CASARES, Spain (AP) Given his excellent Ryder Cup record and his unprecedented double in individual match-play tournaments, Ian Poulter's preferred format for the 2016 Olympics is no surprise.

"I don't know where they are with their decision-making ... but I think match play would suit the Olympics better than a stroke-play event," the Englishman said Wednesday.

The proposed Olympic competition for men and women is a 72-hole individual stroke-play tournament, but Poulter surely would be installed among the favorites if there was a late change.

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IRVING, Texas (AP) Keegan Bradley sometimes looks at the PGA Championship trophy sitting on his mantel and starts laughing.

"It seems so bizarre that the Wanamaker Trophy, it's in my room," Bradley said. "Definitely, sometimes I have to ask myself, `Is this really real?' ... It's cool to be living with it." Read More...

CASARES, Spain (AP) Deprived of his clubs and sleep following an emergency landing en route to Spain, Brandt Snedeker's first appearance in Spain isn't exactly going as planned.

The 26th-ranked American's journey from Miami to Madrid ahead of the World Match Play Championship in Spain was interrupted on Monday when his plane was forced to land after a passenger suffered a heart attack. Read More...

GLADSTONE, N.J. (AP) A year after meeting for the Sybase Match Play Championship, defending champion Suzann Pettersen and Cristie Kerr are in the same position on the LPGA Tour.

The two veterans are ranked in the world's top five. And they are in the mid-teens in earnings. Yet they're both doing something neither expected in May - looking for their first win of the year. Read More...

BERNARDS TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) The U.S. Amateur trophy is among the artifacts missing after a burglar broke into the U.S. Golf Association Museum in northern New Jersey.

Somerset County prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano says police responded to the building in Bernards Township after a burglar alarm was activated there around 2:40 a.m. Wednesday. Read More...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) In more peaceful times, when Tiger Woods had gone six months without losing and golf seemed to revolve around him, he ended a monthly newsletter with a rare trip to the soap box to complain about the pace of play on the PGA Tour.

"Before I go, I would like to talk about slow play," Woods wrote. "It's been an ongoing problem on the PGA Tour for a long time." Read More...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Butch Harmon turns 69 this summer and he's ready to cut back on how much he works. In his last major effort, he has published what amounts to a lifetime as a swing coach.

No, he's not writing a book. Read More...