Capelle On Golf

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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Tiger Woods
Woods missed four of the first five greens in places where mere mortals would have made bogeys or worse. But he escaped with pars on all four before missing a four foot birdie putt on the sixth hole. At this point, darkness set in, which is just as well because he was struggling with [...]

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Tiger Woods
Woods started hot, moving to -3 after four holes, then he lost his way off the tee, missing six of his last eight fairways. On the par-three 17th he faced a 60 foot putt (720 inches). As the ball neared the cup, Woods raised his putter in anticipation of a monster putt dropping, but [...]

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Phil Mickelson had a chance to take over the #1 ranking with a fourth place finish at the Bridgestone. He would, however, have had have to shot a 66 in the final round, but instead skied to a horrendous 78, one worse than Tiger Woods’ fourth round disaster.
Mickelson’s final round stats showed that he hit [...]

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Golf Digest just recently held a roundtable of writers to discuss the hot topics of the day. After reading it I wanted to stand up and applaud some of their opinions, while on others, throwing rotten tomatoes seemed like a more appropriate response. And so, with all due respect to those in attendance, here is [...]

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The Race for #1 is Tightening
The race for #1 is tightening as we wait for the next two point rich events on each players’ schedule - the Bridgestone in 10 days, and the PGA in 17. Due to aging, Mickelson and Westwood crept closer to Woods last weekend, whose points are aging like old [...]

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Tiger Woods
Woods is a notoriously poor bad weather player, but he somehow managed a 73 in 20-30MPH winds, a round that could easily been 3-4 shots lower with decent putting. This left him in a tie for 15th, eight back of Louis Oosthuizen, who the whole world figures will fold over the weekend. As a [...]

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Tiger Woods
Woods opened his bid for three straight at St. Andrews with a 67, which included 17 GIR. Though he is tied for eighth, you can eliminate six of the seven players ahead of him who realistically have no chance of winning. This, in effect, means that he is tied for second, four shots behind [...]

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Anyone who tells you they have a bead on the probable winner of this week’s British Open is a fool or a liar.
Here’s why: the favorites look anything but, the mid range players are an unpredictable lot, and it’s all but impossible to tell who, from those going off at 50-1 or higher will slip [...]

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I get a kick out the pampered pros of today whining about the difficulties of Pebble Beach. Take Tiger Woods for example. He said on Thursday that the greens were “awful.” Then, rather than softening his stance a bit, claimed that others felt the same way.
Then we have Ryan Moore, who everyone once thought had [...]

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