I flew to Mexico for a golf lesson from a Frenchman. That’s where Jean Van de Velde, the affable golfer who once nearly had both hands on the Claret Jug but let it slip away in dramatic fashion is ...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – No French player had won on the modern PGA TOUR until this year’s Farmers Insurance Open, when Matthieu Pavon played a bold third shot from thick rough on Torrey Pines’ par-5 ...

Oh, that way madness lies. Let me shun that. No more of that. Pause. Breathe. Compose. Forget about the hundreds behind you, purposefully packed and bundled, closer to you than should be allowed, ...

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — Francis Ouimet winning the 1913 U.S. Open against Ted Ray and Harry Vardon springs immediately to mind. So does Sam Snead seeing off Ben Hogan to claim the 1954 Masters. Then ...

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – Jean Van de Velde would have preferred to be at Carnoustie this week, staring down his golfing demons in person.Instead, the guy who threw away the 1999 British Open is tackling ...

PHILADELPHIA (KRT) -- Chalk up another self-inflicted, disastrous triple bogey for Jean Van de Velde. When the Royal and Ancient Golf Club announced Oct. 13 that it was going to throw open the door to ...

I was there when ... the Frenchman became an adjective for all future episodes of golf infamy. You know, ‘That was a collapse of Van de Veldian proportions.’ Or, ‘He experienced a momentary lapse of ...

Jean Van de Velde blows a three-stroke lead on this date in 1999 when he triple-bogeys the 72nd hole at Carnoustie, setting the stage for Paul Lawrie to be the first Scotsman to win the British Open ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Charismatic French golfer Jean Van de Velde is preparing to revisit the spot where millions of TV viewers watched his British Open victory hopes die a watery death in 1999. Van de ...

CROWLAND, England, July 10 (Reuters) - Jean Van de Velde's 'affaire d'amour' with the British Open will continue next week after the Frenchman proved he was over a career-threatening illness by ...