There's another Woods among the ranks of professional golfers today. Cheyenne Woods has turned pro. And she's signed on with Excel Sports Management, the agency of her uncle's agent, Mark Steinberg. Steinberg is one of the most powerful agents in sports. So good for her.

Cheyenne Woods recently completed her career as a golfer at Wake Forest University, where she finished four years as the school's all-time scoring leader in women's golf. She also won three tournaments (two individual titles, one in a 2-person team event), including the ACC Championship in 2011. And she was a 3-time Atlantic Coast Conference all-conference selection.

In an announcement of the signing on Excel's website, Steinberg says of Woods, "She had an outstanding career at Wake Forest and has the chance to be a major star on the women's golf scene."

Woods will enter LPGA Q-School later this year in an attempt to earn playing privileges for the 2013 season. In the meantime, she'll be seeking entry into some LPGA events through sponsor exemptions. No doubt, she'll get them.

Woods has played one LPGA event to date, the 2009 Wegmans LPGA following her freshman season at Wake Forest. She missed the cut, but with respectable scores of 75-74.

Cheyenne is the granddaughter of Earl Woods Sr., who was the father of Tiger Woods. Cheyenne's father is Tiger's half-brother, Earl Woods Jr.

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Cheyenne Woods pictures

The two big tournaments this week are the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial on the PGA Tour, and BMW PGA Championship on the European Tour, and both have good fields.

The European PGA is the "flagship tournament" of the European Tour, the biggest event in Europe outside of the British Open. Which means almost all the best European golfers and Euro Tour regulars are at Wentworth Club outside of London. Among "name" European golfers, only Sergio Garcia and Henrik Stenson are notable exceptions; both are playing at Colonial instead.

Luke Donald is the defending champion, and his win here last year allowed him to displace Lee Westwood at No. 1 in the world ranking. Donald is No. 2 now, behind Rory McIlroy, and McIlroy and Westwood are both at Wentworth. So are, among others, Martin Kaymer, Justin Rose, Charl Schwartzel, Graeme McDowell, Ian Poulter, Thomas Bjorn, Paul Casey, Francesco Molinari, Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Edoardo Molinari, Robert Rock and Matteo Manassero.

At the Colonial in Fort Worth, the defending champ is David Toms. Jason Dufner, coming off his second win in a month, is playing. Players Championship winner Matt Kuchar is here, and we'll get our first look at Kevin Na since his eventful week at The Players. Among the others in the field are Ben Crane, Rickie Fowler, Jim Furyk, Bill Haas, Ryo Ishikawa, Zach Johnson, Hunter Mahan, Louis Oosthuizen, Geoff Ogilvy and Nick Watney.

Check out our tournament pages for the lists of past champions at both tournaments, plus more info about each:

• Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial
• BMW PGA Championship

You want to see tour players penalized for slow play? You got it. Only on the LPGA Tour, not the PGA Tour.

Morgan Pressel was hit with a slow play penalty in the semifinals of the Sybase Match Play Championship on Sunday, and she wound up losing the match.

Pressel was playing Azahara Munoz in one semifinal, and the two players had fallen off the pace. They received a warning earlier in the match, then were put "on the clock" at the 11th hole. Which meant that going forward both players were being timed.

At that point, Pressel was 2-up in the match. But on the 12th hole - a hole Pressel otherwise would have won - she was hit with a slow play penalty after taking too long on her tee shot and also too long collectively for the hole. Boom. Penalty. Loss of hole. Pressel would have gone 3-up without the penalty; instead, Munoz won the hole and Pressel's lead was cut to 1-up.

Then, on the 15th hole, Pressel thought that Munoz had touched the line of her putt with the putter. Munoz denied the accusation, a rules official was summoned, and that official ultimately sided with Munoz, avoiding another penalty. Munoz won the hole to even the match, then won the next two holes to close it out, 2 and 1.

(You can find a fuller account of the incidents in the Associated Press article.)

For about the last half-dozen years, maybe more, the LPGA has been much more aggressive than the PGA Tour in trying to address slow play. The PGA Tour hasn't handed out a penalty stroke for slow play in 20 years. On the LPGA Tour, slow play penalties are rare, but they do occur multiple times every year.

If you want the PGA Tour to start dishing out penalties for slow play, this is what that would look like. Some of those penalties would inevitably occur at key moments, or become turning points, or cost a popular player a win or badly needed dollars.

Then again, the LPGA's policy is stricter than the PGA Tour's, with LPGA players having less time than PGA Tour players are given. Under the PGA Tour's rules, Pressel wouldn't have been penalized. But Pressel doesn't play on the PGA Tour, she plays on the LPGA Tour, and the LPGA's rules are known by all the players. (In fairness to Pressel, although she's the one who got penalized on Sunday, of the two players it is Munoz who has the greater reputation for slow play.)

Munoz advanced to the finals at the Sybase to face Candie Kung for the championship. Pressel plays Vicky Hurst in the consolation match. (Update: Munoz won the championship by beating Kung, and Pressel won the consolation match over Hurst.)

Rhein Gibson - a golfer who (hat tip: Golf Digest) has very modest experience on the Nationwide Tour and a few Australian pro tournaments, and is ranked 1,444th in the world rankings - has posted a score of 55. For 18 holes. On a legitimate (meaning full-sized, regulation) golf course.

The golf course is River Oaks Golf Club in Edmond, Okla., and the round took place on May 12, 2012. River Oaks is an 18-hole course with a par of 71, and Gibson was playing the tips from around 6,800 yards.

It's the second round of 55 known. The first was recorded by former PGA Tour and Champions Tour player Homero Blancas in the early 1960s, but that round occurred on a 9-holer with two sets of tees that was a par-70 but only a little longer than 5,000 yards.

Even his home country Sydney Morning Herald described Gibson as "little known." He's 26 years old, and he must really love River Oaks because a short time before the 55 Gibson established a course record of 60. It's a pretty safe bet that his new course record of 55 will never be broken, eh?

Before turning pro, Gibson played collegiately at Oklahoma Christian University, an NAIA school (NAIA being several divisions below NCAA), and made the NAIA All-American team. He currently plays on the mini-tour Golfweek National Pro Tour.

Playing with two others, Gibson started his round on Hole 10, opening with a par. Following that were an eagle, a birdie, an eagle, then five straight birdies for a 26 over his first nine holes. On the second nine, Gibson started with two pars, then made three birdies, a par and three more birdies for a 29 and a total of 55. In all, he had 12 birdies and two eagles.

"I just kind of got hot I guess and every putt I hit went in, that's the best I can explain it to be honest," Gibson told the SMH.

His playing partners posted scores of 69 and 74. Imagine shooting 74 and losing by 19 ...

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Lowest 18-hole scores in golf