Capelle On Golf

Ah, life is good for Jason Dufner, Mr. Excitable.
Three weeks ago he won the Zurich Classic, his first win on the PGA Tour. A week later Dufner got married to the beautiful Amanda Boyd. Then, on Sunday, he rolled in a 25 footer to win the Byron Nelson by a shot.
As a bonus, Dufner jumped [...]

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Whew! Tiger Woods avoided starting the first missed cut streak of his pro career with a superbly executed round of 68 at the TPC Sawgrass that left him three below the cut line.
If Woods has failed to make the cut, his two event streak would have come in his 268th start as a pro. That [...]

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Ian Poulter and Martin Laird grabbed the opening round lead at The Players Championship with 65s.
The real story, however, is Tiger Woods’ quest to avoid missing two straight cuts for the first time in his career. Woods opened with a 74 despite playing in the morning wave. He is currently tied for 99th. With 76 [...]

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Anything is possible on the TPC Sawgrass course. Just look at last year’s top 3 (with age in 2011): K.J. Choi (40), David Toms (44), and Paul Goydos (46).
Three fourtysomethings owned the top of the leaderboard on this quirky and monstrously difficult Pete Dye creation that would seem to favor young players with nerve and [...]

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Need any proof that Jack Nicklaus’ swing is way better than Tiger Woods’?
All you had to do was watch Saturday’s scramble event at the Insperity Championship. Even though Nicklaus, 72, had not played in front of a crowd in 6-8 years, he was still able to put on a clinic in ball striking.
Within a span [...]

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In a duel between golf’s two most opinionated sportscasters, John Feinstein scored a knockout over the Morning Drive’s Eric Kuselias.
Feinstein believes in making fines public. “The only reason to have them is as a deterrent. What you don’t want to have are repeat offenders.”
Kuselias, on the other hand, thinks that if fines are made public, [...]

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The case for making the pro tour’s disciplinary actions public has been bandied about of late in the wake of Tiger Woods’ club kicking outburst on the 16th tee of the Masters.
Morning Drive’s Gary Williams and guests such as Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam, Jason Sobel, Tony Dovolani, and Frank Nobilo are all in favor [...]

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You may be under the impression that The Haney Project is a celebrity driven TV show on Golf Channel.
And you would be right!
However, it turns out that the original Haney Project was a book, not a TV show. Just listen to Butch Harmon, who spoke out this weekend against Haney and his bestselling book, The [...]

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Bubba Watson wins the 2012 Masters!
Did you see this one coming? I sure didn’t because I believed Bubba, who said he would be very nervous, and the commentators, who also felt that his nerves would betray him. Shows what we know. And then there was that stat that said 19 of the last 21 winners [...]

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Tiger Woods is Still in the Process
Woods has talked about his process for rebuilding his game over the last 18 months since he began working with Sean Foley. After winning at Bay Hill with such an impressive performance tee to green, and with his putter, it was thought that the process had ended, and that [...]

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