The New York Times
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 holes. Finally, Craig Wood is getting his due.
Forty years after he died, Wood has been elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame by earning the minimum 65 percent of the vote, making him the only player this year to get in through the PGA Tour ballot. (30/06)
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Environmental scientists should spend more time at golf courses examining the brains of players. Because I have noticed that something in the green grass, ...
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Golf is a game of endurance. Walking five miles on a course can be tough especially when it's July in the Quad Cities.
But one avid golf fan is putting ...
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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 ...
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Angela Park of Brazil led the women's US Open at halfway as Laura Davies's challenge was blown away by a second-round 81. Park is the player who was ...
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A 19-year-old South Korean golfer won the U.S. Women's Open with a 2-under 71 Sunday, becoming the youngest player to win one of the biggest titles in ...
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A former PGA Tour player turned club pro once told me: "The game of golf is easy. It's the teachers who make it hard."
And to a great extent, he ...
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Every now and then I'll run into another golfer who will repeat a saying that I first heard around the time that I started playing this game as a teenager ...
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Rafael Nadal will swap the Wimbledon practice courts for a few days of golf with his friends back home in Spain as he tries to relax ahead of his latest ...
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HIS IS an amazing and unlikely journey. No great player in the long and diverse history of golf has a life story comparable with that of Vijay Singh, a ...
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Professional golf will move into a new era this summer when players on both sides of the Atlantic will be required to supply urine samples as routinely ...
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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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The Western release of Capcom's We Love Golf! for the Nintendo Wii approaches, and with two exclusive characters in the release, Capcom had to come up ...
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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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Anthony Kim received a $1.152 million check for winning the Wachovia Championship on Sunday, surpassing the $2 million mark in season earnings for the ...
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Environmental scientists should spend more time at golf courses examining the brains of players. Because I have noticed that something in the green grass, ...
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Mike Souchak, a professional golfer who set a PGA Tour record for lowest 72-hole score in 1955 that stood for 46 years, died July 10 in the Clearwater, ...
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Eleven of the 18 holes at Haywards Heath Golf Club were mistakenly treated with heavy-duty weedkiller, which has scorched the grass.
The club has apologised ...
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However, as people get less active they are often unable to continue playing the complete game.
With this in mind, Betty Bisdee decided some 10 years ...
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The spread of golf courses threatens Britain's traditional landscapes, a report from the leading conservation authority will warn this week.
The sport's ...
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Occasional golfer Allan Errington, 43, was averaging seven shots a hole while playing at a staff event.
But he hit a perfect shot on the par three 9th ...
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Even in some of her lowest moments in golf, Michelle Wie never had so little to gain.
She had to return to Interlachen at dawn Saturday to play one ...
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OVERCOME recently by an inexplicable desire to tidy up the old homestead, I found myself in the room which, for reasons long forgotten, has become the ...
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A 19-year-old South Korean golfer won the U.S. Women's Open with a 2-under 71 Sunday, becoming the youngest player to win one of the biggest titles in ...
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The PGA Tour unveiled a new competition on Wednesday that will see golfers challenge the game's most celebrated holes with the winner receiving $1 million ...
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Please let me teach you the spiritual significance of poa grass. Agronomists call it Poa annua L. Golfers have more profane names for poa when its afternoon ...
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The drive goes past the silo, off the cliff, across the racetrack, over the waterfall, around the corner, over the trees, up the hill and onto the green.
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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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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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They are two of the greatest sand shots in golf history. Paul Azinger has a hard time deciding which was better.
In 1993 at the Memorial, where he will ...
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When John Casolo hits a golf ball he usually smacks it straight and true down the middle of a fairway. On the 12th hole at Western Hills last week he used ...
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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 ...
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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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Golfzilla? Godzilla playing golf? Yeah, I guess that's the reason some people get to keep their jobs helping these chaps come up with decent-sounding ...
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It was the classic golfer's gesture, a natural reaction to the euphoria of winning, but the moment Michael Campbell threw his ball into the crowd at Pinehurst, ...
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Even in some of her lowest moments in golf, Michelle Wie never had so little to gain.
She had to return to Interlachen at dawn Saturday to play one ...
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Angela Park of Brazil led the women's US Open at halfway as Laura Davies's challenge was blown away by a second-round 81. Park is the player who was ...
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A 19-year-old South Korean golfer won the U.S. Women's Open with a 2-under 71 Sunday, becoming the youngest player to win one of the biggest titles in ...
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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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Annika Sorenstam will play in her final United States Women's Open this week at Interlachen, but her involvement with the United States Golf Association ...
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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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Eat your heart out, Augusta National. The U.S. Open has stolen the Masters' thunder.
The mightiest, most moving roars of the golf season -- those that ...
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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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Rees Jones was 9 when he went to his first U.S Open in 1950 at Merion Golf Course. He was there as a fan, tagging along with his father, legendary course ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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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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 ...
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Eat your heart out, Augusta National. The U.S. Open has stolen the Masters' thunder.
The mightiest, most moving roars of the golf season -- those that ...
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They called former U.S. president Harry Truman "Give 'Em Hell, Harry" for his acerbic style in dealing with foes. The Missouri Marvel explained that ...
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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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The PGA Tour unveiled a new competition on Wednesday that will see golfers challenge the game's most celebrated holes with the winner receiving $1 million ...
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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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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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