Annika Sorenstam said a Swedish newspaper took out of context her plans to quit golf and have children. The 36-year-old Sorenstam is dating Mike McGee, a golf agent and son of former PGA Tour player Jerry McGee. She divorced David Esch two years ago.
-- PGA.com
Tom Watson apparently will take a trip down memory lane ? he will play in next month's AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. According to tournament director Ollie Nutt, Watson wrote a letter to tournament officials last summer asking to play the event with his son, Michael, as his amateur partner.
-- Kansas City Star
The idea that you can't win while playing with the celebrities is perhaps the biggest myth floating around the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. The thinking behind the myth is that celebrity golfers are either A) so bad, B) so caught up in entertaining the crowd, C) so slow or D) all of the above, that a pro stuck in the celebrity group just can't overcome the distractions.
-- The Desert Sun
Padraig Harrington is undisturbed at having come in second 30 times as a professional and unconcerned at falling from overnight leader after 54 holes of his first tournament of the year to joint-fifth after 72.
-- The Times
Phil Mickelson announced he is designing a course at RiverRock, a private golf and residential community in Cashiers, about 50 miles southwest of Asheville, N.C. Mickelson's friend and swing instructor, Rick Smith, will design a par-3 course at RiverRock.
-- Charlotte Observer
The Wachovia Championship is nearly four months away, but the tournament has received official commitments from two top stars -- John Daly and Ernie Els.
Daly has accepted a sponsor's exemption to play at Quail Hollow Club from May 3-6, and Els is among the first players to officially commit.
-- Charlotte Observer
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