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MONTREAL (AP) _ Tiger Woods said Monday anyone who tests positive under golf's new drug policy should pay a steep price. ``Given our reputation in our sport, how honourable our sport is and always has been and will continue to be, I think that the penalty has got to be somewhat significant,'' Woods said in a conference call to announce the field for his Target World Challenge. The World Golf Foundation, comprised of major golf organizations around the ...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ Tiger Woods kicked his putter, dropped his putter, even flipped it in the air and caught it after it made a 360-degree spin. What he didn't do is make many tough putts with that putter, which is one reason he left Southern Hills on Thursday with a score that didn't represent the way he felt he played in the first round of the PGA Championship. ``I felt like I hit the ball better ...

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) _ Annika Sorenstam will have some help from Tiger Woods when she plays the Women's British Open at St. Andrews. His Old Course yardage book will be tucked into her pocket. Sorenstam, the former No. 1 who is coming back from injury, has the book Woods used when he won the British Open here in 2005. He handed it to her recently in Orlando, Fla., where they both live. ``He said, `I have ...

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AP) _ The chip-in at the 2005 Masters that somehow went in. The four-iron holed out from the fairway at Hoylake a year ago. And now, Tiger Woods has another improbable shot for his majors collection. Woods sank a 90-foot birdie putt Thursday at damp, chilly Carnoustie on his way to a 2-under-par 69, putting himself solidly in contention for his third straight British Open championship. Paul McGinley of Ireland was the early leader with ...

OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) _ Jack Nicklaus figures at least one of his major championship records is safe. Tiger Woods left Oakmont having squandered another chance to win a major while playing in the last group, unable to make but one birdie in the final round of the U.S. Open despite having a short iron for his approach to the green on a half-dozen occasions. The next opportunity _ maybe _ will be at Carnoustie for the British ...

OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) _ Tiger Woods and Geoff Ogilvy will play together the first two rounds next week at Oakmont, continuing a recent trend of the U.S. Open and British Open champions in the same group. Joining them will be U.S. Amateur champion Richie Ramsay of Scotland when the U.S. Open begins Thursday. While the USGA claims that the rest of the draw is random, there were some curious groupings, and some with plenty of star power. Phil ...

AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) _ Tiger Woods lost a golf club but saved a par at the Masters on Sunday. Already enduring a difficult day, Woods snapped one of his middle irons while punching out from behind a tree on the 11th hole. His drive landed to the right and slightly behind one of the pines that was planted in recent years specifically to make the layout at Augusta National more ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) _ A four-iron wasn't the only thing that Tiger Woods broke Sunday at the Masters. Fractured, too, was the myth that the man couldn't be beat once he grabbed the outright lead in the final round of a major. Twice before, Woods had been caught and passed. But both times _ in the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla and here a year later _ Woods came out ...

MIAMI (AP) _ Tiger Woods felt stiffness in his neck from a bad night of sleep on his boat. For the first time in 3{ years, he couldn't break par when he had entered Sunday with the lead. And he played so cautiously on the final hole of the CA Championship that the outcome was in doubt for as long as it took a 50-foot par putt to settle a ...

Ernie Els had a 4-under-68 for a two-shot lead after the third round of the Dubai Desert Classic on Saturday, and Tiger Woods had another difficult day on the greens. Els finished at 17-under 199, despite bogeying the first and eighth holes. Previous leader Ross Fisher (71), Henrik Stenson (69) and Jyoti Randhawa (67) shared second. Woods shot a 67 to trail Els by three strokes, missing putts from as ...

Tiger Woods decided Friday to skip the season-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship, meaning the PGA Tour's ``new era in golf'' will begin next week amid old questions about the absence of its biggest star. Woods, who was skiing with his family last week in Colorado, said he did not have time to get his game ready and he wanted to spend more time with his family. He has won six consecutive PGA ...

Tiger Woods' wife has filed a libel lawsuit against an Irish magazine over a satirical article that included fake nude photos of her and claimed she appeared on porn Internet sites. A Dublin, Ireland, law firm acting for Elin Nordegren filed the lawsuit in the Irish High Court on Nov. 16, the court's principal registrar, Ciaran Kelly, confirmed Friday. The article was published in The Dubliner magazine in September when ...

It started shaky but ended the same way for Tiger Woods _ surrounded by hula dancers on the 18th green, wearing a floral lei and posing with a trophy. Woods rallied to win the PGA Grand Slam of Golf for a record seventh straight time, closing with a bogey-free 6-under 66 on Wednesday to beat Jim Furyk by two strokes. The British Open and PGA champion, who started the day ...

Jim Furyk shot a 5-under 67 Tuesday for a one-stroke lead over U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy after the opening round of the PGA Grand Slam of Golf. Defending champion Tiger Woods, who has won the exclusive four-man event a record six straight times in seven appearances, struggled off the tee and scrambled to a 70. Mike Weir of Bright's Grove, Ont., the final member of the all-star foursome, fired ...

Ireland's Padraig Harrington made a dramatic late comeback before beating Tiger Woods in a playoff Sunday to win the Dunlop Phoenix tournament. Woods held what looked like an insurmountable three-shot lead with six holes left, but he dropped into a tie with Harrington at the Phoenix Country Club after a three-putt bogey at the 16th hole, and both players birdied the last to shoot 67 and finish at 9-under-par 271. ...

Playoffs have been very good to Tiger Woods. Not this time. Woods lost for the second time in 16 official tournament playoffs, falling to Padraig Harrington on the second extra hole Sunday at the Dunlop Phoenix. ``I was struggling all day with my swing,'' Woods said. ``It wasn't just my tee shots, it was everything. I was just trying to hang in there. I gave myself a chance to win ...

Tiger Woods likes Paul Azinger's appointment as Ryder Cup captain and thinks the tweaks to the selection criteria might help the U.S. team end its losing streak. Azinger was introduced as captain this week and immediately changed the selection process to give himself four picks and base the first eight spots on prize money earnings. The amendments ``are great,'' said Woods, who returned from a five-week break with an even-par ...

Tiger Woods decided not to enter the Funai Classic at Disney, keeping one streak in tact and leaving another streak on hold. Woods missed the cut at Disney last year, so this is the third straight PGA Tour event where he missed the cut and did not return the following year. The others were the 1997 Canadian Open and the 2005 Byron Nelson Championship. That streak is sure to end ...

Two celebrations separated by Sundays on either side of the Irish Sea could not have looked more different. Nor could they have been more emotionally connected. Darren Clarke lit up a cigar when the Ryder Cup was securely in Europe's possession, then chugged a pint of Guinness from the balcony of The K Club and raised the empty glass as a trophy for all Ireland to see. One week later, ...