Hey, Swinger. 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.

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

States of Great: His Majesty: It’s Good to Be Immortal. Just breathing his air and sharing his sun make us more complete. Tiger Woods is the consolation for our mortality.

Sports of The Times: Bridging Language Gap Takes Steps From Both Sides. 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.

Golf Hopes to Find Its Place in Weekend of Wall-to-Wall Football. The hedge fund founder Julian Robertson is banking that a golf event on NBC and Sky Sports on Saturday and Sunday can take on football and stimulate interest in golf on the other side of the globe.

Storms on the Horizon for the Golf Industry. Although golf has long been perceived as recession proof, some involved in the sport are learning otherwise.

L.P.G.A. Tightens Schedule and Purses. The 2009 schedule released by L.P.G.A. commissioner Carolyn Bivens showed the anticipated net losses of three tournaments and $5 million in prize money.

Still at Top of Her Game, Sorenstam Is Content to Step Away. Annika Sorenstam’s graceful exit from the L.P.G.A. golf stage she has dominated for so long will end this weekend.

Everybody Has a Shot in an Event That Resets. 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’s Final Shots Fall Short. 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.

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

Creamer’s Illness Puts Final Round in Doubt. 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.

No Stranger to Winning, Korean, 20, Takes Title. 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.

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

PGA Tour Alters Playoffs in Search of Closer Finish. 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.

Next Bright Korean Star Stays Rooted in Family. 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.

Keeping Score: Scientists Take Swing at Golf Ball’s Dimples. 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.