Capelle On Golf

I just don’t get it, and neither does anybody in golf except for the man who hit the shot - Rickie Fowler.
As he approached his second shot on the par 5 15th hole of the W.M. Phoenix Open Fowler was in desperate need of a birdie. He had completed the hard work, piping a clutch [...]

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I’ve been following Jack Nicklaus’ career since before he turned pro, both in person and on TV – I only missed a couple of majors during his prime. I remember watching him hit towering bombs on the range at the Bob Hope Desert Classic in 1963. Later that day on the ninth hole he hooked [...]

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I noticed a column by Golf World’s Ron Sirak in which six prominent crisis management consultants explain how they would handle the Tiger Woods crisis.
Before reading the article, I wrote my advice, which appears below. Then I read the article to see what the pros thought. First, my advice, then theirs.
Crisis management would be appropriate [...]

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I laid awake last night wondering what it would be like to be Tiger Woods now. It’s not easy to put yourself in another’s shoes, but I tried. I came up with this list of things that would be troubling me. But I’m not sure if Woods thinks of these things because if he did, [...]

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Tiger Woods lobbied for participants of his Chevron World Challenge to receive World Golf Ranking points, and whatever Tiger wants, Tiger gets – in and out of the bedroom.
Too bad Woods wasn’t there to join in the spoils because of — well, he’s not telling. But that didn’t stop Jim Furyk from scoring 48 big [...]

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Tiger’s Two Big Issues
I have blasted Tiger on many occasions for his poor behavior on the golf course, offenses that now seem mild in comparison to two even larger issues. According David Smallwood, an addiction manager, Woods displays the behavior of a sex addict (not to mention a serial cheater). At this point, that’s a [...]

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The truth we all suspected has just come out from Tiger’s mouth: Tiger Woods cheats.
But we’ve known that for years: he’s broken the rules of good sportsmanship his entire career. During the accident it was revealed that he’s been taking pain killer for some mysterious ailment. Makes you wonder what the PGA Tour knows about [...]

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The Tiger World Tour, as the Golf Channel has hyped it, is turning into The Tiger Trashing, and with good reason. First, he blew a lead at the HSBC in China, then played the final 18 with a scowl on his face as smiling Phil Mickelson won the hearts of the fans. To make matters [...]

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Justin Leonard was the hero at the 1999 Ryder Cup, but he was ready to be fitted for goat horns on day one of the President’s Cup when he missed a 30 inch putt that would have given the US a 4-2 lead. Instead, the Internationals stayed within a point at 3½ to 2½.
On day [...]

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As the post majors season rolls on the questions is, are you up for the next Cup?
Does the thought of watching a group of Americans whooping it up at Harding Park on Sunday while the foreign mercenaries board their jets back home excite you?
Personally, I’m not so thrilled. But hey, watching great players on a [...]

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