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Tiger Woods is injured, and the PGA Tour seems to be on hold. This is the Tiger effect: He has created so much interest in his own game that, when he isn't playing, it's hard to get excited.
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This is not so terrible; it's a price we pay for living in the same era as the most dominant golfer ever. But people often wonder what golf would be like if Tiger had a true rival. Phil Mickelson comes closest, but Tiger and Phil haven't dueled enough in important tournaments. (26/05)
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For the first time since Tiger Woods picked up a golf club, there is no overwhelming favourite for a golf major. Gone, for a few months at least, are the ...
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Twenty-six days have passed since Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open Championship in a playoff over Rocco Mediate while in obvious pain, and 19 days since he ...
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In the face and on the green, there is no doubt Cheyenne Woods is related to her famous uncle, Tiger. But Cheyenne and Tiger Woods share more than golf.
Tiger ...
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I've always tolerated the game of golf. I even learned to enjoy it ... especially once my 21st birthday passed. I play Tiger Woods Golf on my Wii, I own ...
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Tiger Woods is an idiot. A mesmerizing, peerless, incandescent idiot.
If he'd used his head at all, he would never have entered the U.S. Open last ...
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Putting on our Sunday best ...
We may have finally found the man who can end Tiger Woods' reign: Father Time.
I'm not buying into the notion ...
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As we noted yesterday, NBC Sports, ESPN and the USGA got something right on Monday: They streamed the US Open playoff between Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate ...
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Two-time champion Woods took an instant lead after Mediate, ranked 158, bogeyed the first though he soon lost it after the 45-year-old's birdie at the ...
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The United States Open playoff between Rocco Mediate and Tiger Woods on Monday will not be match play, but as an 18-hole, head-to-head contest, there is ...
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And so here we go this morning, another 18 holes with Tiger Woods, with his bum knee, with his grimaces, with his 911 theatrics, and with a new, goofy ...
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Let me begin this by saying that if I ever shot 100 on a U.S. Open course, I would retire from golf a happy man.
With that said, Matt Lauer shot an ...
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If Jack Nicklaus said it once, he said it 21 times at his recent news conference before the Memorial Tournament that he hosts each year at Muirfield Village, ...
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The instructions are straight from the book on Pebble Beach Golf Links on how to play the sixth hole: "The optimum placement for the tee shot is left ...
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It's hard to remember now the special frenzy at the beginning, when all the dreams that were projected onto Tiger Woods seemed part of his genius for ...
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"I want to thank Tiger for not being there."SERGIO Garcia's first words upon winning the Players Championship in Florida last weekend were uttered not ...
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A Colorado golf course manager apologized to parents whose children played in a youth tournament at the same time a strip bar staged its own raucous tourney.
Evelyn ...
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If Jack Nicklaus said it once, he said it 21 times at his recent news conference before the Memorial Tournament that he hosts each year at Muirfield Village, ...
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The tournament official in a green blazer standing guard outside the clubhouse at Muirfield Village can be excused for not recognizing the guy trying to ...
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It's hard to remember now the special frenzy at the beginning, when all the dreams that were projected onto Tiger Woods seemed part of his genius for ...
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Kim Hodgkinson could sense the skepticism in her teenage caddie's body language: Oh, great, a woman golfer.
As if playing in the pro-am tournament ...
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Why do some golf tournaments insist on making their winners put on an ugly jacket?
The Colonial is one of those tournaments, and later today somebody ...
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There was no Claret Jug, no green jacket, no major championship trophy presented in Sunday evening's twilight at the TPC Sawgrass. For Sergio Garcia, ...
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After a "much-needed layoff" of 32 years, Carl Hiaasen, a novelist and columnist for the Miami Herald, started playing golf again in 2005. He took lessons, ...
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With the EDS Byron Nelson as this week's PGA Tour attraction, I thought it might be worthwhile to take a brief look at the man for whom the tournament ...
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If Jack Nicklaus said it once, he said it 21 times at his recent news conference before the Memorial Tournament that he hosts each year at Muirfield Village, ...
More
Why do some golf tournaments insist on making their winners put on an ugly jacket?
The Colonial is one of those tournaments, and later today somebody ...
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Another memorable shot, and another victory, for Phil Mickelson's impressive ledger.
Not the 9-foot birdie putt on the final hole that gave him a one-stroke ...
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For the first time since Tiger Woods picked up a golf club, there is no overwhelming favourite for a golf major. Gone, for a few months at least, are the ...
More
Twenty-six days have passed since Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open Championship in a playoff over Rocco Mediate while in obvious pain, and 19 days since he ...
More
You don't look a typical a lady golfer.
Women golfers aren't what people think any more. There are good-looking women playing golf and a new generation ...
More
It is an often snidely dismissed truth, but Tiger Woods' conspicuous absence from the remainder of this season's PGA Tour schedule, and his health issues ...
More
In the face and on the green, there is no doubt Cheyenne Woods is related to her famous uncle, Tiger. But Cheyenne and Tiger Woods share more than golf.
Tiger ...
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He was the first of only five players to win the Masters and United States Open in the same year. He was the first player to lose all four majors in extra ...
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I've always tolerated the game of golf. I even learned to enjoy it ... especially once my 21st birthday passed. I play Tiger Woods Golf on my Wii, I own ...
More
Tiger Woods is an idiot. A mesmerizing, peerless, incandescent idiot.
If he'd used his head at all, he would never have entered the U.S. Open last ...
More
Putting on our Sunday best ...
We may have finally found the man who can end Tiger Woods' reign: Father Time.
I'm not buying into the notion ...
More
As we noted yesterday, NBC Sports, ESPN and the USGA got something right on Monday: They streamed the US Open playoff between Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate ...
More
Two-time champion Woods took an instant lead after Mediate, ranked 158, bogeyed the first though he soon lost it after the 45-year-old's birdie at the ...
More
The United States Open playoff between Rocco Mediate and Tiger Woods on Monday will not be match play, but as an 18-hole, head-to-head contest, there is ...
More
And so here we go this morning, another 18 holes with Tiger Woods, with his bum knee, with his grimaces, with his 911 theatrics, and with a new, goofy ...
More
Let me begin this by saying that if I ever shot 100 on a U.S. Open course, I would retire from golf a happy man.
With that said, Matt Lauer shot an ...
More
If Jack Nicklaus said it once, he said it 21 times at his recent news conference before the Memorial Tournament that he hosts each year at Muirfield Village, ...
More
The instructions are straight from the book on Pebble Beach Golf Links on how to play the sixth hole: "The optimum placement for the tee shot is left ...
More
It's hard to remember now the special frenzy at the beginning, when all the dreams that were projected onto Tiger Woods seemed part of his genius for ...
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With the EDS Byron Nelson as this week's PGA Tour attraction, I thought it might be worthwhile to take a brief look at the man for whom the tournament ...
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