Capelle On Golf

I had the obvious headline written for this piece on Saturday night – “Tiger is Back.”
And he would have been if not for a final round of 72 at the Abu Dhabi, which dropped him into a 3t. After all, Woods was slamming his clubs again, he was hitting greens like a machine (85% through [...]

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Big surprise about Hank Haney’s upcoming book, The Big Miss: Tiger Woods is pissed.
According to Woods, “I just think this book is very self serving.” This dovetails with the point I made about Haney is the previous column – that he is one opportunistic S.O.B.
To make matters worse, the book is to be released in [...]

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Let’s start with a little back story on Jack Nicklaus, the British Open, and St. Andrews.
Nicklaus played in 36 consecutive British Opens from 1962-97. Six of these were at his beloved St. Andrews where he won two of his three Open titles. After winning the 1970 Open, he said, “There’s not a place in the [...]

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Writers like to speculate on what a fallen idol’s children will think about their deviant parent thanks to ready access to the internet.
On the net a kid can find a wealth of dirt on dear old dad - contrarian views to those that he or she will hear at home on the couch from the [...]

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The media is having a field day pontificating on the ramifications of Tiger Woods’ return to golf. How his comeback looks to the world, his new PR guru, the timing of the announcement, quotes from the other players, what’s up with Elin, Tim Finchem’s bla bla, how it’s going to be bigger than Obama’s inauguration [...]

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It is possible that Tiger Woods was 100% sincere with his apology.
But as he said, his actions will tell the story. And they are beginning to indicate a gap between his words and deeds. For starters, his people say that he had to make the announcement on the Friday (Feb. 19) of the WGC Match [...]

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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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You know, even at 7/4, that Tiger Woods is at good bet to win the Masters. He’s won the event four times and has finished W, 3t, 2t and 2 in the last four at Augusta. He’s also won six of fourteen majors in the Hank Haney era, and he’s coming off a win at [...]

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Tiger Woods proved that he hasn’t forgotten the art of winning as he erased a five shot lead to beat Sean O’Hair by a shot at Bay Hill.
Woods putting down the stretch won the tournament and offered more proof that you can throw the theoretical odds out the window when it’s winning time on Sunday. [...]

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Yesterday I complained about the lack of stats (GIR, etc.) on the scoreboard I arrived at following a link from PGATour.com. I then looked for them by clicking the players name at masters.org. This won’t give you the stats either. I then clicked on view under Scorecard. That gives you the hole by hole results, [...]

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