Ball Pick-Ups & Retrievers

May 17 (Reuters) - Australian Marc Leishman soared into anearly one-shot lead with a pair of eagles on the back nine inThursday's opening round of the Byron Nelson Championship inIrving, Texas. The 28-year-old Leishman took advantage of relatively calmconditions at the TPC Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas, chippingin to eagle the par-four 11th and holing […]

May 17 (Infostrada Sports) - World Match Play Championshipgroup stage results on Thursday in Casares, Spain Rafael Cabrera (Spain) beat Martin Kaymer (Germany) 3&2 Justin Rose (Britain) beat Robert Rock (Britain) 7&6 Charl Schwartzel (South Africa) v Nicolas Colsaerts (Belgium) all square Graeme McDowell (Britain) beat Robert Karlsson (Sweden) 1up Se […]

May 17 (Reuters) - Using fellow competitor John Senden'sback-up driver, American Brandt Snedeker pulled off a stunning5&4 victory over Dane Thomas Bjorn in the World Match PlayChampionship in Spain after his bag was delayed in transit. The world number 26, already a winner this year on the PGATour at Torrey Pines in January, shrugged off the disrupt […]

By Andrew Batt:According to the latest Golf Travel Insights report from KPMG, more than 60 percent of golf tour operators experienced an increase in the number of golf holidays booked in 2011, compared to just 38 percent in the previous year, highlighting a welcomed boost to the golf tourism sector. […]

May 16 (Reuters) - Off-course distractions by his peers andthe media were always going to be a challenge for in-demand MattKuchar at this week's Byron Nelson Championship in Irving,Texas, but he says he would not have it any other way. Just three days after winning the biggest title of hiscareer at the Players Championship in Florida, the Americanworld […]

"Welcome to the most extreme golf in the world," says the European Union ambassador to Afghanistan, as half-a-dozen heavily armed bodyguards fan out around him and scan the Kabul Golf Club course. […]

Golf Town will buy Golfsmith International Holdings Inc. for about $96.5 million, the Canadian retailer said Monday, more than doubling its store base and significantly expanding its presence in the United States. […]

(Reuters) - Golfsmith International Holdings Inc said Canadian golf retailer Golf Town will take it private for about $97.2 million. Golf Town, which is owned by private equity firm OMERS, will pay about $6.10 per share in cash, which represents a 30 percent premium to Golfsmith's Friday's close of $4.71. On the closing of the deal, which is expect […]

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida May 8 (Reuters) - Rarely has thecontrast between golf as an enjoyable game and torturousfrustration been as evident in two players as in the appearancesof Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods at the Players Championship onTuesday. Mickelson, a four-time major winner fresh from his inductioninto the World Golf Hall of Fame, sat casually w […]

It's 7:00 am in Luang Prabang and beneath a jagged line of mountain peaks, high-ranking communist party officials are among a small but powerful crowd gathered silently at the first tee. […]