Doug Sanders News

Editor's note: Doug Sanders was a professional golfer born in Cedartown, winning 20 times on the PGA Tour.

St Andrews, 1984 St Andrews Old Course was playing hard and long. Seve was in his prime.

I WAS recently caught by a blast from the past when a booklet based on the teachings of a golfing guru called Mr X came my way and reminded me of the days when hopes were still high and my feet weren't killing me.

Fifty years ago, at Minneapolis Golf Club, Bob Rosburg came back from a six-stroke deficit after 54 holes to defeat Jerry Barber and Doug Sanders and win the PGA Championship.

Fifty years ago, at Minneapolis Golf Club, Bob Rosburg came back from a six-stroke deficit after 54 holes to defeat Jerry Barber and Doug Sanders and win the PGA Championship.

The rough is littered with golfers who got worse by trying to get better. For years, Allen Doyle stuck with the tried-and-true, an individualistic swing that is part Doug Sanders, part Bobby Orr, an odd but effective action honed in a Boston-area basement that has taken him to the penthouse of the Champions Tour -- 11 victories and about $13.5 ...

'In the height of a hooley, the old man tamed the old lady' IN FULL SWING: Panton at Haggs Castle in March 1955.

IT OCCURRED to me the other day that in the course of my last four attempts at getting in some golf, not once had I managed to progress beyond the seventh hole.

Thoy Pfabe, Karen Mitchell, Carrie Lucido, and Gayle Battershell, at the Alliance Country Club.

Lorne Rubenstein Last updated on Monday, Jul. 20, 2009 11:04PM EDT N inety-nine Canadian Opens have come and gone, and the 100th will start Thursday at the Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ont.

Cry me a river: Jean van de Velde's tribulations on the final hole at Carnoustie in 1999 cost him three strokes and the Open title 1926 Royal Lytham The talented young American Bobby Jones and playing partner Al Watrous were level as they walked up the 17th.

For true golf aficionados, it doesna TMt get any better than this. The British Open is this week, and, for this golf fan, therea TMs never been a better show in golf.

From Aliss's colourful commentary to players getting in the zone, follow our complete A-Z guide to the Open Championship.

When the sun begins to bake the Florida mini tours, Chris Damiano likes to come back home for a breather.

It was nearly seven years after statehood when Ted Makalena became the first Hawai'i golfer to win a PGA Tour event, the 1966 Hawaiian Open, at the Wai'alae Country Club, which was like his second home.

IT WAS a set of tennis which grew so much as to warrant its own postcode and consigned Andy Roddick to membership of the sport's most exclusive, unwanted club - the gallant Wimbledon runner-up greats.

" This is the last year McDonald's will be attached to the LPGA Championship as the LPGA will own it and try to mold it like The Players.

Click here for the Rome Tour schedule and standings. Ethan Lambert shot a 2-under 68 to win the 54th Annual Alvin Everett Memorial Golf Tournament on Sunday at Callier Springs Country Club.