Thursday, April 11th, 2013
Tiger Woods still thinks he can grab the title of greatest golfer ever from Jack Nicklaus, even at age 37 and nearly five years removed from his most recent major win (the 2008 U.S. Open). It has also been several years since his 2009 life/career meltdown, so some golf fans ...
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Bubba Watson won the Masters this past weekend and he caught the attention of most observes for his play and the fact that he was using a pink driver. That limited edition Ping club is used by Watson to raise money for various charities.
Ping - which is based in Phoenix ...
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
The ball that was a part of what will surely be one of the most memorable shots in Masters history has been returned. Louis Oosthuizen double-eagled the par-5 2nd hole at Augusta National on Sunday, then pulled the ball from the cup and flipped it underhand into the crowd.
It was ...
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Saturday, April 7th, 2012
Tiger Woods kicked his golf club after a bad shot on Friday afternoon. His game was melting down and he had just shanked yet another iron shot on the par-3 16th hole. Then he threw his 9-iron onto the ground and kicked it.
Then the world ended.
From the Indianapolis Star:
"...his boorish ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
The Masters has pretty much always been a tournament that didn't care whether people watched it or not. It is played on one of the most exclusive courses at one of the most exclusive clubs in the entire country - Augusta National Golf Club only has about 300 members. They ...
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
The top amateur at the Masters this weekend was Japan's Hideki Matsuyama. The 19-year-old Matsuyama is a student at Tohoku Fukushi University, which happens to be in Sendai, the area hardest hit by the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Now that his work at the Masters is over, Matsuyama plans ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Kenny Perry!
Had he won the Masters, Booter demanded that I apologize for this post, in which I say Perry should have been excluded from the 2008 Ryder Cup team because he'd been skipping the PGA's major tournaments in order to rack up points and make the Ryder Cup team.
Seems like ...
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