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 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…
2008 U.S. Open is still Tiger Woods’ Show
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
The latest main tournament in golf is underway.
The 2008 United States Open Golf Championships, commonly known as the 2008 U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. This month, the U.S. Open golf championships will be held from June 9-15.
It is one of the four major championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. From 2008, it will also be an official money event on the Asian Tour, with 50 percent of Asian Tour members’ earnings counting towards the Order of Merit.
Who are the favorites to win this year’s U.S. Open? Of course, the name Tiger Woods will be present in this list. The question SHOULD BE, who will take on the Tiger?
One name synonymous to that is Phil Mickelson, who is coming off a dramatic 1-shot victory at Colonial in which he virtually pulled a rabbit out of his hat for a birdie on the 72nd hole to clinch the win. Both Woods and Mickelson are always considered contenders any time they tee it up, but given their recent track records, it seems Mickelson has the advantage this time.
There are two reasons why Mickelson has to be considered the favorite in this year’s U.S. Open. The first is that Tiger will tee it up not having played a competitive round since the Masters. SURE, if there is anyone who can take two months off and come back and win a major championship, it is Tiger. But still, doing that will be near to an impossibility.
The second reason why Phil Mickelson has to be considered the favorite is the fact that he is already in that conversation about the top 20 players of all time. Another couple of majors, especially a U.S. Open, and he is in the discussion among the top 10 golfers of all time. It almost feels like it is his time to win a…
PGA tour Betting: Tiger Woods is 2/2 With Win At 2008 Dubai Desert Classic
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
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The campaign of American golfer Tiger Woods for the 2008 PGA Tour is on a perfect start. Just a few weeks ago, Tiger Woods played in his first tournament of the 2008 PGA Tour, and won the 2008 Buick Invivational. And just over the weekend, Tiger Woods played in his 2nd tournament of 2008 and won the 2008 Dubai Desert Classic (not a PGA Tour event), bringing him to a perfect start of 2-of-2 in tournaments and championships. Undoubtedly, the world’s number 1 golfer is on a hot streak, and surpasses the record of Arnold Palmer in most tournament wins.
Soney Open Preview: Vijay Singh back at his old killing form?
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
The comment came from way out in left field or, more appropriately in golf vernacular, from way down at the end of the driving range. But here was Vijay Singh, the PGA Tour’s most legendary workaholic, talking about maybe needing to finally act like someone in his mid-40s, someone who might actually need to back [...]
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