Afternoon Momentum Shift Puts Bewildered Team USA in Trouble at 2014 Ryder Cup

GLENEAGLES, Scotland — It was golf’s version of a Hail Mary pass. Or a bottom of the ninth home run. Or, really, a kick in the head. The United States grabbed control in the opening morning of Ryder Cup 2014 and then, stunningly, painfully, lost control in the afternoon. The first of three days of play on Friday, a cold wind ripping out of the Highlands, America looking so good, so surprising,... 

Cilic-Nishikori Final at 2014 US Open Shows Rough Road Ahead for Men’s Tennis

NEW YORK — They figured it out a long time ago in Hollywood and just across the river from here on Broadway: You need a star. It didn’t really matter if a famous actor could act, only if he was famous. Whether that was because of what he did on or off the screen was insignificant. You become a hit by selling entertainment, not Shakespeare. You become a hit by putting big names on the... 

Roger Federer Misses Last Chance to Win a Grand Slam Title at 2014 US Open

NEW YORK — Suddenly, Roger Federer looked older. It wasn’t so much the creases in his face, the age lines. It was the creases in his game. It was the inability to handle Marin Cilic, to whom he never before had lost. It was the comments after his defeat, the lack of belief to do what he had done for so many matches over so many years, which is make a comeback. Federer was a lock to make... 

Dominant Serena Williams Silences Skeptics in 2014 US Open Semifinal Rout

NEW YORK — She’s rolling now, crushing opponents and symbolically all those who doubted her. (Blush!). A season that seemed destined to go nowhere for Serena Williams, a season that made some of us suggest that at almost 33 years old her best days were over, is now headed to the stars—and the record books. Was she ever any better than she was Friday afternoon in a semifinal of... 

Novak Djokovic-Andy Murray QF Will Give 2014 US Open Its 1st Great Men’s Match

NEW YORK — Now it gets serious. Now the men’s game, existing almost in a vacuum while the ladies battered each other and the seedings—joyful confusion, you could call it—grabs its rightful place at the U.S. Open. Now the big names display what they hope are their big games. Rafael Nadal isn’t here, true—another of his multiple injuries, a wrist this time. But Roger... 

Tiger Woods Making the Right Choice with Ryder Cup Withdrawal, Lengthy Absence

The suspense has ended. Inevitability won. Tiger Woods lost. The U.S. Ryder Cup team lost. If an athlete, a sportsman, is unable to play, then there’s nothing to do but make the concession. And so Wednesday, Woods, tenacious, finally gave in. Per the PGA of America, he withdrew his name from consideration for the Ryder Cup matches at the end of September because of the injury to his back. He... 

Star-Studded Battle Brings Unforgettable Drama in 2014 PGA Championship’s Finale

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The slogan couldn’t live up to the event. “This is major,” they advertised. The 2014 PGA Championship, with a leaderboard of unprecedented quality, a race against darkness to reach conclusion and a champion already threatening to become the best ever, was so much more. It was a tournament that showed at age 44 Phil Mickelson still has game and guts; a tournament... 

Stacked Leaderboard Setting Up Dramatic Final Round of 2014 PGA Championship

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — This is a major. Is it ever. This is a golf tournament with a leaderboard full of champions and suspense. This is what we’ve been waiting for in a summer that lacked the competition any sport needs, especially when it’s without its injured star. The U.S. Open was a runaway, Martin Kaymer breezing. The British Open was a romp for three rounds by Rory McIlroy, although... 

Questions Mount for Struggling Tiger Woods After Missed Cut at PGA Championship

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Once he provided all the answers. We knew all we needed about Tiger Woods, the golfer, if not the person. He was the champion who could win U.S. Opens on a bad leg, who could set scoring records and who could do almost everything except walk on water. Now the answers have become questions. Now Tiger Woods looks bad—after the round Friday at the PGA Championship, he admitted... 

Is Rory McIlroy the New Face of Golf After Winning the 2014 British Open?

HOYLAKE, England — Rory McIlroy is one of three, with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. But so effervescent, so whimsical as well as so remarkably talented, McIlroy is truthfully one of a kind. “The Champion Golfer of the Year.” That’s how the British Open winner is introduced by the head of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club, Peter Dawson. Not merely the Open champion. Not just... 

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