PGA Tour winner Massengale dies at 69; Ben Crenshaw, Raymond Floyd to play in MasterCard Championship

Two-time PGA Tour winner Don Massengale died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 69. On tour from 1960 to 1970, Massengale won the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am and the Canadian Open in 1966. He also had two wins on the Champions Tour …

Ben Crenshaw, Raymond Floyd, Gary Player and Lanny Wadkins will play in the MasterCard Championship, the season-opening event of the PGA Champions Tour, on sponsor invitations. Their entry raises the number of players in the event, held Jan. 19-21, to 42 …

The Mercedes-Benz Championship in Hawaii kicks off today, marking the start of the 2007 season and the FedExCup, a season-long points race the PGA Tour says is the foundation of a “new era in golf.” Stuart Appleby has won the event the last three years …

At FloridaGolfGuide.com, Tim McDonald writes about the Rookery at Marco golf course, a challenging Joe Lee-design on Florida’s Gulf Coast.