Capelle On Golf

Here is your leaderboard after 36 holes of the Wyndham Championship. You will notice that five of those in the top nine are using the long putter (LP).
-12 Tommy Gainey
-9  Webb Simpson (LP)
-9  Stuart Appleby (LP)
-9  Ernie Els (LP)
-9  Daniel Summerhays
-8  Jim Furyk (LP)
-8  Retief Goosen (LP)
-8  Alexandre Rocha
-8  Paul Casey
Recently officials at the USGA [...]

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Yesterday’s Masters was all about history. It was the 75th playing of this spring classis; it was the 25th anniversary of Jack Nicklaus’ epic comeback; it was, in a nice bit of symmetry, a celebration of South African Gary Player’s first Masters title; and is was the first major win for Charl Schwartzel, another South [...]

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In Randall Mell’s piece at thegolfchannel.com he relayed Tom Weiskopf’s thoughts on Jack Nicklaus’ position in golf.
In today’s world, the opinions of most pros are biased towards Tiger Woods, a product of the times. As a result, it was nice to hear an elder statesman like Weiskopf (68), who went toe-to-toe with Nicklaus, and who [...]

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The hype to historical significance ratio of the Ryder Cup has soared to unprecedented levels this year, even dwarfing the build up to the Super Bowl, the single biggest day on the sports calendar.
And yet, oddly enough, the Ryder Cup counts for  little or nothing on a player’s resume. According to Jack Nicklaus, “It is [...]

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Tiger Woods
Woods started hot, moving to -3 after four holes, then he lost his way off the tee, missing six of his last eight fairways. On the par-three 17th he faced a 60 foot putt (720 inches). As the ball neared the cup, Woods raised his putter in anticipation of a monster putt dropping, but [...]

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Anyone who tells you they have a bead on the probable winner of this week’s British Open is a fool or a liar.
Here’s why: the favorites look anything but, the mid range players are an unpredictable lot, and it’s all but impossible to tell who, from those going off at 50-1 or higher will slip [...]

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Graeme McDowell is your 2010 U.S. Open champion. Boy, I never saw that one coming, especially after listening to Johnny Miller, who convinced me that his short and fast swing would not hold up on Sunday pressure. But it did, and he kept punching out pars with an occasional bogey for an uninspiring, yet winning [...]

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Like a marathon race, as the U.S. Open heads into the final stretch, the vast majority have turned into stragglers, leaving only six players in the hunt. Below are the contenders and their vital stats.
Sc.–GIR—Odds
207—40—10/11—Dustin Johnson
210—31—9/2——Graeme McDowell
212—34—3/1—-Tiger Woods
213—27—50/1—Gregory Havret
213—35—12/1—Ernie Els
214—34—12/1—Phil Mickelson
Dustin Johnson
If the same Dustin Johnson who’s dominated Pebble Beach, tee to green, shows up [...]

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I woke up from the hangover following Phil Mickelson’s astounding win and Rory McIlroy’s breathtaking performance at Quail Hollow to discover that this is, indeed, the week of THE PLAYERS.
First things first. THE PLAYERS is not the fifth major as everyone knows by now, and nothing that Ponte Vedra does will ever make it so. [...]

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Tiger Woods felt the need to apologize to his fellow pros because they’ve had to answer so many questions about his affairs. And yet, despite his plea to the media to stop, already, with the Qs, the media has continued to bombard his peers with its ongoing inquisition.
Conventional wisdom has it that his presence at [...]

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