Capelle On Golf

Good buddies Geoff Ogilvy and Adam Scott might be two of the nicest guys on tour. Maybe too nice for Woods, who is known for his Sunday glare and no talk rule. As late at the 10th hole on Saturday he was seen walking side-by-side with Ogilvy, talking, and smiling. No Sunday game face there.
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I get such a kick out of those kiss of death stats. First, on the tenth green of the final round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the announcers mentioned that Woods was 51 for 51 for the week on putts inside seven feet. Woods then defied the odds and missed from 6’, 7”, then missed [...]

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If the Arnold Palmer Invitational were a major, it would be over even though there are 18 holes left to play. Woods is 13 for 13 when leading or sharing the lead after 54 holes in the Big Four events. But since this is not, let’s consider his chances of notching his fifth straight PGA [...]

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Tiger Woods’ Winning Streak in Jeopardy
Woods opened with a 33, then parred every hole on the back nine for a 68, and now finds himself seven back of Vijay Singh with 36 holes to play. His putting, which I mentioned would be as question mark on Wednesday, upset him to the point where he [...]

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Tiger Woods’ PGA Tour winning streak of four straight events (and about seven months duration) is on the line this week at Bay Hill. So what are his chances of extending it to five in a row? Good because he’s Tiger. Bad because he doesn’t care for the greens, which are slow and bumpy, but [...]

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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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Two months into the 2008 season and things are heating up. Tiger Woods is two for two on the PGA Tour, which is no surprise. But what is surprising are the performances of the Old Guard who many have all but left for dead. Second man Phil Mickelson scored an impressive win at Riviera and [...]

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After the Accenture Match Play last week, most players migrated to the Honda Classic 2,000 miles across the country in Palm Beach, Florida, or took the week off. And then there were those five hardy souls from the field of 64 who flew 7,000 miles across the world to tee it up at Europeans Tour’s [...]

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That the Accenture Match Play is an international event was underscored by the record low 20 Americans that made up the starting field of 64. After three rounds, however, it is clear that the demise of the American pros was overstated. Indeed, players from the USA now make up 50% of the remaining eight, up [...]

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