INCHEON (Yonhap) ― Even as she’s breathing down the neck of the world’s best golfers, LPGA Tour phenom Lydia Ko, currently ranked No. 3, said Tuesday she isn’t thinking about taking over the top spot yet.The 17-year-old New Zealander is in the land of her birth this week for the $2 million LPGA KEB-HanaBank Championship, the only LPGA Tour stop in South Korea each year. It will be Ko’s first appearance at a tournament held in South Korea.“I think it’s going to be an awesome week, and I can’t wa

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KUALA LUMPUR (AP) ― China’s Shanshan Feng rallied to win the LPGA Malaysia on Sunday for her fourth LPGA Tour title, playing a six-hole stretch on the back nine in 6 under.The 25-year-old Feng, four strokes behind Thailand’s Pornanong Phatlum entering the round, closed with a bogey-free 8-under 63 for a three-stroke victory over Phatlum. Feng birdied Nos. 11-14 to tie Phatlum at 16 under and pulled away with a four-stroke swing when she holed a 10-foot eagle putt on the par-5 16th and Phatlum ma

KUALA LUMPUR (AP) ― Ryu So-yeon of South Korea shot a 6-under 65 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead halfway through the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia, the second event of the tour’s six-tournament Asian swing.Ryu had seven birdies and a bogey to move to an 11-under total of 131, leading a group of four players including Japan’s Akayo Uehara, whose second-round 63 contained eight birdies. Korea’s Ryu So-yeon plays a shot on the second hole at the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia golf tournament in Kuala Lump

NAPA, California (AFP) ― Rory McIlroy seeking a third consecutive major triumph and Tiger Woods making his comeback from a nagging back injury will highlight the 2014-15 U.S. PGA season that begins Thursday.Just 25 days after American Billy Horschel won the season-ending Tour Championship to claim the playoff title, the next championship chase begins with the Frys.com Open at Silverado as American Jimmy Walker defends his title.World number one McIlroy, who helped inspire Europe to victory over

GLENEAGLES, Scotland (AP) ― It’s 10-6 going into the final day of the Ryder Cup ― again. This time, Europe’s in the lead and it’s the United States needing a stunning Sunday comeback.Two years after the “Miracle of Medinah,” where Europe overcome a 10-6 deficit to win 14 1/2-13 1/2, the home team leads by the same score after dominating the foursomes matches at Gleneagles on Saturday.But Europe, too, know what it’s like to throw away a 10-6 lead. Back in 1999 in Brookline, the U.S. overturned th

GLENEAGLES, Scotland (AP) ― Phil Mickelson is certainly proud to be playing in his U.S. record 10th consecutive Ryder Cup. He’d just rather not be reminded about those other records he holds in golf’s premier team event.Mickelson has won five majors in his career but he’s also a symbol of recent U.S. failures against Europe in a competition the Americans used to dominate.Since playing in his first Ryder Cup 19 years ago, Mickelson has been on the losing side seven out of nine times. He’s won 14

PRATTVILLE, Alabama (AP) ― Hur Mi-jung was finally able to relax for a couple of holes after matching top-ranked Stacy Lewis stroke for stroke Sunday in the final round of the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic.The 24-year-old South Korean player never gave up the last-day lead on her way to a tournament-record 21-under 267 total. Hur birdied four of the final eight holes to beat Lewis by four strokes for her second LPGA Tour victory. The each shot 6-under 66.Hur was able to savor the end of her round,

PRATTVILLE, Alabama (AP) ― Top-ranked Stacy Lewis birdied the last three holes and five of the final six on Thursday for an 8-under 64 and a share of the lead with Hur Mi-jung in the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic. Lewis, the 2012 winner in the event that was dropped from the schedule last year after it lost its title sponsor, had a bogey-free round on The Senator course. She has a tour-high three victories this season. “I grew up playing on Bermuda grass, which I think that helps a lot, you know, j

19-year-old Kim Hyo-joo captures Evian