Archive for April, 2009


HSBC Champions in China joins WGC series

Over the past couple of years, the Asian Tour has been battling with the European Tour and the Australian-led OneAsia Tour over tournaments and branding rights in the world’s biggest continent. The Europeans have tried to start tournaments in India and Korea without Asian Tour permission while the OneAsia people are trying to form a […]

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Kelly’s a hero again after seven years

Veteran American Jerry Kelly endured a nervous final day, losing and then regaining the lead to end a seven-year tournament drought. Kelly scored a final round of one-under-par 71 for a 72-hole total of 14-under 274 to win the Zurich Classic in New Orleans by one stroke. The experienced PGA Tour player, who last won […]

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Pro Golfers Use Twitter To Tweet To Their Golf Fans

Pro golfers twitter their way into fans’ hearts. Professional golfers are going back to the people thanks to technology. In the old days of pro golf, the big-name players were mostly happy to rub shoulders with ordinary folks off the course. Modern golf doesn’t allow for such intimacy, with the increased money involved, television coverage, […]

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Gay storms to record Heritage triumph

Brian Gay had good reason to wear shades at the Heritage Classic at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. If it was not the sunshine, at least his golf was brightening up his life in record fashion. Recognised as one of the best putters on the PGA Tour, Gay shot a seven-under-par 64 in the final […]

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Masters To Remember, But For The Wrong Reason

Angel Cabrera won his second professional major Sunday afternoon at Augusta National Golf Club. Cabrera has now won the Masters and the U.S. Open. For someone from South America, you can’t pick two tournaments you would rather win than those two. No disrespect to the Open Championship and the U.S. PGA Championship, but the U.S. […]

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Top golfers back IGF’s Olympic bid

An 18-strong group of golfing heavyweights, including Tiger Woods, Padraig Harrington, Vijay Singh and Colin Montgomerie, have joined forces to throw their weight behind the sport’s bid to obtain Olympic status. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will decide this August in Copenhagen, Denmark on two sports that will join the Olympic fold from a list […]

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Cabrera erases painful Masters memories for Argentina

The last time an Argentinean was in contention to win the US Masters, a sporting error of major proportions denied the South American country Augusta glory. It was 1968 and Roberto De Vicenzo was supposed to go into a play-off with American Bob Goalby. However, he submitted an incorrect scorecard – a huge faux pas […]

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Kim left to provide midway Masters magic

Being half a day ahead of Augusta, Georgia in terms of time, it means TV-lag easily sets in when watching the US Masters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. There are few people in the global TV audience who hadn’t settled in front of the box or flat screen earlier this week and not anticipated Tiger Woods’ […]

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Masters Week is Here! Time For Previews and Predictions

The longest three months of the year for a fan of the PGA Tour ranges from the Mercedes Championship until the world’s best finally ascend on Augusta National Golf Club in early April. For those of us in foul weather climates, it also signals the unofficial start to the golf season. The Masters is not […]

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Repaired Woods looking forward to Masters

Tiger Woods’ victory in the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill last month was his way of telling the world that it is possible to recover from ligament surgery and come back better than ever. The world number one, as if telling those who remain unconvinced, reiterated that message this week in the lead-up to […]

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Great White Shark Back in Troubled Waters

Most of the endearing images we have from the Masters are victorious ones: Jack Nicklaus raising that huge, black putter head in the air as he birdied 17 on the way to an improbable victory in 1986. Nick Faldo putting his hands above his head in disbelief as he knocked over Scott Hoch in the […]

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Casey eyes Augusta after breakthrough US win

England’s Paul Casey gave himself the best possible boost before the first major of the season after earning his maiden victory on the US PGA Tour. Casey overcame JB Holmes in a play-off at the Houston Open to increase his titles on global stage to nine since 2001 but his first-ever on American soil. He […]

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Norman ready for Masters return

It is difficult to be a legend at Augusta having never won there during its most important event – the US Masters. Australian Greg Norman, though, probably qualifies as an Augusta legend for his sheer presence and the thrills he has given fans in allowing others to win. His most famous time was the 1996 […]

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Seve ‘Mulligan’ Ballesteros takes another swing at life

Spanish golfing great Severiano Ballesteros has given an interview for the first time since he was diagnosed with having a cancerous brain tumor six months ago – and all he wants to do is get back to a normal life and open his dream golf course. Ballesteros, the matador of global golf when he burst […]

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Catching The Fuzz

I walked outside my apartment in Atlanta, Ga. a few days ago and discovered my car covered in a thin layer of yellow pollen. For those of us in the south this means one thing; spring is finally here. And while the beginning of spring may signal the beginning of runny noses and itchy eyes […]

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