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Golf: Jason Dufner plays through wind, holds onto Byron Nelson lead – San Jose Mercury News

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Nine players held or shared the lead during the third round of the Byron Nelson Championship at Irving, Texas. Yet when play ended Saturday, Jason Dufner was alone atop the leader board for the second day in a row.

Unfazed by more breezy conditions, Dufner shot a 1-under 69 for an 8-under 202 total. He had a one-stroke lead over Jason Day (67), J.J. Henry (67) and Dicky Pride (69).

“Similar conditions as (Friday), so probably helped me a little bit, just being comfortable with the wind and how hard it was blowing,” Dufner said. “Good ball striking, hit a lot of greens.”

Three weeks after getting his first PGA Tour victory at New Orleans, and two weeks after getting married, Dufner is already trying to win again.

Matt Kuchar, who won The Players Championship last weekend, was in a group of eight players four shots back after a 72 with an up-and-down back nine.

Dufner’s only bogey came at the 528-yard par-4 third hole as he drove into a bunker on the left side of the fairway, opposite the water on the right where he hit his tee shot the previous day.

“A little bit of carryover from (Friday), not trying to let those things happen, but occasionally they creep in your mind,” he said.

Day’s only bogey came when he missed a putt of less than 2 feet at No. 18. The ball rimmed around the cup and rolled back toward him.

“I just hit it too hard through the break,” said Day, the 2010 Nelson champion at TPC at Four

Seasons. “One day that hole will pay me back, and hopefully it’s (Sunday).”

There were 20 players within five shots of the lead. Phil Mickelson was among of group of seven more players only one more back. He had five birdies and four bogeys for a round of 69.

“I had a lot of opportunities to get right back in the mix and made four or five mistakes there, sloppy bogeys,” he said.

LPGA Tour: Morgan Pressel inched closer to her first tour title since 2008, posting two very different wins to reach the semifinals of the Sybase Match Play Championship in Gladstone, N.J.

Pressel rallied from 2-down with three holes to play to stun No. 2-ranked Na Yeon Choi in 19 holes in the morning and routed Anna Nordqvist 5 and 4 in the afternoon at the Hamilton Farm Golf Club.

Pressel will face former NCAA champion Azahara Munoz in one semifinal Sunday morning. Vicky Hurst and Candie Kung will square off in the other. The championship and consolation are Sunday afternoon.

Of the four players left, Pressel is the highest seed at No. 15. Kung, though, upset top-ranked Yani Tseng 3 and 2 in the morning.

European Tour: Graeme McDowell ousted local favorite Sergio Garcia in a playoff in the quarterfinals of the World Match Play Championship in Casares, Spain.

McDowell made his 5-foot par putt on the first extra hole, but Garcia’s putt slid by the cup from even closer in. In the semifinals, he will play Rafael Cabrera-Bello, who rallied from 3 down to win 3 and 1 over Alvaro Quiros. The other semifinal pits Nicolas Colsaerts vs. Paul Lawrie.

McDowell beat Richard Finch 3 and 2 earlier in the day.

Nationwide Tour: Steve LeBrun vaulted up the leader board by shooting a 5-under 67 at Greenville (S.C.) Country Club, the most challenging of the three courses at the BMW Charity Pro-Am. He’s at 12-under 203. Brad Fritsch shot a 4-under 68 at Carolina Country Club for a share of the one-stroke lead.

PGA of America: Defending champion Tom Watson withdrew from this week’s Senior PGA Championship in Benton Harbor, Mich. He’s been recovering from a pinched nerve in his wrist.

Wire services contributed to this report.

Tiger Golf Advances To NCAA Tournament – WREG

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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The University of Memphis golf team fought back from a back nine deficit to finish fifth in the NCAA Bowling Green Regional and secure a berth in the 2012 NCAA Championship on May 29 – June 3 at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Memphis carded a 54-hole score of 876 to finish fifth in the regional.

“I’m just so proud of the guys for hanging in there and showing toughness down the stretch, Memphis head coach Grant Robbins said. “That was a pretty clutch performance over the last few holes. We had an idea of where we were and knew every shot counted.”

Fly led the Tigers with a program best NCAA Regional finish of tied for third. He carded a 54-hole total of 211 (-5) to lead the Tigers. Jack Belote finished with a 75 en route to a tied for 19^th finish and a 54-hole total of 220. Will Pearson, who led the Tigers with a 69 in round two, tied teammate Grant Milner in round three with a 76. Pearson finished in a tie for 26^th, while Milner landed in 57^th. Steve Lee fired round of 76-76-73 for a tied for 40^th showing.

Memphis found itself on the outside looking in through about nine holes Saturday as Arkansas made an early push. The Razorbacks started on the back nine, which was the statistically easier side for the tournament, and moved to as low as 6-under-par as a team for the day to get to +12 and take a one-shot lead on Memphis, which started on the more difficult front nine.

When Steve Lee and Jack Belote each registered birdies on Nos. 13 and 14, respectively, the Tigers jumped four shots as the Razorbacks dropped a shot in the same stretch. Memphis found itself in fifth at 11-over-par with all players through 13 holes, while Arkansas had fallen back to +15 as a team. The Tigers never fell lower than fifth for the rest of the day.

North Texas, which also started on the backside with Arkansas, made a run and got as low as +14 with all players through 10 but dropped a couple of shots to finish at +16. Arkansas continued to battle as North Texas slid playing the difficult back nine. Fly birdied No. 18 to put Memphis at +12 for the tournament as Arkansas attempted to make one final push with the Tigers in the clubhouse.

“(Jonathan) hit about a 350-yard drive down the hill on No. 18,” Robbins said. “Then he knocked it over the green and made a downhill six footer for birdie.”

Austin Cook birdied the final two holes for the Razorbacks to put them at +14 as Ethan Tracy and Sebastian Cappelen each had one hole remaining. Tracy recorded a par on the 18^th hole, and Cappelen made a bogey to ensure Memphis would advance to the NCAA Championships later this month.

30 teams – five from each of the six regional sites – will play 54 holes of stroke play at Riviera. At the end of the 54 holes, an individual champion will be crowned and only the top eight teams will advance to a match play playoff.

“We’ll get back to work Monday,” Robbins said. “Our goal is now to finish in the top eight at nationals and make match play.”

The eight teams will play a straight match play competition with the number one team after 54 holes of stroke play facing the number-eight team, number-seven will play number-two, number-six will play number-three and number-four will face number-five. The winners advance to the Final Four, then the two winners will play for the national championship on the final day.

The lineups for each team will be based on the player rankings in the 54 holes of stroke play, not the lineup entered by coaches prior to the tournament. The number-one player for the #1 seed will play the #1 player for the eighth place team, and so on.

Each match will be worth one point. A match that is tied after 18 holes will be awarded a half-point. If the team score is tied after the completion of all five matches, a playoff using the combined strokes of all five players from an extra hole will decide the winner. If there still is a tie, the playoff would continue to another hole until there is a winner.

This was the fourth appearance in NCAA postseason play for Memphis and the first time advancing to the NCAA Championships since moving to the regional format. Tigers finished tied for 20th at the 2008 NCAA East Regional at Council Fire Golf Club in Chattanooga, Tenn. Robbins was named 2008 C-USA Coach of the Year during that season. Last season, Memphis finished in 11th position at the NCAA Central-Indiana Regional.

The Tigers advanced to the finals at NCAA Championship for the only time in school history in 1988 when they were led by All-American Steve Metz. Memphis finished 28th in the championship.

Memphis’ best accomplishment in the NCAA Championship came in 1955, when former Tiger Hillman Robbins won the Individual Title. Robbins led the 1954-55 Tigers to a 9-2 match record and was named as an alternate to the Walker Cup Team.

Tiger Golf AdvancesTo NCAA Championship – WMC-TV

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“(Jonathan) hit about a 350-yard drive down the hill on No. 18,” Robbins said. “Then he knocked it over the green and made a downhill six footer for birdie.”

“We’ll get back to work Monday,” Robbins said. “Our goal is now to finish in the top eight at nationals and make match play.”

The Tigers advanced to the finals at NCAA Championship for the only time in school history in 1988 when they were led by All-American Steve Metz. Memphis finished 28th in the championship.

Rio fails to show Olympic golf course contracts – Boston Herald

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SAO PAULO — The ownership dispute over the land set to be used for the Olympic golf course for 2016 took another twist Friday when a court ordered the city of Rio de Janeiro to hand over the contracts with the owner of the land — and city officials said no such documents existed.

A Brazilian court issued a search warrant for the contracts on behalf of a company claiming ownership of the property, saying it had the right to see the documents related to the land.

The city said it hasn’t signed any contracts for the golf course because it will be a private undertaking. It had publicly announced earlier this year, however, that it made an agreement with the land owner to have the course built on it. It said it would alter some of the building requirements in the area and, in exchange, the land owner and a construction company would pay for the $30 million course.

“The golf course is an undertaking exclusively private, which will be developed by the Rio 2016 Committee,” the mayor’s office said in a statement.

It was Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes who announced the Olympic golf project in March, when the city said it would change current regulations to benefit the land owner and the construction company who will build the course.

Local Olympic organizers said they expect the contracts for the course to be finalized by the end of June, and that the city wouldn’t be directly involved even though it was responsible for choosing the land and facilitating the agreement.

The contracts for the golf course will involve the Rio 2016 Committee, an association that will run the course, the construction company and the developer who says he currently owns the land.

That land decision is in the hands of Brazil’s Higher Court of Justice, and a final ruling could take months or even years. Still, the city says it has no plan B for the golf course and has not looked at alternatives to build the course which will mark the sport’s return to the Olympics after more than 100 years.

The International Golf Federation recently said construction on the course is expected to start around October, and the goal is to have it ready for test events early in 2015.

But the lawyer for the company disputing the ownership of the land, Elmway Participacoes, said Friday he wants to suspend any activity in the land until a decision on the property is made. Sergio Antunes Lima Jr. said the city doesn’t have the right to make any deals to build on the land before a judge decides who owns it.

American designer Gil Hanse, who was picked to build the course, recently acknowledged that his project was based entirely on the land under dispute and that any changes would force him to start from scratch.

The city recently told The Associated Press that it was “evaluating the measures it will take” regarding the land dispute.

Elmway Participacoes has been trying to claim ownership of the land for the past three years. The other alleged owner, entrepreneur Pasquale Mauro, has several properties in the region and has won many similar disputes.

The city has said before that it was satisfied with Pasquale’s proof of ownership and that he had all the needed documents over the land.

Elmway initially won a court battle that was later reversed, and at any time a judge could rule that work can’t be done in the land until a final decision on the ownership is reached.

Golf made its debut at the second modern Olympics in Paris in 1900, but was removed after the 1904 St. Louis Games. It was reinstated in a vote by the International Olympic Committee in 2009 and has a spot guaranteed in 2020, but a good impression in Rio will be critical in keeping the sport in the games beyond that. Another IOC vote on adding or deleting sports is scheduled for 2017.

Golf: Jason Dufner leads at Nelson after fantastic finish – San Jose Mercury News

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Standing over his ball in a swale behind the 18th green, Jason Dufner would have been content with a par and a spot in the big group tied for the lead in the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas.

Instead, Dufner had the lead to himself Friday. He finished by chipping in from 37 feet, his fourth birdie in five holes, after driving wide right and having his approach roll over the green.

“No, that wasn’t in the thought process,” Dufner said. “Pretty lucky for it to go in, but that’s part of golf. Sometimes you get those breaks.”

His second long chip-in wrapped up a 4-under 66 for a two-round total of 7-under 133. That put Dufner a stroke ahead of a group of six players that included Matt Kuchar, the world’s fifth-ranked player who won The Players Championship last week.

Dufner got married the week after his first PGA Tour victory at New Orleans last month, and returned to play last week.

He has the 36-hole lead for the fourth time this season, including the Masters, and the seventh time in his career. The experience of having a victory can provide a different mindset while leading at the halfway point again.

“Maybe a little bit,” he said. “I’m confident with my game and happy with where my game is right now.”

Kuchar shot a 68 to join first-round leader Ryan Palmer (70), Chad Campbell (66), Pat Perez (67), Dickey Pride (68) and Marc Leishman (69) at 6 under.

Defending champion Keegan Bradley (68),

who last summer won the PGA Championship three months after becoming a first-time winner in a Nelson playoff against Palmer, was two strokes behind the leaders along with Ryuji Imada (68) and Charley Hoffman (69).

Phil Mickelson had a 69, including a double bogey after his tee shot at No. 18 went in the water and his approach after the drop went over the green. The consolation for Mickelson is that he is within six strokes of the lead with two rounds to play.

“There will be a bunching on the leader board,” he said. “If I give myself some more chances (Saturday), I’m starting to feel a little bit better with the putter.”

LPGA Tour: Stacy Lewis is the top American left in the Sybase Match Play Championship. Lewis won the first four holes and rolled to a 4-and-3 decision over Sandra Gal in the second round at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, N.J.

Cristie Kerr, last year’s runner-up and the No. 5 ranked player, lost Friday along with No. 7 Jiyai Shin and No. 14 Karrie Webb. Eleven of the 20 seeded players in the 64-woman field have been eliminated.

Mina Harigae lost after beating Michelle Wie in the first round.

European Tour: Top-seeded Martin Kaymer was eliminated from the World Match Play Championship by the lowest-ranked player in the field, losing by 1 hole to Richard Finch. Brandt Snedeker was reunited with his own clubs for his head-to-head with Branden Grace. It didn’t help Snedeker, who lost 4 and 3.

Rio served search warrant in Olympic golf course dispute; city says it hasn’t … – Washington Post

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“The golf course is an undertaking exclusively private, which will be developed by the Rio 2016 Committee,” the mayor’s office said in a statement.

The contracts for the golf course will involve the Rio 2016 Committee, an association that will run the course, the construction company and the developer who says he currently owns the land.

The International Golf Federation recently said construction on the course is expected to start around October, and the goal is to have it ready for test events early in 2015.

The city recently told The Associated Press that it was “evaluating the measures it will take” regarding the land dispute.

The city has said before that it was satisfied with Pasquale’s proof of ownership and that he had all the needed documents over the land.

Elmway initially won a court battle that was later reversed, and at any time a judge could rule that work can’t be done in the land until a final decision on the ownership is reached.

Local organizers had considered using existing golf courses in Rio, but eventually decided to build a new one because the renovation projects would likely be too complex and expensive. The Rio 2016 committee wants the venue to become a legacy to the city and serve as a tool for bettering youngsters through sports. It will be used as a public facility after the 2016 Games.

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Lewis advances in Sybase, chasing 2nd straight win – San Jose Mercury News

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GLADSTONE, N.J.—Stacy Lewis is the top American left in the Sybase Match Play Championship, and it’s really not a surprise.

Lewis has been the best American on the LPGA Tour all season.

On Friday, Lewis won the first four holes and rolled to a 4-and-3 decision over Sandra Gal in the second round at Hamilton Farm Golf Club.

The tournament has become a minefield for the tour’s marque players. Defending champion Suzann Pettersen, No. 4 ranked Ai Miyazato and American stars Paula Creamer, Brittany Lincicome and Michelle Wie went down in the opening round.

Cristie Kerr, last year’s runner-up and the No. 5 ranked player, lost Friday along with No. 7 Jiyai Shin and No. 14 Karrie Webb. Eleven of the 20 seeded players

in the 64-woman field have been eliminated.

“I don’t think Suzann losing really opens things up for me,” said Lewis, who was in Pettersen’s bracket. “I think I’ve got a lot of tough matches still ahead of me, and there were a lot of upsets yesterday, so it just shows what match play is. Anything could happen on any given day.”

There’s still talent at the top.

Top-ranked Yani Tseng posted a 3-and-1 win over American Katie Futcher, and No. 2 ranked Na Yeon Choi was a 3-and-2 winner of fellow South Korean Jenny Shin.

The 27-year-old Lewis has more pressing problems. Her third-round opponent will be Sun Young Yoo, who won this event two years ago and the tour’s first major earlier this year, the Kraft Nabisco Championship.

“Sun Young’s having a great year,” Lewis said. “She’s playing really well.”

So is Lewis. She has a win and four other top-10 finishes with earnings of $436,746, fourth best on tour.

Her sights are set on being the top American.

“That’s the reason I go out and play every day,” Lewis said. “I think I’ve probably been playing as good, if not better, than a lot of the American players and I haven’t got noticed yet, and that’s what drives me every day to go out and get

better and to keep playing and to keep winning matches. I think if you’re up on that leaderboard enough and you win enough golf tournaments, people will start to take notice.

“I haven’t been noticed, but it’s driving me every day.”

Lewis never gave Gal a chance. The former Arkansas star played 15 holes in 5-under par. She made birdies of 4, 10 and 30 feet on the first three holes and won the fourth when Gal bogeyed. The German moved within 2-down after 11 holes, but Lewis birdied the 13th and 14th to open daylight again.

Tseng, who has won three events this year, was down 1 after seven holes, but she won four holes between Nos. 11 and 17 to move on.

Choi never trailed in her match with Shin and closed out her

countrywoman with a birdie at the par-3 16th.

Kerr saved par from a greenside bunker at No. 18 to extend the match, but she hit her second shot into a lateral hazard on the first playoff hole and had to take a drop. Hurst opened the door a little by missing the green and knocking her third about 4 feet past the cup. However, Kerr, winless since 2010, missed her bogey putt and conceded the match.

There were a couple of surprises again.

Jodi Ewart of England, who knocked out Pettersen in the opening round, sent another Scandanavian to the sideline with a 3-and-1 win over veteran Sophie Gustafson. The 24-year-old will face Azahara Munoz. The Spaniard beat Webb 2 and 1.

American Angela Stanford, the No. 12 seed and

the runner-up to Yoo two years ago, was impressive with a front-running 4-and-3 win over Eun-Hee Ji of South Korea. Stanford will play Hurst in the third round.

Anna Nordqvist of Sweden upset Jiyai Shin 2 and 1, winning three of the final five holes.

The weekend will be double rounds. The third round and the quarterfinals will be played Saturday, and the semifinals and championship on Sunday.

Julieta Granada of Paraguay posted the most impressive win on Friday with a 6-and-5 thrashing of Ryann O’Toole, who eliminated Lincicome in the first round.

Americans Mina Harigae and Jennifer Johnson both lost Friday after posting upsets in the first round.

A day after beating Creamer, Johnson lost 2 and 1 to Karine Icher. Harigae, who defeated Wie, was beaten 3 and 2 by U.S. Women’s Open champion So Yeon Ryu.

UGA men’s golf remains in fourth heading into final round of NCAA Regional – Online Athens

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Golf’s Worst Enemy Rears Its Head – Wall Street Journal (blog)

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The PGA Tour has a pace-of-play policy that works well—for the PGA Tour, if not for the broader good of the game. “It’s pretty stern,” the Tour’s director of competitions, Tyler Dennis, told me this week. At the Tour’s flagship event last week, the Players Championship, the policy kept play moving along satisfactorily, by the Tour’s standards. The final few twosomes on Sunday played in four hours, 15 minutes, just inside the television window. The policy also punished Kevin Na, whose anguished slow play during the event has been the talk of golf.

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Kevin Na’s tortured misadventures at last week’s Players Championship are the talk of the golf world.

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Kevin Na reacts during the final round of the Players Championship golf tournament.

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A PGA official keeps time on Kevin Na and Zach Johnson during the third round of the Players Championship golf tournament.

On the 16th hole of the third round, Na received an official “bad time” that in all likelihood cost him $5,000 and possibly several times that much, depending on details that the Tour does not make public. Na’s group was “on the clock” for most of the back nine, which in itself is nerve-racking and distracting for the players and can lead to further fines if a player gets put on the clock 10 times in a season. Those fines start at $20,000.

As a result of Tour rules officials stalking him with a stopwatch, Na and his playing partners each day finished their rounds close behind the groups in front of them. Keeping up with the group ahead is the prime objective of the Tour’s pace-of-play policy, as opposed to promoting speedy play in an absolute sense.

But the Tour’s pace of play is a problem for the rest of golf, since the pros serve as amateurs’ primary role model for how the game should be played. We buy the clubs, balls and golf fashions that we do largely based on the pros’ example, and the same goes for how everyday players line up putts, take practice swings, throw grass in the air and dither around the course like they’re being paid by the hour. Survey after survey show that slow play is a major factor in creating ex-golfers.

But apparently that’s not the PGA Tour’s problem. “Anything we can do from a communications standpoint to encourage people playing faster, we will do. But clubs have got to take the initiative to drive play,” Commissioner Tim Finchem said last week.

The reasons why the Tour is unlikely to change its current pace-of-play system anytime soon are many and interconnected, but here’s a good one to start with: meaningfully speeding up play would, in effect, penalize the Tour’s slowest members where it hurts them the most, in their wallets. And the Tour, lest we forget, exists primarily for the benefit of its members.

In the amateur ranks, the slowest players are usually but not always among the least skilled. That’s not true in the pros. Jack Nicklaus practically invented slow play. He was more thorough and meticulous, checking his distances and visualizing each shot, than almost anyone who came before, and his success guaranteed imitators. Tiger Woods at his peak was no speed demon. He wasn’t the slowest, but he was and remains extremely deliberate. The technically-minded Nick Faldo, the world’s best player in the 1980s and 1990s, was also the world’s slowest pro, at least among the elite.

The game has had speedy players, too. No one ever complained about Arnold Palmer’s pace of play. Lee Trevino was a lightning bolt. John Daly, Mark Calcavecchia and, among today’s stars, Rickie Fowler, Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson all play fast. But the point is that, just as the top players’ swings and styles are different, so is the pace of play at which they perform their best. And the Tour is loath to challenge that, not when it would likely affect players’ ability to win prize money.

Another reason the Tour sees no need to push the issue is that all this deliberateness doesn’t much harm the ultimate product, television broadcasts. In some ways it actually helps build up dramatic tension during broadcasts. A pause for grass-tossing, or a player-caddie huddle, gives Johnny Miller a chance to describe the dangers lurking left of the green, or that Martin Laird’s shot into No. 18 on Sunday could be life-changing.

In any case, viewers seldom get stuck with the tedious stuff for long. I put several hours of NBC’s Players Championship coverage on the clock last weekend. For 80% of the broadcast shots I timed, fewer than 20 seconds elapsed between the initial cut to a player and the moment he struck the ball. In 45% of the cases, the time was less than 10 seconds. Most of the cuts that lasted longer were worthy of the extra time, such as a crucial chip that the eventual winner, Matt Kuchar, faced on the 16th hole in the final round. Even most of Na’s shots came off in less than 30 seconds of television time, well within a modern television viewer’s comfort zone. That’s about the time between plays in the NFL.

In theory, the Tour could force a faster pace of play. It might implement something like the shot clock in basketball. All players would be on the clock for every shot in every round, with fines or one-stroke penalties assessed immediately for all violations. (Under the current system, players can basically take as long as they feel they need, without penalty, when they are not on the clock.)

Such changes would, of course, alter the nature of the professional game. Fast play would become one of the skill sets tested for, just as distance off the tee, physical stamina and dealing with pressure are among the skills tested for now. Slow players unable to keep up would be marginalized, just as fast players who can’t cope with slow play are marginalized now. Who knows—in a faster-paced pro game, someone like Calcavecchia might have won multiple majors and Nicklaus none.

But don’t hold your breath about this. I’m just dreaming.

—Email John Paul at golfjournal@wsj.com.

A version of this article appeared May 19, 2012, on page A16 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Golf’s Worst Enemy Rears Its Head.

Golf-Kuchar rallies to share early Byron Nelson lead – Chicago Tribune

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