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A Quick Video Lesson On Why You Don’t Mess With Golfers
December 16, 2011 By 1 Comment
I just popped my head into r/Golf, seeking some potential gift ideas for my avid golfer dad, when I happened upon this video.
I’d just like to see that these twerps got exactly what they deserved.
Keegan Bradley’s PGA Championship win is what makes golf great
August 15, 2011 By 3 Comments
Keegan Bradley is just as good for golf as Tiger Woods is right now.
Granted, Bradley nor anyone else on the PGA Tour has the track record that Woods has, but that’s part of what made this weekend, and golf over the past few years, great.
Video: Charles Barkley shatters driver on 1st tee at Champions Tour Regions Tradition at Shoal Creek
May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Charles Barkley is one of the most entertaining and engaging sports personalities of my lifetime. There are a variety of reasons why this is the case, and it is unnecessary for me to expatiate because I’m sure that you agree with me.
In this post, I am going to focus on one of the more notoriously entertaining aspects of the Charles Barkley Experience: his putrid golf game, manifested so awfully with every herk, jerk, and duff produced by his flagrantly ugly swing.
And recently, on the 1st tee at the Champions Tour Regions Tradition at Shoal Creek, Barkley delivered one of the more ignominious moments of his mostly ignominious golfing “career”.
Video: “The Mumbai Masters” from ESPN’s E:60 reminds us of the majesty of sport
April 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
ESPN deserves plenty of criticism for a variety of things, and they get plenty of it around these parts, but the network is the so-called “Worldwide Leader” because, in its heart of hearts, there is a genuine love for sport.
This can sometimes be difficult to see through the smoke of constant self-promotion but is most evident during ESPN’s consistently compelling show E:60. The latest example of this is a story called “Mumbai Masters: A look at how golf is played in Mumbai, India”.
PGA Tour golfer Kevin Na cards a 16…on one hole
April 15, 2011 By 4 Comments
When I go out and play golf, double digit scores on one hole are routine. But for PGA Tour golfers, they are a rarity. Not only are the pros much more adept at keeping their balls out of harm’s way in the first place, but they are remarkably good at getting out of trouble once they get into it.
So with that in mind, surely no professional golfer could ever card a score as high as, say, 16 on a single hole right?
Na.
Double Entendre Headline of the Day…Starring Tiger Woods
January 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Well played Reuters headline writer. Well played. (Cap tip.)
Sure, Tiger cooperated by shooting the one number that would provide the potential for this kind of chuckle-chuckle double entendre, but you get credit for capitalizing on the opportunity.
One tweet to woo them all, sent by @TigerWoods
January 25, 2011 By 8 Comments
While driving to the office today, I heard Dick Vitale on Mike & Mike in the Morning lamenting the negatives of Twitter as highlighted by Jaycutlergate. And in some respects Vitale was right: there are some negatives to Twitter, especially when it comes to knee-jerk overreactions that can harm reputations.
However, Twitter can also be awesome. Very awesome. One great example: Jim Irsay. Another great example: the tweet Tiger Woods sent out earlier today that may do more to humanize him than anything else since last Thanksgiving. (And I think I may actually be serious about that.)
Photo Story: Tiger Seeks Jack’s Guidance on Eve of PGA
August 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
As you know, the PGA Championship is this weekend. The fourth major of the year marks Tiger Woods’ final opportunity to get one step closer to his life’s goal: Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 major championship victories.
Unfortunately for Tiger, he has shown no signs that he is ready to compete for a major. He had the worst four-day performance of his career last weekend, and it is clear that golf’s erstwhile greatest player is currently a mental and physical mess.
Well, on the eve of Tiger’s first round at Whistling Straits he sought out the guidance of the man he’s been tracking his entire career. As usual, MSF was there with our camera and transcription machine to capture this golfing Kodak moment.
Sorry Tiger, Coffee’s For Closers & MJ Only Hangs With Winners
April 13, 2010 By 1 Comment
Ever since Tiger Woods’ personal life was turned inside-out and upside-down, his friendship with Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley has been criticized/celebrated (depending on your gender, marital status, and/or morals) for its purportedly wheels off salaciousness.
So if you’re a Phil Mickelson fan because of his clean cut image and publicly displayed family values, or if you’re his wife Amy, this picture can’t make you feel really comfortable:
Masters Odds and Pick: Tiger, Phil, Ernie, or…Retief?
April 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Anyone checking out The Masters odds for this week would have to be living under a rock….a very, very big rock….to not realize what the major storyline coming into this tournament would be.
The Masters is a big enough deal as is, but when the world’s No.1 player returns after a five-month scandal, you can bet that The Masters will be the most-watched tournament in recent memory, if not, in history.
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Expected Return of Tiger Will Make 2010 Masters the Most Hyped Golf Tournament Ever
March 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Ever since Thanksgiving people have been wondering when Tiger Woods would get on the golf course again and, most importantly, whether or not he would be ready to tee it up in Augusta come April.
Some (me included) have never wavered in their prediction that Tiger will play in the 2010 Masters. Others have been more non-committal or even suggested that it could be a year or more before we see golf’s most exciting player back on the Tour.
A bevy of reports from this week, taken together, suggest an increasing likelihood that Tiger will be playing for the fifth Green Jacket in what will undoubtedly be the most hyped golf tournament of all time.
BREAKING: Blonde Woman Taken from Tiger Woods’ Home on Stretcher, Admitted on “Advanced Life Support”
December 8, 2009 By 1 Comment
As a good friend of mine used to like to say, “Sweet $hit, man!”
Every time I think that the Tiger Woods story is ready to die down, more bizarre details emerge. And this morning, perhaps the most bizarre details of all are emerging.
One White Guy’s Reaction to the Tiger Woods Story as It Gets More Salacious by the Second
December 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
If you do a quick perusal of our golf coverage here at MSF it will be pretty clear to you that I am much more of a Tiger Woods fan than I am a golf fan.
I always have been, and I probably always be.
I enjoy playing the game, although I do not play it all that much. And I enjoy watching the game, although I do not watch it all that much if Tiger is not playing nor a prominent story.
For me, Tiger Woods is golf, and I have followed him as much as I’ve followed any athlete over the last decade.
Part of the reason for that is because Tiger is so dominant at his sport, so fascinating to watch from an athletic perspective, so famous, so wrapped in sporting mythology, and so ubiquitous.
TOUR Championship Preview: Tickets, TV Schedule, Odds, and Prediction
September 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The TOUR Championship odds signify the end of the FedEx Cup playoffs, and the event at East Lake should be filled with excitement.
Five players hold their fate in their hands and can win the $10 million prize by winning here, so let’s check out their scenarios and the standings after we bring you the particulars for this weekend’s event:
TOUR Championship Preview
- TOUR Championship Dates: Thursday, September 24th through Sunday, September 27th
- TOUR Championship Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- TOUR Championship Course: East Lake Golf Club
- TOUR Championship Purse: $7.5 million ($1.35 winning share)
- TOUR Championship Length: 7,154 Yards
- TOUR Championship Thursday-Friday TV Schedule: GOLF Channel 1 pm – 6 pm ET
- TOUR Championship Saturday TV Schedule: NBC 2 pm – 6 pm ET
- TOUR Championship Sunday TV Schedule: NBC 1:30 pm – 6 pm ET
- Official Website: TOUR Championship
- StubHub: Great deals on TOUR Championship tickets
- StubHub: Great deals on all PGA Tour tickets
Current FedEx Cup Standings:
- Tiger Woods (16 events) – 2,500 points
- Steve Stricker (21) – 2,250
- Jim Furyk (21) – 2,000
- Zach Johnson (24) – 1,800
- Heath Slocum (26) – 1,600
Tiger Woods (TOUR Championship Odds: +100): The world’s No.1 romped to an eight-stroke win at Cog Hill two weeks ago, but with the reseeding that gives everyone in the field a chance to win, his lead fell to 250 points over Steve Stricker. That’s no matter, though. The last time he was at East Lake, Woods won.
Steve Stricker (TOUR Championship Odds: +1600): Stricker is coming off his worst result of the season, a T-52 at Cog Hill, and he was T-24 here last year. If he is going to overtake Woods, he’ll need the tournament of his life this weekend.
Jim Furyk (TOUR Championship Odds: +1400): Furyk is a steady play for online sports betting players, and he racks up top-10s like it’s going out of style. He was T-3 at East Lake last year, and he finished second to Woods at Cog Hill (albeit a distant second). With six top-10s at East Lake, look for Furyk to be there on Sunday afternoon.
Zach Johnson (TOUR Championship Odds: +2200): Johnson was fifth at Cog Hill, and he certainly likes East Lake: he has the course record there with his 60 in 2007. He has four top-20s in his last five events and he’s improved his score each week in the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Heath Slocum (TOUR Championship Odds: +10000): Slocum is used to being a darkhorse in your handicapping software, because quite frankly, he wasn’t even supposed to be here at this point. He jumped from 124th in the 125-player FedEx field to third with his surprising win at Liberty National in the first event, but has since cooled off with a missed-cut and a T-38. In his last East Lake appearance in 2007, Slocum came in T-17.
Prediction: Padraig Harrington (+1400) should win the event as he has five top-10s in a row, including four in the top-six, but he needs to win and for Woods to finish third or worse, which isn’t the best scenario. Woods to win the FedEx Cup is one of the easiest sports picks of the weekend.
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* – Tiger Woods photo credit: TopNews.in
