Archive for August, 2009


Slocum slays big guns for opening FedEx Cup win

Heath Slocum nailed a 21-foot pressure putt on the 18th to emerge from a list of golfing luminaries led by Tiger Woods and win The Barclays tournament by a single stroke. Slocum barely qualified to compete in the FedEx Play-offs and the last thing he expected was to be fighting on the final day of […]

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Three weeks in a row was worth the weight for Woods

Tiger Woods’ recent run of three straight tournaments that culminated in a US PGA Championship defeat not only cost him a major title – but he lost some weight as well. Woods reveals in his blog that he lost nine pounds during those three weeks, in which he won two straight US PGA Tour titles […]

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A New Dawn In The East

More than one journalist confidently predicted that the US would run away with the Solheim Cup. Anything within eight points would be some kind of achievement for Europe. The predictions suited the narrative. The women’s game has seen its power base shift east. In ladies golf Europe versus America is an old world skirmish and […]

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US victory raises profile of Solheim Cup and women’s golf

The Solheim Cup was more than a victory for the United States over Europe. It also proved that women’s golf was worth watching. Golf watchers from both sides of the Atlantic hailed the event as it provided riveting theatre, drama and great shots from both sides. The US won the tournament 16-12 for their third […]

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Even in defeat, Woods saves the day

While the world hailed South Korean Yang Young-eun for winning the US PGA Championship last week, golf was cheering for Tiger Woods. Yang may have handed Woods a rare defeat from a winning position but one this is for certain – the golf fans watched because of Tiger. In an interview with Reuters, PGA of […]

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Han hails Yang … but Asian Tour still seeking champion from within

Yang Young-eun’s victory at the US PGA Championship last week, when he defeated Tiger Woods in a head-to-head battle, is being hailed across Asia. Like any success, parties from all over are scrambling quickly to claim a portion of the credit. The Asian Tour has, naturally, and justifiably, raised its hand. Yang played on the […]

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Yang makes major breakthrough for Asia

Yang Yong-eun became the first Asian to win a major title when to stared down Tiger Woods to win the US PGA Championship at Hazeltine. The 37-year-old South Korean, who was 19 when he picked up golf clubs for the first time, survived a pressure-filled final round to deny Woods a 15th major crown. It […]

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PGA Alliance keen for big push into China and India

It is no coincidence that the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) made a major development announcement on the eve of golf’s Olympic bid. The PGA will aim to boost the development of golf in the world’s most populous countries – China and India – via its new set-up, the World PGA Alliance. The announcement came a […]

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2009 Walker Cup Sides Taking Shape

The historic Merion Golf Club will host the best amateur golfers from the United States and Great Britain and Ireland when the 41st staging of the Walker Cup kicks off from September 12-13. This past Sunday the United States Golf Association selected eight of their ten players to compete against Great Britain and Ireland in […]

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Woods wins for seventh time at Bridgestone Invitational

Tiger Woods stared down the man who, briefly last year, was the toast of the majors, when he won the Bridgestone Invitational at Akron, Ohio. The world number one shot five-under-par 65 in the final round for a total of 268 and a four-stroke victory. Ireland’s Padraig Harrington, who won two majors last season while […]

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Golf: Going For Gold In 2016

Tiger Woods has just about done it all in the game of golf: 14 major championships, 69 career wins on tour, a record stay at world number one, NCAA, U.S Amateur and Junior titles, Fed-Ex, Ryder, and Presidents Cups. There’s not much else to conquer really. Over the weekend at the Buick Open Sir Nick […]

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Golf Needs Tiger’s Roar

The obituaries were being penned the minute Tiger let go of his club in disgust. Cutting a forlorn figure at Turnberry Tiger Woods huffed, puffed and ultimately slumped to a missed cut. Suddenly the press were circling like sharks. The subtext is clearly that great sections of the golfing media feel excluded from Tiger’s inner […]

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Ahead Of The Class

Phil Mickelson did it on the PGA Tour. So did Scott Verplank. In recent years Pablo Martin and Danny Lee have done it in Europe. I’m taking, of course, about winning a professional tournament while still an amateur, something Oklahoma State’s Rickie Fowler came oh so close to doing Sunday at the Nationwide Tour’s Children’s Hospital […]

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Dubai finale prize money down 25 per cent, say media reports

The Race to Dubai is still on but without the bellows of record prize money that accompanied its launch last year. The European Tour, in its efforts to match the rival US PGA Tour in prize money and prestige, last year devised a revamped circuit, running through a calendar year and replacing the Order of […]

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Matthew Gives Scotland Major Lift

When you consider that Mary, Queen of Scots was a high profile lover of the links it has taken the home of golf no little time to produce a major winner in women’s golf. Thankfully that all changed at teatime on Sunday evening when Catriona Matthew, having recovered from a few early wobbles, held her […]

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