Capelle On Golf

Rory McIlroy’s last round in a major was an 80 at this year’s Masters after holding the 54 hole lead. You would think that it would take some time for the emotional wounds to heal, if ever. But, no, there he is again, leading a major.
This time he played a near perfect round of 65 [...]

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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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My good friend Ryan Ballengee at the Waggle Room wrote an excellent piece the other day on the bias in the WGR. Though I knew they favor foreign players, he opened my eyes to the seasonality bias, which hurts Americans in the early part of the season when players are trying to qualify for the [...]

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Phil Mickelson has missed 16 greens in the first two rounds of the WGC CA and has but one bogey. That’s some high octane scrambling. On Thursday alone he chipped in three times for birdies.
This short game and short putt wizardry has earned him a two shot lead over Nick Watney at -13 going into [...]

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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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The Masters’ rules committee reinstated a provision that a player winning any but a handful of events on the PGA Tour would be invited to play at Augusta. Golf Digest’s readers agree with the change, because 88.5% voted that it was a good idea. But was it really?
With only six weeks to go till the [...]

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