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Bill Haas, Phil Mickelson Lead; Collection of Talent Strokes Away at Torrey Pines

January 29, 2011   Mick Elliott   No comments

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SAN DIEGO — Phil Mickelson and Bill Haas are 12 under par and share the lead going into Sunday’s final round of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. Hunter Mahan, Bubba Watson, Anthony Kim and rookie Jhonattan Vegas are within three strokes as the sun-splashed week heads to the finish line.

What could possibly be wrong with a tournament like that?

Funny you should ask.

Sitting adjacent to Torrey Pines golf complex is the Scripps Clinic. When a visitor to the medical center arrived this week for a scheduled doctor’s appointment, she was confounded by signage in the parking lot that announced “NO ACCESS FOR FARMERS.”

Clinic officials are now aware of a coming petition demanding that in the future they accept the area’s farm workers for treatment.

 

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Farmers Insurance Open Power Rankings: Tiger Tops, Lefty Flops

January 26, 2011   B.J. George   No comments

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Phil MickelsonThe Farmers Insurance Open will likely mark the unofficial start to the 2011 PGA season for a lot of fans with Tiger Woods making his debut. Couple that with Phil Mickelson, pictured, and Torrey Pines is looking at its best tournament in the last few years. There’s no need to re-hash all of the storylines surrounding the 3rd-ranked player in the world (doesn’t sound right, does it?) so let’s give you what you need to know.

This challenging South course on the Pacific Coast in San Diego will test the field off the tee. It will be played at around 7,600 yards and ranked one of the more difficult non-major courses in 2010. While the length is significant, accuracy will also be at a premium with challenging rough and tough recoveries around the greens.

With that said, let’s take a look at the field and how it breaks down from our perspective.

Surging on Sunday

1. Tiger Woods — Look, I honestly don’t think Torrey Pines will be the site of Woods’ welcome back party, but his past results here are amazing. The last time playing here, Woods rode one bum knee to a U.S. Open playoff victory over Rocco Mediate. Prior to missing this tournament the past two years, he won it four straight times. And you have to believe that falling to third in the world rankings has ultra-competitive Woods motivated.

2. Bill Haas — The 28-year-old is playing the best golf of his career. After a breakout 2010, Haas lost in a playoff last week and finished T8 at the Tournament of Champions. After a T11 showing here in 2009, Haas failed to break 70 last year and ended T37. He hasn’t shot a round outside of the 60s this year so don’t expect a repeat of 2010.

3. Nick Watney — The 2009 winner has recorded just 11 bogeys in his last 144 holes at Torrey Pines and has finished top 10 in three of the last four years. This will be the first start of 2011 for the newly married Watney, and he’ll try to carry over his success from a year ago. He failed to record a win but only missed two cuts and finished outside of the top 25 just 10 times in 25 starts.

4. Justin Rose — There isn’t enough love for Rose this week as 2010 marked the best season for the Englishman as he recorded two wins and two other top 10s. This year, Rose has a T12 at the Tournament of Champions and a T13 at the Sony Open. Even with a 75 in his first round of the year, Rose still sits T14 in scoring with a 69.04 average. This will be the first time he’s played this tournament in consecutive years so maybe it will be his most prepared.

5. Robert Allenby — The Australian missed the cut in his only event this season but don’t let that fool you. One of the top all-around players on Tour last year and had two solo 2nd place finishes. He closed out the year with two top 5s in his final three starts. Allenby’s history at Torrey Pines isn’t too bad either – T9 at this event in 2010 and 2007.

 

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Golf’s Storylines for 2011: Tiger’s Major Rebound, PGA Tour’s Health in the Mix

January 03, 2011   Mick Elliott   No comments

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Back from a short winter nap, the PGA Tour returns to Hawaii this week to start another season, bringing with it an assorted shopping list of questions, needs and challenges.

After play begins Thursday at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Kapalua, the new season will drag out for more than 11 full months. If history tells us anything, the long grind will produce new chapters to old stories, fresh faces, surprise winners, disappointing losers, great shots, miserable meltdowns and a fair share of ambivalence.

And when it is finally over, there will be a handful of stories, players and issues that shape the year and impact 2011′s place in golf’s history book.

Here’s 11 for ’11.

1. Tiger Woods — Old news or a new start?

Woods went winless in 2010, the first shutout of his professional career, because of a number of reasons — including bad golf.

The swing can be rebuilt. He’s done it before. The work with new coach Sean Foley, which began in August, should be ready to pay dividends by the time Woods makes his season debut (probably late this month in San Diego).

But can Woods, who turned 35 last week (Dec. 30), again show the mental toughness and confidence that distinguished him on the way to 14 major championships and almost six consecutive years as the world’s No. 1 player?

Woods remains four behind Jack Nicklaus’ all-time record of 18 major championships and the march that once seemed destined now makes for a good debate.

 

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One Final Go-Round for PGA Tour 2010

November 16, 2010   Mick Elliott   No comments

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Phil and Amy Mickelson after his Masters win

The PGA Tour season ended Sunday — 45 weeks and 46 tournaments after it began the first week of January.

There were 39 different winners. Ninety players earned more than $1 million each. Jim Furyk topped the tour in wins — three — including the Tour Championship. Matt Kuchar, with only one victory but 11 top 10s, claimed the money title with $4,910,477.

Europe beat the U.S. to win the Ryder Cup. Tiger Woods went oh-for-2010, the first winless season of his pro career. Vijay Singh, ranked among the world’s top 20 players since 1997, finished this year 86th.

England’s Lee Westwood, despite only one 2010 win worldwide and still without a major championship, took over the world No. 1 ranking, bumping Tiger from top the spot after 281 consecutive weeks.

Matt Every was suspended for three months of the season after a marijuana possession arrest in his hotel room in Silvis, Ill., while at the John Deere.

John Daly wasn’t arrested.

Dustin Johnson missed a chance to win the PGA Championship because of a two-stroke penalty incurred on the 72nd hole for grounding his club in a bunker that he didn’t know was a bunker — because he didn’t bother to read the local rules sheet.

Fred Couples turned 50 and went to the Champions Tour.

Paul Goydos (first round of the John Deere) and Stuart Appleby (final round, Greenbrier) shot 59s.

John Daly didn’t get divorced.

Phil Mickelson won the Masters for his fourth career major, but other than announcing he was going vegetarian, didn’t do anything interesting the rest of the year.

Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy became the season’s youngest winner — 20 year, 11 months, 28 days — at Quail Hollow.

Rocco Mediate was the oldest — 37 years, 10 months — winning the Frys.com.

John Daly didn’t trash a hotel room.

And you thought the year was boring.

Actually, there were more memorable moments than the statistics might suggest:

 

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Jonathan Byrd Wins Shriners Open With Hole-in-One

October 24, 2010   Mick Elliott   No comments

All that fun stuff you hear about in Las Vegas that nobody is supposed to talk about? It usually happens after dark. The PGA Tour’s Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open was no exception.

“I couldn’t see it” said Jonathan Byrd.

On this occasion, Byrd had good reason for the temporary blackout.

The script wasn’t looking promising Sunday night at TPC Summerlin. After a 72-hole regulation play ended in a three-way tie, Byrd, Martin Laird and Cameron Percy were heading to the fourth playoff hole as daylight was fading fast.

Before stepping to the 204-yard par 3 17th hole (for the third time of the day) the three players were given the option by PGA Tour officials to continue play or return Monday morning to decide a winner.

If any of the three had declined to go forward, play would have been halted until Monday. When Byrd was asked, he offered to go with the flow.

“Whatever you guys want to do,” he said.

The agreement was to press on.

They didn’t have to go far.

 

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Anthony Kim’s Nightlife, Shriners Withdrawal Spark Rumors

October 21, 2010   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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Anthony Kim, a noted party boy, is having his alleged nighttime antics lead to questions about his withdrawal from the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Open.

Kim was in Las Vegas for the event, and quickly tales of his behavior surfaced. One report had Kim dubbed a “loose cannon” by a dealer at the Bellagio. A tweet from DJ Exodus, who was performing at a club in Vegas, read, “Anthony Kim is an animal 115 bottles then to top it off a 25k bottle of Dom, which he showered the dance floor with.”

Kim withdrew from the Open Wednesday night, citing the thumb injury that cost him the second half of the season. Some believe the partying played a role in the withdrawal.

 

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Shriners Open Preview: Rickie Fowler’s Chance to Shine

October 20, 2010   B.J. George   No comments

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Martin LairdAs the PGA Tour enters the final two weeks of its season, players head to Las Vegas for the Justin Timberlake Shiners Hospitals for Children Open in what shapes up to be an exciting tournament.

The field, highlighted by 10 winners on Tour this season, will be taking dead aim at TPC Summerlin. This par 72, 7,243-yard course yielded 1,821 birdies a year ago — the highest total of any tournament in 2009. Martin Laird, pictured right, recorded two eagles and 23 birdies on his way to a 19-under total and a playoff victory over Chad Campbell and George McNeill.

While both Laird and Campbell return to Las Vegas in 2010, much of this week’s attention will be focused on rookie Ricky Fowler. The 21-year-old has enjoyed a breakout year with five top 5s and a top 25 standing on the money list. A win would make him one of the youngest winners on tour since Tiger Woods notched his first career victory at this tournament in 1996 at the age of 20.

If Fowler can pull off the win, he would be the 10th first-time winner in the tournament’s 29-year history. And you have to like his chances. Fowler returns to his home course after finishing fifth in putting last year, so look for him to know use his familiarity with the course to get a leg up on the field.

 

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Anthony Kim Stumbles in Last Chance to Impress for Ryder Cup

September 04, 2010   FanHouse Newswire   No comments

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Anthony KimNORTON, Mass. (AP) — Anthony Kim‘s only hope now is to persuade Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin with words, not scores.

In his final chance to make an impression before Pavin announces his four picks Tuesday, Kim opened with a 68 and then crashed out Saturday with a 76 to miss the cut in the Deutsche Bank Championship.

Does he have a chance?

“If he believes my game will come around in a month,” Kim said in the locker room as he finishing writing notes to his pro-am partners. “If he judges me on my last two weeks, I probably won’t be a pick.”

The 25-year-old Kim, fresh off a victory in the Houston Open and a third-place finish at the Masters, was No. 2 in the Ryder Cup standings when he decided to have surgery on his thumb that kept him out for three months.

Since his return, Kim was 76th out of 79 players at Firestone (where there is no cut), then missed the cut in his next four events. He fell out of the automatic eight qualifiers at the PGA Championship.

 

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Breaking Down Corey Pavin’s Most Likely Ryder Cup Picks

September 03, 2010   Mick Elliott   No comments

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Flick the lights. It’s last call.

Tuesday in New York, one day after this week’s Deutsche Bank Championship is scheduled to be completed, U.S. Ryder Cup team captain Corey Pavin announces his four at-large picks for the October matches in Wales.

Eight players — Phil Mickelson, Hunter Mahan, Bubba Watson, Steve Stricker, Jim Furyk, Jeff Overton, Dustin Johnson, and Matt Kuchar — already have secured spots on the team off a two-year points system.

Now Pavin gets the chance to put his lasting fingerprints on the team that will be a heavy underdog at Celtic Manor.

Only Mickelson (seven), Mahan (one), Stricker (one) and Furyk (six) have Ryder Cup experience.

“I am excited at the mix of youth, experience, aggressiveness and consistency of these players,” Pavin has said.

But the team’s success will inevitably be determined by Pavin’s four captain’s picks.

 

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Wyndham Championship Roundtable: Last Shot for Playoffs

August 18, 2010   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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Ryan MooreAs the dust settles on the PGA Championship and the controversy that we’ll coin “Bunker-gate at Whistling Straits,” the PGA Tour rolls on to the final event of the regular season with the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club.

Wyndham offers the final chance for players outside of the top 125 FedEx Cup point rankings to qualify for the PGA Tour Playoffs.

Last year, Kevin Stadler cashed in. He was ranked 133rd in FedExCup points entering the tournament, but rose to the top of the leaderboard to enter the three way playoff with Ryan Moore (pictured) and Jason Bohn. The three finished regulation play tied at 16-under. And while Bohn was eliminated on the first playoff hole after having trouble escaping the greenside bunker, Stadler’s presence in the playoff was enough to jump him to 76th in the standings and qualify for the PGA Playoffs.

Meanwhile, Moore won his first PGA Tour event in style. He had charged up the leaderboard with five consecutive birdies on the back nine Sunday on the way to shooting a 65. Then, on the final playoff hole, Moore landed his approach on the 18th hole six feet from the pin and then rolled in the birdie putt to beat out Stadler and grab his first career Tour win. The victory came in Moore’s 112th event on the PGA Tour.

It also helps that Sergio Garcia blew a three-stroke lead midway through the final round, shot a 70 and finished fourth.

But that’s last year’s news. This year, the PGA Tour has been a wild guessing game with first-time major winners — Graeme McDowell, Louis Oosthuizen and Martin Kaymer — winning three out of four of the season’s majors.

Now, players have their sights set on the four-event PGA Tour Playoffs. Who can get some much-needed help at Wyndham, how will the new cell phone policy play out and, of course, our winner picks are all in this week’s FanHouse Roundtable.

 

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