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To be up front, I am not a golf fan, but am aware of the sport and what the big stories are. So to see Tiger Woods finish 28th in the PGA is shocking as it shows how far he has fallen as a major threat in the sport. The big question is whether this […]

Louis Oosthuizen. Graeme McDowell. Lucas Glover. What do these men all have in common? They’ve won a Major Championship more recently than Tiger Woods. They’re also all 30 or younger. As Tiger’s putter is failing him, his drives are often finding the trees, and his mind seems to be elsewhere, age is catching him. At […]

It was big news when Tiger Woods announced that his first golf tournament since his scandal broke in November would be the Masters on April 8-11. One British bookie has already made Woods the 4-1 favorite to win.The Masters is as tightly controlled as an old Soviet politburo meeting, so Woods won’t be asked a […]

Tiger Woods, one of the greatest golfers of all time, allegedly made a series of fascinating quips about lesbians, gays and sex.

The PGA has to be loving the photo op the Tour Championship bore: Phil MIckelson and Tiger Woods both holding trophies for the same event. Mickelson came from behind to win the Tour Championship, while Woods’ second-place finish earned him the points to win his second FedEx Cup (he also won in 2007). Mickelson finished […]

Tiger Woods shared the lead 11 holes into the second round of the PGA Championship today. At the end of the round, he now stands at 7-under with a 4-shot lead. The course is long (over 7,600 yards) and Woods is hitting his tee shots about as well as he possibly could. His short game […]

I’ve been surprised to see some commentators and writers talk about 2009 British Open champ Stewart Cink (right) as a “villain” because he beat Tom Watson in a playoff to win the Claret Jug. From what I saw, Cink didn’t steal the title from Watson, the latter simply handed it to the younger Cink. I […]

ABC execs must be reaching for the Pepto-Bismol after seeing Tiger Woods stink up up the course at Turnberry Scotland at the British Open and miss the cut for only the second time in a major. Any event minus the game’s best player is no-see TV. Unless 59-year-old Tom Watson (a co-leader after two rounds) […]

All the Tiger haters have plenty to moan about today, as he came back from 5 shots down on the final day at Bay Hill to win in only his third tournament since returning from knee surgery nine months ago. Get ready to hear lots about it leading up to the Masters next weekend, because […]

It was a rare Sunday this past weekend when I watched more golf than football. The Ryder Cup this year is now etched in as one of my favorite golf memories, and it may now be my favorite golf format. Pitting the Americans against the Europeans, the U.S. hadn’t won since a shocking come-from-behind in […]

I DVR’d the final round of the British Open and when I got around to watching it –with a break to watch the Angels sweep the Red Sox– there was one shot that summed up the day at Royal Birkdale for me: Greg Norman teed off and he hit the ball so badly that the […]

I’m a staunch atheist, have been since I was 12, but I do firmly believe in one quasi-religious concept, redemption, when it comes to sports. My example this week is the Australian, Greg Norman, who's having a dream British Open under trying conditions at Royal Birkdale, in the North of England on the Irish Sea. […]

That would be me. When I got notification last year that I won tickets to the Saturday and Sunday sessions of the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, I was ecstatic. Finally, I’d get within 10 feet of Padraig Harrington! So, there I was, last Saturday morning, waiting in the stands at the first hole for […]

NOTE from a confused writer: I don't know why this didn't show up on Sunday night, but here it is, late and not-at-all timely! *********** As I watched the final round of the Masters from a sunny but windy Augusta, I keep writing on stray bits of paper things like “Tiger horrible tee shot on […]

Except for English football, because I love hearing them use words like “insouciant” while describing a touchline pass, I never listen to announcers while watching sports; I turn the sound off and listen to music instead. The only downside is that I have to rely on the onscreen graphics for stats. The third day of […]

Let’s get what most sports fans care about out of the way at the beginning: Tiger Woods shot an even par 72, which puts him four shots off the top of the heap at the Masters in August, Georgia. In his previous four wins at the Masters, he’s been behind by at least three shots […]

One of the things that always cracks me up about sports is the concept of Anointed Ones. The Anointed Ones are people or teams or nations that are considered so superior to their competition that it’s almost akin to kicking a basket of puppies to have them play their supposedly inferior competition. Case in point: […]

I’m not a huge golf fan per se. I enjoy playing it, despite the lack of birdies in my game. I enjoy watching a good, close match. But when Tiger Woods is in the hunt on a Sunday, it’s must-see TV for me. I’d take it over an NBA playoff game or the Wimbledon finals. […]

It was supposed to be a must-see end-of-season month-long tournament that determined the annual world champion of golf. Instead, the FedEx Cup has become the butt of jokes and is over two days before the final round. Entering this final event, only five golfers had a technical chance to win the championship, only three of […]