Capelle On Golf

2008 US Open Coverage
The Weather is Heating Up On Cue
San Diego has been blessed lately with those perfect 70 degree days of spring that the city is famous for. Now, as if on command from the USGA, the forecast calls for daily highs of 84, 79, and 79 for the first three rounds. This is [...]

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2008 US Open Coverage
To the winner of this week’s US Open go the spoils – the trophy, the first place check, endorsements, recognition, and a place in the history books. Every winner gets these goodies, but it can be argued that a win means more to those who are playing for history because it accomplishes [...]

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2008 US Open Coverage
The Masters’ committee has turned against Tiger Woods, actually decreasing his chances by lengthening and tightening the course. But he’s won four of those, and has perhaps seven to ten years to add a couple more and tie Nicklaus. Where Woods is lagging is in US Opens. He’s only won two so [...]

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2008 US Open Coverage
Going into this year’s US Open Jim Furyk is flying so far under the radar his wings are catching moisture from the white caps on Torrey Pines State Beach. While he’s not setting the tour ablaze this year, he’s not playing that badly. Over the last 11 weeks he’s recorded a tie [...]

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2008 US Open Coverage
In a typical major a player will take 56 swings off the tee on the par fours and fives. If the player can hit most of those fairways and the misses are not so bad, they have shot at winning. Ben Hogan hit lots of fairways and won 9 majors. Jack Nicklaus [...]

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2008 US Open Coverage
Earlier this year the media had a field day discussing Tiger Woods’ chances for winning the Grand Slam. When he lost the Masters, all talk of the Slam immediately ceased. It was as if the only person on the planet with a chance to win the Slam was Woods, which is probably [...]

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2008 US Open Coverage
I’ve been looking forward to watching Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson play at the US Open since I ordered my tickets four months ago. But getting a glimpse of these golfing gods now is going to be next to impossible thanks to the USGA’s brain trust, which has paired them together for [...]

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2008 US Open Coverage
Jack Nicklaus won his first PGA Tour title and first major as a rookie at the 1962 US Open at Oakmont, beating Arnold “The King” Palmer in a playoff before a huge gallery composed of Arnie’s Army. Tiger Woods won his first Open in his fourth season with a blowout 15-stroke win [...]

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2008 US Open Coverage
Lee Trevino fired a warning shot across golf’s bow when he finished fifth at the 1967 US Open at Baltusrol, nine back of Jack Nicklaus, who beat Arnold Palmer in a titanic duel.
One year later Trevino arrived as a major player on the world golf stage when he captured the 1968 US [...]

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2008 US Open Coverage
I’ve got my tickets to this year’s US Open and I’m going home. I was introduced to golf 48 years ago at Torrey Pines at age 12. I played on the La Jolla High School golf team, and the 36 holes at Torrey Pines were our home courses. Now in this day [...]

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