FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) ― Zach Johnson stood behind the fourth green looking at his club and then the ball that rolled within 4 feet of the hole.“I got lucky,” Johnson said about his second shot on the 244-yard par 3 ― his 13th hole Thursday ― after his tee shot went through the green and stopped in a clump of grass.Three holes later, Johnson was so deep in a greenside bunker that he couldn’t even be seen from the other side of the green until he popped up to watch his blast over the ridge to 2 1

GLADSTONE, New Jersey (AP) ― Azahara Munoz beat Candie Kung 2 and 1 to win the Sybase Match Play Championship, a title that was set up when Morgan Pressel was penalized for slow play while in control of their semifinal match.It was the first LPGA Tour win for Munoz, but this was shrouded in controversy. It also will put more focus on pace of play in golf.Pressel appeared to take a 3-up lead with a par at the 12th hole at the Hamilton Farm Golf Club. But before she could tee off on No. 13, tour o

IRVING, Texas (AP) ― Jason Dufner made a 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday for a one-stroke victory in the Byron Nelson Championship, his second victory in four weeks.The winning putt wrapped up a closing 3-under 67 for an 11-under 269 total. Dicky Pride was second.Dufner got his first PGA Tour victory at New Orleans on April 29, then took a week off to get married. He also led alone by one stroke after the second and third rounds at the TPC at Four Seasons course. Pride, whose only P

Defending champion Suzann Pettersen didn’t last long at the Sybase Match Play Championship, and neither did three well-known Americans. The third-ranked Pettersen was eliminated 3 and 1 by relative unknown Jodi Ewart of England on Thursday in the first round of the LPGA Tour event, while Paula Creamer, Brittany Lincicome and Michelle Wie lost to some equally obscure fellow Americans.Creamer, the No. 8 seed, was beaten 2 and 1 by Jennifer Johnson, the No. 57 seed. No. 9 seed Lincicome was ousted

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida (AP) ― The only complaint about Matt Kuchar was not winning enough. He picked up a big one Sunday at The Players Championship.Kuchar avoided the big mistakes that slowed so many other contenders ― starting with Kevin Na ― and kept it out of the water on the TPC Sawgrass to eliminate the kind of drama he didn’t need. He closed with a 2-under 70 for a two-shot victory.That famous smile, which he first showed the golf world as an amateur in 1998 competing on the biggest s

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida (AP) ― Kevin Na didn’t feel comfortable about anything Saturday except his name atop the leaderboard Saturday at The Players Championship.Na rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for one of only three rounds without a bogey on a tough day at the TPC Sawgrass. It gave him a 4-under 68 and a one-shot lead over Matt Kuchar as he goes after the richest prize on the PGA Tour ― a five-year exemption and a spot in all the majors.For all his practice swings and wagg

Kevin Na fires 67  as Tiger Woods  struggles againPONTE VEDRA BEACH (AP) ― Ian Poulter is enjoying his new digs ― his newly built home and his spot atop the leaderboard Thursday in The Players Championship.Poulter, finally finished with a house at Lake Nona that took nearly three years to build, ran off four birdies around the turn and birdied all the par 5s at TPC Sawgrass for a 7-under 65 and a share of the lead with Martin Laird.Laird, playing in tougher conditions in the afternoon, was the o

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida (AP) ― Golf’s world ranking has been more like a game of musical chairs with the most turnover at the top in the 26-year history of the ranking. Rory McIlroy and Luke Donald would like the music to stop playing for good sometime this year, the sooner the better. And both want the same outcome.“Hopefully,” Donald said Wednesday, raising his hand, “it will be me.”McIlroy said the same last week at Quail Hollow, where his playoff loss at the Wells Fargo Championship was e

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida (AP) ― It didn’t take long for Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler to size each other up in a lineup of stars.They were teenagers in the Walker Cup five years ago at Royal County Down in Northern Ireland. The Americans were so loaded that year that eight players from the 10-man team have made it to the PGA Tour and five of them already have won ― Dustin Johnson, Webb Simpson, Kyle Stanley, Chris Kirk and Fowler, who won at Quail Hollow last week in a playoff that included M

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) ― Rickie Fowler finally picked up his first PGA Tour win Sunday in what might be the start of a rivalry for years to come.Fowler brought style and substance to a sudden-death playoff at Quail Hollow and delivered a clutch shot ― a wedge into 4 feet to birdie the 18th hole and win the Wells Fargo Championship over U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy and D.A. Points.The 23-year-old Fowler has been talked about as the next American star since he turned pro with his flashy

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) ― Webb Simpson was nervous playing in the same group with Tiger Woods. It sure didn’t show Thursday in the Wells Fargo Championship.Simpson chipped in from 35 yards in front of the par-4 eighth green for eagle, and then made Woods shake his head and smile when he holed a 60-foot birdie putt that might have rolled off the 12th green if the cup didn’t get in the way. It led to a 7-under 65 for a share of the lead Thursday with Stewart Cink and Ryan Moore.“I was nervo

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) ― The practice range at Quail Hollow was filled with PGA Tour players Tuesday afternoon, making it too busy for Anthony Kim.He took his game ― or what’s left of it ― behind a row of trees near the short-game area where no one could watch. He found a patch of grass where he could fire shots through a wide gap in the trees, and Kim stayed there for nearly two hours under a hot sun.Kim didn’t want anyone to watch. And he didn’t want to hear the whispers that have foll