On the Tours

A tournament that had stood as a model of stability and comfort for the LPGA Tour and its players for the better part of three decades will be contested for the final time next month.

Monday afternoon Tournament President Jack Benjamin and the Corning Classic's Board of Directors announced that it had become "economically unfeasible" to sustain the tournament beyond 2009.

Two-time British Open Champion Greg Norman heads 25 major champions who have committed to compete in the 70th Senior PGA Championship, which makes its first appearance, May 18-24, at Canterbury Golf Club in Beachwood, Ohio.

Overall, the 25 major champions in the 156-player field have combined to win 48 majors between 1963 and 1998. The field at Canterbury Golf Club also features players representing 30 states and 14 countries, and includes 13 Ryder Cup Captains along with 10 World Golf Hall of Fame members.

The PGA Tour's RBC Canadian Open is headed back to Western Canada in 2011.

Thursday April 16, officials at the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA) and RBC confirmed that the historic Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club in Vancouver, which last hosted the event in 2005, will host the tournanament again in two years time.

Boo Weekley started playing golf at the age of 13, and just eight months later he was breaking par, something most average golfers only dream of.

His method might sound a bit unusual for someone embarking on the path to professional golf today, but Weekley's first instructor insisted on it.

Under strict orders, Weekley wasn't allowed to play until he was well-versed in the game and had the skills to navigate an 18-hole course.

Hometown of the late artist Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ocean Springs, Mississippi is a small city bordering the Gulf of Mexico that celebrates its seafood and the fact that it wasn't completely wiped off the map by deadly Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Regardless of the result, following this week's Masters tournament, it will also be known as the hometown of Steve Wilson, a gas station owner who just happens to love the game of golf, and be damn good at it too.

While the PGA Tour frowns upon the use of field strength as determined by the Official World Golf Rankings as the most significant criteria for determining the prestige of any given tournament, it's hard to ignore the collection of talent assembled this week in southeast Texas for the Shell Houston Open.

Attracting golfers with a setup similar to what they'll encounter next week at Augusta National, this week's Shell Houston Open will feature a field comprised of 15 of the top 20 golfers in the world.

Prior to the Open de Andalucia de Golf 09 in Seville, Spain Colin Montgomerie gathered some of his close golfing friends around him on the eve of his 500th appearance as a professional on The European Tour.

The 2010 European Ryder Cup Captain marked the occasion alongside two-time Masters Champion José Maria Olazábal, the course designer this week, and his fellow Spaniard and Ryder Cup player, Miguel Angel Jiménez at the Real Club de Golf de Sevilla as the trio prepared for the event's first round.

During a six-month span in the year 1912 three of the greatest golfers who’ve ever lived were brought into the world. Combined, the trio would account for 198 career PGA Tour victories and make dozens of indelible marks on the game.

At the 1946 Houston Open, the first year the city’s professional golf event was promoted by the Houston Golf Association as the part of the PGA Tour, Lord Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and Slammin’ Sammy Snead made history.

The 31st Arnold Palmer Invitational will feature defending champion Tiger Woods along with most of the players from the recent Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup teams. The PGA Tour event is scheduled for March 23-29 at the Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Orlando, Florida.

The world's No. 1 player and five-time winner at Bay Hill, Woods, will be joined by the other two current major champions, Trevor Immelman and Padraig Harrington, among 29 players entered from the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking.