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Next Tiger Woods appearance at Bay Hill next week

Let me take you back to February 15, 2009. Tiger hadn’t played on tour in roughly eight months. I predicted his upcoming schedule exactly: Accenture Match Play is a good candidate for Tiger’s return… Doral on March 12 is a…

Category: European Tour, PGA Tour, Tiger Woods

Tiger to play in Australian Masters, for a $3M appearance fee

Tiger Woods is playing in the Australian Masters this November. Unlike the PGA Tour, other tours can pay appearance fees so Tiger is getting his, a paltry $3,000,000. Tiger’s appearance fee for one non PGA Tour event is more than…

Category: Tiger Woods

Perspective

After the round at Doral yesterday my boy and I were looking at Tiger’s scores for his four rounds: 71, 70, 68, 68. Tiger wasn’t too thrilled with the results but commented that his ball striking was good. My boy…

Category: PGA Tour, Tiger Woods

Phil silences the Sergio #1 talk, and plays right handed

Lefties hitting right-handed, righties hitting left-handed… Did anyone see Phil Mickelson’s right-handed shot out of the bushes with his club turned upside down? I rolled that back a few times on my DVR. While I don’t agree that the shot…

Category: PGA Tour, Tiger Woods

Garcia #1 in the world? Uh, no. I don’t think so.

Sergio Garcia has a mathematical shot at gaining golf’s #1 world ranking this week. Mr. “Spit In The Hole” (see video below) would have to win at Doral and Tiger Woods would have to finish 27th or worse. They might…