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Showing posts with label Tiger Woods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tiger Woods. Show all posts
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
This is For You, Sergio...
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Go work on your game, and also your mental game. You make me sick with your whining about everything all the time. Stop blaming everyone else for your bad play. It's golf! You own your shots, and you own your game. Deal with it!
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Tiger Finally Wins!
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Just in time for Augusta in a few weeks, Tiger finally manufactured 4 rounds good enough to grab a win - his first in 2½ years - at Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Orlando. He's won Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill event 7 times now, and appears to be back in the fold.
Click here for PGATour.com's complete leaderboard..
And here's the complete story, again courtesy of PGATour.com (with video)..
Note: I'm really not a Tiger Woods fan. For most of his career I've usually cheered for someone to beat him, simply because I was so against all the media attention he always drew. - (25% of the coverage was Tiger Woods, whether he was in the hunt or not, pulling much-needed publicity from weekly winners while he struggled from time-to-time.) - Not to mention his arrogance during every interview he ever gave.
No, no one in a long, long time has done what he has for the game of golf, I surely get that. But while he was dominating for so-o-o long, my "thing" was rooting for someone to step-up and challenge him. Phil, Freddie, Ernie, Vijay, you name him.
This win is huge for the golf world. It shows he's got his mind where it needs to be, and that he's brought his game back from the depths of no man's land. He also appears to have matured in the sense that he acknowledges the fact that he isn't God's gift to the game of golf (nor women), and he seems to have come a long way as a person the last few years.
Now once again I challenge the field: Are you paying attention?
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Separated at Birth
Monday, December 5, 2011
Golf These Days
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OK Tiger Woods won a tournament today - for the first time since the 2009 Thanksgiving scandal came out. In the 2 years and a few weeks as he's been "coming back", he dropped from 1st to 52nd in the Official World Rankings, which is actually a short fall relative to most golfers.
That's how far ahead of everyone else he was by the PGA Tour's world rankings statistics!
In almost the same 2-yr period, Fred Couples has turned 50, and dropped from about 25th to 310th, yet NO ONE has won more money on the Champions Tour in that span - than him.
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In fact, I'll blow your mind a little more.. In the same timespan:
Fred Couples has won $4,156,334 in 39 events on two different tours (PGA Tour and Champions Tour).
Tiger Woods has won $1,955,003 in 21 events on the PGA Tour.
Freddie's earned $106,573 per event -- Tiger's earned $93,095 per event. Freddie played almost twice as many tourneys, though. And he's the old guy. Freddie's 52. Tiger will be 36 later this month.
I don't really know why I'm comparing these two, but then again I do.
This is incredibly huge for Tiger Woods. A lot of people doubted he could ever get back to this place again - including myself. It was a long 2 years. Once he went a few majors and a few more tourneys, when he wasn't back, we all knew he'd be back eventually.
Actually we didn't.
But then again - is he all the way back? Here's a super little Woods/Nicklaus comparison.
The Masters - four months from now - is gonna be incredible! The golf world in general is about to become important again..
Sunday, December 4, 2011
He's Back!
After going more than two years and 26 tournaments without a win, and after so much turmoil in his personal life and with his golf game, Tiger Woods stood over a 6-foot birdie putt Sunday to win the Chevron World Challenge and felt as though nothing had changed.Finally, the outcome was familiar, too.
Woods poured in the putt to cap off a birdie-birdie finish at Sherwood, close with a 3-under 69 and beat former Masters champion Zach Johnson by one shot. The win ended a drought that lasted 749 days, and might have signaled a change that Woods is on his way back. (Source)
"Any different?'' Woods repeated when the question came about how it compares to his other victories -- which total 14 majors, 71 PGA Tour titles and 83 worldwide wins. "It feels great. … I know it's been a while, but also for some reason, it feels like it hasn't.
"When I was coming down the stretch there, I felt so comfortable. I felt comfortable in Oz [Australia]. I felt comfortable in Augusta. When I'm putting myself in those positions, it is comfortable.''
Woods was referring to his only other close calls this year: a tie for fourth at the Masters, where he was tied for the lead on the back nine on Sunday; and the Australian Open three weeks ago, where he held the second-round lead, coughed it up with a third-round 75, then rallied to finish third, two strokes out of a playoff. (Source)
Read the rest of both ESPN articles:
• Tiger Woods rallies to win Chevron
• Chevron win good start for Tiger Woods
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Tiger Woods' New Personal Practice Facility
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There are new pics of Tiger's new practice facility in Florida. Yahoo states that they found this news and these pictures from his blog, but the only article at his blog that I can find regarding the new practice facility was published March 7th. So Yahoo and I both are 4 months behind, I guess.
Says he: "I'm light years ahead of where I was at the end of last summer. The biggest thing is understanding what shot to hit and how to adjust my ball flight. Thanks to Sean Foley, I have a much deeper understanding of how to do this than ever before.
When will I win again? Whenever it happens, it happens. I'm just going to keep trying to progress.
Pretty soon, I'll be moving into my new home in Jupiter, Fla. I'm excited about that and even more excited about my new practice facility. It's phenomenal. Working with my team, I designed the short-game facility and oversaw its construction. It features four greens, six bunkers with different depths and kinds of sand, a video center and a putting studio. If no wind is blowing, the longest club I can hit is a 7-iron. It's also set up so I can hit shots out of my second-story studio." (Tiger's Blog)
Nevertheless, here is Yahoo's article with a bunch more images of every man's dream backyard.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
It's Qualifying Time For The PGA Tour
You know what sucks? I just noticed that it's Q-school time for golfers on (or not quite on) the PGA Tour. David Duval had to go back to Q-school to get his card. He had another bad season, but he did finish t-2nd in this year's U.S. Open. Seems like that would be enough for him to keep his card, but apparently not.
David Duval was the last player, besides Vijay Singh, to hold the #1 Official World Golf Ranking several years ago before Tiger Woods' stranglehold on it.
Other notable former tour members who had to go back and endure the 6 to 18 rounds (depending upon their exemptions) in mulitple locations are:
Todd Hamilton *
Joe Ogilvie
Tim Herron
Paul Stankowski
Todd Fischer
Glen Day
Carlos Franco
Jeff Maggert
Chris Riley
Tom Pernice, Jr.
Jesper Parnevik
Omar Uresti
Jonathan Kaye
Mark Hensby
Shaun Micheel *
Dicky Pride
J.P. Hayes
Jason Gore
Robert Damron
Skip Kendall
Marco Dawson
(clicking on each name HERE takes you to each player's page.
Some of these guys have won PGA tournaments. A few have even won a major championship *!
Let's assume there are 10 million golfers in a given set of guys across the world who are very, very good.. Good enough to feel they could compete on tour. The top 1% of them would be 100,000. So, the top 0.01% of them would be 1,000. It just goes to show you that even the guys in the bottom half of these top-1000 golfers struggle on a yearly basis to play with the big boys.
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