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The market selloff: Blame it on Tiger?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 186 points on Monday. Was it Tiger Woods' fault? The so-called Tiger Effect has manifested itself in a couple of ways in the stock market, one of them coming...
By John Strege
Published Aug. 18, 2009
Keywords Tiger Effect | Tiger Woods

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Pivot on chips and pitches
By Tiger Woods
Published Jun. 19, 2007
Keywords chipping | Tiger Woods | Tiger | pivot

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Compress the ball
For crisper iron shots, try to trap it against the turf
By Tiger Woods
Published Jun. 14, 2007
Keywords consistency | Tiger | Tiger Woods | divot

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Tiger to be inducted into Stanford Hall of Fame
STANFORD, Calif. - Tiger Woods will be inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday at halftime of the home football game between Stanford and California, otherwise known as the Big Game. The...
By John Strege
Published Nov. 16, 2009
Keywords Tiger Woods

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A bookie's publicity stunt
Australian bookmaker SportsBet.com is paying off tickets on Tiger Woods to win the Australian Masters, though two rounds are left to be played. It is doing so, it said, because Woods' victory is only a...
By John Strege
Published Nov. 13, 2009
Keywords Tiger Woods

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Tips for Tiger
Scotland on Sunday columnist (and Golf World contributor) John Huggan has suggested nine things Tiger Woods might do in 2010, "all of them aimed at making golf a better game and him a better, or...
By John Strege
Published Nov. 08, 2009
Keywords Tiger Woods

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You guys are good!
Golf is like life, in that some people think it's easy and then feel the need to tell you about it. Dear Editor, I, like Tiger, had ACL reconstruction and cartilage repair on my left...
By Bob Carney
Published Sep. 25, 2009
Keywords ACL | Tiger | knee

Blog: Editors' Blog

Tiger's Putting
Quick. Before Tiger helps the U.S. win the Presidents Cup, let's consider this letter on Tiger's putting "woes," written early in the playoff season. First, the question Mr. Regan asks is interesting. DoesTiger's set-up occasionally...
By Bob Carney
Published Sep. 10, 2009
Keywords BMW | Tiger | putting

Blog: Local Knowledge

Google Trends not favorable to Tiger
A YouTube video of Tiger Woods tossing a club is attracting widespread attention, Google Trends shows. A cursory check of Google Trends at about 2 p.m. EDT showed that that "tiger woods tantrum" ranked 35th...
By John Strege
Published Sep. 07, 2009
Keywords Tiger Woods

Blog: Local Knowledge

Tiger temper tantrum turns up on YouTube
In this the summer of his discontent (defined simply as no victories in majors), Tiger Woods' temper has come under increasing scrutiny, subjecting him to more criticism than he has ever received. After hitting an...
By John Strege
Published Sep. 05, 2009
Keywords Tiger Woods

Blog: Local Knowledge

In defense of Tiger, 2009
Undeniably, 2009 will have been a year that falls short of Tiger Woods' own expectations, given that major championships are his measure of success, and in that regard he was 0 for 4. That said,...
By John Strege
Published Sep. 02, 2009
Keywords Tiger Woods

Blog: Local Knowledge

'Tiger Woods isn't rich enough to join'
Then again, why would Tiger Woods (or anyone else, for that matter) want to join? Malcolm James is a wealthy real-estate speculator from Scotland, who says he is planning on building a private club there...
By John Strege
Published Sep. 01, 2009
Keywords Tiger Woods
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