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Five Masters Players to Watch

Augusta - Arab Today

Five "Players to Watch" at the 81st Masters tournament, the year's first major men's golf championship that begins Thursday at Augusta National: - Dustin Johnson (USA) - The world number one has won three events in a row and no player has made the Masters his fourth consecutive victory since 1940. Johnson won at Riviera in February to become theRead more

Dustin Johnson vaults to world golf number one

PACIFIC PALISADES - ArabToday

Dustin Johnson made the complicated world golf ranking calculations simple on Sunday, vaulting to number one with a convincing victory in the Genesis Open. "I don't really understand it," he said of the math involved in determining the game's top player "but I can read the 'one-two-three'. I guess that's all that matters." All week at Riviera Country Club,Read more

Johnson holds firm at US Open

Oakmont - Arab Today

Dustin Johnson was battling to hold on to his lead in the third round of the US Open at Oakmont on Saturday as a posse of big guns led by Jason Day and Jordan Spieth tried to reel him in. The 31-year-old American, who has come close at majors on several occasions in the past but failed to nail oneRead more

Little silver lining as thunderstorms disrupt US Open

Oakmont - Arab Today

Oakmont showed a softer side but that was little consolation as thunderstorms brought a chaotic first round of the US Open Golf Championship to a premature close on Thursday. Little-known Andrew Landry was clinging to a one-shot lead with one hole to go when play was suspended for the day, with only nine of the 156-strong field completing their rounds.Read more

Mickelson out to shatter US Open jinx

Oakmont - Arab Today

Phil Mickelson seeks to end 26 years of US Open misery at Oakmont Country Club in the Pittsburgh suburbs this week, while battle is rejoined for golfing supremacy between the new spearheads of the sport -- Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy. No other golfer has endured such heartache at one tournament as Mickelson has at the second ofRead more

US Open golf stars set for stern Oakmont challenge

Oakmont - Arab Today

The world's best golfers on Tuesday were preparing for the ultimate US Open test at Oakmont with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. The course is not an untamed monster like Chambers Bay in Washington State last year, but its distinctive bunkers are forbidding and its greens are among the fastest and must undulating on the circuit. On top ofRead more