Tiger Woods said he would like to see testing on the PGA Tour for performance-enhancing drugs as soon as possible to make sure golf remains clean. ”I don’t know when we could get that implemented,” Woods said. ”Tomorrow would be fine with me.” Woods did not say he thought anyone was using steroids, but said it could be a problem in the future.
Annika Sorenstam was so tired from playing 54 holes in two days that she took Tuesday off after winning the US Women’s Open. Pat Hurst was exhausted before she got to the first tee for the 18-hole play-off, and that was after a night of rest. Imagine how Billy Burke and George Von Elm must have felt.
Jim Furyk avenged last year’s playoff loss at the Wachovia Championship by returning for another try on Sunday, and claimed the crown with a six-foot putt on the first extra hole to beat South Africa’s Trevor Immelman. A hard-luck loser in a four-hole playoff last year, Furyk made an eight-foot par putt to force extra holes and then sunk the winner for par on number 18.
Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods met in Butler Cabin for the second straight year at the Masters for a role reversal not seen at Augusta National in more than 40 years. Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer — rivals briefly, driving forces as long as they played — took turns helping each other into the green jacket for three straight Masters ending in 1965.
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/ 18 February 2006
Rory Sabbatini overcame a sloppy start in frigid temperatures and then ran off five straight birdies and finished strong for a six-under 65 that put him atop the Nissan Open leaderboard among the early starters on Friday. The South African was in the second group and faced temperatures below eight degrees Celsius.
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/ 15 February 2006
Ernie Els returns to the United States PGA Tour for the first time in eight months, and he could not have picked a more appropriate setting than Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles. The Hollywood script of his career undoubtedly would start with something like, ”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” and it would take place at the fabled course off Sunset Boulevard.
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/ 31 October 2005
Carl Pettersson steadied his nerves and his swing down the stretch and scored an even-par 71 to win the Chrysler Championship for his first United States PGA Tour victory on Sunday. Chad Campbell made five birdies on the back nine in a terrific charge, including a 12-foot putt that swirled into the cup on the 18th hole.
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/ 19 October 2005
Annika Sorenstam must be wondering what she has to do to be noticed. All she did at the Samsung World Championship last weekend was remind anyone watching why she rules her world. Despite a double bogey on the last hole, she won by eight shots.
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/ 18 October 2005
The first sign that something had gone wrong for Michelle Wie was when she was nowhere to be found more than a half-hour after finishing fourth in her professional debut. An official with the United States LPGA Tour at the Samsung World Championship would only say she was in a meeting.
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/ 28 September 2005
Jack Nicklaus looked as though he wanted a club in his hand, not a radio. But he was Captain Jack at the Presidents Cup, and he stood beside the eighth green to watch his American team play the short par four during the first set of fourball matches. Tiger Woods had left himself a difficult shot from about 50 yards, over a bunker with only 20 feet of green to the hole, a steep ridge behind it.