Ernie Els

U.S. Open looking at a soggy start

2013-06-11 08:39:00

The forecast for Ardmore, Pa., calls for thunderstorms�and a 40% chance of rain later Tuesday, which would actually be an improvement for Merion Golf Club. The site of the 2013 U.S. Open�is slogging through a wet week that has limited practice time...

Webb Simpson in familiar spot as he tries to repeat as U.S. Open champ

2013-06-10 00:00:00

ARDMORE, Pa. — Webb Simpson's first competition at Merion Golf Club was a brief one. He lasted only two rounds into the 2005 U.S. Amateur but was mature enough to appreciate something outside of his scorecard. "I tell people all the time it is...

Golf's two main governing bodies approve ban on 'anchor' putting

2013-05-21 06:39:00

The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and the U.S. Golf Assn. approved a rule Tuesday that outlaws the "anchor putting stroke" that was used by four of the last six major champions. The new rule goes into effect in 2016. ''We strongly believe that this rule...

Phil Mickelson, Nick Watney are up by one shot at Quail Hollow

2013-05-05 00:00:00

Phil Mickelson and Nick Watney wound up tied for the lead Saturday in the Wells Fargo Championship, minus much separation from the rest of the field. Mickelson hit a shot out-of-bounds on the 15th hole and hit another shot that struck a spectator in the...

John Paramor's stroke-penalty on Tianlang Guan was the right call

2013-04-13 00:00:00

AUGUSTA, Ga. — In the aftermath of Friday's controversial slow-play penalty at the Masters, there were many dueling opinions. We'll go with "Bravo, John Paramor." He is the rules official from England, affectionately (or otherwise) known as Big...

Australian Adam Scott earns his Masters with degree of drama

2013-04-14 19:30:00

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- This time, the putt didn't slip past the hole. This time, Adam Scott's world did not crumble around him by the width of a thumbnail. Ernie Els was right. It wasn't just lip service back in July, at Royal Lytham & St. Annes, when he...

Golfer Keegan Bradley is tired of people saying he is a cheater

2013-02-28 13:19:00

Keegan Bradley, who won the PGA Championship in 2011 to become the first player to win a major while using a belly putter, is tired of people calling him a cheater in the wake of the U.S. Golf Assn. calling for a ban on the putters. "It's been...

Tiger Woods plays golf with President Obama

2013-02-18 00:00:00

Tiger Woods had a good reason for snubbing the Northern Trust Open again this year. It turns out he was playing in the President's Cup. Woods spent Sunday playing golf with President Obama at the Floridian, a secluded club on that state's Treasure...

No shortage of compelling third-round stories at storied Riviera

2013-02-17 00:00:00

Saturday's third round of golf in the Northern Trust Open was like the line in the old TV series "Naked City." There were eight million stories at Riviera. Here are three. � Barber can cut it Blayne Barber, 69-70-72—211; two under, tied...

Bill Haas trying for two in a row at Riviera

2013-02-16 19:19:00

Third-round leader Bill Haas is trying to become only the eighth player to win what is now called Northern Trust Open in consecutive years. The first player to do it was Macdonald Smith in 1928-29. The last to do it was Phil Mickelson in 2008-09....

The names are there at Riviera

2013-02-15 21:40:00

What an autograph-rush weekend it should be at the Northern Trust Open, with headliners such as Phil Mickelson, Bill Haas, Keegan Bradley, Adam Scott, Ernie Els, Sergio Garcia and Fred Couples all ... well, making the cut. Never mind the top of the...

Fred Couples can tell you some Riviera Country Club history

2013-02-14 00:00:00

Ben Hogan bought the fairway to heaven, Humphrey Bogart no longer stands pickled and perched beneath the sycamore on No. 12 and member Jim Murray isn't around to describe Riviera Country Club, as he once did, as "like a coquettish woman who winks at you...

Six-time Masters champion Jack Nicklaus chips his way out of a bunker during the Par 3 Contest at the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on Wednesday in Augusta, Ga. Ted Potter Jr. won the Masters� Par 3 Tournament, beating Matt Kuchar on a second sudden-death playoff hole.

2013-04-09 00:00:00

Ernie Els celebrates with the championship trophy after the final round of the 2012 British Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club.

2012-07-23 06:03:00

Ernie Els reacts as he walks up to the 6th green during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge in Orlando , Florida, Sunday, March 25, 2012.

2012-03-25 00:00:00