• Greensburg native Rocco Mediate takes Tiger Woods to 19 holes before losing a playoff to the world's No. 1 player in front of a raucous pro-Rocco crowd at the U.S. Open: The only thing missing were the Terrible Towels.

• Two days after he won his 14th major championship, Woods announces he played with stress fractures in his left leg and will miss the rest of the season to have reconstructive ACL surgery: Someone get the smelling salts for U.S. Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger.

• Two-time U.S. Open champ-ion Retief Goosen says he was joking when he suggested Woods might have been faking the extent of his knee pain at Torrey Pines: Goosen ever coach in the National Hockey League?

According to research from one of Europe's leading medical research institutes, playing golf can add five years to a person's life: Unless, that is, you leave yourself a lot of four-foot putts.

• A high court in India has ordered the government to return possession of Trivandrum Golf Club, perhaps the oldest golf course in the world outside Great Britain, to the club's management, hours after the government seized the club for violating a lease deal: Well, there go the good tee times for heads of state.