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Wimbledon, with its unique seeding process, always provides a bit of intrigue for oddsmakers. This year, home-grown hero and defending champion Andy Murray leapfrogged over Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka to claim the No. 3 seed. Still, Murray is not the favorite. According to Odds Shark, Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic are considered the odds-on favorites to win at the All...
Published: June 20, 2014
Golf‘s top stars, like golf’s not top stars, have had their ups and downs in 2014. Some of the PGA Tour’s most popular players (I’m looking at you, Phil Mickelson.) have had significantly more downs than ups through the second major of 2014. Others, such as Adam Scott and Bubba Watson, have experienced charmed campaigns thus far. What are the best and...
Published: June 19, 2014
With Martin Kaymer’s dominant performance at the U.S. Open still fresh in our minds, the PGA Tour turned to Cromwell, Connecticut, for the Travelers Championship. With a loaded field and 500 FedEx Cup points on the line, the stage is certainly set for an intriguing weekend of golf. Below, you’ll find a recap from every day of the tournament, complete with the updated leaderboard...
Published: June 19, 2014
One week after Martin Kaymer made Pinehurst No. 2 look like an amateur course, the ladies take center stage, beginning with the first round of the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open. It was a very similar story to what we saw seven days ago, with low scores to be found all over the place on Thursday. The early contender for round of the day went to American Stacy Lewis. The...
Published: June 19, 2014
The USGA is still in the middle of the great golf course experiment at Pinehurst No. 2 where the U.S. Open was played last week and the U.S. Women’s Open is being contested this week. It cost $2.5 million to create the brown and rough-less look. And they are not done. When the ladies are finished, Pinehurst will replace the bentgrass greens with bermudagrass, which is easier to maintain in the...
Published: June 19, 2014
It wasn’t long ago that betting against Roger Federer to win Wimbledon seemed like lunacy. After all, this was the man who as a ponytailed, teenage challenger staged a coup and ended Pete Sampras’ reign as the king of the All England Club. He won the first of his five consecutive titles on the London lawns in 2003, kicking off a stretch of unprecedented dominance not only at Wimbledon but...
Published: June 19, 2014
Mikko Ilonen won the 2014 Irish Open by one stroke on Sunday, shooting 13 under par overall to claim his fourth European Tour victory of his career. The Fin added a 70 to his week’s rounds of 64, 68 and 69 to land the trophy in wire-to-wire fashion, with Italian Edoardo Molinari one shot adrift at the top of the leaderboard, as we see below: Though Ilonen had a star-studded chasing pack behind...
Published: June 19, 2014
Through most of his young professional career, the phrase “style over substance” fit the golf game of Rickie Fowler. Fowler came to the PGA Tour a highly decorated amateur and collegiate player, a colorful dresser, and a genuinely nice young man. But his game did not keep up with the rest of his overall makeup. The Oklahoma State alum won the 2012 Wells Fargo Championship, has posted six...
Published: June 19, 2014
Cheyenne Woods struggled throughout the first round of the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open Championship as she carded just as many double bogeys as birdies en route to an eight-over 78 on Thursday. Woods has spent most of the season on the developmental Symetra Tour as she attempts to earn a place on the LPGA Tour. She did earn the biggest victory of her young career in February by capturing...
Published: June 19, 2014
It was announced at the beginning of the week that seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher was no longer in a coma and had left the CHU Grenoble in France. His family’s spokeswomen, Sabine Kehm, released a statement on Monday. Per Autosport, it said: Michael has left the CHU Grenoble to continue his long phase of rehabilitation. He is not in a coma anymore. His family would like...