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Johnson, Day Share Lead While Woods Struggles at Deutsche Bank |
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Friday, 03 September 2010 06:45 |
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Filed under: PGA, FedEx Cup  NORTON, Mass. (AP) -- Zach Johnson and Jason Day beat up on the course and beat the weather at the Deutsche Bank Championship.
Johnson (pictured) strengthened his Ryder Cup case Friday by rolling in putts from everywhere in easy scoring conditions ahead of Hurricane Earl, giving him an 8-under 63 to share the early lead with Day.
Geoff Ogilvy, without a top 10 on the PGA Tour since he won the season-opener at Kapalua, was 8 under with three holes to play.
On perhaps the easiest day players will see all week, Tiger Woods made it hard on himself.
Woods put his FedExCup playoffs in jeopardy by making four bogeys through six holes, and he had to fight back in occasional bursts of rain for a 1-over 72. He was nine shots out of the lead, likely to start the second round three shots below the cut line.
If he were to miss the cut, he would not make it to the third round next week outside Chicago.
"I'm going to have to shoot something good tomorrow, hopefully move up a little bit," Woods said. "Obviously, get off to a better start than I did today."
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Breaking Down Corey Pavin's Most Likely Ryder Cup Picks |
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Friday, 03 September 2010 02:00 |
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Filed under: PGA, Ryder Cup 
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. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Deutsche Bank Championship Roundtable Preview |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 02:45 |
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Filed under: PGA, Golf Odds and Ends, FedEx Cup  The PGA Tour Playoffs roll on to the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston this week. The top 100 players on the FedExCup points list are in the field, and only 70 will advance to the BMW Championship next week.
Last year at the Deutsche Bank Championship, Steve Stricker (pictured) pulled off a late push to win the tournament with style, finishing with a final-round 67 after sinking two clutch putts for a one-shot victory.
Arriving on the 17th hole, Stricker was one shot back of then-leaders Jason Dufner and Scott Verplank. Stricker proceeded to hit his approach shot to within 15 feet on 17, and then stuffed the birdie putt to take the lead.
Then on the par-5 18th Stricker nailed a drive straight down the middle of the fairway, pounded a hybrid approach shot 234 yards and through the green. His chip shot came to rest within a few feet of the cup, leaving Stricker a tap-in to win.
The victory moved Stricker to a career-high No. 2 world ranking and allowed him to eventually finish third in the FedExCup. "It's been a lot of fun," said Stricker, "It's a lot of fun getting in contention like that, and it's even more fun when you can pull it off like I did today."
And then there was Padraig Harrington.
The three-time major champion held the lead at 16 under when he made the turn, then came apart. Paddy made bogey on 10 and double-bogey on 12, both resulting from poor drives that incurred penalty strokes.
This year, Tiger Woods is on the bubble for next week's BMW Championship and a hurricane could swoop in and knock the whole tournament off its feet. How will the storm affect the tournament? What must Tiger do to qualify for the BMW? The answers, and of course, our picks are all in this week's FanHouse golf roundtable. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Matt Kuchar for Player of the Year? Yeah, It's Been That Weird of a Year |
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 11:30 |
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Filed under: PGA, Ryder Cup, FedEx Cup, Sports Business and Media  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. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Report: Tiger Woods Snags Bachelor Pad in New York |
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 10:15 |
Days after finalizing his divorce, Tiger Woods reportedly moved into a Manhattan apartment.
UsMagazine.com, citing an unnamed source, reported Tuesday that Wood went "introducing himself as the new neighbor," presumably in between rounds or at the conclusion of Barclays in nearby Paramus, N.J.
Woods and Elin Nordegren divorced on Aug. 23, several months after a late-night car crash helped expose several affairs the 14-time major winner had been having. The former couple are sharing custody of their two children and Woods has a home about a mile from Nordegren near Orlando.
Not long after the scandal broke, Woods reportedly purchased a multimillion dollar estate in Nordegren's native Sweden. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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