Launching a new golf course is almost unheard of these days. After all, the National Golf Foundation reports that supply of tracks will continue to outpace demand for the foreseeable future. Indeed, almost 160 U.S.-owned 18-hole operations shut down in 2011, compared with 19 openings, an unfortunate trend t Full Story

• Augusta National: Ladies still need not apply
  Open-minded golf fans hopeful that Augusta National Golf Club’s 79-year-old "no women need apply" policy may soon go
• Ortiz Draws A-List Jocks to Annual Charity Golf Tourney at Cap Cana
  Anybody who is anybody in the sports world will do just about anything to cadge a prized invitation to the David Ortiz
• Balmy weather has New England golfers flocking to the course — in December
  Hollis, N.H. -- There’s nothing like a sun-splashed, spring-like day to get a New England golfer’s juices flowing.

The CaddyTrek robotic golf cart is officially the coolest golf gadget since a bunch of crazy Scotsmen declared, “Let’s play 18!” The sleek, compact, next-generation golf bag schlepper leaves its remote-controlled predecessors in the deep rough when it comes to truly hands-free navigation around the Full Story

• Kuchar takes on Faldo as belly putter wars heat up; Mahan spells putting relief N-O-M-E
  While Tiger Woods’ poor putting con­tin­ues to be the talk of the Accen­ture Match Play Cham­pi­onship — despi
• The Black Swan putter’s even better than Matt Avery’s Black Hawk
  Sony Open winner Johnson Wagner’s "Magnum P.I." upper-lip fuzz may have been the talk of the tourney, but Matt Every�
• TaylorMade, Callaway ring in the new year with splashy new drivers
  With TaylorMade setting the pace in the market for big bats, and Callaway hoping to close the gap with a vibrant new ad

Open-minded golf fans hopeful that Augusta National Golf Club’s 79-year-old "no women need apply" policy may soon go the way of the mashy niblick might not want to hold their breath. The calendar reads 2012 outside the gates of Augusta National, but to the green-jacketed Masters of the Masters Universe, "G Full Story

• Can Tiger Woods get off the schneid and can anyone stop Yani Tseng?
  Two questions come to mind on PGA and LPGA Sunday: Can Tiger Woods remember how to stomp on his opponents’ necks and
• Bubba breaks the back of Doral’s Blue Monster
  For a guy who expressed extreme loathing for Donald Trump's Doral Golf Resort, Bubba Watson did a pretty good impressio
• Kuchar takes on Faldo as belly putter wars heat up; Mahan spells putting relief N-O-M-E
  While Tiger Woods’ poor putting con­tin­ues to be the talk of the Accen­ture Match Play Cham­pi­onship — despi