Stories by Garry Smits

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Oosthuizen ties birdie streak at Sawgrass

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - Louis Oosthuizen tied The Players Championship record with six consecutive birdies on Saturday at the TPC Sawgrass Players Stadium Course.
By Garry Smits

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Masters was last major without long-putter winner

Did anchoring help Adam Scott win the Masters and will it affect the propsed ban?
By Garry Smits

Monday, April 9, 2012

Who is Bubba Watson?

This year's Masters champion not only courts disaster, he drives it home.
By Garry Smits

Friday, April 6, 2012

Couples shoots 67 for clubhouse lead tie

Fred Couples is "shocked." Maybe the huge Augusta National galleries were too, but they enjoyed, as usual, his sprint to the top of the Masters leaderboard during Friday's second round.
By Garry Smits

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Putting keeps Howell in contention

ORLANDO, Fla. - Charles Howell said the swing changes he's been working on since October with former PGA Tour player and current teacher Grant Waite haven't all been put into play.
By Garry Smits

Friday, March 23, 2012

Howell playing pressure-free

In a sense, Charles Howell isn't trying to treat his first trip to the Masters Tournament since 2008 as that big a deal.
By Garry Smits

Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

Update: Daytona 500 still on for 7 p.m. start

DAYTONA BEACH -- The Daytona 500 appears on target for a 7 p.m. start after the race was postponed Sunday for the first time in its 54-year history.
By Garry Smits

Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

Steady rain too much for Jet Dryers

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The only vehicles allowed on Daytona International Speedway track Sunday puttered along at about 20 mph and blew hot air, not noxious exhaust.
By Garry Smits

Drivers turn to Twitter during delay

In the days before social media, drivers would pass the time during rain delays sleeping in their RVs or playing poker. Now, many of them Tweet … a lot.
By Garry Smits

Monday, Oct. 17, 2011

Former SEC stars come up short at Sea Island

Billy Horschel and Michael Thompson finished off the pace in the McGladrey Classic after contending earlier in the week.
By Garry Smits

Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011

Immelman ties Sea Island record with 62

Trevor Immelman, the 2008 Masters Tournament champion, matched the Sea Island Seaside Course record with 62 to move into contention entering today's final round Of the McGladrey Classic.
By Garry Smits

Friday, Oct. 14, 2011

Simpson tied for lead at Sea Island

Webb Simpson and Zach Miller both shot 7-under-par 63 to share the lead of the next-to-last PGA Tour event this season.
By Garry Smits

Crane's mind elsewhere

Ben Crane is having to play with an understandably distracted mind as his wife is back at their Texas home with the clock ticking on their third child's arrival.
By Garry Smits

Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011

Love to use son as caddie

Dru Love will caddie for his father, Davis Love III, during the McGladrey Classic, the PGA Tour Fall Series event at the Sea Island Golf Club that Love hosts and starts today.  
By Garry Smits

Molder finally arrives on Tour

Former Georgia Tech star Bryce Molder won the Frys.com Open on Sunday. It was first PGA Tour win in his 132nd Tour start.
By Garry Smits

Friday, Sept. 2, 2011

Local firm to sponsor Gator Bowl game

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Gator Bowl's new title sponsor used to be called Rhodes-Murphy Income Tax Services. Not exactly a name to quicken the pulse, unless you're looking for hidden ...
By Garry Smits

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Two ties for second leave Australia just short in another Masters

There would have been beer for breakfast in Australia had Adam Scott, Jason Day or Geoff Ogilvy found a way to hold onto the lead they all shared at one time or another Sunday during the final ...
By Garry Smits

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Kuchar in another high-profile group

Matt Kuchar was grouped with Tiger Woods in the first two rounds of the Masters last year, dealing with the accompanying media hoopla surrounding Woods' first start of the year after revelations ...
By Garry Smits

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Mickelson taking it easy

Phil Mickelson is nothing if not a strategist. He's always thinking ahead of terms of what will serve him best in competition and Tuesday was another example.
By Garry Smits

Monday, April 4, 2011

British invasion at the Masters

The British are coming. So are the Irish and the Scots. There have never been so many players from the British Isles crowding the top of the World Golf Rankings entering the Masters Tournament ...
By Garry Smits
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Payments for temporary MOX workers questioned in audit

The contractor building the mixed oxide fuel plant at Savannah River Site may have overbilled the government as much as $3.7 million for temporary subcontractor living expenses, according to a new ...
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