LPGA Tour

LeBron James to receive his fourth MVP award

2013-05-03 20:32:00

LeBron James is getting his fourth Most Valuable Player award — and the only mystery left is whether the vote was unanimous. The Miami Heat star will be introduced Sunday as the award winner, according to a person familiar with the results and who...

Flip Saunders hired to run Timberwolves

2013-05-02 22:10:00

Goodbye, David Kahn. Hello, Flip Saunders. Again. The Minnesota Timberwolves announced Thursday that owner Glen Taylor will not pick up the option for next season on Kahn's contract as president of basketball operations. Three people with knowledge of...

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...

Restart gives Kevin Harvick the win at Richmond

2013-04-27 21:15:00

Kevin Harvick won Saturday night's race at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway by plowing through traffic on a two-lap sprint to the finish. Juan Pablo Montoya was trying to hold off Harvick for his first win since 2010 when the caution came out with...

Matt Kenseth criticizes penalties levied by NASCAR

2013-04-26 00:00:00

Matt Kenseth said Thursday the massive penalties that NASCAR levied against the driver and his Joe Gibbs Racing team were "grossly unfair" and "borderline shameful." NASCAR on Wednesday stripped Kenseth of 50 championship points and suspended his crew...

Inbee Park leads Lizette Salas by one at Kraft Nabisco

2013-04-05 20:52:00

Lizette Salas heard the cheers in the gallery and the shouts of "Fight On," coming from fans who knew her from her USC days. The 23-year-old from Azusa, who learned golf from her father Ramon, a mechanic at the Azusa Greens Country Club, is in second...

Stacy Lewis, Michelle Wie finish off the pace at Kraft Nabisco

2013-04-07 16:50:00

RANCHO MIRAGE -- Stacy Lewis, the American who climbed to No. 1 in the world rankings two weeks ago, finished the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills Country Club with a final-round even-par 72 and a four-day total of 287. When the day is over...

Inbee Park is steady as she goes, leads LPGA Kraft Nabisco by 3

2013-04-07 00:00:00

Inbee Park seemed unflappable Saturday. The breeze picked up, but Park's shots stayed in the middle of the fairway. The 24-year-old South Korean played alongside her closest competitor, Lizette Salas, and increased her lead even as the pro-Salas...

Azusa's Lizette Salas is second at Kraft Nabisco Championship

2013-04-05 18:32:00

Lizette Salas, who was a star golfer at USC before becoming an LPGA Tour pro last year, is in second place, one shot behind Inbee Park, after two rounds of the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage. Salas had a...

Stacy Lewis is No. 1 at LPGA's first major

2013-04-03 18:33:00

The fact that an American golfer is ranked No. 1 in the world is not a surprise. The fact that a second golfer is ranked No. 1 — a woman — is very much a surprise. Of course, everyone knows Tiger Woods; the other is Stacy Lewis, and she...

Three-way tie for lead in opening round of LPGA's first major

2013-04-04 18:51:00

RANCHO MIRAGE -- Jodi Ewart Shadoff, a newlywed from Britain, joined Na Yeon Choi and Suzann Pettersen as the leaders after the first round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the LPGA Tour's first major tournament at Mission Hills Country Club. Ewart...

Lydia Ko and playing partner Michelle Wie at one under after nine

2013-04-04 12:05:00

RANCHO MIRAGE -- Lydia Ko, a 15-year-old from New Zealand who won a tournament on the LPGA Tour last year, is paired Thursday and Friday with 23-year-old Michelle Wie, who once contended at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the tour's first major, when...

Wayne Nooe, Kingsmill Resort Vice President of Sports Operations, and LPGA Tour player Brittany Lang of Richmond attend media day for Kingsmill Championship in Williamsburg on Monday.

2012-08-06 00:00:00

, where she won 38 tournaments, including the 1965 U.S. Women's Open, and led the tour in earnings in 1969. Mann, who attended Notre Dame Prep, played for two decades and is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

2012-04-13 00:00:00