Steve Stricker News

Steve Stricker is not going to win the Golf Writers Association of America player of the year award for 2009 -- that honor undoubtedly will go to Tiger Woods -- but the Madison golfer is one of three finalists on the ballot.

CBSSports.com staffers Steve Elling and Ross Devonport, who hail from both sides of the Atlantic, toss around insight and insults relating to the scattershot world of golf.

Forget Rodney Dangerfield. Lee Westwood gets no respect. Ditch your love for Steve Stricker.

The Nationwide Tour celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, a historic benchmark that validates the decision to create the developmental circuit two decades ago as a place for players to launch -- or re-launch -- their careers.

Lee Westwood has further established his place in the game with a sensational six shot victory over a high class field at the Dubai World Championship.

Dec. 5 Palmira Country Club Starting up a charity golf tournament during the recession was difficult for W. Thomas Barrett of Angels Activities Inc., the organizer for the Gridiron Legends Charity Shootout.

Rory McIlroy finished second at the Hong Kong Open, moved to first in the Race to Dubai and jumped to 13th in this week's world rankings.

US PGA Tour graduate Cameron Percy will be set for a big 2010 season if he can topple Tiger Woods and the star-studded field at the JBWere Masters.

Confidence is a fragile thing. I've played really well the past few years and received the Comeback Player of the Year award twice on the PGA Tour .

For the first time since its inception in 1991, the PGA Tour comeback player of the year award will not be handed out in 2009.

GEOFF Ogilvy wishes he could have bottled the stream of good golf he found over Christmas last year running into 2009.

Phil Mickelson has taken the 54-hole lead in the HSBC Champions with a 5-under 67, setting up a Sunday matchup with Tiger Woods in the final World Golf Championship of the year.

Three wins on the Professional Golf Association Tour is a pretty good career. Three wins in a year? Not many golfers get a sniff of that rarified air.

David Sutherland, director of Sacramento State golf, is a 10-year Professional Golfers' Association of America veteran and has coached men's and women's golf at Sac State for three years.

It's a Different Game With the circumstances of the fantasy golf environment this week - we are one week away from the final tourney of the season and the vast majority have secured whatever finishing spot they will have earned in fantasy leagues this season, those that are in position to make a difference get a new-found shot of hope with the ...

Heath Slocum hadn't lost confidence in his game, but he wasn't exactly fired up about it either.

Janzen has hardly seen the glass half full in recent Octobers, when he's been too low on the PGA Tour money list to earn the right to play the next season.

Three wins in a year? Not many golfers get a sniff of that rarified air. But throw in a ranking of third best golfer in the world , more than six million in earnings for '09, membership in the exclusive "Tiger's buddies" club, a reputation as one of the truly good guys in golf and a Madison, Wisconsin, ZIP code on his driver's license and we've got ...

The Kohl Center was home to basketball again on Sunday night. The Badgers annual red and white scrimmage was held.

Now he's done it twice in a row to set a PGA Tour record. His second straight 9-under round at the Frys.com Open on Saturday gave him a three-shot lead at 16-under 194 heading into the final day of the third stop in the tour's Fall Series.