With Darren Clarke’s win earlier today at the Dutch Open, several golf writers are already predicting that he is a sure thing for Nick Faldo’s Ryder Cup team. Tim Rosaforte of Golf World said on Sunday night’s edition of Golf…

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Rex Hoggard found out that Ben Curtis’ English caddy will not be helping out at next month’s Ryder Cup. Hoggard explains:We’ve heard of players and caddies splitting up for performance reasons, for personal reasons and for punctual reasons. But this…

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MY 2008 RYDER CUP TICKETS arrived in the mail this week. I was excited to get them, especially after my Masters tickets were mistakenly returned to Augusta this past spring. That could have been a disaster.I’m sitting at my desk leafing through the o…

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“And from what I’ve heard, the whole week is extremely long,” Mahan said in the interview. “You’ve got dinners every night – not little dinners, but huge, massive dinners. I know as players, that’s the last thing we want to do. We want to prepare ourselves. That’s part of the whole thing: You’re…

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Justin Rose and Oliver Wilson, eighth and ninth in the European Ryder Cup race entering the penultimate tournament, will go head to head in the first two rounds of the KLM Open starting Thursday.
Rose’s failure to make certain of a place in the Nick Faldo’s side has brought him back from America, where he had [...]

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How about Paul Azinger’s conundrum, huh? Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to escape from a 5 out of 6 losing streak, including 18 1/2 to 9 1/2 thrashings in the last two. Once at home, once on the road. Oh, did I mention that you have to do it without your best player?

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Many fans don’t watch golf unless Tiger Woods is playing.(Lauren/Flickr)“WITHOUT TIGER, TV GOLF IS IN A TAILSPIN” said the headline of a recent story at Golf.com.“Golf’s TV ratings have fallen into the abyss,” wrote Sports Illustrated Senior Ed…

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Ben Curtis (Mike Davis/Flickr)WE NOW KNOW EIGHT of the 12 members of the 2008 U.S. Ryder Cup team. The PGA Championship was the cutoff for earning a spot on the team via the points system. The remaining four team members will be captain’s picks.Here …

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THERE’S A NEW SHERIFF ON TOUR, and he has an Irish brogue and answers to “Paddy.” Padraig Harrington is his full name, and he’s one cold-blooded major winner, snatching two in a row and three of the last six.On Sunday at Oakland Hills, Sheriff …

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WHILE THE 2008 RYDER CUP BUZZ has been growing, I’ve been burning up the keyboard to bring you something new from ARMCHAIR GOLF: a free 27-page report on the 2008 Ryder Cup.This is the first of what I hope will be many special reports. Just sign up a…

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It’s hard to believe that Sergio Garcia is outside of the top-10 in Ryder Cup points. Because of the American media’s obsession with Paul Azinger’s four captain’s picks, I had no idea that Garcia was 24th in the standings. With…

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AS A FOLLOW-UP TO MY PIECE on Dow Finsterwald, I want to point you to a photo gallery I ran across at PGA.com. There are a lot of neat photos of Dow, from his playing days to the present day:Dow photo galleryI failed to mention in my previous post that…

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Miguel Angel Jimenez launches one at The Open Championship.(Steven Newton/Flickr)THEY CALL HIM THE MECHANIC. I’m referring, of course, to Miguel Angel Jimenez, and today on the CBS telecast Faldo and crew were wondering aloud about the nickname. Were…

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Nick Faldo countered the Americans’ latest celebrity hirings with one of his own–Nicko McBrain, drummer of Britain’s heavy metal rock band Iron Maiden. This is slowly but surely turning into the Celebrity Cup.

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YOU’RE DYING TO KNOW, RIGHT? OK, here it is: Neither of us is playing in the British Open.Ba-da-bum. (I’m glad you can’t throw tomatoes at me.)But seriously, Kenny is taking more heat than Phoenix asphalt. Why? What am I missing? Somebody tell me…

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Tommy Armour IIIHEY, HAVE YOU NOTICED? Old is the new good on the PGA Tour.The magic age might just be 48. I mean, 48-year-olds are coming out of the woodwork.You have your Kenny Perry, winner of two 2008 events and a lock for the U.S. Ryder Cup team t…

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Kenny Perry has picked the perfect time to play his best golf in two-plus decades on the PGA Tour.
Perry shot a 6-under 66 on Sunday to win the Buick Open by a stroke at 19 under, giving him two victories in June and his fourth top-six finish in a six-tournament run.
“This is probably the longest [...]

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Stewart Cink (Doyle/Flickr)I CAUGHT THE LAST FEW HOLES of the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut. Mainly, I wanted to see if Stewart Cink could get it done on Sunday. As the Golf Channel pointed out, “Stewie” hasn’t had much Sunday s…

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I DIDN’T REALIZE I was being prophetic when I wrote this pretend flyer on Monday:LOST: One-legged golfer, missing at last major. Answers to Tiger. And U.S. Open champion.I heard the jarring news this afternoon about Tiger Woods regarding the severity…

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OK, KENNY. Nice work. You were due.The old man (47) by PGA Tour standards finally broke through at the Memorial Tournament after coming close the last few weeks at The Players Championship and AT&T Classic.With his third Memorial victory, Kenny Perry i…

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(Pat Perez Golf)I welcome back Pat Perez to ARMCHAIR GOLF. Currently ranked 58th in the world and 50th in FedEx Cup points, Double P is having another solid year on tour that includes two top tens and about $800,000 in earnings after 13 events.That sai…

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(Honeyfield/Flickr)PEOPLE WONDER what happened to David Duval, who once held the world No. 1 ranking for 15 weeks. I know they wonder because their searches bring them to this blog for any Duval scraps they can find.That was especially true this past w…

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(Eddie Honeyfield/Flickr)“The Ryder Cup. Is it a big thing?”?Gaynor Knowles, Colin Montgomerie’s new brideAccording to a rumor reported by Golf.com, the new Mrs. Colin Montgomerie uttered the above question to Monty. And he still married her. M…

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“Underrated” has been following Billy Casper around for years. Casper was a great player who many people either haven’t heard of or don’t know much about.Today at Legends of Golf when they introduced Billy on the first tee, his list of accompli…

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Paul Azinger and Nick Faldo put to rest any debate over a recent Daily Mail article when they spoke out earlier today about their reported feud in two separate interviews. Azinger, with a grin, told Peter Kostis before he teed…

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What’s that saying? Something about no one remembers who finishes in second?Fifty years ago, in 1958, Arnold Palmer won his first Green Jacket. Palmer’s play and charisma combined with television forever changed professional golf. Arnie went on to …

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It’s clear that Freddy Couples and the U.S. Ryder Cup team are desperate. Ron Kroichick of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that Michael Jordan has committed to a supporting role on the team. At the press conference last month, Couples…

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Paul Azinger (Fortsonre/Flickr)I saw this over at the Local Knowledge Blog at GolfDigest.com. The topic is captain’s picks for the U.S. Ryder Cup team.“I think if some guy wins three tournaments in a row on the Nationwide Tour and his last tourname…

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PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Brandt Snedeker exceeded his expectations in 2007. For the year, the Vanderbilt University grad pocketed $2.8 million and had six top tens, including a victory at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina.When a…

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The notification came in the mail on Saturday. By random drawing, I was awarded two daily grounds tickets for the Wednesday practice round at the 37th Ryder Cup at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.It wasn’t my first choice. I applied for tw…

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The first two rounds of the 2008 Masters will be televised by ESPN. The USA Network had covered the opening 36 holes for the past 25 years.(Maybe they just got tired of the theme music.)“With the worldwide reach of ESPN, and their demonstrated leader…

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This year’s President’s Cup was not the most enticing event to watch on Sunday for American fans. The U.S. needed to win only three matches to secure the cup, and the marquee match of the day, which featured Mike Weir…

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The Peter Alliss baby weight question has been answered. During British Open week I wrote that someone had stopped by the ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG wanting to know “how heavy was Peter Alliss as a baby?”(Central Press/Getty Images)(Alliss, of course, is a…

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(Photo: PGACup.com)It’s Open week and people are scouring the Web for all manner of Open golf-related facts. For example, someone stopped by here this morning wanting to know “how heavy was Peter Alliss as a baby?” (Peter Alliss is a BBC golf com…

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Yesterday two strangely coincidental golf things happened:1. My 2008 Masters Tournament Practice Rounds Ticket Application arrived in the mail.2. My 2008 Ryder Cup Ticket Application was sent to me via email.(Both are random drawings.)Look, I’m not sup…

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