South Korean President Park Geun-hye plans to accept an invitation to be honorary chairman of next year’s Presidents Cup, Park’s office said Tuesday.Park plans to accept the invitation during her meeting with PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem at the presidential office later in the day, the office said.Park will be the second woman to serve as honorary chairman next fall when the Presidents Cup is set to take place in Incheon, a port city just west of Seoul, in the biennial event’s first venture

South Korean Park In-bee, the world's No. 1-ranked female golfer, captured her third LPGA Tour win of the year in Taiwan on Sunday.Park claimed the Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship with a four-round total of 22-under 266, two strokes better than Stacy Lewis. Park cashed in US$300,000 in the winner's check.Park shot a one-under 71 on Sunday at Miramar Golf Country Club in Taipei, while Lewis put together a final round of three-under 69, not enough to overtake the South Korean.Park supplanted Lewis

The LPGA Tour announced Monday the International Crown, its biennial international competition inaugurated this year, will be held in South Korea in 2018.At a press conference held at a Seoul hotel, the tour said South Korea will be the first venue of the International Crown outside the United States. The first edition of the biennial event, which features eight countries with their four highest-ranked players in match play, was held at Cave Valley Golf Club in Owing Mills, a suburb of Baltimore

LAS VEGAS (AP) ― Ben Martin made a 45-foot eagle putt to regain the lead and finished with a 20-foot birdie putt for a 3-under 68 and his first PGA Tour victory Sunday in the Shriners Hospital for Children Open.Martin played his final four holes at the TPC Summerlin in 4-under par, though no shot was more important than the eagle.Kevin Streelman ran off five birdies in a six-hole stretch to overtake Martin for the lead, and Streelman hit a wedge into 5 feet on the 18th hole. Martin, who led by a

South Korean Baek Kyu-jung claimed the LPGA KEB•HanaBank Championship in a playoff on Sunday for her maiden LPGA victory in her first appearance on the tour.The 19-year-old defeated compatriot Chun In-gee and American Brittany Lincicome with a birdie on the first sudden death playoff hole on the par-72, 6,364-yard Ocean Course at Sky72 Golf and Resort here in Incheon, west of Seoul.Baek, a member of the Korean LPGA Tour, took home US$300,000 in the winner's purse.Baek is the eighth South Korean

SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda (AP) ― Martin Kaymer is making a habit of beating Bubba Watson in head-to-head situations, even at an exhibition of major champions in Bermuda. Kaymer won the PGA Grand Slam of Golf on Wednesday by surviving a wild day of lead changes. The U.S. Open champion won on the first playoff hole at Port Royal by making a 10-foot birdie and then watching Watson miss his birdie putt from 4 feet.