November 6th, 2011 | Comments Off
Phil Mickelson is one of the PGA Tour’s most recognizable and popular players. He has won four majors and a total of 39 events over a 19 year career on tour. Will he win more tournaments? Will he win more majors? Answer to the first question is “yes”. Seven players have won at least seven tournaments after age 40. Vijay Singh has won an astonishing 22 times after turning 40. Kenny Perry has won 11 times, Steve Stricker eight times. Mickelson’s game is still
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November 2nd, 2011 | Comments Off
Five years ago Tiger Woods was not only the most dominant golfer in the world, he was arguably the most dominate person in sports. No matter where he was playing he was always the favorite. And while he may not have won every week he at least did enough to make it interesting, something that couldn’t be said about the other golfers out there. He never seemed out of an event. You got the feeling that being down by nine strokes with nine holes to go wasn’t cause for concern. Plus, everyone else out there on the course could
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October 29th, 2011 | Comments Off
While it may be eight months away it’s never too early to start looking ahead to the 2012 British Open. For the first time since 2001 the open will return to the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, England. Located on the western coast of England, golfers can expect everything that they have grown to love (and hate) about the British Open: wind and rain, all in unpredictable fashion. Yes, it could be sunny and calm when you start on the first hole and rainy and windy by the
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October 28th, 2011 | Comments Off
The Olympic Club in San Francisco hosts the 2012 U.S. Open for the first time since Lee Janzen won the open title there in 1998. It’s a ways away, but it’s never too soon to wonder who the 2012 winner might be.
The 2011 Open winner, Rory McIlroy, comes first to mind. However, winning the U.S. Open in back to back years is rare. The last golfer to accomplish it was Curtis Strange in 1988 and 1989.
Luke Donald is certainly on a roll. With his win last week, Donald secured
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