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Such viewers are already helping turn senior golf and tennis tournaments into one of the hottest trends in sports. The allure of such veteran par busters as Lee Trevino, 57, Jack Nicklaus, 57, and Arnold Palmer, 68, is bringing the Senior PGA Tour to TV for a total of 221 hours this year, mostly on the sports network ESPN. The tour has grown from 35 tournaments with a total purse of $8.7 million a decade ago to 43 events with $41.65 million in prize money today. The future of senior tennis looks just as bright, with crowd pleasers such...
...Picking a winner in the PGA Championship: don't trust anyone over 30. Golf's youth movement goes for the Slam with Woods, Els, and Leonard each looking for their second majors starting Thursday at Winged Foot. The early favorite: 27-year-old Phil Mickelson...
...Even when I was eight, I could tell that golf was a very bonding experience with my dad and brother, and, later, a family experience. Now, on Sunday nights, I can talk to my family about Tiger Woods winning the Masters or who's winning on the PGA Tour...
...most recent demonstration of racial insensitivity in the sports world occurred in the field of golf. Since the PGA tour remains such a lily-white enclave, perhaps it was only a matter of time before someone associated with the game made an asinine remark about the sport's new phenom, Tiger Woods. Last week, Woods won the PGA's Masters Tournament, setting records for being the youngest Masters winner in history, as well as winning with an 18-under-par score and a 12-stroke lead. However, Woods' unofficial record is being labeled the first black golfer...
...joke, but that what he said was racist. Zoeller has not demonstrated any true remorse for his statements or even expressed an understanding of why he should not have attempted to make a wisecrack about fried chicken. His "apology" could have easily been prompted by his publicist or PGA executives, who wanted merely to stem a public relations fiasco...