Capelle On Golf

Part 1 – Grand Slam - 2008 Masters Coverage
So much of the talk leading up to this year’s Masters has been focused on Tiger Woods’ bid to become the first player to win the Grand Slam, golf’s most elusive prize.
What you say? Didn’t Bobby Jones win the Grand Slam 78 years ago?
That’s what his journalist [...]

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Education is a great thing. It dispels ignorance, increases awareness, and solves problems. Here’s today’s lesson for all wanna be golf photographers.
If you want to capture a Pulitzer prize winning photo and establish yourself as a big league golf picture taker, concentrate on the reaction, not the action. Look for those opportunities after the ball [...]

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2008 Masters Coverage - Thru 4/15
Success begets success, and no major proves it like the Masters. Fifty Masters have been played since 1958 (the beginning of the Modern Era), and a whopping 48% of the winners have come from seven of the top eight players of the era.
Consider the table below. As a group, these [...]

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Geoff Ogilvy has a big opportunity facing him this weekend at the WGC-CA Championships. He could be the man that takes down THE MAN and ends the streak. Ogilvy’s the 2006 U.S. Open champion, and he won 11 straight matches at the 2006-07 editions of the WGC-Accenture Match Play, so he knows a thing or [...]

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Sam Snead’s 82 PGA Tour victories are looming in front of Tiger Woods like high beams on a deserted highway. This much talked about record has led to a complete overestimation of Snead’s rightful place in golf’s hierarchy of champions. Snead-o-mania is getting so bad that noted golf writer Dave Anderson suggested for a [...]

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A lot of attention has been focused on Tiger Woods’ putting lately, and with good reason, for he’s been holing crucial putts from everywhere for the last seven months. Draining putts is a big part of his winning formula, but over the long run, Tiger does his best when his swing is in top [...]

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The golf world is transfixed by Tiger Woods’ pursuit of Jack Nicklaus’ 18 majors. A number of pundits believe that he could capture the Grand Slam this year. This would leave him just one shy of the Golden Bear’s record. Though winning majors is Tiger’s objective, finishing right behind first place in the majors, as [...]

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I saw Michael Jordan’s bald head on the cover of ESPN The Magazine’s Feb. 25 issue and was sold on the promise of an edgy story about what’s wrong with basketball. My thinking was that some of Jordan’s advice might be applicable to golf. I opened the cover, grabbed my highlighter, and quickly digested the [...]

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