| |  FOXSports.com News for GolfFOXSports.com Top Ranked Headlines Syndication Feeds for Golf · Singh wins by 1 stroke at Singapore Open
With big names like Ernie Els and Padraig Harrington in contention, Jeev Milka Singh rallied to win the Singapore Open. · Ballesteros out of ICU, will stay in hospital
Five-time major winner Seve Ballesteros was released from intensive care on Tuesday following brain surgery on a malignant tumor.
Madrid's La Paz hospital said in a statement that Ballesteros would remain in hospital "to continue his rehabilitation" following three surgeries in 18 days.
It remained cautious over releasing a time frame for his exit after a complicated surgery, saying only that the healing "process is slow" and that Ballesteros would remain in the hospital for some time. · 32 players earn European Tour card
Oskar Henningsson won the final stage of the European Tour's qualifying school on Tuesday as 32 players earned their tour cards for 2009.
The Swedish golfer finished with a 21-under 409 total in the six-day event, to edge Spain's Carlos del Moral and Australia's Wade Ormsby by four shots.
Of the original 900 golfers vying for their tour cards, 156 remained to tee off at the par-72 PGA Golf de Catalunya course last Thursday, with Henningsson picking up the ?18,595 ($23,568) first prize. · Bush hosts U.S. Ryder Cup team at White House
President George W. Bush celebrated Monday with American golfers who reclaimed the Ryder Cup for the U.S.
Bush held a private picture-taking session in the Oval Office with coach Paul Azinger and seven members of the 12-member 2008 U.S. Ryder Cup team, which ended an era of frustration in September with a resounding victory over Europe.
The Americans led from start to finish, winning golf's pre-eminent event for the first time since 1999 with half their squad made up of Ryder Cup rookies. · John Daly to play Australian Masters
John Daly plans to end his troublesome year in Australia, where, in his last appearance six years ago, he was disqualified from a tournament for failing to sign his scorecard after throwing his ball and putter into a lake.
Australian Masters officials said Monday that Daly would appear in the Huntingdale tournament at Melbourne from Nov. 27-30. Daly, without a U.S. PGA tour card, plans to play more tournaments on the European tour in 2009. · Courtesy cars at tournaments to decline
In another sign of fragile financial conditions, some PGA Tour events are trying to figure out transportation for players after learning over the weekend that Buick will not be providing courtesy cars to most tournaments next year.
"We've already started scrambling to try to approach local dealers or national suppliers to see if they're interested," said Clair Peterson, tournament director of the John Deere Classic. "The car industry as a whole is in a tough spot. · Compton misses advancing by 1 shot at Q-school
Erik Compton, playing six months after a second heart transplant, failed to advance by one shot in the second stage of PGA Tour qualifying after he closed with a 1-over 73 on Saturday.
Compton was tied for 13th going into the final round at Southern Hills Plantation Club, but had two bogeys in the opening three holes and never quite caught up. He was even at the turn, but bogeyed the 15th and finished with three pars for a 6-under 282 to tie for 22nd. · Stanford one stroke better than Sorenstam
Angela Stanford shot a 3-under 69 to hold off Annika Sorenstam and win the Lorena Ochoa Invitational on Sunday.
Sorenstam also shot a 69 to finish her penultimate LPGA Tour event tied for second. She was a stroke back of Stanford at 12-under 276, one day after she shot a 67 to make up five strokes on the leader.
Brittany Lang (65) also was at 12 under, and Katherine Hull shot a 71 to finish three strokes back of Lang and Sorenstam in fourth. · Jordan to play Bethpage before U.S. Open
Michael Jordan has played with Tiger Woods in a pro-am at the Wachovia Championship and competed in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. His toughest test might come next June at Bethpage Black in the days before the U.S. Open.
Jordan has agreed to take part in the "Golf Digest U.S. Open Challenge," according to an official involved in the event. He will join singer Justin Timberlake, another celebrity and one amateur who best explains in a six-word essay why he or she can break 100. |
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