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PARAMUS, N.J. - Want a glimpse at how completely glossed over the FedEx Cup is in its second incarnation?
One prominent national website (not this one) wrote a preview column on Tim Finchem’s baby that included not one, but two references to the Cup kicking off in Westchester. Only one problem … The Barclays - the first FedEx Cup tournament - moved from New York to Ridgewood ...
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Sure, Michael Phelps won the most gold medals, set all the records and turned an already bitter Mark Spitz into a near Bobby Fisher-like figure. But Usain Bolt is the most exciting athlete at the Olympics .
Watching the Jamaican Bolt completely blow away the field in the 100 meters, so much so that he could slow down to celebrate in race that takes little more than nine seconds, blew away ...
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Padraig Harrington
Sergio Garcia
Michael Phelps’ mom received so much TV time during the Olympics that Regis Philbin and Ryan Seacrest are insanely jealous.
Could NBC have possibly shown more cut-ins of Phelps’ mom? They’ll probably break into local programming to show Phelps’ mom return home from Beijing. Picking up her held mail probably deserves a special report. Those Red Sox fans who did their ...
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Phil Mickelson
China
Tiger Woods needs to come out with another one of those snazzy newsletters at his website . You know the ones in which he tells us earth-shattering things - like that he’s enjoying watching the Olympics on TV.
Only in his next newsletter, Tiger should concede the Player of the Year award to Padraig Harrington . It’s time for the greatest golfer in history to let everyone know ...
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Tiger Woods
Padraig Harrington
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - As well as Padraig Harrington played in the final two rounds of the PGA Championship (66-66, including 3-under on his final back nine), it’s hard to argue that Sergio Garcia blew this major more than Harrington won it. Unless, perhaps, you listen to Padraig Harrington.
“On 16, I was surprised,” Harrington said moments ago, the Wanamaker Tropy ...
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Padraig Harrington
Sergio Garcia
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - This PGA Championship is no Super Bowl. But it’s seen its share of Super Bowl week wacky questions from the media, many who mostly seem to be annoyed they are not at the Olympics. There was the TV reporter earnestly asking Ben Curtis if he drew inspiration from the Detroit Lions. As if the guy didn’t realize that Curtis gets to paid to look like a fool. ...
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Sergio Garcia
Ben Curtis
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - This is the PGA Championship that no one seems capable of seizing, the kind of major Phil Mickelson should be salivating over. Mickelson held a prime opportunity this morning too, playing an Oakland Hills course whose greens are finally softened by all that rain - getting to play most of his third round in the morning when the conditions are always easier here rather ...
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Phil Mickelson
Kenny Perry
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - Usually if you hold the lead after three rounds in a major, you get tons of stories written about you, TV face time and some “hip” SportsCenter love (even during a Michael Phelps Olympics). Ben Curtis is guaranteed none of those things even though he holds a one-shot advantage at the PGA Championship over J.B. Holmes and Henrik Stenson going into this ...
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Ben Curtis
Greg Norman
J.B. Holmes
Henrik Stenson
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - Andres Romero took advantage of the always easier morning conditions at the PGA Championship big time, shooting a 5-under 65 that ties the all-time pro scoring record at Oakland Hills Country Club. It also apparently pissed off some people upstairs.
For as soon as the 27-year-old Argentinian arrived at the media center to talk about putting up seven birdies on ...
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - I wrote a column that’s up on the front of WorldGolf.com about how few fans have actually shown up to watch the PGA Championship . It’s stunning to walk around Oakland Hills and see all the open space right up against many of the ropes. There may be even less fans here than there were at the U.S. Women’s Open in Minneapolis (and if it’s not ...
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - One of the sadder sights at this PGA Championship is CBS announcer David Feherty leaning against a cane, in obvious pain, waiting to interview players coming off the course. Feherty got leveled by a car while biking through a nearby Michigan suburb on Tuesday - the second time he’s been run over while pursuing his cycling passion in the last several months.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - As afternoon sped toward evening in the second round of the PGA Championship, Sergio Garcia and Phil Mickelson stood tied at even par, only one shot back of can’t-hold-up leader J.B. Holmes. They were well into their back nines and a major that’s been largely duller than an Al Gore speech stood on the cusp of getting the marquee Sergio-Phil duel that ...
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Phil Mickelson
Sergio Garcia
J.B. Holmes
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - The Detroit Lions are the most poorly-run franchise in the history of sports (and as someone who grew up in Michigan, I can say that.) This is a team where you find yourself pining for the old “glory days” of the Wayne Fontes era.
Yet, there is Ben Curtis - a guy who grew up in Columbus, Ohio - all decked out in Lions garb as he shoots a 3-under 67, ...
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Ben Curtis
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - Kenny Perry’s stunning late night withdrawal from the PGA Championship finally has an explanation. And it’s not a pretty one. Not for Perry. Not for any pro athlete who is considering Lasik surgery - which has been all the rage in pro sports for a while.
Minutes ago, Perry just admitted that the eye injury that made him decide to withdraw after having ...
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Kenny Perry
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - With Oakland Hills Country club shrouded in darkness and even most of the players who had to wait through a 90-minute rain delay on the way to their courtesy cars, Kenny Perry made a decision that rocked the PGA Championship. Perry - the focus of so much pre-tournament attention with this being the first major he’s played this year after skipping the U.S. and ...
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Kenny Perry
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - Maybe Sergio Garcia realized he was an idiot for only playing one late practice round at a much-changed Torrey Pines before the U.S. Open. Maybe it finally dawned on Garcia that if Tiger Woods still spent five days out on Torrey Pines, examining all the USGA’s tweaks again and again, even though his knee wasn’t right, that Garcia’s own major prep is ...
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Sergio Garcia
Tiger Woods
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - When Hunter Mahan went off on the Ryder Cup basically calling it a giant pain only geared to fill the PGA of America’s coffers, a bunch of U.S. golfers didn’t exactly rush forward to condemn him. No word on whether Phil Mickelson gave him a secret pat on the back or anything.
Mahan even had some valid points. But once a millionaire pro athlete compares ...
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Rocco Mediate
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (Aug. 6, 2008) - Every time I return to the metro Detroit area where I grew up, the trip includes a jarring dose of reality. And it’s no different this time for the PGA Championship . You get here and you realize Michigan - and specifically the greater Detroit area, which remember is supposed to be Motor City - has the absolute worst roads in the entire United ...
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (Aug. 5, 2008) - This year, the pairings in majors are finally getting the thought put into them that they deserve.
That Tiger Woods-Phil Mickelson pairing at the U.S. Open helped bring out more tournament prehype than golf’s ever seen. The PGA of America didn’t have that option obviously with Tiger resting his knee while flipping through yacht catalogs. ...
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Sergio Garcia
Camilo Villegas
Tiger Woods
Those black bears that lollygagged around the course during parts of the U.S. Senior Open - otherwise known as the golf tournament of Depends diapers and bad driving - deserve to be treated to steak dinners by the irrelevant geezer golfers in the field.
If it wasn’t for those black bears - particularly the bold one from Friday who shared both the attention whore syndrome and likely ...
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