Tiger Woods: Six Reasons for Good News at Frys.com Despite 30th-Place Finish

The diagnostics on Tiger Woods’s performance at Frys.com were mixed, but more positive than negative.  There are at least six reasons to be hopeful.   Reason No. 1 The good news for Woods fans is that he made another cut, which unfortunately, is progress.  It was just the sixth tournament in 2011 where he played four rounds, and two of those had no cut. However, it’s only... 

FedEx Finale: Mahan, Baddeley, Even Phil Mickelson Have a Chance at $10 Million

Kathy Bissell   East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, GA—Phil Mickelson has already won a Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club. He’d like to win another.  “I feel like I can just get a couple of putts on the greens—and the greens are just beautiful, they’re spectacular—if I can get a few to go, I can make at run at the lead tomorrow,” he said. He posted... 

Foreign Invasion: Scott, Choi, Day and Donald Dominate at Tour Championship

Kathy Bissell   East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, GA—In 2006 when Australian Adam Scott won the Tour Championship, the new FedEx Cup series had just been announced. It was still a November tournament, which it had been since its inception in 1987, when Tom Watson was crowned the first champion. Now five years and a big putter change later, Scott has a chance to win the Tour Championship again.... 

Ten Golfers Who Shocked by Missing the Playoffs. Who’s in Danger, Who Surprised?

This year has been nothing but surprises when it came to winners on the PGA Tour and in the majors.  The Playoffs are no different. Golfers we would think should have been a lock for the final Playoff event in Atlanta may not make it.  And, like the rest of the year, there are surprises at the top.   Who didn’t make it: 1. Number one shock at not being in the Fed Ex Playoffs at... 

PGA Tour Inks Nine Year TV Contracts with CBS and NBC

All that talk about how television contracts for golf were going to dry up has just blown away in the heat of summer. Today PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem, CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus and NBC Sports Group chairman Mark Lazarus announced that they have signed agreements that extend to 2021. “This effectively, with the last year of our current agreement next year, means that our television... 

Phil Mickelson Goes to the Long Putter for Deutsch Bank Championship

Kathy Bissell  We should know by now that it is a mistake to predict what Phil will do next.  He’s just done the semi-unthinkable.  He’s gone long.  Belly putters are officially the rage. “I just got it Monday,” he confessed at the Deutsch Bank Championship outside Boston.  “Last week I didn’t have any idea about the idiosyncrasies of it,... 

Top 20 Expensive Golf Courses You Can Play in California

  How much money would you spend if you played each of the 20 most expensive California golf courses? Somewhere in the four to five grand range, most likely, never mind the room and travel expenses. As they say, after a while, it’s real money.    1. Pebble Beach Golf Links, $475-530,  Pebble Beach, CA   A part of the AT&T National Pro-Am since after WWII, Pebble Beach... 

Tiger Woods: If He Quit Today, How He’d Be Remembered

  If we never saw Tiger Woods hit another golf shot, what would his place in history be?  It’s a tough thing to consider, particularly because he changed the game in many ways on and off the golf course, some of them in a hurry. Here, in no particular order, are the top things we’d remember about Tiger Woods.  You’ll note that a lot of things that happened ATW, After... 

British Open 2011 Cut Line: Day 2’s 10 Most Memorable Moments

The second round of the British Open was filled with surprises.   1. Tom Watson had a hole in one on the sixth using a 4-iron, he said afterward. It was a one hopper, slam dunk. “Wish I could have seen it go in,” he said as he walked from the tee to the green. “They’re all lucky when they go in. But that’s what I was aiming at.” Watson made the cut at even par,... 

Rory McIlroy and the Top 25 European Players of All Time

Kathy Bissell Everyone is on the Rory bandwagon right now, with good reason. He’s a young talent who just proved his worth on one of the biggest stages in the world. But before we become consumed by Rory-mania or Rory-ravings, let’s have a little perspective. Who are the best players ever on the European Tour? And where does McIlroy fall on the list? 25. Darren Clarke, with 13 European... 

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