Capelle On Golf

Guess who are the co-favorites for next week’s Masters. Hint: both have won three green jackets since 2001.
Okay, times up. Tiger Woods (WGR #5), with a season’s best finish 10t, and Phil Mickelson (WGR #6), who’s best finish in his  last three stroke play events is a 24t, are listed at 8-1 by Ladbrokes, the  [...]

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Everyone has an opinion on the ruling that kept Dustin Johnson out of a playoff at the PGA. And that includes you, the fan. Letters poured into the editors of Golf Digest.com, articles appeared everywhere accompanied by rants and raves, and posts and comments galore at geoffshackelford.com.
And, most importantly, a poll at ESPN revealed what [...]

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Martin Kaymer did win the PGA, though you’d be hard pressed to know it considering the media’s coverage following Dustin Johnson’s unfortunate two shot penalty on the 18th hole that kept him out of the playoff. Take the Golf Channel, which spent the first 20 minutes of its wrap up show talking about Johnson’s tragic [...]

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Bubba Watson needed a birdie on the final hole of regulation play to get into a playoff - so all he did was launch a 396 yard cart-path-aided drive to with 51 yards of the pin on 18 at River Highlands in Connecticut. He then stuffed his wedge to within 6 feet and made the [...]

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2008 Masters Coverage - thru 4/15
The only rookie to win the Masters in the last 50 years is Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979. Zoeller beat Ed Sneed and Tom Watson in a sudden death playoff that Jack Nicklaus missed entering by a shot.
One in 50 aren’t very encouraging odds. Still, hope springs eternal for this year’s [...]

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I get such a kick out of those kiss of death stats. First, on the tenth green of the final round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the announcers mentioned that Woods was 51 for 51 for the week on putts inside seven feet. Woods then defied the odds and missed from 6’, 7”, then missed [...]

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If the Arnold Palmer Invitational were a major, it would be over even though there are 18 holes left to play. Woods is 13 for 13 when leading or sharing the lead after 54 holes in the Big Four events. But since this is not, let’s consider his chances of notching his fifth straight PGA [...]

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