Golf News & Information

Golf instructor Butch Harmon spoke to John Daly last week, but said he did not offer an apology for parting ways with the troubled golfer after reports that Daly had been drinking in a hospitality tent at a March PGA Tour event.

British Open champion Padraig Harrington will skip next month’s PGA Championship at Wentworth, the European Tour’s flagship event, because it would disrupt his preparation for the U.S. Open.

Drug testing at the British Open at Royal Birkdale will be delayed a year because some international players have not been exposed to doping education programs.

Sixteen of Royal Birkdale’s 18 holes have been altered for the British Open in July, organizers the Royal & Ancient said on Tuesday.

Phil Harison, who introduced everyone from Ben Hogan to Jack Nicklaus to Tiger Woods during his 60 years as the starter on the first tee of the Masters, has died. He was 82.

Tom Watson and Andy North got what they wanted, but had to work for it, edging Greg Stadler and Jeff Sluman by a stroke Sunday in the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf.

Greg Chalmers became the fifth Australian winner in eight Nationwide Tour events this season, beating Norway’s Henrik Bjornstad with a bogey on the second hole of a playoff Sunday in the Henrico County Open.

Annika Sorenstam made a par on the first playoff hole Sunday, good enough to beat Paula Creamer and win the Stanford International Pro-Am.

Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland made a 30-foot birdie putt to beat Dutchman Robert-Jan Derksen by a stroke to clinch the Asian Open on Sunday.

Adam Scott again topped the leaderboard at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. His solid finish Saturday, and Kevin Sutherland’s bad one, made sure that happened.