The Masters Gets Senior Leadership from Freddie Couples

If you like your golf heroes with more than a touch of gray hair, a laid-back disposition, and smooth tempo, then the first round of the 2010 Masters was your kind of day, and easy-going Freddie Couples is your kind of player. Couples, the winner of the 1992 Masters, had one heck of a Thursday. He simply fashioned a six-under-par 66 and sits alone atop the leaderboard of 2010’s... 

Masters Magic and Mojo from Old Man Tom Watson

Perhaps you thought that the mid-summer’s dream of Tom Watson winning the British Open at Turnberry was too good to be true. As it turned out, Old Man Watson was dealt a cruel hand on that final hole of the Open Championship. Fate smiled on golf’s 60-year-old Magic Man once again during the first round of the 2010 Masters Thursday.  Mojo was his name as the senior citizen with a fake... 

Tiger Woods Avoids the Masters Par Three Jinx

Sorry Golf.com. Tiger stiffed us again. Tiger Woods hasn’t played in the Par Three event on Wednesday at Augusta since 2004. As Tiger’s fame increased, he obviously became too high and mighty for the Wednesday afternoon fun. Tiger has avoided the traditional Par Three event held on that beautiful little layout on the back side of the Augusta property in a hollow behind the cabins,... 

Why the Masters Is Both the Easiest and Hardest Major to Win

Some things and some people get older and meaner with age. Augusta National is older and a lot meaner than it used to be. Spent enough time there in the days of Jack and Gary and Fuzzy, walked no less than 200 holes there, got to know that glorious track a bit, and it is glorious. When you step foot on the grounds for the first time, you know you are at golf’s Mecca. It is like they say—a... 

Masters Pairings: Weather Becomes THE Factor

Before you start breaking down the Tiger Woods 1:42 p.m. pairing with K.J. Choi and Matt Kuchar, you better check the weather. Wind and weather are EVERYTHING at Augusta National. Thursday’s first round of the Masters is looking like a stormy day. It could cause havoc and high scores. There’s a 70 percent chance of thunderstorms and winds in the 20 mph neighborhood. Good news for the early... 

Tiger Woods Press Conference: Today, Tiger Comes Through with Very Few Flaws

At 8 a.m. Monday morning, on the first tee at Augusta National Golf Club, Tiger Woods snap-hooked his first shot into the woods. He did a lot better a little more than six hours later, when he walked down the center aisle of the Masters media center, took his seat on the podium next to Masters media chairman Craig Heatley, and calmly fielded questions from the world’s golf and sports writers. Woods... 

2010 Masters Favorites: Big Shots, Middle Shots and Long Shots To Win It All

While you munch on your freshly-made, Masters-inspired pimento cheese sandwich, here’s a quick look at some of the players who may make some noise come next Sunday on the back nine at the Augusta National Golf Club:   We are single-digit days away from the first round of the 2010 Masters, the first major of the year, the harbinger of spring and golf’s ultimate pictorial showcase. It... 

2010 Masters: Freddie Couples Is The Man

Freddie Couples may not be everyone’s favorite to win this year’s Masters, but he has been and continues to be the favorite player of so very many golf fans. Everyone loves Freddie, even Tiger Woods, the guy with no friends, has turned to Couples to start his on-site Masters week preparation. Woods will play a Monday practice round with Couples and there’s a method to the madness. Couples... 

Tiger Woods: 10 Minutes and Love in the Past Tense

Typically when you love someone, well, you love them, past, present, and maybe in the future as well. When you “loved” them, well, that’s definitely past tense. Anyone notice that when Tiger Woods was asked on Sunday why he got married in the first place, he said that he “loved” Elin? Perhaps that was the most telling word in the 10 minutes that the Fallen One so... 

Tiger Woods and The Circus That Will Invade Augusta for the 2010 Masters

It is a tradition like no other or so says the CBS television trailer. Now it will be a circus like no other. Even at Augusta—even at the Masters—that wonderful place and the event that is the toughest ticket in all of sports. He’s coming back, the former Golden Child, now the Fallen One. That would be Tiger Woods, the artist formerly known at Eldrick. The perfect fairways at... 

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