Defending champion Wagner back at Mayakoba (AP)Wed Feb 22 18:37:32 2012Johnson Wagner is having too much fun defending his title in the Mayakoba Golf Classic to worry about missing out on the World Golf Championships event this week in Arizona. Wagner, ranked 72nd, failed to qualify for the 64-player Match Play Championship. He won the Sony Open in Hawaii in January and tied for second the following week in the Humana Challenge in California.Golf-Miraculous escape by Day in Arizona desert (Reuters)Wed Feb 22 17:54:40 2012Jason Day conjured
a Houdini-like escape to squeeze through Wednesday's opening
round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, beating
Spaniard Rafael Cabrera-Bello after 19 holes.
PGA & LPGA GOLF ODDS
Tour Report: Notes from inside the ropes (PGATOUR.com)Wed Feb 22 17:06:38 2012Greenwood/Getty Images Keegan Bradley was razor-sharp in his first-round win over Geoff Ogilvy. By Fred Albers, PGATOUR.COM Correspondent Circle of friendship: It’s interesting to see what length putts are conceded in match play. It’s called "the circle of friendship" and the length tends to be generous at the start of matches and then tighten as [...]Tour Report: Fantasy mailbag: Reshuffle looms (PGATOUR.com)Wed Feb 22 13:05:09 2012FANTASY PREVIEW: Mayakoba Golf Classic | Sign up for fantasy This is the final week of the first phase of the reshuffle among Nationwide Tour and q-school graduates. Once the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship and the Mayakoba Golf Classic are in the books, the golfers in Priority Ranking No. 25 will be reordered [...]Match recaps: First round, Accenture Match Play Champ. (PGATOUR.com)Wed Feb 22 11:57:53 2012Match recaps: First round, Accenture Match Play Champ.Golf-WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship first round results (Reuters)Wed Feb 22 10:55:10 2012 (updates)
Golf-PGA Tour's playoffs extended for five more years (Reuters)Wed Feb 22 08:54:47 2012The FedExCup
playoffs, the PGA Tour's lucrative four-event season finale,
have been extended for a further five years, commissioner Tim
Finchem said on Wednesday.
PGA Tour gets FedEx renewal through 2017 (AP)Wed Feb 22 06:31:38 2012The PGA Tour is keeping the FedEx Cup for at least five more years with a significant sponsorship renewal. Commissioner Tim Finchem announced Wednesday that FedEx has extended its umbrella sponsorship through 2017. That's the final piece of sponsorship renewal that the tour navigated through a troubling economic climate.First-round tee times for Mayakoba Golf Classic (PGATOUR.com)Wed Feb 22 04:16:17 2012First-round tee times for Mayakoba Golf ClassicGolf-Clarke and Yang head Ballantines event field (Reuters)Wed Feb 22 03:22:15 2012Major winners Darren Clarke and
Yang Yong-eun will head a quality field at next month's
Ballantines Championship in Seoul, organisers said on Wednesday.
