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Rickie Fowler Wins Rookie of the Year; Lee Westwood Rants on Twitter

December 07, 2010   Mick Elliott   No comments

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Rickie Fowler did not win on the PGA Tour this year. He did have seven top 10 finishes.

Rory McIlroy had one victory, and five top 10s — two of them, however, runner-up finishes in majors.

Fowler finished 32nd on the PGA Tour money list. McIlroy 36th. Both played in the Ryder Cup — Fowler for the U.S. and Northern Ireland’s McIlroy for Europe.

And on Saturday Fowler was named PGA Tour Rookie of the Year.

You have a problem with that?

A number of people do. Among them world No. 1 Lee Westwood who went off on Twitter. We cleaned up the abbreviations to make it more readable, but even if not, Westwood’s message was clear.

“Sorry 140 letters is not going to be enough for this rant!” he ranted. “Just seen Rickie Fowler has been given rookie of the year! Yes he’s had a good year but Rory McIlroy third in two majors and an absolute demolition of the field at Quail Hollow! Oh yes and on the winning Ryder cup team! Please! Is this yet another case of protectionism by the PGA Tour or are they so desperate to win something! Wouldn’t have something to do with Rory not joining the tour next year?”

 

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Matt Kuchar for Player of the Year? Yeah, It’s Been That Weird of a Year

August 31, 2010   Mick Elliott   No comments

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The only way the PGA Tour 2010 season could get much stranger is if right in the middle of this week’s Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston — the second in the four-event FedEx Cup playoff series — a hurricane hits the New England coastline and …

Uh, oh.

So far this year Tiger went tabloids and Phil went to an arthritis specialist, meaning the top two players in the world ranking have a combined one victory. Three guys who couldn’t get through the clubhouse buffet line without photo ID when the year began have won the last three majors. Dustin Johnson learned that a bunker does not always look like a bunker. Jim Furyk, not exactly a night stalker, overslept and was disqualified from last week’s FedEx opener. And Matt Kuchar suddenly is the leading candidate for player of the year.

Unless he gets blown away this weekend.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center is projecting a strong possibility of Hurricane Earl swiping New England, warning coastal residents from North Carolina to Maine to watch the storm closely. Early predictions suggest a weekend arrival.

 

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Bernhard Langer Edges Corey Pavin to Win Senior British Open

July 25, 2010   FanHouse Newswire   No comments

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AP) — Bernhard Langer won his first senior major title on Sunday, holding off a final-round challenge from Corey Pavin for a one-stroke win in the Senior British Open.

The German shot a 1-over 72 at Carnoustie to finish at 5-under 279. Pavin ended with a 1-under 70.

“I have always wanted to win the British Open,” Langer said. “I didn’t. Now this is the next best thing.”

Pavin, the American Ryder Cup captain, trailed by three shots at the start of the fourth round but cut the gap to two when he birdied his second hole of the day.

Langer survived three-putting both the 8th and 9th greens. After making birdie at 15, he parred his way to his 11th win in three years on the Champions Tour.

 

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Sizzling Couples Sets Another Mark, Wins Third Straight Champions Event

March 29, 2010   FanHouse Newswire   No comments

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Fred CouplesCAP CANA, Dominican Republic (AP) — When Fred Couples joined the Champions Tour, most everyone predicted success befitting a 15-time PGA Tour winner and Masters champion.

Judging from his first four events, everyone was right.

Couples won his third straight start on the 50-and-over tour Sunday, shooting a course-record 10-under 62 at Jack Nicklaus-designed Punta Espada for a two-stroke victory over Corey Pavin in the Cap Cana Championship.

“I had a great stretch of golf in 1992,” said Couples, who won three tournaments, including the Masters, in a two-month period then, “but I must say that these four weeks on the Champions Tour I’m not missing many shots.”

Couples made 11 birdies in the final round and finished the tournament at 21-under 195. Pavin closed with a 66.

“It was an unbelievable day,” said Couples, who made five birdies in a row from the second through sixth hole. “The first six or seven holes, there was an eagle, birdies and putts going in from everywhere.”

The 50-year-old Couples is the first player in Champions Tour history to win three of his first four tournaments, and the eighth to win three straight starts, leaving him one behind the tour record set by Chi Chi Rodriguez in 1987.

 

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Who Gets Stuck With Tiger at Masters?

March 23, 2010   Mick Elliott   No comments

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Mark O'Meara, Tiger Woods
A week of notes, quotes and golf gossip …

Even at Augusta National, where there is no detail too small to orchestrate, Tiger Woods‘ return to competitive golf at next month’s Masters promises a scene that will border on the ridiculous.

That begs the question: Who gets stuck as the unwilling accomplices, the two players who will complete the threesome and, by no fault of their own, have to play their first two days of the Masters with Woods?

“You know, you’d like to say treat it as a normal week,” Padraig Harrington said. “I don’t think it’s going to happen. But I think that certainly in terms of outwardly, I think that’s how it will happen then. You know, it will be a normal draw.”

There’s no basic formula used, at least not one that is known, for Masters groupings. On Tuesday of tournament week, they’re announced. No further explanation needed.

Such latitude has brought suggestions that no legitimate contender should be burdened by being part of the Woods circus. If Augusta National wanted to signal its disappointment with the Woods’ sideshow, it could send him off last with one of the aging past champs whose participation is more ceremonial than competitive.

 

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Finchem: Tiger’s Drug Tests Clean

February 23, 2010   Mick Elliott   No comments

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Tim Finchem
A week of notes, quotes and golf gossip …

Reading between the lines of last week’s public address by Tiger Woods, two things jumped out.

First, while Woods acknowledged having already spent time in rehab and said he had scheduled an immediate return, never did he identify the type of rehabilitation he was undergoing. It has only been speculated that he is receiving treatment for sexual addition.

Also, Woods made a point to label false all speculation of “performance enhancing drugs.”

Because early reports in the Woods saga suggested a dependency on the pain medicine Vicodin and sleep aid Ambien, could there be more to Woods’ rehab than meets the eye?

Statements by Tim Finchem, however, do not support any suspicious theories.

The PGA Tour commissioner said Woods has, on several occasions, been among players selected at-random for golf’s new drug tests.

 

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Torrey Pines Barely Weathered Storm

January 26, 2010   Mick Elliott   No comments

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A week of notes, quotes and golf gossip …

This week’s PGA Tour stop at Torrey Pines was without a title sponsor until Farmers Insurance came to an 11th-hour agreement seven day’s before the start of tournament week.

Then it rained.

Four consecutive days.

As soon as the Farmers Insurance Open became official, the goal for tournament organizers was to create a presentation that looked as if the new sponsor had been on site for months, not days.

 

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