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Tiger Woods won’t be holding a golf club until 2009!
0 Comments Published August 14th, 2008 in Golf News, Tiger Woods.
Tiger Woods won't be holding a golf club until 2009!
It looks like Tiger Woods won’t be holding a golf club until 2009 folks. Well, that’s what I expected after all those surgeries but the real bad news is for the PGA Tour sponsors.
With absence of Tiger Woods, TV ratings have dropped over 50% over last year. That won’t be a big problem for most folks but for people who are sponsoring the tournaments, they are really losing 50% of their ad revenue.
What’s amazing is that a single human being can effect the TV ratings, especially when you consider the other 200 top players in the world.
Yes, most people would like to watch #1 golfer in the world, not #2 or #3.
As for waiting, I am also really tired of watching golf tournaments without Tiger.
My typical thought process when watching a major these days, “If Tiger was playing, he’s probably going to be 3 better than the field, of course leading the tournament”.
I am sure Padraig Harrington will have plenty to worry about when Tiger comes back. In the meanwhile, he’s free to take all the freebie tournaments as he can.
“As far as swinging a club, that’s not going to happen until next year,” Woods wrote in a blog on tigerwoods.com. “I just don’t have a choice. We simply don’t know what type of swelling there would be or if there would be any residual effects the next day once you start wheeling and dealing on the knee.
Without Woods, the Nielsen ratings for the last two majors were dramatically lower, despite consecutive inspiring victories by Padraig Harrington.
The PGA Championship on CBS had a final-round overnight rating of 3.0, a drop of 55% from last year when Woods won. And the final round of the British Open on ABC had an overnight rating of 3.5, a decrease of 14.6% from last year.
If the Ryder Cup on NBC can’t deliver big numbers, without Woods, it doesn’t bode well for the upcoming FedEx Cup series, in which Woods won $10 million last year.
One thing I realized though, “Tiger Woods is golf, golf is Tiger Woods“. Without Tiger, there would be no $10 Million in prizes, we might still have boring PGA Tour pros fighting for $1 Million.
At least for the time being that Tiger Woods is breathing, we will get to be part of golf where purses are worth 10 times more than what they should be.
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David Duval Swing Analysis!
0 Comments Published August 14th, 2008 in A+Featured Swing Analysis, Golf Video, Slow Motion, Swing Tips, david duval, swing analysis.
If you are new to golf, you’ve probably never heard of David Duval. But for me, he’s the #1 or #2 golfer of all-time in the 90s.
For whatever reason that David Duval has not been winning again, let’s take a look at his swing from Doral in 1997 to see what made him “tick”.
One thing I really like about David Duval is the way he finishes his swing with his back straight. This is really good for painless-back golf.
On the takeaway, David Duval looks pretty good.
At top of his swing, David is in perfect plane.
Between his backswing and downswing, you can clearly tell that David is really transferring his weight back to the left.
Also notice that his head is actually turning towards the target at impact. David Duval is the only other professional golfer I know who lets his head move freely during impact other than Annika Sorenstam.
I believe this head move can actually help the golfer hit the ball better if done right. But if you simply move your head at impact, it will probably make you chop the ball more times than not. To do it right, try following the golf ball as it takes off.
Watch David Duval’s wonderful wind-up finish. He’s almost wind-up too much but you get the idea here.
Hopefully David Duval does recover from his long-term winning draught. I have seen signs of him playing better lately at the British Open where he finishes Top 10 for the first 2 days. Time will tell whether David Duval is able to come back to competitive golf or not but he’s still a British Open champ.
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David Duval Offical Profile at Pgatour.com
Here’s David Duval’s Swing from Doral Open in 97:
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Martin Laird and Bob Heintz in the lead at Wyndham Championship!
0 Comments Published August 14th, 2008 in A+Featured Golf News, Bob Heintz, Golf News, Martin Laird.
Martin Laird and Bob Heintz are both in the lead at Wyndham Championship on the PGA Tour.
Both pros shot a whopping 7-under 63s on Sedgefield Country Club with par of 70.
Bob Heintz actually was at 8-under until the last hole where he scored a bogey.
Other notables include Scott McCarron at 5-under par, Zach Johnson at 4-under par, and David Love III at 4-under par.
From purely scoring point, tour players seem to be having an easy time on this golf course after weeks of hard golf on U.S. Open, British Open, and the PGA Championship.
Of course, a lot of big-name pros are missing this week probably due to the fact that the end of the year is near.
It’s still terrible too early to tell who will win this week, at least Bob Heintz and Marin Laird got their low scores in today.
In the meanwhile, we will do some swing analysis of Martin Laird and Bob Heintz to see who has a better swing.
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Re-cap of British Open and Predictions
0 Comments Published July 20th, 2008 in Golf News, greg norman, padraig harrington.
(Greg Norman says Good-bye to spectators while he uses the Time Machine for the 1st three rounds)
The amazing part about this week is that I actually did predict for “Padraig Harrington” 2 days before the tournament even started:
With British Open coming up, players like Padraig Harrington will be at advantage as they get to play the course more often than American players.
Congrats to Padraig and here’s a re-cap of British Open while I went Norman-crazy:
After Round 1 - Will Greg Norman Win It? - It’s a funny question but he did win it for the next 2 days after that.
After Round 2 - Go Greg Norman! - Wow, Greg IS playing good.
After Round 3 - Greg Norman Leads by 2! - Yeah, it’s not that easy to end up here.
After Round 4 - Greg Norman doesn’t win, but he’s got more to show! - Yeah, it seems like Greg Norman hopped on a time machine, he’s probably got 3-5 more majors left.
Well, those are my predicitions for Greg Norman, let’s see what happens.
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Greg Norman “doesn’t” win the British Open, but watch out…
0 Comments Published July 20th, 2008 in A+Featured Golf News, Golf News, greg norman.Greg Norman doesn’t win the British Open today but it was a exciting 1st 3 rounds watching one of my golfing heroes battle it out at 53 years old.
What’s amazing is that Greg has just broke through his 15-year old dryspell of bad rounds. Heck, he is now officially playing the next year’s Masters.
If Greg Norman practiced before this week’s Open, he might have won by 5 or 10 shots. Even with Tiger Woods around, he probably would have won for sure.
Now, it’s up to Greg Norman to believe in himself again and win couple more majors before he really “retires” from major golf.
The same couldn’t be said about Rocco Mediate because it’s different.
Heck, Greg Norman is capable of breaking any of that old-age records. He just proved it to us.
Maybe his last round 77 wasn’t one of his best but I will be waiting for some more top finishes from the former #1 golfer of the world.
Congrats to the winner but I think Greg Norman probably “won” in his terms, outlasted every one of the best golfers of the world.
I look forward to couple more 54-hole leads on Sunday from Greg.
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