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Saturday Update – Champions Tour meets Pebble Beach!
‘This is Saturdays conclusion: There are three people who scored well on the Pebble Beach course: Ted Schultz is the King of Pebble Beach after today. Ted shot a -8 on Pebble Beach. Ted is a 50 year-old who has won two PGA tournaments; the 1989 Southern Open and the 1991 Nissan Los Angeles Open. [...]
4Sep2010 | Duffer | 0 comments | ContinuedDustin Johnson handling misfortune and pressure well
Dustin Hunter Johnson’s first PGA Tour win was the Turning Stone Resort Championship in October 2008. He was still 24 years old when he won the rain and wind shortened 2009 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. His second PGA win was only 54 holes.
Then a year later at the 2010 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am [...]
The Divorce is Final – we are free of Tiger and Elin
Almost free anyway. People like me will be dissecting all the troubles and the settlement for sometime to come.
It has been about 9 months since the SUV crashed in the driveway of Tiger’s house. there were mysterious golf club wounds inflicted on the shattered rear window of the vehicle.
Neither party’s attorneys will comment on the [...]
China’s Liang shoots Whistling Straits course record
Wen-Chong Liang from China was in the 2007 PGA Championship. Back then Liang was an entirely different golfer. He had a kind of baseball swing. Liang was doing well, but swing coach Kel Llewellyn from Australia thought Liang could be so much more. Over the last three years Llewellyn has changed literally every thing about [...]
15Aug2010 | Duffer | 1 comment | ContinuedNationwide – Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open Crestview CC, Wichita, Kansas – Jhonattan Vegas WINS at -20; Roberto Castro 2nd at -19
6:00 PM – Sunday August 8, 2010 - Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open, Crestview CC, Wichita, Kansas
8Aug2010 | Duffer | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat if Tiger loses his World number 1 ranking this weekend?
This weekend it is quite possible that Phil Mickelson will take the World #1 title away from Tiger Woods. Woods has held the title of World #1 since June 12, 2005 and for 256 continuous weeks. Tiger holds the all-time record at 264 consecutive weeks and the record for accumulated weeks at 594.
There is perhaps [...]
Jerry Rice – golf star?
Thursday, soon-to-be Pro Football Hall of Famer, Jerry Rice will be starting his first professional round of golf. At the Fresh Express Classic at TPC Stonebrae in Hayward, California and kind of close to home, Jerry Rice gets to start his professional golf career.
Jerry Rice will be teeing off of the 10th tee at 2:00 [...]
Tiger’s Tomorrow – not out of the Woods, yet.
There has been so much speculation about the recently reclusive superstar, Tiger Woods. Now, the reports are that a letter from Woods to Tim Finchem, the commissioner of the PGA Tour, has been revealed to the Associated Press. Apparently, Tiger has some time off from therapy with a pre-planned return to therapy.
It was said that Tiger spent [...]
Sunday Clippings – including LPGA for next week
Dustin Johnson has won the At&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am for the second year in a row. Until the fourteenth hole Johnson was behind Paul Goydos. SOmehow Goydos regularly finds a way to demote himself in tournaqments and he did this time by taking 9 shots on a Par 5, the 14th. The pairing before Goydos and [...]
14Feb2010 | Duffer | 0 comments | ContinuedIs Phil Mickelson cheating?
Is a rule a law? Or is there a “spirit of the rule” that over-rules the rule? In other words, do you follow the words of the law or do you do the idea that you think you “know” what the law means? Or what if the new rule benefits your game, and will handicap [...]
30Jan2010 | Duffer | 0 comments | Continued