Ames, Mickelson, Choi & Mediate Make Up 2008 LG SKINS GAME Foursome (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Two-time defending LG SKINS GAME champion Stephen Ames, three-time major champion Phil Mickelson, five-time PGA TOUR winner K.J. Choi and U.S. Open runner-up Rocco Mediate have been announced as the foursome to play in the $1 million LG SKINS GAME, Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 29-30, 2008 at the Celebrity Course at Indian Wells Golf Resort in Indian Wells, Calif.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:00:00 GMT)
Villegas scores win in inaugural Skins Game (Fox Sports)Camilo Villegas apparently likes the skins game format. The rising Colombian star won a chipoff Tuesday against Vijay Singh, Mike Weir, Stewart Cink, and Notah Begay III to walk away with top money at the inaugural Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge at Turning Stone Resort's Atunyote Golf Club. Villegas' winning pitch on the extra hole of the skins game competition boosted his earnings for the ...(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:50:15 GMT)
Villegas wins inaugural Skins Game (Post-Bulletin)VERONA, N.Y. -- Camilo Villegas apparently likes the skins game format. The rising Colombian star won a chipoff Tuesday against Vijay Singh, Mike Weir, Stewart Cink and Notah Begay III to walk away with top money at the inaugural Not(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:17:44 GMT)
Joe Posnanski: I wanna hold Johan (Sports Illustrated)I go back and forth on the whole concept of the quality start. On the one hand, I want to despise the QS for all the same reasons that old-time pitchers and angry announcers despise it, because there's something unsavory about taking what has always been viewed as, at best, an "OK" performance -- six innings, three runs, for crying out loud -- and renaming it a "Quality" performance.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:37:31 GMT)
Singh steps up game in playoff to snare victory at The Barclays (USA Today)Vijay Singh won The Barclays for a record fourth time Sunday, matching Sergio Garcia with a long birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff and finishing off the Spaniard with another birdie on the second extra hole.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:15:58 GMT)
ON THIS DATE (Richmond Times-Dispatch)1885 -- John L. Sullivan wins the first world heavyweight title under the Marquess of Queensbury rules when he beats Dominic McCaffrey in six rounds. 1962 -- A.C.'s Viking, driven by Sanders Russell, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight heats. 1973 -- Flirth, driven by Ralph Baldwin, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight heats.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:55:34 GMT)