Capelle On Golf

PGA Championship Coverage
At last week’s Canadian Open there was little movement in the upper regions of the World Golf Ranking because most of the top players took the week off. As a result, Chez Reavie earned only 30 WGR points for winning. Meanwhile, in Russia, Mikael Lundberg earned a scant 24 WGR points for his […]

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I suppose the Golf Channel (GC) does not have a duty to provide fair and balanced coverage of Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus, golf’s two greatest players. In their view, Woods is the engine that drives golf and Nicklaus is yesterday’s news. As a result, the GC bombards the air with endless coverage of all […]

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By now golf fans in outer Mongolia know that Tiger Woods is going to take the rest of the year off to recuperate from his upcoming surgery on the most famous knee on the planet. In a series of short essays below I’m going to provide my initial impressions on this not so surprising development […]

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When Tiger Woods announced that he was having knee surgery two days after the Masters, the golf world looked forward to a speedy return. The original estimates for his return ran from 4-6 weeks. Now we can see that they were preposterously optimistic.
At that time of his surgery I took a different approach from every […]

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Earlier today I posted my take on the question of whether or not Tiger Woods is the greatest athlete. Below if a follow up to that post. The comments at the Times are up over 500 as golf and sports fans are slugging it out in a well moderated forum that does not allow for […]

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The New York Times’ Debate
On Sunday the New York Times conducted a brief video debate between staff writers Charles McGrath and Michael Sokolove over whether or not Tiger Woods is the greatest athlete of all time. Viewers were then asked to vote. Here are the results.
27% Woods is the greatest athletic performer ever.
73% Woods is […]

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When I read in an article by Rob Oller of the Columbus Dispatch that a golfer will swing a club millions of times during their career, I thought, no way. Millions plural, as in three or more million? That seemed like a huge exaggeration, so I did the math just to prove how wrong he […]

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The week of the Memorial Tournament is Jack Nicklaus’ time to shine. Although his playing days are well behind him, he can still fire off some deadly accurate shots – verbal ones that is. During the course of a 70-minute interview/speech on media day, Nicklaus ventured far and wide, offering his well considered opinions […]

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What can we make of the media? They love a great story with staying power, yet they will hasten its demise. Take the Democratic Primary. A good percentage of the media have been campaigning for weeks now for Hillary Clinton to throw in the towel prior to the last primary on June 3. And yet […]

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You’ve no doubt heard the expression “follow the money.” In the case of TV, it’s “follow the ratings.” The networks primary goal over the first two days is to maximize viewership on Friday afternoon to build interest going into the weekend. The next priority is to bolster ratings on Thursday afternoon. TV accomplishes these goals […]

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