How Will Tiger Respond?

After taking last week off most people are wondering how will Tiger respond to "plummeting" down the FedEx Cup standings to #4. Who's kiddin' who he's 4th, it's not like he's out of it. If anyone can focus on the task at hand it's Tiger so I say his first round score might not be great but look at Tiger to have a great weekend and be around the top of the leaderboard. (How's that for going out on a limb).

After The Dust Settles- 120 Head To The Deutsche Bank Championship

It's great in my opinion that the groupings for the first two rounds of FedEx Cup events are set by the standings, so after last week we definitely have some interesting match ups and God I wish I was in the gallery to see some of these match ups. Obviously the top seeds stand out with Westchester winner Steve Stricker teeing it up with No. 2 K.J. Choi and No. 3 Rory Sabbatini for this weeks Deutsche Bank Championship. Tiger Woods, fourth in the standings (you know he's hating to be down in fourth) will be playing with none other than No. 5 Phil Mickelson and No. 6 Vijay Singh. Ya think they'll be any chatting.The spectators both on the course and watching on t.v. will be the ones who benefit of course. Some other interesting threesomes will be Hunter Mahan(who's been so close all year), Geoff Ogilivy, and Sergio(Wouldn't he love to win the FedEx Cup). Long hitting Bubba Watson with rookie Anthony Kim with Henrik Stenson. Also Charley"Mullet" Hoffman, with U.S. Open winner Angel Cabrera and Carl Pettersson should be just some of the interesting groups.

Tags: FedEx Cup, Deutsche Bank Championship

Snedeker Wins Wyndham Championship

Brandt Snedeker shot a brilliant final-round of 63 to come from five strokes back of the 54 hole leader Jeff Overton. He was all smiles as the final groups finished on 18, and his bank account just got a bit larger with the $900,000 first place cheque. His victory by two strokes over Jeff Overton, Tim Petrovic, and Billy Mayfair allowed Snedeker to move into the top 10 of the FedEx Cup standings heading into the four-week PGA Tour playoffs. Jeff Overton did manage to move into the top 144 to make the field for The Barclays this coming week. Overton came to Greensboro at No. 165 on the points list but picking up 1,867 points he jumped to 109th. Others who made it into the top 144 in the final week of qualifying were Shigeki Maruyama and Anders Hansen.

Not so good though for some players, those bubble players. Eric Axley, who at No. 145 (1,566 points) gained 174 more for his tie for 27th this week, but fell 22 points shy of 144th-ranked Jeff Gove. Others who failed to qualify were No. 146 Lee Janzen, No. 147 Glen Day and No. 148 Marco Dawson, who each came to Greensboro in the Top 144 but missed the cut and dropped four spots to fall from the field.

Tags: Brandt Snedeker, Wyndham Championship, FedEx Cup

CN Canadian Women's Open

Watching the ladies play over the last two days outside of Edmonton got me thinking about next year when the Canadian Women's Open will be at the Ottawa Hunt Golf Club. If we get the same field here in Ottawa as they have at Royal Mayfair Club this week it's going to be great. Seeing Paula Creamer today sign a golf ball for a kid on the way to the next tee was great, the large crowds, the loud applause for all players not only the ones well known or leading. Great for Canada and Canadian golf. Too bad only Alena Sharp, Nancy Harvey and A.J. Eathorne made the cut.

Tags: CN Canadian Women's Open

54 Holes In 3 Days

Well I'm certainly in heaven. I've been off for the past 2 1/2 days and my wife and kids are away so a man's fancy turns to golf and lots of it. In a perfect world I'd like to be getting out more than once a week during the Summer but it's just not possible. So I definitely have taken advantage of the opportunity. Played Meadows golf course in the East end today and finished just before the dark clouds came, Manderley on the Green yesterday and Wednesday was Poplar Grove. My game improved with each day, Poplar Grove was a bit of a disaster as I was on 5 hours sleep after working the night.(Note to self-Don't do this again) and today was a decent 94 at the Meadows with some crazy swirling winds.
What I learned again today is don't play the heroic shot play the safe shot and make a bogey rather than a big number.

Tags: Ottawa Golf

Weir Makes Presidents' Cup Team

There's no person more happier yesterday then Mike Weir upon being named one of Gary Player's picks for the Presidents' Cup.

He didn't make it on his play. Every other International player is ranked in the world's top 26 and Weir is 46th. He has a great record in this format( (8-6-0 overall, 3-2-0 Four-Ball, 3-3-0 Foursomes, 2-1-0 Singles) and no other person wants to play in Canada more than Weir. So good choice Gary.

Missing the cut at the 89th PGA Championship didn't help Weir out, and his last few events hadn't been stellar including a withdrawal a few weeks ago. It doesn't matter now we'll see you at Royal Montreal in September.

01-18-08

For those that have been living under a rock or for those like myself who've been away from there laptop and have been out in the beautiful outdoors camping, a wonderful piece of viral marketing that first started in movie theaters for those seeing the Summer hit "Transformers". The movie has no name just the release date of "01-18-08" I just recently saw the trailer at Apple.com and it's amazing. Shot with a hand held recorder it gives the viewer a true live feel, it's even produced by J.J. Abrams the producer of "Lost". Is it "Godzilla" who cares it just looks like it will be amazing. There's alot of buzz for this movie search Google with "01-18-08" and there's many ideas out there.