Capelle On Golf

Tiger Woods Misses the Cut
After 10 holes Woods was seven over for the tournament, so he had an outside chance of making the cut if he played the final seven in three under. But a double on 11 ended his chances of playing the weekend. To his credit, he continued to grind away until the [...]

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Glory’s Last Shot is also the candidates for the Player of the Years’ last chance to bag a major and possibly put a stranglehold on the top spot.
The double major winners deserve it method points towards Charl Schwartzel, Rory McIlroy, and Darren Clarke. The winners of the first three are obviously the only players with [...]

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I love the long putter because it gives me villains to root against.
In the days before the wand weavers had begun their takeover of pro golf, it was tough to find reasons to root against certain players. Let’s face it – golfers don’t give you many reasons to dislike them.
But now, thanks to the long [...]

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After the first round at the Open, a group of five players separated themselves from the rest by two or three shots with their 65s and 66s.
After perusing their names, I would say that none has a much better chance of winning than before the round because this group of long shots faces 54 nasty [...]

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How is this for a career long progression in the majors?
60t – 10t – 2t – 2
That, my friends, is Jason Day’s entire career history in golf’s biggest championships. Four starts. No missed cuts. And every start produced a better result than the one preceding it, including a solo second at the U.S. Open after [...]

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Yogi Berra once said “it’s not over till it’s over.”
And he was right about this year’s Masters. But not this time, for there will be no stopping Rory McIlroy from claiming his first major on Sunday at the U.S Open. Not with an eight shot lead over his playing partner, Y.E. Yang, and a nine [...]

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After holing a curling 30 footer for a birdie on the seventeenth to take a commanding four shot lead going into Sunday, there is no doubt that the 2011 Masters is Rory McIlroy’s to win – or lose.
Sorry for the cliché but it couldn’t apply more. For the last several years McIlroy’s been hailed as [...]

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Is Tiger Woods back?  After a second round 66 that catapulted him into a tie for third, it’s hard to doubt him.
But doubt him I did, along with almost the entire golfing world after his opening 71. But now, after removing the egg off our faces, we must admit that Tiger is Tiger, so anything [...]

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Hoffman Dominates the Deutsche Bank
Charley Hoffman won The Deutsche Bank by five shots in a blowout, completing 72 holes of the trouble laden and photogenic  TPC Boston course at -22. As a bonus, he moved into second place in the FedExCup standings.
Starting the back nine, however, he was in a tightly contested duel with Luke [...]

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Tiger Woods (72) and Phil Mickelson (73) stayed put on moving day, shooting themselves out of contention. Meanwhile, those who worked their way into the top 10 going into Sunday averaged 67.2 on a soft and vulnerable Whistling Straits.
Nick Watney (66), who is taught by Butch Harmon, was making every putt and looked to have [...]

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