Out of the hospital with a repaired heart and a new appreciation for life, millionaire businessman Gene Lynn was inspired to donate $200,000 to the American Lake Veterans Golf Course which caters to disabled vets.
Martin Fine lost an eye - but not his passion for golf - after a shot he hit ricocheted off a tree with devastating effect. . . Doctors told him that if the ball would have hit an inch to the left it could have severed both optical nerves and fully blinded him. An inch to the right and it could have hit his frontal lobe and killed him.
After golf professional Jim Estes met some wounded veterans, he was moved by "tremendous guilt". "I started thinking about how these young kids have been so traumatized. I kept thinking that I couldn't live with myself if I didn't do something to help their lives. It was just something that touched me, and I knew I had to get involved."
There are times to be competitive. Moments when all you want to do is humiliate your opponent as you defeat him. It's the nature of sports, and what our internal competition meters usually read. That, we all know, is how athletes feel most of the time. But, at times, and these are few and far […]
Ryo Ishikawa, the 19-year-old golf phenom who last week pledged all his 2011 winnings to disaster relief in his home country, jump-started his donation drive by winning $93,320 at the Masters Tournament.
In a performance for the ages, 22-year old Rory McIlroy from Northern Ireland made news and sports outlets giddy about the next Tiger being a Celtic Tiger. McIlroy won golf's toughest challenge, the US Open, by obliterating the field, beating the top ranked golfers in the world by anywhere from 6 to 20 strokes. And, as a UNICEF ambassador, the humble, affable young man volunteered in Haiti last month.
Louis Oosthuizen at 2008 PGA, by Bob Stapleton CC licenseSouth Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, who had missed the cut in all his three previous Opens and was a 200-1 outsider before the tournament started, won the British Open Sunday on the 92nd anniversary of Nelson Mandela's birth.
A South Korean golfer, K.J. Choi is giving $200,000 from his win at The Players Championship to help victims of the tornados that ravaged the southeastern United States.
For the first time in its 80-year history, Augusta National Golf Club has female members. The home of the Masters, under increasing criticism the last decade because of its all-male membership, invited former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to become the first women members when the club opens for a new season in October.
A 76-year-old man, Geoff Pilkington, had been sick with cancer for a two years. Finally, he recovered enough to play golf. On the first hole, with his first shot, he scored a hole in one
Japan's abandoned and bankrupt golf courses are getting a second life as solar power stations.
This interactive video lets you wander around inside a Salvador Dali painting, thanks to some help from Disney.
Stephen Colbert and Kermit the Frog have easy answers to the toughest questions philosophers have been debating for centuries.
This artist is spending a week making thousands of sandwiches for the poor in honor of all the school lunches her mother packed over the years.
Greek football teams spent the first two minutes of their match sitting in silent remembrance of refugees who've lost their lives in seas not far away.
It you don't have cable or television reception, CBS Sports has several options for watching Sunday's Super Bowl online for free.
A mother who donated her baby's organs for transplant hears his heartbeat two years after his death in the chest of a little girl whose life he saved.
Cancer cells alert the body's immune system in this "suicide gene therapy" doctors devised to lengthen the life of those with prostate cancer.
The former headquarters of East Germany's feared Stasi secret police has become a sanctuary for hundreds of refugees pouring into the country.
Alcohol and tobacco use by U.S. teens are at the lowest point in 40 years of tracking.