Citing unnamed sources, Golf Channel claims that Tiger Woods will return to pro golf at the Open Championship, held this year at Royal Liverpool, where he last won the Open Championship eight years ago. No further information was available, and neither Woods not his agent Marc Steinberg confirmed any timetable for Woods’s comeback. According to the article:...
Since silly season is upon us, it’s time to turn our attention to the yearly Jay’s Golf Awards, known around here as the Jazzys. We’ll recall all the best and worst of the year while mixing in some new course reviews, Cybergolf pieces, and various holiday bric-a-brac before kicking off the new year with Phish at MSG. We’ll highlighting Best...
Indeed perhaps all of the PGA TOUR’s integrity us at stake too. On the one hand we have Simon Dyson facing a three-person disciplinary panel for one offense last week. On the other we have Tiger Woods, the face of golf, not only involved in four eye-raising rules flaps, but facing no disciplinary investigation at all…just a quick chat with Timid Tim...
Woods doesn’t grow golf…he only grows the watching of golf on TV – that’s the premise of Marino Parascenzo’s excellent Cybergolf article this month. Fabulous job – especially now when everyone is jumping in Tiger’s lap and making little cooing sounds in his ear, just begging him to come back and make everything the way it was...
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – On a day that saw 30 mile per hour winds, sideways rain, and the highest scoring average in PGA Championship single round history, Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods surged to 4-under and a tie for the lead with rounds of 3-under 69 and 1-under 71 respectively. Both stand at 4-under (140) for the tournament, tied with Carl Petterson who followed...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – When the journalists, broadcasters, and oddsmakers were asking, “Which Tiger Woods is going to show up this week?” they had the right wording, but weren’t asking the right question. When asking “Which Tiger?” most people were wondering whether we’d see the Tiger who won at the Memorial or the Tiger who...
As usual, Steve Elling is putting on a dominating Tiger-esque performance (As a writer! Not a porn wannabee!) in the best review of Jaime Diaz/Hank Haney’s book on Tiger, “The Big Miss.” From the article: “9. Toilet humor and Tiger This is not a real revelation, since Woods’ comedy leanings are scatological and sophomoric at best and his...
Judging from these photos, Tiger is prepping for the Olympic javelin event with his golf clubs. (The way he putted yesterday he certainly doesn’t belong in the Olympics playing golf, that’s for certain.) Asks Czaban, “Can we get him some straps like on ski poles?” Forbes magazine rated Woods the No. 2 Most Hated Athlete in the World (behind...
CBS Sports reported earlier today that Tiger Woods has hired Dustin Johnson’s caddie Joe LaCava as his new bag man. LaCava replaced Bobby Brown on Johnson’s bag this year after last year’s 72d hole debacle at the PGA Championship, and after a late tee time penalty this year. Woods fired long time bag ape Steve “Stevie” Williams after...
There’s a saying that tiny, seemingly over-matched Sam Gamgee lived by when travelling with Frodo Baggins, Gandalf, Aragorn, and the rest of the heroes that formed the Fellowship of the Ring that battled Mordor: “Your legs are too short, so use your head!” Then, of course, on one occasion when that didn’t work out well he lamented, “Sam...
Ouch! Steve Czaban dissects Tiger Woods’s golf and attitude in a scathing rebuke. From the article: “He’s playing the game right now, for all the wrong reasons. He will say he’s playing to break Nicklaus’ record, but in reality he’s playing the game to someday be able to deliver one last gigantic “forget you”...
Well this is interesting. We usually interview the winning caddie, but not like this. Steve Williams (and that means Tiger Woods’s behavior) overshadowed the sparkling 17-under performance of Adam Scott, a flat out dismantling of Big Bad Firestone, including a jaw-dropping 66-65 finish. The things Williams said in his interview were thinly veiled venom against...
The self-immolation of Tiger Woods continues apace with no signs of slowing down. First, Woods announced today that he fired Steve Williams, who some in the media derided as his “bag ape” and which seemed to fit in certain instances, not the least of which was his throwing a photographer’s camera in a lake. Moreover, CBS’ Steve Elling had a...
BETHESDA, MD – Dan Jenkins sums up the situation with his usual sparkling wit: “Five hours into the U.S. Open and Tiger has yet to make a bogey.” As usual Jenkins is lampooning, indeed skewering the broadcast media for their addiction to ratings, casual eyeballs, and train wrecks. The biggest buzz of the tournament so far is “Tiger’s not...
For the first time since he began playing the event in 1996, Tiger Woods will miss a U.S. Open. The announcement came out of Jacksonville via AP reporter Doug Ferguson that Woods will skip the 2011 U.S. Open at Congressional due to his Achilles injury, and probably also due to symptoms in his left knee, which has endured four surgeries. Woods tweeted, “Not...