Capelle On Golf

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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2008 Masters Coverage - thru 4/15
Golf Channel Lays an Egg
I ragged on Andy North a bit yesterday, then wondered if there was a chance he was right and I was wrong about the third hole. Nope. The only easier holes on Thursday were the four par fives, as expected, and the twelfth, which played 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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Tiger Woods’ PGA Tour winning streak of four straight events (and about seven months duration) is on the line this week at Bay Hill. So what are his chances of extending it to five in a row? Good because he’s Tiger. Bad because he doesn’t care for the greens, which are slow and bumpy, but [...]

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The PGA Tour loves to promote those FedExCup points, but the Cup is way over the horizon and out of sight. The players still have until August 17 to qualify for the playoffs.
The Masters, now that’s a horse (pun intended) of a different color. Only four weeks remain for Masters’ hopefuls to claim a berth [...]

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