Results for April 2008
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Tiger Says Knee is "Right on Schedule"
Tiger Woods saw his doctors in Utah on Wednesday for a two-week checkup on his surgically-repaired left knee. "It went great," said Woods, who underwent arthroscopic surgery on April 15. "Everything is right on schedule." Woods, 32, said he's ready to begin his rehabilitation, but he isn't sure when he will return to competition. Ideally, he would like to play...
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More Than 8,000 Enter U.S. Open
The USGA received 8,390 entries for the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, Calif., with the applicants ranging in age from 12 (Rico Hoey, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) to 79 (Harris Moore Jr., Los Angeles). Tiger Woods is among eight past champions fully exempt for the championship June 12-15. Woods, the 2000 and 2002 winner, is exempt in...
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Fields: Lessons Learned While Playing with the Pros
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Playing 36 holes with a tour pro is an education you don't quite get watching on television or walking in the gallery. You can hear the sound of the shots and feel the tempo, especially when someone has as fluid a swing as Jerry Pate, our pro Thursday in the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf pro-am. Pate...
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No Substitute For Talent At 7:30AM
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Nerves, rust and a good old-fashioned talent deficit were a potent cocktail at 7:30 Wednesday morning. The first day of the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf pro-am began with a shotgun start, but I had a water pistol that wouldn't shoot straight. I had gotten up early and eaten oatmeal for breakfast, worked my way through the...
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Fields: Nothing to Fear About Playing in a Pro-Am
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Flying down to the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, the smart play for a golfer of questionable ability with a long winter behind him and two days of pro-am golf ahead of him would have been to read Hogan or Snead, Harmon or Haney--to hope immersion in the fine points of the game would smooth all the...
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Tiger: Injury Update
Tiger must be successfully on the mend. He was spotted at Tiger Jam last night on crutches. Woods is expected to remain on crutches for about a week. He expects to return to putting practice next week, chipping the week after. --Mark Soltau...
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Woods Almost Ready to Begin Practicing Again
Tiger Woods is progressing well after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Tuesday. So well that he hasn't needed crutches; is expected to practice putting before the end of the week; and is hosting Tiger Jam XI on Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort Events Center in Las Vegas, where rock legends Van Halen will perform. "The knee...
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Tiger Has Knee Surgery
Tiger Woods underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Tuesday, it was announced on his website. It was the third operation the 32-year-old Woods has undergone on the knee. The procedure was performed by Dr. Thomas D. Rosenberg at the Healthsouth Surgical Center in Park City, Utah. He previously performed a one-hour surgery in Dec. of 2002 to remove...
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Adler: Overheard at Augusta, Part IV
Post-round interviews have a tendency to get mechanical, mostly number-speak of yardages and club selection. Every now and then a few gems surface from the mentally exhausted players. Here are a few from player interviews at the Masters this past week. Boo Weekley, asked how he spent his time during the rain delay, answers "Nothing, just sat over there on...
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Masters Q&A with Golf Digest's Jaime Diaz
Golf Digest's Jaime Diaz has been covering golf since 1984. We asked him for his take on the 72nd Masters. How could Trevor Immelman win the Masters? Jaime Diaz: I read where the oddsmakers pre-tournament had Immelman at 60 to 1 to win. I’d say there were probably 25 guys in the field I would have picked before Immelman, mostly...
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