Capelle On Golf

Ex-Yankee great Yogi Berra once said that, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” Well, technically speaking he’s right - the FedExCup is still not over. Points leader Vijay Singh still has to show up at the Tour Championship, play four rounds, and sign his card. I expect that a man good enough to win 34 [...]

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Back in 2004 Tiger Woods spent the year learning his new Hank Haney swing and his game suffered as he won only the match play event early in the year. While Woods was languishing in dry dock, Vijay Singh stepped up and won nine tour events, six in which Woods was not in the field. [...]

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The TPC Boston looks like a stiff challenge on paper. It’s a 7,200 yard par 71 with the obligatory 600 yard par 5, two par 3s over 210, and six par 4s in excess of 450 yards. It’s got lots of trees, traps, rough and all the trappings of a difficult course.
But evidently it’s not. [...]

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Mike Weir didn’t hit the ball all that well on the first round of the Deutsche Bank, the second leg of the FedExCup. He hit 13 greens to tie for 54th. And he tied for 69 in the field of 120 in driving accuracy. Those are hardly the stats you’d expect from a man who [...]

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Dodger Manager Joe Torre knows a thing or two about playoffs, having guided the Yankees to three World Titles. In the latest series of commercials that are aimed at brainwashing us on the importance of the FedExCup, he talks excitedly about golf’s playoffs. But for some reason, the adds don’t ring true.
Perhaps it’s because we’ve [...]

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Fred Couples has this to say about the inaugural FedExCup: “I figure if I’m 40th on the money list or 80th on the money list or 144th on the money list, I get to play in the first FedEx Cup. Whoop di doo.”
Since then the formula has been tweaked and we have a new course [...]

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Obviously the schedule makers didn’t confide on this or didn’t care, but the result is that we viewers have three juicy events to watch on Sunday. The WGC Bridgestone takes center stage, consuming five hours on Sunday. During the first two hours we can flip over to ABC for the delayed final round of the [...]

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As the PGA Tour heads into the homestretch of another long season, the players are in for more golf, and more pressure, and more heat as they compete for a bounty of riches at the end of golf’s rainbow.
The brutal stretch was kicked off by the British Open in the most challenging conditions of the [...]

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Anthony Kim is on everyone’s radar screen and he knows it. He’s expected to win and so he’s trying so hard to close like Tiger. On Sunday at the Canadian Open he donned a red shirt (with a Nike logo) and black slacks in preparation for the expected victory march. He lined up putts from [...]

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Anthony Kim must have felt on Friday that he was on a bungee cord. He started the day tied for first at -6. After seven holes he was five over for the day and at -1 for the event. This put him right above the eventual cut line.
You could already hear the excuses (reasons) for [...]

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