Q. If a player’s ball is half on the fringe and the fringe is cut high so that the other half of the ball is overhanging the green but not actually touching the green, is the ball considered on the green? — Moondog
A pitch shot is a high-lofted shot that lands softly on the green and has very little roll. The clubs that should be used for this shot are the pitching wedge, sand wedge or lob wedge.
Brian Prouty of Tucson parlayed an eagle on the par-5 15th hole of the CasaBlanca Golf Course en route to a 9-under 63 and a three-round 197 in the $72,000 Nevada Open golf tournament, held Dec. 8-10 in Mesquite.
For five rounds, Chris Riley successfully navigated the grinding road that is the PGA Tour’s qualifying school.
Three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. Really? Those hardly seem like fitting gifts from one’s “true love.” The problem with shopping for avid golfers is that there is rarely anything one can give them that they don’t already have.
DES MOINES, Iowa — San Diego State extended the nation’s longest active winning streak in overtime games to nine Tuesday, outlasting Drake 76-73.
Minnesota Timberwolves players know all about their coach’s eight NBA championship rings earned and career-defining relationships nurtured with coaching legends Pat Riley and Phil Jackson during nearly three decades in Los Angeles.
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Ensign said Tuesday the health care bill being debated in the Senate violates the Constitution by forcing people to buy health insurance or pay a penalty.
HONOLULU — After a swim at the beach and some dancing at a Hawaiian luau, UNLV freshman Anthony Marshall still had energy to burn Tuesday night.
It took the very best Jimmer Fredette and Jackson Emery had to offer for Brigham Young to make it to today’s finals of the Las Vegas Classic.
They made a movie about wind in the early 1990s, about a couple of experienced sailors determined to win the America’s Cup yacht race.
Holding an opposing basketball player to 29 points in a game might not seem a great accomplishment.
The megafight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao could be in jeopardy after Pacquiao reportedly refused to have his blood drawn 30 days before their proposed March 13 welterweight title bout.
Three years makes perfect sense. It shouldn’t be any longer to start. Not in this economic climate. Not when your athletic department was just burned by a football coach who won 16 games over five seasons and is paying him $254,000 to coach a sixth year for a different program.
If a year ago, Brigham Young’s football team showed up disinterested, on Tuesday night, the Cougars were more than ready to play.
Everybody’s favorite celebrity-atheist-libertarian-ponytailed-rich guy is ready. He’s miked up. He’s facing the TV camera.
A Las Vegas teenager accused of shooting and killing his mother told police her death was an accident, an arrest report revealed Tuesday.
A pending labor peace ordinance for downtown Las Vegas probably won’t impede development, experts said.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A distraught resident of the northwest Arizona community of Beaver Dam stabbed himself to death Monday in front of deputies who tried to help him, according to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office.
Las Vegas police on Tuesday arrested a 50-year-old man in connection with the discovery of a woman found dead in her apartment on Dec. 15.
A 69-year-old Las Vegas man is apologizing for defacing the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, weeks before he faces a judge on a misdemeanor property damage charge.
When Raymonde Fiol was 6 years old, she was smuggled out of a Nazi internment camp “under the noses of the Germans.”
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
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