Capelle On Golf

Those who drew the afternoon tee times on Thursday were hoping to find a kinder and gentler Hazeltine for their second round in the hopes of making up some ground on Tiger Woods (67) and Padraig Harrington (68).
But with morning winds of 9-17 MPH, Hazeltine has bared it’s teeth and it looks as if the [...]

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Padraig Harrington was lambasted for being a slow player thanks to the Bridgestone ruling, but one of the most consistently slow players in golf is his playing partner, Tiger Woods.
In the final rounds when he’s in contention Woods regularly shoots a low score. This is no accident, especially when he is in the final group. [...]

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Padraig Harrington’s a likeable enough fellow and golf needs a proven major winner who might give Tiger Woods some competition on Sunday’s at a major. So, for those reasons, it’s good to see him emerge from the depths that his self imposed slump has taken him.
Like Woods twice before, Harrington was dissatisfied with a swing [...]

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Paddy Slam Bid Hurt By Golf’s Worst Rule
Padraig Harrington was set to putt on the 15th green and you could see by the way his trousers were whipping that the wind was blowing very hard. He stepped away from his ball as it started rolling away from the cup. Now there is no way that [...]

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Trio of US Players Leads the Way
After day one American golfers claimed the top three spots on the leaderboard.
Chad Campbell got off to the fastest start in Masters history, birdieing the first five holes. Four more in a row on the back nine from 13-16 took him to -9 with two holes remaining. Two pars [...]

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It almost seems as if this year’s Masters is Tiger’s or Phil’s to lose.
This fact that has not gone unnoticed by the oddsmakers at Ladbrokes, who have made them the heavy favorites to don the Green Jacket on April 12.
When Woods was out of action, a host of wannabe challengers threw their collective hats into [...]

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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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2008 Masters Coverage - thru 4/15
Tiger Woods has played in 12 majors since his Hank Haney Swing started producing Ws in early 2005. Given that he’s finished in the top four in 10 of them, there is no reason to believe that he won’t be stalking the leaderboard on Masters Sunday.
Knowing that Tiger will be [...]

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2008 Masters Coverage - thru 4/15
The golfers who play for history have major milestones riding on each big four championship. Sergio Garcia, Adam Scott, and a long list of majorless wanna be greats are looking to get the monkey off their back so they can begin to make a serious move on the history books.
Single [...]

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The World Golf Rankings are the game’s most quoted and respected barometers of golfing supremacy. Still, they are not without their quirks. One of them could be called the Minimum Divisor Rule. A player’s points are divided by no less than 40 no matter how many events a player competes in over the 24 month [...]

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