CANONSBURG, Penn. -- Veterans Scott Dunlap and Geoffrey Sisk shot 6-under 65's Thursday and share the first-round lead at the inaugural Mylan Classic. Both players posted eight birdies and two bogeys at the Southpointe Golf Club, located about 15 miles south of downtown Pittsburgh.
We asked several Champions Tour players to share their favorite memories from playing on Ryder Cup teams. What did they say? Click on each player's name to read their favorite moment.
A chart of FedEx Cup standings at the Deutsche Bank Championship showed Tiger Woods at the top, not unusual considering he was won the cup and its $10 million prize every year he has played.
A chart of FedEx Cup standings at the Deutsche Bank Championship showed Tiger Woods at the top, not unusual considering he was won the cup and its $10 million prize every year he has played. This chart was different. It listed the 10 players who are on the bubble at the TPC Boston, starting with Woods at No.
Deutsche Bank has picked up the option on the final two years of its title sponsorship, and it will have some financial help from a familiar partner in EMC Corp., which will be a presenting sponsor. Terms of the deal were not announced. Seth Waugh, the CEO of Deutsche Bank Americas, instead focused on reports showing it has raised upward of $70 million in revenue each year since the tournament...
Fresh off his divorce, Tiger Woods has taken out a $54.5 million mortgage on his Florida waterfront estate. Mortgage documents filed last month in Martin County show Woods will make payments to an entity called JRD Florida Ventures LLC. That is a Virginia company whose registered agent is an attorney with the firm that represented Woods' ex-wife, Elin Nordegren, in their divorce.
Hurricane Earl
has prompted PGA Tour officials to bring tee times forward by
40 minutes for the first round of the Deutsche Bank
Championship on Friday.
Two-time defending champion Jeff Sluman will be joined Champions Tour money leader Bernhard Langer, Tom Watson and three other tournament winners at the First Tee Open. Gil Morgan, Hale Irwin and Scott Simpson will be in the field of 78 pros matched with a select group of juniors ages 15-18 and 156 amateurs in the seventh annual event.
CRANS MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) -- Edoardo Molinari is returning to the European Masters this week and unlike last year, no one is questioning why he's here.
When I wrote my check for $550 to play in the Golf.Com World Amateur Handicap Championship, I knew I'd be playing four days of golf in the golf capital of the world, Myrtle Beach, S.C. I had the hope that I would win my 46-man flight and advance to the final. That didn't happen, but something nearly as exciting did: I got to play my fourth round with Roger Clemens, the future Hall of Famer.
NORTON, Mass. (AP) -- Deutsche Bank has picked up the option on the final two years of its title sponsorship, and it will have some financial help from a familiar partner in EMC Corp., which will be a presenting sponsor.
NORTON, Mass. (AP) -- A chart of FedEx Cup standings at the Deutsche Bank Championship showed Tiger Woods at the top, not unusual considering he was won the cup and its $10 million prize every year he has played.
CRANS-SUR-SIERRE, Switzerland (AP) -- Italian teenager Matteo Manassero shot a 7-under 64 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the European Masters.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Zach Nash was shocked when he discovered he had one too many golf clubs in his bag a couple hours after winning a junior Wisconsin PGA tournament.
NORTON, Mass. (AP) -- Matt Kuchar rose to No. 1 in the FedEx Cup standings after the first playoff event, and no one was quibbling about that. After a solid year, he beat one of the strongest fields of the year at The Barclays.
Zach Nash was shocked when he discovered he had one too many golf clubs in his bag a couple hours after winning a junior Wisconsin PGA tournament. But rules are rules, and the 14-year-old disqualified himself and surrendered his medal.
Now that the PGA Tour has suspended the pro-am rule that booted Jim Furyk from the Barclays, whatever change it decides still needs to have some bite, writes ESPN.com's Bob Harig.
Legendary NFL quarterback John Elway carded an even-par 72 in the first round of the HealthOne Colorado Senior Open on Wednesday - the first round of golf for Elway in ...
Tiger Woods has never gone a year without a victory. ESPN.com's Justin Ray examines the possibility of that happening in 2010 in his Numbers Game Blog.
The PGA Tour has suspended its rule that kept Jim Furyk from playing in last week's Barclays tournament because he overslept and missed his tee time for the pre-tournament pro-am.
Terrell Thomas plays cornerback for the New York Giants, and he's coming off a great 2009 season. But when we had a chance to chat with him, Terrell wanted to talk golf...
A golfer at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine landed a shot in the rough Saturday. On his next swing, his club snagged a rock, causing a spark that lit the rough ablaze and eventually attracted 150 firefighters to the scene.
It's a week too late to help Jim Furyk, but the PGA Tour announced today it is suspending for the remainder of 2010 its rule requiring disqualification of any player who misses his tee time in the pro-am that precedes tournament play.
You'll recall that last week at The Barclays, Furyk overslept when his cellphone alarm failed to sound. Upon waking, he rushed to the tournament site and arrived only minutes after his pro-am group teed off. But, since he missed the tee time, he was disqualified from The Barclays.
The PGA Tour news release stated:
"Hereafter, should a player be late for his pro-am starting time, the situation will be handled as a matter of unbecoming conduct. Such player will be required to participate in the remainder of the pro-am round and may be required to perform additional sponsor activity. A player who misses his pro-am obligation in its entirety will still be ruled ineligible for the tournament unless he has been excused in accordance with the provisions of the regulations.
"The Commissioner has asked the Player Advisory Council and Player Directors to evaluate the current pro-am regulations to determine whether alternative measures can effectively ensure that players honor their pro-am obligations without placing them at risk of disqualification. The matter will be discussed at the Policy Board meeting in November."
Following Furyk's DQ, PGA Tour player Joe Ogilvie tweeted:
"I was on the policy board when we made the DQ pro-am rule, a mistake. Miss pro-am, should be a day with sponsor on players' dime, no DQ."
Furyk's DQ for missing the pro-am wasn't the first such DQ of 2010. It happened to Paul Azinger on the Champions Tour a week earlier, and to three players - including a past champion - at the LPGA major Kraft Nabisco Championship several months ago.
The DQ rule has been in place because most players hate playing the pro-ams. Without a stiff penalty for missing the pro-am, more players would probably come up with excuses not to play.
But no doubt the DQ rule is very harsh, and it's good to see the tour looking for alternatives. Maybe the LPGA will follow suit.
The FedEx Cup championship isn't the only thing going on on the PGA Tour this week at the Deutsche Bank Championship. Following the conclusion of the tournament, Team ...
Did two players in the LPGA CN Canadian Women's Open last week commit a rules violation, then conspire to cover it up? That's the allegation that has been made, and that's what the LPGA will now investigate.
Over the weekend, rumors of misconduct emerged following the disqualifications of Shi Hyun Ahn and Il Mi Chung after the first round. Ahn and Chung signed scorecards after they played one another's golf balls on the final fairway and failed to correct their mistake. Later realizing their mistake, they contacted LPGA officials and were DQ'd for signing incorrrect scorecards.
But the rumors - first repeated second-hand by an LPGA caddie on his blog - go like this: Ahn and Chung realized on the green that they had played each other's balls. They conspired to cover it up. They turned themselves in only after a caddie threatened to report them.
Is it true? The LPGA told CBSSports.com's Steve Elling on Sunday it will interview all parties who were in th Ahn-Chung group. Other sources told ScoreGolf.com's Bob Weeks that the LPGA Player Executive Committee would investigate.
The most disquieting part of the allegation is that, according to that original second-hand report, Ahn told her caddie on the green, "You did not see anything."
Keep in mind that there is no confirmation at this point that those words were actually spoken. Also keep in mind that Ahn was working with a new caddie, and that English is Ahn's second language. Is it possible that - assuming those words were even spoken - they were spoken not as a statement but as a question? "You did not see anything?" Could that seemingly outrageous statement actually be a question asked by a player confused about what just happened, to a new caddie who might have had trouble understanding her tone?
We don't know. Which is the point - we don't know anything right now except that allegations have been made, and the LPGA is looking into it.
Stay tuned, and remember: Innocent unless proven guilty.
Update:Here's a Golfweek article with comments from Chung's caddie and info from the third player in the group. A little smoke, but not yet any fire.
On the first playoff hole, Matt Kuchar hit a shot that caught enough of the slope to roll 30 inches from the cup for a birdie and his first win of the year.
Edoardo Molinari won more than just a tournament Sunday. The 29-year-old Italian also became one of the three captain's picks for Europe's Ryder Cup team.
Michelle Wie earned her second career LPGA Tour victory on Sunday, winning the CN Canadian Women's Open by three strokes.
It was a well-played final round for Wie, who didn't give in to the pressure despite playing with the so-called "final-round queen" Jiyai Shin.
And it was something of a surprise. Wie had three Top 10 finishes in her first seven events of 2010. But her play had been middling since late May. Her best finish over the next seven tournaments was tied for 17th, and over that stretch Wie finished inside the Top 20 just twice, outside the Top 30 four times, and missed one cut.
But she started off the week at the CWO with a great first-round 65 that included a hole-in-one, and Wie held or shared the lead wire-to-wire. Putting has been Wie's bugaboo, especially in the middle part of the season when it was rare for Wie to get through 18 holes with fewer than 30 putts. Her putting stats were only a smidge better in Canada, but she looked a lot better with the flatstick. And Wie made some key putts over the final nine holes in Winnipeg.
Any chance for Wie to build a little momentum? Alas, her life and the LPGA's schedule work against that. Wie plays again in two weeks at the P&G NW Arkansas Championship, but that is the tour's only event in September. Then Wie heads back to Stanford where she's given herself a brutal course load. Aside from the P&G and her title defense at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in November, we'll have to wait and see how much she plays the rest of the way.
Only the Top 100 players on the FedEx Cup points list after The Barclays advance to play in the Deutchse Bank Championship, which is playoff event No. 2. At various times during his third round on Saturday, Woods' projected points left him outside that Top 100.
But Woods posted a strong 67 on Sunday to finish The Barclays at 7-under 277. His opening (65) and closing rounds were very good. Woods' biggest problems during the week were his back-nine putting in the second round, and his first-tee "drive" (I put "drive" in quote marks because it was more like a heave) in the third round. Woods clubbed down off the tee, focused on hitting fairways, and while he had a few issues with putting he looked better than he has yet in 2010.
The Barclays has a ways to go in its final round as I write this, so Woods' FedEx points position is still up in the air. But he should sit somewhere around 60th place at the end of the day.
Italy's Molinari brothers are heading to the Ryder Cup. Now they just have to live up to Edoardo's promise. Early in the week of the last European qualifying event, the ...
Colin Montgomerie had five great candidates to fill only three available spots as captain's picks for Team Europe in the Ryder Cup, and today Monty made those hard choices. ...
We've written a couple times about the tough choices facing Colin Montgomerie for the European Ryder Cup team. Captain Monty needs to add three players to the team, but has ...
First of all, congratulations to Bubba Watson, a well-deserving champion and classy champion here at this year's Travelers Championship! As always, it's a thrill to be a part of what we here at TPC River Highlands feel is one of the best events in golf (no bias here!). But I think this year, with the drama and the three-man playoff, we have a pretty good case for sure.
MUNICH, Germany (AP) -- David Horsey of England birdied the 18th hole to win the BMW International Open by one stroke over countryman Ross Fisher on Sunday, shooting a 5-under 67 that earned him the biggest victory of his career.
The list is lengthy of legendary athletes who have made the journey to French Lick, Ind., in search of vitality and restoration. During the early 1900s heyday of the small resort town in southern Indiana, Joe Louis came to train for heavyweight fights, Babe Ruth came to lose a few pounds in the off-season and entire Major League Baseball teams came for spring training -- in fact, the Chicago Cubs trained in town prior to the 1908 season, when the team last won the World Series.
LEON, Mexico -- B.J. Staten and Peter Tomasulo share the 54-hole lead at the Nationwide Tour's Bicentenary Mexico Open after both Staten and Tomasulo shot even-par 72 Saturday at El Bosque Country Club.
"There was always a bit of the punk in Tiger Woods, but I always loved watching him play, and I always wanted him to win. The whole show was just too compelling. It wasn't that way over the weekend. I wanted Tiger to lose -- and it's not just the sex thing. The guy's just too weird."
I got that opinion from everyone I talked to about the Masters -- men, women, teenagers, younger kids, hard-core fans, casual observers. Go, Phil. Tiger's the bad guy now. He may eventually get past the stigma of his heinous off-course behavior, but I'm not sure he's bright enough to shake the weirdness.
The Golf Blog says: we didn't share the same feeling as Jenkins. It was a great tourney and having Tiger Woods in the mix was certainly better for the competition. We do have to admit that we've supported Tiger a lot in the past and probably are not as big supporters as we were. Had we been forced to pick between Phil and Tiger yesterday, we would have picked Phil in a heartbeat. How could you not, with his wife and mom battling breast cancer this year? But we weren't rooting against Tiger. We do agree, though, with Jenkins that Tiger's new Nike commercial using his dead father's voice was in very, very poor taste.
It was de ja vu all over again. After parring the front nine, Phil Mickelson finally propelled his round at Amen Corner, on the devilish par-3 12th over Rae's Creek. Just as he did in 2004 to win his first green jacket, Phil rolled in a downhill birdie putt with slight left to right break. On the next hole, Phil hit a spectacular 6-iron from the pine needles in between two trees and over the creek to land just 5-feet away for eagle. The shot was unbelievable -- high risk, high reward. And, even though he missed the short, sliding putt--Phil separated himself from Lee Westwood (and a charging Anthony Kim, who went birdie-birdie-eagle on 13, 14, 15 and would post -12) by birdieing 13 and 15. Click here for Phil's interview talking about the shot
Lee Westwood, who, like Phil, had trouble off the tee, couldn't get much going until the very end, with a nice birdie on 17 to pull within 2 of Phil, which put a little pressure on Phil for the final hole. Hats off to Westwood who is surely the Best Player Who Hasn't Won a Major (very reminiscent of how Phil Mickelson was, not too long ago).
Phil, however, would not be denied. He birdied the 18th, when the tourney and green jacket were already his. It was an emotional victory for Phil, as his wife Amy and his mom are both battling breast cancer. When Phil walked off the 18th green, he hugged Amy, who had already been crying. The two hugged, and the camera caught a tear trickling down Phil's face. So poignant. What a memorable victory.
Tiger Woods had a rollercoaster of day, starting off with 3 bogeys on the first 5 holes, but then holing out for eagle on 7 and going birdie-birdie. On the back nine, Tiger had the same ups and downs, with 2 bogeys, 2 birdies, and an eagle. Even though he was spraying shots all over the course, Tiger managed to shoot 69. That was amazing in itself, given how wild his ballstriking was.
Shout out to 16 year old Matteo Manassero who was low amateur at +3. Wow. That is so impressive! Go back to high school, Matteo!
Leaderboard
-16 Phil Mickelson -13 Lee Westwood -12 Anthony Kim -11 Tiger Woods, KJ Choi -9 Fred Couples -8 Nick Watney -7 YE Yang, Hunter Mahan -5 Ian Poulter, Rickey Barnes
Phil Mickelson electrified the crowd at Amen corner by eagling 13 and 14, back to back, with a scintillating 138 yard hole out to cap the dramatic charge. Lefty almost holed out his wedge on the 15th for what would have been an impossible eagle-eagle-eagle combination. Lee Westwood still has the lead at -12, but Lefty got himself into the final group at -11. That's a good thing: in 17 of the last 18 Masters, the winner has come from the final group.
Leaderboard -12 Lee Westwood -11 Phil Mickelson -8 Tiger Woods, KJ Choi -7 Fred Couples -6 Rickey Barnes, Ian Poulter, Hunter Mahan -5 Anthony Kim, YE Yang
Day 2 proved to be a much more difficult day to score at Augusta -- except for the UK golfers Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter. Westwood, who is still on the course, is 5-under for the day and 10-under for the tourney. Westwood just double-bogeyed 14 to fall back to -8 after dunking his ball into Rae's Creek -- the cut line changed dramatically now. Poulter is also 8-under for the tourney after shooting a pair of 68s. First round leader Fred Couples had a rough day, shooting a 75.
Leaderboard as of 5:15 p.m.
-8 Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter -6 KJ Choi, Tiger Woods, Rickey Barnes -5 Anthony Kim -4 Tom Watson, Phil Mickelson, YE Yang -3 Fred Couples, Soren Kjeldsen
Just heard someone exuberantly say on The Golf Channel that this is the best leaderboard he's ever seen in his life. Whoa, settle down there Mr. Golf Channel commentator. We understand your excitement, but let's not get too carried away--just yet.
Don't get us wrong, we love this leaderboard!!
-6 Fred Couples -5 Tom Watson, Phil Mickelson, Lee Westwood, YE Yang, KJ Choi -4 Anthony Kim, Nick Watney, Ian Poulter, Tiger Woods, Rickey Barnes -3 David toms, Sandy Lyle, Trevor Immelman, Adam Scott, C. Shwartzel
But don't forget about 1986 when Jack Nicklaus made his famous Sunday charge. The leaderboard looked pretty amazing in the end:
-9 Jack Nicklaus -8 Greg Norman, Tom Kite -7 Seve Ballesteros -6 Nick Price -5 Tom Watson, Jay Haas, Tsuneyuki Nakajima -4 Payne Stewart, Bob Tway -3 Sandy Lyle, Corey Pavin, Mark McCumber, Donnie Hammond, Calvin Peete -2 Bernard Langer, Larry Mize, Ben Crenshaw, Dave Barr, Gary Koch
A couple weeks ago, Tom Watson predicted that Fred Couples would win the Masters, followed by Lee Westwood in second, and Tiger Woods in third. We doubted Watson's selection of Couples, but thought Westwood and Woods would contend.
Boy, were we wrong! Watson is looking like a soothsayer right now. Couples shot his lowest round ever at Augusta during the Masters. But what Tom Watson didn't say was that he, too, would be in contention. That's awesome, given what happened last year at the British Open.
Sandy Lyle at -3 is the biggest shocker.
We love this leaderboard!!
-6 Fred Couples -5 Tom Watson, Phil Mickelson, Lee Westwood, YE Yang, KJ Choi -4 Anthony Kim, Nick Watney, Ian Poulter, Tiger Woods, Rickey Barnes -3 David toms, Sandy Lyle, Trevor Immelman, Adam Scott, C. Shwartzel
Tiger Woods gets an A for his answers. But the male questioners get a D for their softball questions. Only the 3 female reporters get an A- for their tough questions (on Dr. Galea and PEDS, Elin's absence, and who in his management team knew of the other women). Tiger answered the PED question, but evaded the other 2 questions. The women reporters put Tiger on the defensive. He squirmed.
Top 3 Questions Tiger Woods should be asked today at 2 p.m.:
1. When did your agent Mark Steinberg first learn about Perkins waitress Mindy Lawton or any other woman with whom you had an affair? (Vanity Fair article says Steinberg helped make the deal with the National Enquirer to get the article on your affair killed, in exchange for you appearing on the cover of Men's Fitness, click here NSFW)
2. Did you have sex or meet with any of the women with whom you had an affair during the week of a golf tournament while you were at the tournament? (Ex porn star Joslyn James says she hooked up with Tiger at last years BMW Championship at Cog Hill, near Chicago). If so, did the amount of sex you were having ever have a positive or negative effect on your golf game, stamina, or concentration on the course?
Wow! We just learned that Tiger Woods and Jesse James will star in a spinoff of the new comedy show The Marriage Ref, produced by Jerry Seinfeld. The basic premise of the show is that two celebrities, along with the show's host Tom Papa, give advice to married couples who need a "ref" to resolve their disputes.
In the spinoff, titled The Marriage Ref: Rogue Edition, Tiger Woods and Jesse James will give advice to married couples in which the husband has repeatedly cheated on his wife -- with several women (a single affair is a disqualifier!). Based on their experiences, Tiger and Jesse should be able to give some really good advice.
Anthony Kim was winning by 2 strokes when he bailed out his 3 wood into the bunker on the final hole, in order to avoid the water on the left. He smiled seeing his ball land safely in the sand, no doubt thinking bogey would be good enough to win. Meanwhile, Vaughn Taylor was on the 18th green and rolled in a beautiful birdie putt to pull within 1 stroke of Kim.
Kim started to feel a little bit of pressure and then had to hit a long iron out of the fairway bunker. The shot went right, into the greenside bunker. Kim then exploded a long bunker shot that ended up about 5 or 6 or so feet past the hole. AK, looked pretty confident standing over the putt, and kind of rushed things, powering his putt a good foot or two past the hole. Ouch.
Meanwhile, Vaughn Taylor's wife or significant other smiled, mouth open, in delight at Anthony Kim's miss, which ensured that Vaughn would be in a playoff at worst. Kudos to NBC for showing that shot of Vaughn's wife twice!! AK almost yipped his short comeback--but it slid in the side door. Whew!
The playoff went back to the difficult 18th hole. AK teed off and finally found the fairway. Vaughn went into the bunker. That was basically the tournament, as Vaughn would end up bogeying the hole, while AK parred it.
Tom Watson made some pretty interesting predictions on The Golf Channel yesterday. He picked Tiger Woods to show (3d), Lee Westwood to place (2d), and Fred Couples to win (1st). Couples has won of 3 of 4 tourneys on the Champions Tour (read Seniors Tour), with a low round of 62. Watson says that Couples is putting so well and that will carry over to Augusta.
The Golf Blog says: Are you kidding? Westwood might be in contention, so might Woods. But Couples to win? Not a chance. We still love you, Freddie! But Jack was 46 on his magical run at the Masters. And today the course is longer and competition more fierce.
Well, amid allegations by several women of having extramarital sexual affairs, Jesse James, the husband to actress Sandra Bullock, has taken a page out of the Tiger Woods' playbook. Jesse hightailed it to a rehab clinic in Arizona, in an effort to save his marriage to Bullock. In fact, James was stopped by police for his tinted windows and lack of front license plate, but he told them he was trying to save his marriage by going to rehab. Sounds like Jesse may be trying out the sexual addiction excuse.
The Ernie Els of old (now 40 years old) has reemerged. Els won the Arnold Palmer Invitational at -11, two shots better than Kevin Na and Edoardo Molinari. After play was suspended on Sunday due to rain, Ernie said, "The last 20 hours I couldn't stop thinking about trying to finish this thing."
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Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my
employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely
coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is
non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the
absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader.
The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for
the second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal,
non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this article.)
