February 13, 2012

Stars Of 70s Align To Give Tiger Advice, Make Yet Another Career Major Count Prediction

February 13, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Johnny Miller has told Golf Magazine in a forthcoming interview that he now thinks Tiger will TIE Jack's mark of 18 majors. In May of last year, Tiger was going to struggle to tie Jack. And this May, well, I'm sure we'll find out Johnny's updated prognostication.

February 13, 2012

Has Tiger Played His Final Round At Pebble Until '19?

February 13, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Ron Kroichick's notes column touches on the likelihood that Tiger was paying back former sponsor AT&T with an appearance this year and doesn't seem likely to return until the 2019 U.S. Open.

February 12, 2012

Wrap-Up: Phil Romps In Sunday Showdown

February 12, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Doug Ferguson's AP lede for the 2012 AT&T National Pro-Am:

February 10, 2012

Tiger Begins Arduous Task Of Laying Groundwork For Not Returning To AT&T Pro-Am, Again

February 10, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Hank Gola with Tiger's post round whining comments complaining about the AT&T National Pro-Am greens. He really is back to his old self!

February 09, 2012

Cliffs Sold; Husband-Wife Duo Vows To Finish The Non-Tiger Woods Course

February 09, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

David Dykes introduces us to Steve and Penny Carlile of Marshall, Texas, proud new owners of The Cliffs, who plan to move forward with a Gary Player-designed course. Thanks to reader Scott for this.

Methinks the wife helped with the decision everyone wants to know about: whether Tiger's "under construction" design will be started finished.

However, the new owners — Steve and Penny Carlile of the Carlile Group in Marshall, Texas — said the fate of a Tiger Woods-designed course east of Asheville remains uncertain. Its future will be evaluated after an in-depth study to determine the best approach, Steve Carlile said.

The Carliles and Timothy P. Cherry, The Cliffs chief financial officer, told GreenvilleOnline.com this morning they anticipate filing a Chapter 11 bankruptcy action for The Cliffs Club & Hospitality Group Inc., a wholly owned Cliffs’ subsidiary, known as ClubCo, that owns the golf courses and related amenities.

February 09, 2012

Tiger Runner-Up To Vick; Earns Fewer "Dislike A Lot" Nods From People Who Haven't Discovered Caller I.D. Yet

February 09, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Forbes.com's Tom Van Riper explains the trends in the latest Nielsen and E-Poll surveys of least-liked pro athletes, where Tiger Woods tied Michael Vick at 60%, but as the Forbes slideshow notes, the brilliant folks who actually gave away 20 minutes of their life to answer these questions just do not quite dislike Tiger "a lot." Enough. Got that?

February 08, 2012

First Reviews In For Tiger's Anchoring Solution

February 08, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Bomb and Gouge are back and they aren't too keen on Tiger's concept for the long putter/anchoring situation, instead making the point that instead of getting bogged down in specific club lengths in relation to others in a player's bag (as Tiger proposes), just ban anchoring altogether.

February 08, 2012

EA Allows Us To Relive Tiger's Teenage Years And The Strange Things Golfers Used To Wear

February 08, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

The forthcoming next generation of the EA Sports game...a world with which I'm not familiar. But it sure looks cool. The YouTube comments are nice too.

February 07, 2012

Roundup: "Traditionalist" Tiger Not A Fan Of Long Putter

February 07, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Doug Ferguson leads with Tiger Woods' disdain for the long putter and by default, the act of bracing (sort of).

January 31, 2012

Hank: Tiger Book Will Have Surprises

January 31, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Talking to Ed Sherman, Hank Haney teases his forthcoming book, saying he passed on writing an "unprofessional" book, but that doesn't mean it'll be a dull read.

January 29, 2012

Tiger Abu Dhabi Reviews In: "Remember the certainty when the man in red went marching down the first on a Sunday lunchtime? No longer."

January 29, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Some views of Tiger's--gulp--rocky final round in Abu Dhabi. Lots of names to add to Glenn's list...

January 29, 2012

World Of Golf Braces For Rock Pun Onslaught

January 29, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Bob Harig spares us in his game story on Robert Rock's impressive Abu Dhabi win over Woods and McIlroy. Here's a post round interview with Tiger, who unfortunately did not win, meaning we'll have at least another two weeks of questions asking, "is he back?"

January 28, 2012

Woods Seeks To End 2012 Victory Drought

January 28, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

I had to chuckle at the headline of Rex Hoggard's story on Tiger's third round 66 in Abu Dhabi: "Woods on the verge of ending victory drought." I know the Chevron World Challenge was only 18 players, but technically a win is a win, no?

January 27, 2012

Tiger Has A Ways To Catch Sergio...

January 27, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

In terms of tantrum technique, grace and overall presentation, Tiger could learn from the Spaniard.

From round two at Abu Dhabi...

January 24, 2012

Tiger's Fees Down, And They're Still The Story

January 24, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Following Tuesday's mildly awkward Tiger presser, the lack of interesting answers made Tiger's appearance fee the story by default. Lawrence Donegan in The Guardian: