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Archive for March, 2008

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Bubba Watson and Steve Elkington clashed on Friday at the Zurich Classic in New Orleans, and Watson was fuming when it came time to hit his approach shot into the 10th green. Elkington was moving as Watson addressed the ball, and it was evidently not the first movement that Watson objected to. Watson had some choice words for his playing partner, and the Golf Channel picked them up:

SUPERSTITION MOUNTAIN, ARIZ. — So we’ve got three contenders going into the final round of the LPGA’s Safeway International. We’ve got the winsome, at-the-top-of-her-game Mexican sweetheart, Lorena Ochoa, who is gunning for her third consecutive Rolex Player of the Year award. We’ve got the spunky, good-at-games, late-blooming, two-time Solheim Cupper from Texas, Angela Stanford, who beats Ochoa at one-on-one basketball. And we’ve got … the Korean.

AVONDALE, La. (AP) — Woody Austin, Nicholas Thompson, Peter Lonard and Briny Baird topped the Zurich Classic leaderboard at 8 under Saturday when rain, lightning and thunder forced the suspension of third-round play.

PUERTO BANUS, Spain (AP) — Defending champion Lee Westwood shot a 6-under 66 Saturday to take a one-shot lead over three players after the third round at the Andalucia Open.

AP – On the red trim at the bottom of his shoes, Stephen Curry has written in black marker, “I can do all things.”

PUERTO BANUS, Spain (AP) — Peter Hedblom of Sweden and Matthew Millar of Australia shared the lead by one stroke after Friday’s second round of the Andalucia Open.

AVONDALE, La. (AP) — Briny Baird really wanted to go fishing Monday. That’s his usual routine at the Zurich Classic, but bad weather kept him off the water.

PUERTO BANUS, Spain (AP) — Lee Westwood shot a 7-under 65 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead at the Andalucia Open.