LAS VEGAS – It was a day that featured plenty of hype, but not the high-level golf to match. Here are a few thoughts and observations after watching Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson go toe-to-toe for five hours before their $9 million match was settled on a tee shot from the putting green: • Let’s […]
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Ninety-three yards for $9 million. That’s how The Match was determined. It was an appropriate ending – a contrived finish to a contrived event. Phil Mickelson, on the 22nd hole of the event, under the greenside spotlights, made birdie from 4 feet to defeat Tiger Woods and capture the winner-take-all prize. “To be able to […]
Phil Mickelson defeated Tiger Woods over 22 holes in the $9 million, winner-take-all event at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas. Click here to check out photos from The Match.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Ducks waded through standing water on fairways. Some bunkers flooded. Golfers put waterproof winter mittens on between shots. Ah yes. Welcome to the World Cup of Golf on Friday at Metropolitan. If the format was match play, the rain, cold and windy weather would have beaten the golfers, 10 and 8. […]
MELBOURNE, Australia – Thomas Detry thought the rainy, windy and generally awful conditions were so bad at Metropolitan Golf Club on Friday that they wouldn’t be able to finish the round. When they did, he and Belgium teammate Thomas Pieters were tied for the lead with South Korea at the World Cup of Golf. Pieters […]
HONG KONG – Aaron Rai shot a course-record 61 to take a four-stroke lead after the second round at the Hong Kong Open on Friday, as his fellow Englishman Tommy Fleetwood moved into contention in the first European Tour event of the 2019 season. Starting at No. 10, Rai – who wears gloves on both […]
MELBOURNE, Australia – Jhonattan Vegas woke up Thursday expecting the worst of Melbourne’s weather after officials moved up the tee times by an hour to try to beat expected rain in the afternoon. He was pleasantly surprised to see the sun shining. He and his Venezuelan partner Joseph Naffah shot 7-under 65 and were three […]
HONG KONG – The 2019 European Tour got underway on Thursday with Aaron Rai, Jason Scrivener and Yusaku Miyazato shooting 5-under 65s to share the lead after the first round of the Hong Kong Open. They were already 10 strokes ahead of Masters champion Patrick Reed, who made four bogeys and a double bogey in a […]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Jack Nicklaus says if he were in a high-stakes match in Las Vegas in his prime, the most compelling opponent would be Arnold Palmer. Never mind that he considers his toughest rival to be Tom Watson. Or that he finished runner-up to Lee Trevino in majors four times in seven years. […]