Trevor Immelman's best round of the year reinforced the former Masters champion's belief that he can regain his top form less than two years after wrist surgery.
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Feed SubscriptionCalcavecchia, Frost, Cochran lead Senior British
Mark Calcavecchia surrendered a three-shot cushion to finish the third round of the Senior British Open on Saturday tied for the lead with fellow American Russ Cochran and South Africa's David Frost.
Read More »Swedish amateur tied for lead at Nordea Masters
STOCKHOLM (AP) -Swedish amateur golfer Robert Karlsson was on top on the leaderboard with countryman Alexander Noren and Jaco Van Zyl of South Africa after they shot 5-under 67s in Thursday's first round of the Nordea Masters.
Read More »How To Train Your Celebrity: Five Hollywood Charity Myths
Yes, Hollywood Stars can live up (or down) to their stereotypes. But they can also be invaluable in promoting a good cause.
Read More »Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa?
The inside story of Matt Damon's bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe's great crises. Matt Damon, water warrior.
Read More »Notes: 1997 champ Els ‘as low as I’ve ever been’
Ernie Els stood in a foyer just inside the clubhouse, along a wall adorned with photos and other mementos from his 1997 U.S. Open victory
Read More »Coetzee leads Saint-Omer Open by two strokes
George Coetzee of South Africa shot a 5-under 66 Thursday to take a two-shot lead after the first round of the Saint-Omer Open.
Read More »Newly Discovered Microscopic Worm Thrives in Gold Mines a Kilometer Underground
Deep in South Africa's gold mines water can be found in rock fractures, hosting bacteria that off the stone itself and form biofilms on the hard surfaces. Now new samples pulled from these sunless pools show that nematodes--roundworms of varying size that are essentially tubes with a digestive tract and thrive everywhere on the planet--likely graze on these bacterial films, surviving more than a kilometer underground.
Read More »Mulroy wins Nationwide event in playoff
South Africa's Garth Mulroy won the BMW Charity Pro-Am on Sunday for his second career Nationwide Tour title, beating Sunghoon Kang on the first hole of a playoff when the South Korean missed a 3-foot par putt.
Read More »The best new hotels of 2011
From a pioneering farmstead in South Africa to a sexy Manhattan skyscraper, these are the year’s best new hotels.
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South Africa, despite its sociopolitical, racial, criminal, and economic despairs, remains an extraordinary adventure capital. Off the country’s coast, an intrepid traveler can descend into the Indian Ocean in a steel cage and go nose to snout with very large, very hungry great white sharks
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South Africa, despite its sociopolitical, racial, criminal, and economic despairs, remains an extraordinary adventure capital. Off the country’s coast, an intrepid traveler can descend into the Indian Ocean in a steel cage and go nose to snout with very large, very hungry great white sharks. The flat top of Table ...
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Could It Happen Here, Here, or There? A Map Of Nuclear Risk
Nature News and Columbia University team up and produce a Google Earth map that makes nuclear risk stark. Nature News and Columbia University have joined forces to make a Google Earth map showing the world populations at risk from nuclear fallout. The interactive map combines data on population and the locations and sizes of reactors, plotting risk graphically in the form of circles.
Read More »Early human fossils from South Africa could upend longheld view of human evolution
MINNEAPOLIS--It’s a great irony of paleoanthropology that for all the insights scientists have been able to glean from the fossil record about our early ancestors, the australopithecines (Lucy and her kin), they have precious little to document the origin of our own genus, Homo. They know that Homo descended from one of those australopithecine species, and that over the course of that transition our ancestors evolved from chimp-size creatures with short legs and small brains into tall humans with long legs and large brains, among other hallmark traits
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