Capelle On Golf

I love the long putter because it gives me villains to root against.
In the days before the wand weavers had begun their takeover of pro golf, it was tough to find reasons to root against certain players. Let’s face it – golfers don’t give you many reasons to dislike them.
But now, thanks to the long [...]

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Darren Clarke went out and won this Open. There was no back up and no signs of choking in the final 18, something that could not be said of his closest pursuers.
Clarke, it has been said, is one of us, a common man who just so happens to play great golf. His win is wildly [...]

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If Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods pre 2009 were leading the Open by themselves after 54, this one would be over. But at the top we have Darren Clarke (-5), who has not finished in the top 10 in a major since 2001. One shot behind him is Dustin Johnson, who shot a final round [...]

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Last January I asked whether Rory McIlroy or Rickie Fowler had a chance to become the Best Ever. Both were long shots, but following their 2010 seasons I am willing to state now that neither fits the mold.
McIlroy did manage two 3t’s in the majors, but he was never close to winning the British Open [...]

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The Ryder Cup delivered with a thrilling finish that came down to the last match. At winning time, Graeme McDowell, in the anchor position, played like a U.S. Open winner should with clutch shots on the16th  and 17th, while American Hunter Mahan choked badly,  and was closed out, 2&1. The net result was that team [...]

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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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What a difference a day makes!
Entering the finale in Japan, 18 year old sensation Ryo Ishikawa trailed the veteran Shigeki Maruyama by six shots. Then he beat him by 14 with a mind boggling 58, 12 under par, to win by three over Hiroyuki Fujita and Paul Sheehan.
Half way around the world and about 15 [...]

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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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Dustin Johnson Overpowers the Field
For those who have been missing Tiger Woods, Dustin Johnson did a good imitation with his power game as he turned the Monterey Peninsula’s par fives into par fours.
Despite his long and accurate shots into the par fives, Johnson was leaking oil, having bogeyed 17 to go three over for [...]

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The three possible combinations for playing Pebble Beach in the AT&T are (assuming a player makes the 54 hole cut) -  rounds 1 and 4, 2 and 4, or 3 and 4. When the players who make the cut are done with the third round, all will have played each of the three courses - [...]

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