Results for October 2007
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Thorpe Wins Schwab Championship
SONOMA, Calif. -- The Charles Schwab Cup Championship will be returning to Sonoma GC in 2008, and Champions Tour officials are talking with the club about a possible 2009 date before the event moves to San Francisco's Harding Park GC in 2010 for a two-year run. If Jim Thorpe could vote with his wallet -- or his heart --...
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Watson Leads And The Race For The Cup Heats Up
SONOMA, Calif. -- By shooting a third-round 67, Brad Bryant pulled within a shot of leader Denis Watson (right) in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Sonoma GC. More interestingly, Bryant positioned himself squarely in the middle of the season-long Schwab Cup points competition. "Hopefully, we won't be worried about scenarios or anything else, and we'll just go play,"...
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A Gentleman Retires
SONOMA, Calif. -- After this weekend, Ben Nelson can pay less attention to the weather forecast and more attention to his golf game. After three years as tournament director for the Champions Tour, which came after a long run as a rules official on the PGA Tour, the 63-year-old Nelson is retiring to his native Mississippi with plenty of stories....
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In The Hunt Can Be The Prize
SONOMA, Calif. -- Dinner would taste good for Denis Watson (right) Friday night. All he did Friday in the second round of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Sonoma GC was birdie the last four holes to shoot a 64 and join Jim Thorpe within one stroke of Eduardo Romero's lead (at 12-under 132) after 36 holes. It was...
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Tom Watson Continues Fight for ALS Cure
SONOMA, Calif.--It's impossible to watch Tom Watson in action at Sonoma G.C., in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, and not think of his late friend and caddie, Bruce Edwards (right). Stricken with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), Edwards was able to work for the last time at the 2003 Schwab Cup Championship. The progressive neurodegenerative disease took his life April...
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Watson Expects Low Scores In Sonoma
SONOMA, Calif.--Pars don't figure to cut it this week at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Sonoma Golf Club. "The course is playing very soft," said Tom Watson, who won here in 2005 on the strength of a final-round 64. "The greens are soft, the fairways are soft. The rough is tough, but the greens aren't hard. It's going to...
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Scott Simpson's Home Also Threatened By Fires
SONOMA, Calif.--Scott Simpson hit practice putts Wednesday after his pro-am round in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. It was an idyllic afternoon, far from the harrowing conditions that caused the 1987 U.S. Open champion to flee his house Monday as a fire threatened his neighborhood in Poway, Calif. "It's the Witch Creek fire," Simpson said. "It probably got within a...
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No Damage to Mickelson's Home
Phil Mickelson's home in Rancho Santa Fe (Calif.) has escaped fire damage, a source told Golf World on Wednesday, but five homes in the same neighborhood, including one across the street, have burned to the ground. Mickelson, whose family evacuated the home Monday, was able to gain access to his property Wednesday, and he's planning to leave Sunday for a...
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Green, Strange Talk Hall Of Fame
Hubert Green and Curtis Strange gave wide-ranging interviews yesterday on the occasion of their Nov. 12 induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame. I was traveling to the Charles Schwab Cup Championship and missed the teleconferences, but enjoyed reading the interview transcripts this morning. One of the best parts was Green's recollection of having had Hugh Durham, the longtime...
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The Rich Get Richer; The Angry Get Angrier
We could come up with our own 500 words to detail the excitement of the PGA Grand Slam of Golf played Tuesday and Wednesday in Bermuda, but Steve Boughey of the New Zealand Herald does just fine. In case you missed it, U.S. Open champion Angel Cabrera pocketed 600 grand by winning the 36-hole event for major champions of 2007...
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