Ken Venturi, who won the 1964 U.S. Open golf championship in dramatic fashion and became a longtime television commentator, died Friday in Rancho Mirage. He was 82.

Venturi, who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame earlier this month, ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Jim Simons, sportswriters observed during those four days that forever defined him, looked like Huck Finn.

Strawberry-blond, freckle-faced, with mischievous eyes and a boyish smile, the 21-year-old amateur from Butler, Pa., ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Just one year ago, Spain's Sergio Garcia, sullen after falling out of contention with a third-round 75 at the Masters, told the European press that he wasn't good enough to win a major championship.

"I don't have the capacity to ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Tianlang Guan already was into his pre-putt routine on the third hole at Augusta National when a golf ball suddenly rolled right past him on the green Thursday.

Henrik Stenson, playing in the group behind Guan's in the first round...

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Steve Stricker felt as good about his game as he'd ever felt going into the Masters. He was hitting the ball well and was confident and relaxed.

Then he went out and bogeyed four of the first eight holes at Augusta National on ...

Sometimes, when most everyone else is fixated on the many reasons why something probably can't happen again, maybe someone has to ponder why not.

In all the back-and-forth as to whether Merion's famed East Course still had whatever it took to ...