Yang beats Tiger Woods to win PGA Title
Monday, August 17th, 2009
That means Tiger will be concluding the PGA season with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
You read it, Tiger lost yet another Major, losing out on the opportunity to conclude the year with the 2009 PGA Championship. This will be the first time Tiger will finish the year without a Major. Leading us to believe that the injury he suffered a few months ago could be more serious than we thought.
So instead of a victorious Tiger Woods to end the golfing season on a high note, (since most golf fans root for Tiger to win EVERYTHING anyway…) we have this 37-year-old Korean old fart Y.E. Yang celebrating as if it was only the first time he won something big through all the years he has been playing this game.
Wait, it was the first time Y.E. Yang won something big on a golf course. And what a memorable win it was since he just became one of a few people who managed to take down Tiger.
What made it even more special is the fact that Tiger looked unstoppable, looking like he was on his way to finally winning his first Major of the year. Hell, he was on top of the leaderboard, leading by more than one shot going into the final round of the tournament. And do you know how Tiger finishes when he’s on top at crunch time? An unbeatable 14-0.
The problem is, Y.E. Yang wasn’t even remotely intimidated by it all.
”It’s not like you’re in an octagon where you’re fighting against Tiger and he’s going to bite you, or swing at you with his 9-iron,” Yang said through an interpreter. ”The worst that I could do was just lose to Tiger. So I really had nothing much at stake.”
After Yang saw Woods in birdie range…
Can Tiger Woods win the PGA Title?
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
In case you haven’t noticed, he has yet to bag his first major of the year.
Although Tiger Woods won this past weekend’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, he is batting .000 at golf majors this year. Tiger finished sixth at the Masters and the U.S. Open and missed the cut at the British Open.
With the final major of the year, the 2009 PGA Championship, beginning on Thursday, you can be sure Tiger will be gunning for the top; as always he is the odds-on favorite to win at +140 from the posted golf betting odds at SPORTSBETTING.COM.
While Tiger hasn’t won a major, he has had a solid year in 2009, picking off a few tournaments as he comes back from knee surgery. And if it means anything, Tiger enters the last major of the year having won his last two consecutive tournaments, the Bridgestone and the Buick Open (making it five wins in 2009).
While Woods missed last year’s event, he did win the last two PGA Championships before that (2006 and 2007).
Meanwhile, Padraig Harrington blew up late in his final round last week, handing the Bridgestone Invitational to Woods. He now heads to Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota as the defending champ of PGA championship. Online sportsbooks have him listed at +1000 to defend his title.
With the exception of last weekend’s second place finish, Harrington has had a horrible season, missing the cut in six of his 15 tournaments this year.
Besides the missed cuts, he finished no higher than…
The 2009 United States Open Begins
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
We’ll see soon enough if Tiger Woods is really back to his old form.
The 2009 U.S. Open Championship golf tournament promises to be an exhilarating test of pure skill as current US Open champion, Tiger Woods, is determined to defend his title.
You read it, the U.S. Open is on as the world’s top pro golfers will be forced to play accurate drives down the pinched narrow fairways and avoid the ‘’open roughs’’ before lining up their pitches and putts with careful precision in a course from hell that has been compared to ‘’trying to hit a ball on top of a VW Beetle.’’
The 2009 version will take place on the Bethpage Black course at Farmingdale, New York from June 18 to 21.
Bethpage Black is a challenging test of golf at par 71 and a staggering distance of 7,297 yards. The USGA is in charge of the U.S. Open and they make the playing conditions so difficult that only the stout of heart have a chance to win.
Two of the main challengers to Tiger Woods will be Angel Cabrera and Geoff Ogilvy; Cabrera won the U.S. Open in 2007 and Ogilvy was the champion in 2006. Henrik Stenson of Sweden, on the other hand, won the recent Players’ Championship and stamped himself as a leading contender for the U.S. Open title. Stenson was rock-solid coming down the homestretch of the Players.
Ireland’s Padraig Harrington is another threat to the American players. Harrington has a history of playing well and winning in the major tournaments
Phil Mickelson should be a contender as well, but he has a history of yielding to the fierce pressure of the U.S. Open. Of course, it would still be foolish to count Mickelson out. He’s, after all, a past Master’s winner.
The U.S. Open golf tournament is the second…
Tiger Woods gets 71 in the first round
Friday, March 13th, 2009
Tiger Woods ran into some trouble upon his return to stroke play in the CA Championship. Tiger Woods shot 71 this Thursday in the first round at the Doral CA Championships. This marks the first stroke play Tiger Woods has played in since his 2008 US Open victory over Rocco Mediate dwindling down to a playoff at last year. Despite the efforts, Tiger Woods wound up behind Jeev Milkha Singh, Prayed Marksaeng and Retief Goosen who all scored 65.
If Tiger Woods wins this year’s Doral CA Championship, it would be the fourth time he won the said event in five years.
What makes this a far fetched idea for the great Tiger Woods is that he still has little rust after suffering a PGA season ending injury last year. It was highly uncharacteristic of Tiger Woods to have a stat sheet that says he was 1 out of 11 in his putts that had atleast a 10 feet distance to the hole. However just to note the play Tiger Woods had, he scored three birdies while only getting two bogeys.
“I was just a touch off, either driving the ball just through the fairways or not hitting it close enough or lipping out,” Tiger Woods said “Just one of those days. It’s not like I was playing poorly or struggling all the way around or struggling on the greens, not having my speed. I had all that, I felt good all day. It’s just a matter of getting the ball in a little bit faster.”
Even if Tiger Woods…
Tiger Woods returns Wednesday
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
He’s baaack.
Tiger Woods, who hasn’t played a single golf tournament since his dramatic U.S. Open win last June, said he would return to the links this week to tee it up in the Accenture Match Play Championship.
Woods has been sidelined since he won his 14th major at Torrey Pines. Just days after the tense playoff victory over Rocco Mediate, the world’s top golfer announced he would undergo season-ending knee surgery. As a result, he missed the year’s final two majors, the Open Championship and the PGA, along with the Ryder Cup.
More than eight months after Woods winced and wobbled on one good leg to win the U.S. Open, the world’s No.1 golfer said his reconstructed left knee and his game were in good enough shape to compete.
He signed up for the 2009 Accenture Match Play Championship, which begins Wednesday just outside Tucson, Ariz., and where Woods will hit his first real shot in 253 days.
The return of Woods was welcomed by the PGA Tour, which has seen television ratings plummet in his absence. Even the players, whom Woods has routinely beaten while compiling 65 victories, began skipping events as well.
In the eight months that Woods has been gone, Padraig Harrington won two majors, the Americans won the Ryder Cup and Vijay Singh won the FedEx Cup. But with a mainstream audience, golf lost relevance without Woods.
Woods has not been seen inside the…
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