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LPGA 2012 Season Kicks off Down Under
by Sarah Hallett
posted February 7, 2012 at 3:02am

As the 2012 season kicks off this week for the LPGA in Melbourne, Australia; fans of ladies golf have many reasons to be excited about the upcoming year....more

Professional Golfer Arrested In Childhood Sex Sting
by Draft Day Suit
posted January 18, 2012 at 9:02pm

I only have one thing to say: Bravo. There are many things that make me angry in this world, but grown men having sex with children makes me horribly ill and when I hear about it, I just want to break everything, starting with the offenders. &n...;more

Golf: 9 year old Karah Sanford wins easily in Girls 11-14 division at Carlton Oaks
by anngaff
posted January 17, 2012 at 6:56pm

Karah Sanford, left, shot rounds of 77-74--151 and crushed the rest of the field in the Girls 11-14 division at Carlton Oaks and came within a shot of the Girls overall winner Okamura. Sanford’s opening round gave her a 17-shot cushion that she wou...more

Visa delay forces Welsh golfer out of Indian tournament... because her father is from Pakistan
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted January 2, 2012 at 10:32pm

by Martin Shipton, Western Mail PROFESSIONAL golfer Sahra Hassan should tomorrow be teeing off in one of the biggest tournaments of her career.But the 24-year-old from Newport will not be taking part in the DLF Indian Open in Delhi because of delays in...more

'Tis the season...
by After Atalanta
posted January 1, 2012 at 5:05pm

...for top ten, five, eleven lists. Best ofs. Worst ofs. Shining moments. Glorious defeats. Trends and tribulations. Given that I too have, in the past, tried to comment on the happenings of an arbitrary (well there's the science of it all, I guess) set o...more

Lexi Thompson, 16 Years Old, Youngest to Win on Ladies European Tour
by Pretty Tough
posted December 18, 2011 at 4:11am

American Lexi Thompson has made history as the youngest winner on both the LPGA and Ladies European Tours. The teen phenom was sensational on the back nine of Saturday’s final round as she won the Dubai Ladies Masters by four shots to become the yo...more

UCLA Golfer Wins LPGA Card... Only to Lose College Eligibility
by Pretty Tough
posted December 6, 2011 at 10:32pm

UCLA senior Stephanie Kono didn’t plan to earn her LPGA Tour playing privileges this year. But in a bittersweet turn, it  happened anyway. The LA Times reports that Kono traveled to Florida last week just hoping to earn a spot on the Futures T...more

Using EFT for a Golfers Confidence and High Performance
by Loren Fogelman
posted November 30, 2011 at 3:53pm

  "Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it." - Stan Smith  As athletes strive toward high performance, setbacks and failures occur. It is part of the process. Some athletes are easily able to put the failures into persp...more

2011 is a Dream Year for Yani Tseng
by Ladies on the Tee
posted October 13, 2011 at 4:00pm

By: Back 9 Author Fred Altvater Yani Tseng has quietly compiled one of the most amazing years in LPGA history. She has 6 tour wins and 11 top 10’s in 18 tournaments. With her two major wins this year at The Wegman’s LPGA Championship and The Ricoh Wo...more

Lexi Thompson: LPGA’s New Kid In Town
by Ladies on the Tee
posted October 13, 2011 at 3:59pm

By Back 9: Fred Altvater No main street cruising, Friday night football games or high school proms for 17 year old golf phenom, Alexis Thompson. She is petitioning the LPGA for full membership and playing privileges for the 2012 season. In 2007 at age 1...more

Karah Sanford victorious at U.S. Kids World Golf Championships
by anngaff
posted August 25, 2011 at 12:51pm

Pictures and recap republished with permission from KarahStanford.com. The 2011 U.S. Kids World Golf Championships, which took place August 4-6, 2011, featured 1208 youngsters from 39 countries and 48 states. Players were divided into 13 age ...more

How to Achieve a Perfect Golf Swing?
by Ladies on the Tee
posted August 3, 2011 at 7:52pm

By Dr.Spencer Jones Are you planning to take golf as your profession? Then you must follow the games of greats like Tiger Woods, Jones or Hogan. Their brilliant golf swing skills fascinate all budding golfers. The perfect golf swing of those great player...more

More on Brenny v UMinnesota Discrimination Lawsuit
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted July 6, 2011 at 4:44pm

Former women’s golf coach Katie Brenny and members of the women’s team have widely different accounts of what transpired in their conversations with former director of golf, John Harris and his son-in-law, Ernie Rose about Katie Brenny and her sexual ...more

Update on discrimination lawsuit filed by lesbian golf coach
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted June 27, 2011 at 3:34pm

Last December I blogged about a situation brewing at the University of Minnesota in which a lesbian, Katie Brenny, hired to coach the women’s golf team filed a sex discrimination lawsuit against the university and the director of golf, John Harris. Bre...more

LPGA Futures Tour Rookie Stacey Miller
by Ladies on the Tee
posted June 14, 2011 at 10:28am

The Miller Family While covering this past week’s LPGA Futures Tour in Mason, OH, I met 20 year-old Stacey Miller. Stacey is a rookie this year with the Teva Championship being only the second tour event of her young career. Her first event was t...more

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