Sentences with phrase «major golf titles»

Gary Player won the U.S. Open to complete his career sweep of all the major golf titles.

Not exact matches

His greatest stretch of golf began in 1960 and lasted four years, with Palmer winning six major championships and 29 titles on the PGA Tour.

He had won the British Open, his first major title, the Byron Nelson Classic and the World Series of Golf.

Great majors, a new No. 1, LPGA dominance, an old school fight for the money title and the rediscovery of a vintage track too tough to die made 2011 a terrific year in golf

McIlroy has dominated the golf world in the second half of the summer and is playing at the level that delivered his first two blowout major titles.

Sergio's playing arguably the best golf of his career and now owns four wins in the last 52 weeks including a major title.

The final tournament before the 2012 Masters is the Shell Houston Open at Redstone Golf Club in Humble, Texas, and it features a 144 - player field filled with former major champions like Phil Mickelson, the reigning champion, 2011's PGA Championship winner Keegan Bradley, Padraig Harrington, Y.E. Yang, 2011 British Open champ Darren Clarke and the holder of the dubious best - current - player - to - never - win - a-major title, Lee Westwood.

But golf has used green jackets to validate new stars in recent years, and there's nothing wrong with guys who have the talent to win multiple major titles grabbing their first.

Which is where we left the guy who will likely finish his career four major titles shy of the all - time mark of 18 owned by Nicklaus, who must not have watched Woods gingerly making his way around the Emirates Golf Club.

HAVERHILL, Mass. — If this Senior golf thing doesn't work out for Colin Montgomerie, the winner of three Champions Tour major titles may want to try stand - up.

What's more, the same select major events that Grantland Rice and Ted Husing faithfully covered before the war remain preeminent: the Triple Crown horse races, the Indianapolis 500, heavyweight title fights, the Olympics, the U.S. Open and Masters golf tournament, the World Series, the bowl games, the Wimbledon and U.S. tennis championships.

The other three majors all made significant jumps toward that $ 10 million mark last year, but The Players and the PGA still held the title as richest purse in golf.

The USGA confirmed on Thursday that Woods, who finished T32 at Augusta last week in his first major championship since 2015, officially committed to try to win his fourth U.S. Open title in June at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.

If golf is just, he'll grab a couple more majors to pair with his 2013 U.S. Open title and his Olympic gold medal.

Mickelson joined Woods» ex-swing coach Hank Haney in forecasting a successful reentry to competitive golf for the winner of 14 major titles.

Now the question is, can the 18 - year - old wunderkind chalk up her second consecutive elite title as the first major of the 2016 golf season, the ANA Inspiration, kicks off.

IT»S GOOD TO BE A two - time major title winner at the mere age of 21 and the prodigy who has replaced Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy as the face of golf.