Golf

Three-time major winner Padraig Harrington will play in Paris later this month as he attempts to prepare for the Ryder Cup next month.
The European Tour announced Wednesday that Harrington, who won the British Open in 2007 and 2008 and the 2008 PGA Championship, has added the Vivendi Trophy from Sept. 23-26 to his schedule.
The Irishman [...]

PGA champion Martin Kaymer has a chance to move further ahead in the European money list when the Dutch Open starts on Thursday.
Main rivals Graeme McDowell and Lee Westwood are skipping the tournament.
Kaymer will be playing for the first time since going to the top of the Race to Dubai by winning his first major [...]

Tiger Woods experienced a Ryder Cup tradition for the first time Tuesday.
Corey Pavin sat at the head table on the seventh floor of the New York Stock Exchange and announced his four captains picks to reporters and PGA of America dignitaries. The players, so thrilled to be chosen you could almost see them beaming as [...]

Tiger Woods is going to the Ryder Cup as a captains pick with his 71 victories and 14 majors. So is 21-year-old Rickie Fowler, who has never won anything at all.
Corey Pavin made an obvious choice and a surprising one Tuesday morning at the New York Stock Exchange when he added Woods and Fowler, along [...]

CBSSports.com wire reportsSep. 7, 2010
NEW YORK — Tiger Woods is going to the Ryder Cup as a captains pick with his 71 victories and 14 majors. So is 21-year-old Rickie Fowler, who has [...]

U.S. captain Corey Pavin has four picks and one tough decision to fill out his Ryder Cup team.
Pavin already has eight players who earned their way onto the team after the PGA Championship, then had the next three weeks to see who distinguished themselves as an obvious pick.
Tiger Woods?
That should be an easy one.
“I think [...]

Charley Hoffmans flowing blond locks attract plenty of attention. Now his golf game is getting noticed, too.
The cheerful Californian grabbed the spotlight at the Deutsche Bank Championship on a picture-perfect, late-summer day with some big rewards at stake. His victory Monday not only clinched one of the 70 spots in the BMW Championship starting Thursday, [...]

CBSSports.com wire reportsSep. 6, 2010
NORTON, Mass. — Charley Hoffman was rolling in so many putts he lost track of how many birdies he made Monday. His final stroke on a Labor Day masterpiece was his 11th birdie, [...]