Jim Litke
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/ 30 January 2006

Letting go of Tiger’s tail

Nobody ever hangs on long enough to beat Tiger Woods. Some guys peel off early, some in the middle of a round, and a tough few, like Jose Maria Olazabal at the Buick Invitational, only when their fingernails are pulled all the way back. But they all let go of Tiger’s tail, eventually.

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/ 20 September 2004

There is no ‘I’ in the Ryder Cup

There is no ”I” in Ryder Cup. It’s a lesson the United States players and captains on the past 10 teams have stubbornly refused to learn. Europe won seven of those matches, including four of the last five, and the only US win in that latest run — at Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1999 — required the greatest final-day comeback in the history of the tournament.