Tiger Woods’ strength-sapping victory at the US Open on Monday has come at a heavy cost. The world number one will need to have further surgery on his left knee and is out for the rest of the season.
This means he will miss the final two majors of the year, the British Open at Royal [...]
At times during Monday’s US Open play-off between world number one Tiger Woods and veteran Rocco Mediate, it was difficult to determine who was mentally bullying whom.
Woods’ standing as world number has been due in no small part to his ability to psyche out his opponents. But that didn’t seem to work against the 45-year-old [...]
“I’ll never be as good as Tiger Woods. I don’t want to be as good as Tiger Woods.” These are the words of Rocco Mediate, several years ago, when Woods was enjoying one of the best periods of his career.
For much of Sunday’s fourth round of the US Open at Torrey Pines, Mediate was actually [...]
All eyes will be on Tiger Woods, yet again, this week as he tries to overcome a lack of match fitness and the effects of knee surgery and win his 14th major title at this week’s US Open.
The last time Woods came off a long break was when his father and the most influential figure [...]
Expect to see a huge gallery following one particular flight at the US Open at Torrey Pines next week.
Organisers have guaranteed a huge presence for the 8.06am tee-off on Thursday, with world number one Tiger Woods and second-ranked Phil Mickelson drawn into the same group.
If that didn’t have enough drawing power, Australian world number three [...]
Tiger Woods won’t be making an early comeback after all, but he says he is still on track to take part in the US Open in two weeks time.
There was talk that Woods would return from knee surgery at this week’s Memorial but the world number one, who has been out of action since the [...]
Tiger Woods may make an earlier than expected comeback after arthroscopic surgery, with rumours abounding that he would take part in next week’s Memorial, hosted by Jack Nicklaus.
Woods underwent surgery soon after April’s US Masters, where he finished second, and said he hoped to return to the PGA Tour in time for the US Open.
Although [...]
Johnny Miller is the American equivalent of Greg Norman in many ways. He was an exciting player, had a shock of blond hair and the crowds loved him. Like Norman, he only won two major titles but his impact on golf during the 70s was bigger than that.
He is now transferred his tenacity from the [...]
I have spent the last few weeks on the road with some of my students at Futures Tour Events in Florida. These were the first events of the season and as expected, I learned a lot about my student’s games. I always say a golfer has four games or swings: They have their practice range [...]
Only days after finishing second at the US Masters, Tiger Woods was having surgery on his knee. Now he is expected to be out for up to one month, or even longer.
The world number one, who finished second to South African Trevor Immelman at August over the weekend, underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee [...]
Goodnight and goodbye. The Grand Slam year is over before it even began. This will please some people: already a trawl through the UK press sees Tiger being written off, called an elder statesmen and generally mocked for ever claiming he could win the Grand Slam.
The facts are that Tiger didn’t play well. I doubt [...]
With so much talk about Tiger Woods – whether we love him or hate him, whether or not swearing on the fairways is okay because athletes in other sports do it, whether or not he will win the Grand Slam in 2008 – it’s good to sometimes sit back, collect our thoughts and consider why [...]
Australian Geoff Ogilvy put himself in the major limelight with a victory at the World Golf Championships-CA Championships at the Doral Resort in Miami, Florida.
Not only did he become only the third player with more than one WGC title but he also ended the winning streak of Tiger Woods, another with more than one title.
Woods [...]
Recently, several readers commented on Tiger Woods’ mental approach to his game. They wrote about how his mental strength, more than his physical skills, is what separates him from the other players.
If that is the case, then Woods’ recent comments makes his performances on a weekly basis even more amazing.
According to a Reuters article [...]
“Is it not sickening that Woods keeps on winning? Nobody deserves to be that good.” This was the email that greeted me on Monday morning, just hours after Tiger Woods won the Arnold Palmer Invitational by one shot.
It was from a good friend of mine, a fellow journalist and a Scot from Edinburgh. This same [...]