Monthly Archives: February 2012

Mastery Tidbits: WGC-Accenture Match Play – Part 1

The first round of the Accenture Match Play tournament begins tomorrow at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Dove Mountain, in Marana (North Tucson), Arizona. Today is devoted to practice rounds for the win-or-go-home matches that begin at 7:25 AM local time. … Continue reading

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Force Of Will

Now that we’ve caught our breath from Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley’s masterful heroics making do-or-die birdie putts on 18 to get themselves into a  playoff at Riviera on Sunday, we need to take notice of another master’s heroics. Yani Tseng managed … Continue reading

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Money Games Pay Off

All day long there was a sort of latent tension in the air at the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club in LA. Phil Mickelson, the mentor, and Keegan Bradley, the apprentice, traded shots back and forth with Bradley … Continue reading

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The Mentor and the Apprentice

There are a number of great stories at the top of the leaderboard at the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club: Pat Perez ties for the low round of the tournament Friday, hangs on with a 1-under Saturday and … Continue reading

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Things Don’t Always Have To Be Perfect

Pat Perez shot one of the two low rounds of the day at the Northern Trust Open Friday. The winds and the greens and the course at the Riviera Country Club in LA pretty much befuddled everyone else (except for … Continue reading

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The Never-ending Round

As I predicted–it didn’t take a genius–they weren’t able to finish the first round at the Northern Trust Open. There just wasn’t enough daylight to push 144 guys around Riviera County Club, especially with blustery Santa Ana winds whipping through … Continue reading

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PGA Tour Moves On To Riviera

The Northern Trust Open begins Thursday morning bright and early. Well, maybe bright is a bit of a stretch; the first tee time is 6:45 AM. They have to do that because they have 144 players in the field and … Continue reading

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LPGA Tour Rises Again

The LPGA Tour kicked off their 2012 campaign last week in Melbourne, Australia, in the ISPS Handa Australian Women’s Open. They played it at historic Royal Melbourne and the golf course and the winds gave the girls all they could … Continue reading

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WGC-Accenture Match Play Media Day

Monday was a working holiday. I was invited to attend the World Golf Championship -Accenture Match Play Championship Media Day. Sounds like a mouthful but it was a very cool. It’s going to be played at the Ritz Carlton Dove … Continue reading

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Phil Mickelson Finally Figured It Out

It would be fair to say that Phil Mickelson has had a disappointing season until today. Coming in to the Humana Challenge in Palm Springs, he was super-excited about all of the work that he’d been doing on this swing. … Continue reading

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