Lee Westwood

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| USGA Golf--U.S. Open Championship, 11 a.m. (NBC) Auto Racing--Drag Racing, NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, Part I, same-day tape, Noon (ESPN2), Part II, same-day tape, 10 p.m. (ESPN2); NASCAR Sprint Cup, Quicken Loans 400, Noon...

ARDMORE — Jay Don Blake took a swing at the USGA. Lee Westwood hacked at Merion Golf Club tradition. Typical late Friday afternoon whining at a U.S. Open. Some players choose to fire darts of blame at everyone but the one holding the clubs at...

ARDMORE, Pa. — Because of two rain delays, the first round of the U.S. Open won't be completed until Friday morning. Phil Mickelson might not have to tee it up again for another 24 hours. Enough time to fly back to San Diego? "I don't want to...

Get ready for the new rage in sports. Got a big game coming up? A national championship? An international competition? A few days beforehand, jump on a plane and fly cross-country. Wait awhile, then fly back. That’s what Phil Mickelson did,...

So much for getting a good night's sleep. Phil Mickelson arrived at Merion Golf Club about four hours before his 7:11 a.m. tee time and still managed to shoot a 3-under 67 for the clubhouse lead at Thursday's opening round of the U.S. Open. "I might...

ARDMORE, Pa. — The USGA in 1974 created the Massacre at Winged Foot, in which balls got swallowed by 8-inch rough and Jack Nicklaus' first putt rolled off the slick first green. Could this U.S. Open turn out to be the opposite — the...

— Mackenzie Hughes, an Ontario resident one year removed from a college career at Kent State, birdied his final three holes in last month's U.S. Open local qualifying in Spartanburg, S.C., just to be an alternate for sectionals. Jay Haas, who has...

Las Vegas oddsmaker RJ Bell of pregame.com has installed Tiger Woods as the 9/2 favorite to win the U.S. Open at Merion this week. Bell also made Woods an overwhelming favorite to beat Sergio Garcia head-to-head. He gives Woods a 69-percent chance of...

|TV SPORTS| College Softball--World Series, 6 and 8 p.m. (ESPN2) Major League Baseball--Milwaukee Brewers at Minnesota Twins, 7 p.m. (FXSP); Chicago White Sox at Oakland Athletics, 9 p.m. (WGN) NHL Hockey--Playoffs, conference finals, game 1,...

TV SPORTS College Softball--World Series, 6 and 8 p.m. (ESPN2) Major League Baseball--Milwaukee Brewers at Minnesota Twins, 7 p.m. (FXSP); Chicago White Sox at Oakland Athletics, 9 p.m. (WGN) NHL Hockey--Playoffs, conference finals, game 1,...

World number one Tiger Woods is to compete in the inaugural Turkish Open in Antalya in November, the European Tour said on Tuesday. The $7 million event at the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course in Belek will form part of the new Final Series on the Race to...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sergio Garcia had one of those stretches where it felt like every putt was going to drop. He needed every one of them Friday for a 7-under 65 to match his best score on the TPC Sawgrass and take a one-shot lead over...