Wie Claims Card and a Fresh Start

By KAREN CROUSE

Michelle Wie finished tied for seventh in the L.P.G.A. Tour qualifying tournament and earned playing privileges for 2009.

Sons Share an Event but Not the Fame

By LARRY DORMAN

The sons of the greats who compete for the Willie Park Trophy have struggled in the spotlight and in the shadow of their famous fathers.

On Par With Bill Pennington

Keeping Score

Scientists Take Swing at Golf Ball’s Dimples

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR

It turns out that the design of those little indentations on golf balls is more important, and more complex, than the average golfer may imagine.

Ji-Yai Shin, 20, of South Korea is expected to join the L.P.G.A. Tour in 2009.

Next Bright Korean Star Stays Rooted in Family

By KAREN CROUSE

By winning the season-ending ADT Championship on Sunday, Ji-Yai Shin proved that her timing was perfect, and not just as it related to her swing.

PGA Tour Alters Playoffs in Search of Closer Finish

By LARRY DORMAN

The PGA Tour announced a streamlined format designed to make sure that the winner of the Fedex Cup and the will not be a foregone conclusion.

Tiger Woods, right, unveiled a new Buick at the 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show with Rick Wagoner, the chairman and C.E.O. of General Motors.

G.M. and Woods Put Early End to Their Endorsement Deal

By KATIE THOMAS

General Motors and Tiger Woods ended their nearly decade-long endorsement deal one year early as the automaker looks to cut costs and the golfer plans to spend more time with his growing family.

Ji-Yai Shin won the ADT Championship by one shot, earning $1 million. She will join the L.P.G.A. Tour next season.

No Stranger to Winning, Korean, 20, Takes Title

By LARRY DORMAN

Ji-Yai Shin, a 20-year-old from South Korea, defeated Karrie Webb, a L.P.G.A. Hall of Famer 13 years her senior, by one stroke to win the ADT Championship.

Creamer’s Illness Puts Final Round in Doubt

By LARRY DORMAN

L.P.G.A. star Paula Creamer was admitted to a local hospital for observation and may not be able to finish the season-ending tournament at Trump International Golf Club.

Compelling Comebacks Highlight the PGA Tour

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Davis Love III, Rocco Mediate and Dudley Hart have been nominated as candidates for comeback player of the year.

Annika Sorenstam after the 18th hole Friday. She announced six months ago she was leaving the tour at year's end to pursue business interests and for family reasons.

Sorenstam’s Final Shots Fall Short

By LARRY DORMAN

Annika Sorenstam ended her career too soon, with just the 10th missed cut in 303 tournament starts ushering her final official round to a close on Friday.

Everybody Has a Shot in an Event That Resets

By LARRY DORMAN

The field for the L.P.G.A.’s season-ending roll of the dice known as the $1.5 million ADT Championship will be cut in half after Friday’s round.

Sorenstam Misses Cut at Final Tour Event

Along with her 72 L.P.G.A. victories and 8 money titles, Annika Sorenstam shot the only 59 in the history of women?s competitive golf and played two rounds in a PGA Tour event.

Still at Top of Her Game, Sorenstam Is Content to Step Away

By LARRY DORMAN

Annika Sorenstam’s graceful exit from the L.P.G.A. golf stage she has dominated for so long will end this weekend.

Sorenstam's Career May End Two Days Earlier Than Planned

L.P.G.A. Tightens Schedule and Purses

Storms on the Horizon for the Golf Industry

Golf Hopes to Find Its Place in Weekend of Wall-to-Wall Football

Sports of The Times

Jelena Jankovic, who speaks two languages, needed three sets to win.

Bridging Language Gap Takes Steps From Both Sides

By GEORGE VECSEY

Having blundered into a new language policy without thinking it through, the L.P.G.A. is trying to rationalize that it wants its foreign players to speak English.

Multimedia

Video: One-Club Wonder

Playing with a single club, Bill Pennington learns that golf is not just about the technology.

From Play Magazine

States of Great: His Majesty

It’s Good to Be Immortal

By CHIP BROWN

Just breathing his air and sharing his sun make us more complete. Tiger Woods is the consolation for our mortality.

WINNERS Ginger and Robbi Howard with a few of their trophies.

Daddy’s Little Phenoms

By PAT JORDAN

Two junior golfers, one man’s lofty master plan.

Video: Little Girls, Big Drive

GOLF FASHION TIP NO. 1 It?s O.K. to dress like Bobby Jones ? a solid gray sweater vest will help tone down the wild plaids. Hat by Tom Ford ($810), shirt by Comme des Gar�ons ($210), sweater vest by J. Lindeberg ($126), pants by Hickey ($295), glove by Nike ($19).

Hey, Swinger

By CHARLES MCGRATH

The world is your mulligan! Play’s guide to bigger clubs, fancier carts, high-dollar pros, becalming courses and other ways to keep up in today’s ever-immoderate game.