Louis Oosthuizen: His Past, Performance, and Potential for the PGA Tour in 2011

The burden of winning is the expectation that follows, and even haunts, the winner. However, after Louis Oosthuizen stormed through the British Open field at St. Andrews and claimed a shocking seven-stroke victory, he appeared neither flustered nor frazzled, but instead totally unflappable. Louis, nicknamed “Shrek” (which is much easier to say, and remember, than his often mispronounced... 

Tiger Woods and Today’s 10 Best Short-Game Geniuses

The short game of golf is the most difficult, and most deadly, element of the game. Today’s professionals can hit the ball a mile with their drivers, shape sky-high shots around oak trees with a 7-iron, but only a select few are consistently exceptional with their short game. The secret to mastering the short game is that there is none. It’s a question of individual touch, power of mind... 

Tiger Woods and the Magic Touch of Golf, Part I

Michael Jordan may have sank three-pointers and split seas of seven-foot defenders with the ease of a paper boy handling his route, but I bet he couldn’t hit a golf-ball from 15-feet through densely thick grass with the precise backspin to make it stop on command within inches of the hole. The truth is, what athletes can do—leaping massive hurdles, dunking basketballs from the free-throw... 

Golfers You Know and Some You Don’t: 10 Up-and-Coming Players To Watch in 2011

A year ago, Tiger Woods fell from grace and an ominous, dark cloud formed and hovered over the 2010 golf season. But as the media frenzy ensued, it was, surprisingly, the young players who revitalized the golf world with their vigor and abundance of talent. More than ever before, young professional golfers, typically under the age of 30, consistently contended and captured victories (10) on the PGA... 

Tiger Woods: A Giant Rendered Powerless

It’s been just about a year since Tiger Woods’ car accident. Do you remember exactly where you were when you heard about Tiger Woods? Yeah, me too. It all happened so suddenly, didn’t it? A giant was rendered powerless faster than it takes to say “Winless in 2010,” which is exactly what Tiger Woods was this season. Whether Woods will view his season with anger or apathy... 

Francesco Molinari Prevails Over Lee Westwood to Win WGC-HSBC Champions

The single stroke that separated Francesco Molinari and Lee Westwood from the outset of the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai, China, ultimately played to the Italian’s advantage as he inched past Westwood to claim his first victory of the season and second of his blossoming career. Both players fired identical, bogey-free 65’s for a wire-to-wire, dynamic Sunday duel. The Italian phenom was... 

LPGA Power Rankings: The Top 20 Players of the 2000s

The last decade of LPGA Tour Golf has revamped the entire landscape of women’s golf. They’re younger, longer off the tee, craftier around the greens and more hungry for victory than ever before. One might argue that Annika Sorenstam, undoubtedly the most talented and successful female golfer of the modern era, ushered in this monumental transition. Sorenstam’s consistent dominance... 

Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals Open: 10 Players Who’ll Be in the Mix

Hunter Mahan’s fateful putt rolled just past the cup on the 17th hole at the Ryder Cup three weeks ago like the signifying bell concluding a brutal, boxing brawl. The bitter loss indicated the unofficial finale to the PGA Tour season as the valiant efforts of the Americans evaporated into the brisk Wales air. But prepare for another competitive bout among the world’s best as they travel... 

Top 10 Moments of the 2010 PGA Tour Season

This season was about so much more than Tiger Woods’ humanity, or lack thereof, being exposed. Now in the last gasp of the 2010 PGA Tour season,  we look back at ten moments, events, breakthroughs and champions which defined what has been called the “year of parity.” Fans watched in disbelief as young players like Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler challenged the... 

Tiger Woods: What His Performance This Fall Means for 2011

Now that the sun has set on the final hole of Tiger Woods‘ most controversial and bizarre season as a professional, what’s the verdict? Does ending his season with three top-15 finishes warrant erasing his missed cut and withdrawal from our memory? Do a pair of fourth-place finishes in major championships (Masters and US Open) counteract what was, to be blunt, Woods’ most mediocre,... 

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