Capelle On Golf

The preliminaries are two thirds complete. The amateurs, oldsters, journeymen, and a select group of top players like Ernie Els, Sergio Garcia, and Luke Donald, who’ve got serious issues, have packed their bags.
Several of the first round upstarts such as Heath Slocum (71-76), Brian Bateman (69-76), and Jeev Milkha Singh (71-74) went from red [...]

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2008 Masters Coverage - thru 4/15
At last year’s U.S. Open Angel Cabrera took out 19 players with a single birdie on the final hole of his second round, including Phil Mickelson. With the field as closely bunched as it is this year’s Masters, the 10 stroke rule could once again lay the hammer down on [...]

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2008 Masters Coverage - thru 4/15
Maybe it was the Par 3 Tournament that got the activist in me going. Nah, I think it happened long before that, but the Par 3 event ignited the flame for this year’s Masters. But darn it, when I see how a common sense change can improve the fan’s experience, [...]

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Yesterday I complained about the lack of stats (GIR, etc.) on the scoreboard I arrived at following a link from PGATour.com. I then looked for them by clicking the players name at masters.org. This won’t give you the stats either. I then clicked on view under Scorecard. That gives you the hole by hole results, [...]

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2008 Masters Coverage - thru 4/15
Golf Channel Lays an Egg
I ragged on Andy North a bit yesterday, then wondered if there was a chance he was right and I was wrong about the third hole. Nope. The only easier holes on Thursday were the four par fives, as expected, and the twelfth, which played the [...]

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