Adam Scott has climbed to a career-high golf ranking of No.5 in the world despite being almost a year without a victory. The 26-year-old Queenslander overtook Retief Goosen this week to rank behind only Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh. His climb follows a consistently strong season with eight top 10 finishes [...]

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CARACAS, Venezuela — Three major Caracas golf courses, long favored by the city’s wealthy, are being expropriated to build housing for thousands of poor and middle class Venezuelans, officials said Tuesday. The city expropriations, which will likely generate new friction between supporters and opponents of President Hugo Chavez, are part of an ambitious government effort [...]

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The AP is reporting that  Stewart Cink kept plugging away with a few clutch pars and enough birdies that he figured would keep him close to the lead. The surprise came when he glanced at a scoreboard and saw who he was chasing Saturday in the Bridgestone Invitational. It wasn’t Tiger Woods. Before long, it [...]

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RICHIE Ramsay, the young Scots golfer who made history by becoming the first British winner of the coveted US Amateur title in almost a century, will today turn his back on an instant sporting fortune by carrying on his career in the unpaid ranks. His spectacular victory at Hazeltine National on Sunday to secure the [...]

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Peking University, where Mao Zedong once worked as an assistant librarian, plans to teach China’s intellectual elite how to play golf, the Beijing News reported on Tuesday. The report said lessons in golf would be offered to students at the university, China’s equivalent of Harvard or Oxford, as part of the physical education programme. The [...]

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