Capelle On Golf

No wonder the players want to captain the Ryder Cup team. The resulting PR bonanza could be worth millions in endorsements, especially to the leader of the winning team.
It seems like every story is about the dueling captains. This cup is about Nick Faldo versus Paul Azinger, two former major winners and TV personalities. These [...]

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Based on his record in the majors and the big season he’s now enjoying, there is no doubt that Sergio Garcia is The Best Player to Never Win a Major. At last year’s British Open he came within a quarter inch or so of becoming The First Player to Win a Major with a Long [...]

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Vijay Singh and Tom Kite are members of the Hall of Fame, family men, and great people. But one thing they are not is traditionalists or else they wouldn’t be caught dead putting with the long putter. But both players used the long stick to win on the PGA (Singh) and Champions Tours (Kite) on [...]

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Who’s the Greatest?
Golfonline.com ran a poll asking readers how is the greater athlete, Michael Phelps or Tiger Woods? Considering that the poll was run on a golf web site, Phelps did well in attracting 42.2% of the vote to Tiger’s 57.7%. Evidently MSNBC’s pollsters assumed that Phelps is the top athlete in the Olympics, but [...]

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Tiger Woods announced on his web site Tuesday that he won’t be swinging a golf club until 2009.
“As far as swinging a club, that’s not going to happen until next year,” Woods said in his monthly newsletter on Tuesday. “I just don’t have a choice.”
For once, it seems, Tiger is going to err [...]

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Over the last two weeks nearly every player in the top 50 (excluding Tiger Woods) had a chance to boost their World Golf Ranking in the two point rich events. And, as expected, there were some significant moves in the Top 10. At the WGC – Bridgestone Vijay Singh earned74 points for winning to vault [...]

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British Open Coverage

Mark O’Meara won at Pebble Beach five times, but on the dawn of the 1998 season, he was becoming more famous for being Tiger’s pal. Then, at age 41, he busted loose, capping a good but not great career with two majors in one season.
At the Masters he birdied the last two holes [...]

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Tiger Woods sleeps four hours a day, he’s a workaholic, and he’s driven like no other player in history. Tiger is as gung-ho as Green Beret as he showed in winning the US Open. Nothing was going to keep him from completing his mission.
But now it’s time for Tiger Woods to break character. Now he’s [...]

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The other day I wrote that I contact the big organizations with suggestions in the hopes that they will one day implement changes for the betterment of the sport. Then a post came from someone named Porter who was wondering what were some of my issues. I responded with a few ideas.
This got me to [...]

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The Rolling Stones performed 148 times from August 10, 2005 through August 27, 2007 on their Bigger Bang tour. Only 14 shows were on consecutive nights at the same venue.
Now these guys are rock stars – they get around, and they perform. And they’ve been doing this for over 40 years.
Rock stars go out on [...]

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