 Goldberg pays price for being honest
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Former SDSU golfer Aaron Goldberg found out during a Q school pre-qualifying tournament what happens when you sign an incorrect scorecard.
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Smock seeking a cure for the Q School blues
Dec. 2 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
In the aftermath of the PGA Tour's Qualifying School Finals in 2004, Brian Smock compared his total score to those of the golfers who earned their tour cards that week.
He was outside the magic bubble by four shots, and considering the Finals are a six-round grind, it was painful to have his lifelong dream be denied by fractions.
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COOLUM, Australia, 8:23 p.m. Dec. 1 (AP)
Putting woes continue for Daly: Six years after throwing his putter into a pond at the Australian PGA, John Daly is having trouble on the greens again.
INDIAN WELLS, 1:37 p.m. Nov. 30 (AP)K.J. Choi wins at Skins Game, takes home $415,000: K.J. Choi holed an 11-foot birdie putt worth $270,000 on the 18th hole Sunday to win the 26th Skins Game with $415,000.
SINGAPORE, 7:00 a.m. Nov. 30 (AP)
Sorenstam, International team win Lexus Cup: Annika Sorenstam celebrated two big victories in her second-to-last event before retiring.
SHENZHEN, China, 3:15 a.m. Nov. 29 (AP)Australia joins Spain in lead after 3 rounds: Brendan Jones made a 4-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole Saturday, giving Australia a 9-under 63 and a share of the lead with Spain after the third round of the World Cup of Golf. MELBOURNE, Australia, 12:39 a.m. Nov. 29 (AP)
Allenby shares lead after double eagle: Robert Allenby holed a 3-wood shot for a double eagle on the par-5 seventh and finished with a 5-under 67 on Saturday for a share of the third-round lead in the Australian Masters with playing partner Michael Sim. INDIAN WELLS, 1:38 p.m. Nov. 28 (AP)
Ames looks for another Skins Game win: For Stephen Ames, the Skins Game has become a lucrative holiday tradition. Ames has won the last two Skins Games, pocketing more than $1.2 million in the process. But as he tries for a third straight title this weekend, he's not only thinking about the $1 million purse.
SHENZHEN, China, 9:47 a.m. Nov. 28 (AP)
Spain moves ahead in World Cup of Golf: While Spaniards Miguel Angel Jimenez and Pablo Larrazabal were dreaming about breaking 60, the other teams were just trying to survive Friday in the World Cup of Golf.
SINGAPORE, 1:39 a.m. Nov. 28 (AP)Sorenstam falls, Lexus Cup tied at 3: Jeong Jang and Candie Kung beat Annika Sorenstam and Angela Stanford 3 and 2 on Friday to help Asia split the six opening alternate-shot matches in the Lexus Cup, Sorenstam's final LPGA Tour-sanctioned event before she retires. MELBOURNE, Australia, 12:18 a.m. Nov. 28 (AP)
Tim Clark takes 1-stroke lead at Aussie Masters: Tim Clark of South Africa shot a 2-under 70 on Friday at Huntingdale to take a one-stroke lead after two rounds of the Australian Masters. MELBOURNE, Australia, 2:08 a.m. Nov. 27 (AP)
Clark, Hend share lead at storm-hit Aussie Masters: South Africa's Tim Clark waited out a three-hour suspension due to a severe thunderstorm to pull into a tie for the first-round lead with a 5-under 67 at the Australian Masters on Thursday. SHENZHEN, China, 1:10 a.m. Nov. 27 (AP)
German team takes lead in World Cup of Golf: Martin Kaymer and Alex Cejka combined for a 10-under 62, giving Germany a one-stroke lead over Australia's Richard Green and Brendan Jones after the first round of the World Cup of Golf on Thursday. MELBOURNE, Australia, 8:32 p.m. Nov. 25 (AP)
Daly wants focus on golf in Australia: All the focus in the lead up to John Daly's first tournament in Australia in six years has surrounded his controversial departure in his last trip Down Under and his slide down the rankings amid personal turmoil. Nov. 25 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Truly, it's hip to repair: At first, the squeak was something of a novelty to golf instructor Greg Casagranda in the months after his right hip was replaced in 2005.
Nov. 25 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
GM, Tiger no longer a team: General Motors announced yesterday that it was ending its sponsorship deal with Tiger Woods a year early, but the parting isn't expected to affect Woods'decision to play each year in the Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines.
Nov. 25 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
LPGA tournament could be here in '09: When the LPGA Tour released its 2009 schedule last week, there were several holes to be filled for tournament sites. One was the Samsung World Championship, scheduled for Sept. 17-20. The location: TBD.
DETROIT, 1:32 p.m. Nov. 24 (AP)
GM ends 9-year endorsement deal with Tiger Woods: General Motors is bailing out on Tiger Woods. Woods, a global icon in sports with his 14 major championships, has been carrying the Buick logo on his golf bag for the last nine years and still had one year left on his contract.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., 1:45 a.m. Nov. 24 (AP)Creamer fights, but can't overtake Ochoa for title: On the 13th tee of the final round, the player known for always wearing some pink needed some medicine to settle her stomach.
Nov. 24 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Counting the cost of staging U.S. Open: The city of San Diego spared little expense in hosting the U.S. Open golf tournament in June. A tally of expenditures and lost revenue related to the event totals $10.7 million, according to a San Diego Union-Tribune analysis.
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