australian Matthew Griffin won the SK Telecom Open at South Korea's Jeju Island by one shot after Sunday's final round was called off due to heavy fog. A 40-foot putt from the back of the green on the 18th guaranteed him the third-round lead on Saturday and it turned out to be the winning shot at the 1 billion Korean won ($895,700) OneAsia event at the Pinx Golf Club. "It's unfortunate to finish like this, but I'll take it," Griffin, who leapt to the top of the OneAsia Order of Merit with the win, said. ...

May 19 (Reuters) - Australian Matthew Griffin won the SK Telecom Open at South Korea's Jeju Island by one shot after Sunday's final round was called off due to heavy fog. A 40-foot putt from the back of the green on the 18th guaranteed him the third-round lead on Saturday and it turned out to be the winning shot at the 1 billion Korean won ($895,700) OneAsia event at the Pinx Golf Club. "It's unfortunate to finish like this, but I'll take it," Griffin, who leapt to the top of the OneAsia Order of Merit with the win, said. ...

The latest issue of Golf Digest has the results of tests conducted on the latest crop of golf balls. The…

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