Tiger Woods: Battle Rages Between Golfer’s Personal Turmoil, Will to Win

He hasn’t won in 17 months. He hasn’t won on U.S. soil in almost two years. He’s gone through a scandal that ranks among the most lurid in recent sports history. He went through a divorce. He is changing his swing, not to mention his life. This is the public life of Eldrick Woods, the Tiger who made golf on TV a must-see event. His mere presence on a course caused other pros to three-putt... 

PGA Tour: Reading Between the Lines of TV Analysts and Commentators

It’s been said that golf television broadcasts are the perfect white noise in which one can use to dive into a long, satisfying Sunday nap. It’s the hushed tones and soft nature sounds that seem to do it. To golf fans, however, the quality of the telecast can hinge on what is said and when. Whether it is Johnny Miller saying that a player choked or Nick Faldo trying on some puckish wit... 

The 2011 Masters Showed Us the State of Tiger Woods’ Game

Tiger Woods finished four shots out of the lead, and all the credit in the world goes to Charl Schwartzel for his amazing run on the last four holes to claim the Masters title. Still, the drama for the first three hours of Sunday’s final round came from the man always dressed in red in the final round, the man who was hunting his fifth Green Jacket like, well, a Tiger on the hunt. In the end,... 

Masters 2011 Leaderboard: Tiger Woods Back in the Swing; Hunting Down Leaders

The second-round 66 by Tiger Woods at the Masters was not the Tiger of old, but it showed us enough to suggest that he’s closer than ever to being the dominant golfer we have come to expect. What did we see other than brilliance that comes once a generation? The delicate chips, the shaped drives (mostly with a 3-wood), solid iron play and good putting, all topped with a quiet confidence of a... 

Masters 2011: Tiger Woods Lurking After First-Round 71

Statistically, it has been the first round in the Masters that has been the worst for Tiger Woods. His average is just over 72 strokes. Though his one-under(-par) 71 might seem a little pedestrian compared to the 65 carded by Rory McIlroy and Alberto Quiros, a little perspective comes in handy when there are 54 holes left in a tournament designed to create volatility atop the leaderboard. On the down... 

Masters 2011: What Tiger Woods Has to Do to Win

  If you had cornered a PGA Tour pro last January and told him that by early April Tiger Woods would have only one eagle during competition, you would have been laughed off the practice range. Yet it’s true, and that more than anything suggests why Tiger Woods has fallen below his standards and ours.   Here he is at Augusta, and three of the four par-5s should be gimmes for him. The... 

The Masters: The 10 Least Deserving Winners in Tournament History

The much-clichéd line about our national golf championship is that you don’t win the U.S. Open, it wins you. In other words, getting close and then letting someone else suffer the mistakes—or as Johnny Miller would say, “choke”—has been the successful formula for many first-time major winners. Unlike the grind-it-out U.S. Open, The Masters is a tournament built... 

2011 Masters: Top 10 of Golf’s New Generation Who Can Win Green Jacket

The Masters at Augusta National requires a combination of length, touch and uncanny putting. More than anything, it requires nerves. When the greens get fast—and nothing suggests that they shouldn’t be firm and scary this week—winning comes down to holding onto one’s nerves. That’s where youth is served. Augusta National is tricky and deceiving and experience helps. That’s... 

The Masters: 10 Things They Don’t Tell You About Augusta National on TV

No tournament has such allure, yet it is the only major played at the same course year in and year out. No course in major tournament use has Augusta National’s contours, especially on the greens, and no course has a back nine that can induce such drama. That’s what makes us watch, but while we marvel at the drama and take in the beauty from the comfort of our living rooms, here are the... 

Tiger Woods and the State of His Game: Play More, Be Real

John Abendroth, the long-time golf guru in the San Francisco Bay Area, commented last week on what Ben Hogan believed a pro golfer should do when he became mired in a slump. “You play through a slump,” Abendroth said, paraphrasing, “but you don’t change something in your swing. Hogan believed that if you tinkered too much on the range during a slump, you could end up changing... 

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