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In the News (Tue 15 Dec 09)

  
  Tiger Woods
Woods was finally shaken from his stoic stare on No. 11 when the massive gallery reacted to his birdie with a wild standing ovation.
Woods made two good par-saving putts in the first three holes to get his confidence early, rolling in a 4-footer on the first hole and a 13-footer on No. 3.
Woods turned the front nine with an eight-stroke lead and quickly made it nine with a 312-yard drive and a 143 yard wedge to 10 feet for a birdie on No. 11.
www.texnews.com /tiger/records041397.html   (1042 words)

  
 sport.iafrica.com | today's news Wayward Tiger out of contention
Woods, never worse than 32nd after 54 holes in six prior PGA Championships, is out of serious title contention and a chance to win a major crown for the fifth year in a row.
Woods matched his prior total for the week with back-to-back birdies at 14 and 15, taking a bow on the 14th green to applause after his first birdie in 28 holes, then finished with a bogey at 18 after roughing his first two shots.
Woods has won four times this year and ranks second on the US PGA money list, but was unable to finish well at a major this year, sharing 15th at the Masters, 20th at the US Open and fourth at the British Open.
sport.iafrica.com /news/263249.htm   (668 words)

  
 Tiger charges toward victory, but falls just short when his putter won't cooperate
Woods, who began the day on a bad note by making bogeys on the first two holes, came roaring back with the birdies he couldn't make all week in front of an excited crowd just waiting for something to happen in an Open no one seemed able to take.
Woods was 4-over at the turn, but made a birdie putt on the 10th hole and then another on the 11th after stiffing an iron to 4 feet.
Woods, who has never won a major from behind in the final round, promptly hit his drive into the rough on the next hole, then recovered with an iron shot in front of the green.
www.pga.com /news/majors/usopen/2005/woods061905.cfm   (1029 words)

  
 Tiger Woods' back-nine misfire leaves Masters wide open
Woods labored to a par 72 in the second round on another wind-swept day Friday and finds himself four shots behind at the halfway mark of his title defense.
Woods made four bogeys, hit only 10 greens and had to sink a 12-foot putt to save the par round at the 18th green.
For the first 36 holes, Woods is four over par on the back nine, which he played a whopping 16 under during his lap-the-field victory a year ago.
www.texnews.com /tiger/misfire0411.html   (684 words)

  
 PlayGolfNow - The premier golf website for everything today's golfer needs including golf tips, golf giveaways, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Woods birdied the fifth and made it two straight when he birdied the sixth to get to minus-six.
Woods had a chance to move into the lead at the last.
Woods and Montgomerie do have their work cut out for themselves though, as no 36-hole leader has gone on to win this event.
www.playgolfnow.com /News.asp?ID=4787   (826 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Golf Online - PGA Championship 2000 - Making history at Valhalla
Woods was still away and had to be thinking that May was going to make birdie.
With Woods in the bunker and May on the green, it may have looked like the tournament was headed to sudden death.
Woods tapped in, and for the second straight year the Wanamaker Trophy was his.
espn.go.com /golfonline/pga00/woods/sunday.html   (1041 words)

  
 Tiger Claws Way To PGA Title - CBS News
In a fitting conclusion to perhaps the greatest summer of golf, Woods birdied the last two holes in regulation and won the PGA Championship in a playoff over Bob May to become the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in one year.
Woods took a one-stroke lead on the first playoff hole, No. 16, but not until after May showed he wasn't going away, hitting a 70-yard chip from the rough that stopped inches from the cup.
Woods won $900,000 to push his earnings to $6.69 million for the year, already breaking the PGA Tour record he set last year.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/08/17/sports/main225513.shtml   (1434 words)

  
 Buick Classic
Woods got off to a fast start with four front-nine birdies that put him high on the leaderboard as Garcia and Hoch had yet to tee off in the third round.
Woods had to scramble to save par at the short par-four 10th, then carded a bogey at 11 when he missed the green with his approach and rimmed out a five- foot par save.
At the 12th, Woods was able to make birdie but he lost a stroke at the 17th, where he expected the wind to keep his ball up but instead flew his eight-iron approach over the green.
www.golftoday.co.uk /tours/2001/buickclassic/round3report.html   (788 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Golf - BRITISH OPEN 2003 Column   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
When he holed a 30-footer for birdie at No. 9, Woods raised his putter overhead with his left hand to the wild applause of the gallery, which didn't stop clapping for him until he walked off the green.
Woods was 2-under, two strokes clear of the field, and, given his track record, you half-expected the TV cameras to cut to the famed Sunday shot of the silversmith engraving the name of the winner on the Claret Jug.
For the tournament, Woods is 5-under on the front -- and that includes his triple bogey on No. 1 on Thursday -- and 6-over on the back.
sports.espn.go.com /golf/abcsports/britishopen2003/columnist?id=1582973   (1309 words)

  
 Glueboy's Tiger Woods Shrine
Woods said he felt confident coming here after an intense week of preparation, which included a 59 in a practice round at Bay Hill with friend and fellow PGA pro Mark O'Meara.
Woods averaged nearly 325 yards with his tee shots so he rarely needed much more than a wedge, sand wedge or 9-iron on most of his approaches.
And when Woods' terrific low punch recovery from the woods on the par-5, 535-yard 8th settled four feet from the cup, he birdied to again stretch his lead to nine.
wwwstd.enmu.edu /pkd/golf.html   (951 words)

  
 Woods and Duval give themselves a chance for a Sunday charge
Woods bogeyed No. 9 to go back to even for the day, while Duval shot a 1-over 37.
Just behind him was Woods, who stumbled with a bogey on 11 and was 1 over before he stuck a 7-iron about eight feet from a treacherous pin on the par-5 13th and rolled in the putt for eagle.
 Woods, who won his only Masters in 1997 by turning a nine-shot third-round lead into a 12-shot romp, also had an 8 in this tournament in his first round and will have to come back from a handful of shots to catch Olazabal.
www.canoe.ca /SlamGolf99Masters/apr10_wood.html   (675 words)

  
 Leonard, Singh lead; Woods' back-nine charge saves cut streak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Woods had opened with a 75 on Thursday and made a brief early charge in the second round with birdies on his first two holes.
Woods managed a birdie there, then followed with birdies at the par-5 16th and par-3 17th to climb to even-par.
Woods opened his second round with back-to-back birdies but the momentum vanished when he reached the par-5 fifth, nicknamed the ``Snake.''.
www.golf.com /gdc/news/article.asp?id=25723   (1114 words)

  
 JS Online: Staying Open-minded
Woods pointed to comebacks by Paul Lawrie in the 1999 British Open and Johnny Miller in the 1973 U.S. Open, but he was relying on a bit of revisionist history for inspiration.
Woods, the defending U.S. Open champion and the winner of the last four major championships, finally got his game together after opening 74-71.
Woods missed a 3-foot birdie putt on the par-5 13th.
www.jsonline.com /golfplus/jun01/opensid17061601.asp?format=print   (616 words)

  
 hannibal.net - Garcia leads Buick Classic 06/25/01   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Woods hit some errant irons on his last nine holes after a fast start en route to a 3-under 68.
A birdie at No. 12 was offset by a bogey at 17 where Woods, expecting the wind to hold up his ball, flew the green with an 8-iron when the breeze momentarily died.
Woods, who was tied for 118th after a miserable 4-over 75 in his first round here, was tied for 12th after the third round with Paul Azinger, Kevin Sutherland and Mark Wiebe.
www.hannibal.net /palm_pilot/stories/062501/spo_0625010053.html   (585 words)

  
 hannibal.net - Woods shakes off slippery start with pair of eagles 06/01/01
Woods dunked two balls into the water en route to a fat 38 on the front side.
By that time, Woods was just trying to grind it out and somehow find a way to get it back to par so he wouldn't shoot himself out of the tournament in the first round.
Woods' back nine charge overshadowed the 66 shot by a nervous Smith, played at nearby Ohio State and used to hang around the Memorial each year.
www.hannibal.net /palm_pilot/stories/060101/spo_0601010004.html   (928 words)

  
 Northwest Herald - Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tiger Woods received a text message on his mobile phone from Annika Sorenstam after she won the LPGA Championship.
Woods, 29, said he does not allow himself to share the same dream.
Woods captured the 2001 Masters Tournament after winning the 2000 U.S. and British Opens and PGA Championship, becoming the first player to hold each title in the men's Grand Slam at the same time.
www.nwherald.com /print/283541623126399.php   (449 words)

  
 GOLFONLINE - 2005 NEC Invitational   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
However, Woods was the only one of the four to play the back nine under par, as he shot a 1-under 34 compared to 36 for DiMarco, 37 for McGinley, and 39 for Perry.
Woods now has 45 PGA Tour victories in his career, moving him one ahead of Walter Hagen and into seventh place alone on the Tour's all-time victory list.
Woods has won nine of the 18 individual World Golf Championship events in which he has played and 10 of 20 overall when you include the World Cup, a team event.
www.golfonline.com /golfonline/print/0,18068,1097138,00.html   (1423 words)

  
 Woods Is Nine Strokes Behind In Germany - PGATOUR.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Woods was hurt by two early bogeys and was at 4-under 140 halfway through the tournament.
Woods is trying to become the first player on the European tour to win three straight titles in two events.
Woods ran into trouble from the start in just his second round after taking a month off since the Masters.
www.golfweb.com /u/wire/stories/0,1977,6374948,00.html   (467 words)

  
 news - Tiger Woods Captures Third Win of the Year With One-Stroke Victory at Doral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Woods is now 34-3 when leading after 54 holes and has won 20-straight times when leading by two or more shots entering the final round.
Woods successfully defended a title for the 13th time and has now posted multiple victories in a season nine times during his 10-year PGA Tour career.
Woods’ shot rolled near the back lip and there was a rock behind his ball.
www.noticias.info /asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=151579&src=0   (1065 words)

  
 Tiger Woods: Back nine will weed out contenders in final round   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
TIGER WOODS: It feels pretty good, because you feel like you got away with one.
TIGER WOODS: If you're in a good position, you can make putts, but if you're on the wrong part of the slopes, you've got some putts that you have to come up the ridge and down, and double and triple breakers.
There is still some rust, but Woods appears to be improving.
www.golf.com /gdc/news/article.asp?id=15751   (1746 words)

  
 GRAND HOTEL - Activities - golf on The Jewel
The Jewel is comprised of the Grand nine, across the street from the hotel; and the Woods nine, set in the interior of Mackinac Island.
The Woods nine, added in 1994, was designed by prominent golf course architect Jerry Matthews.
Transportation between the Grand nine and Woods nine is by specially designed horse-drawn carriage.
www.grandhotel.com /golf.html   (89 words)

  
 SLAM! SPORTS: 2000 IN REVIEW
Woods outlasted May by taking only three putts in the three-hole playoff, the last one a 2-foot par putt for his third consecutive major.
Woods tracked his 25-foot birdie putt, trotting after it and pointing at the ball as it dropped for a birdie.
He could not play in the PGA because his legs were too battered from a car accident, and the PGA was held during the same week as British Open qualifying that year.
www.canoe.ca /Slam2000/champs_pga_championship.html   (1399 words)

  
 tiger111199
Woods finished two strokes off the pace at 4-under-par 68 over the first 18 holes in the $1.3 million Johnnie Walker Classic at Ta Shee Golf and Country Club.
Woods is on a stunning streak to close out the year.
Woods, defending the title he won last year in Thailand, notched up four birdies on the first nine holes.
www.cincypost.com /sports/1999/tiger111199.html   (380 words)

  
 Woods needs ill winds to blow | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Woods finished 16th and 46th in his last two PGA Tour stops, The Players Championship and the Bay Hill Invitational, and his statistical standing has slipped significantly since he was an odds-on favorite every time he teed it up.
Woods has four top-10 finishes in six stroke-play events this season, plus a match-play victory at La Costa, but that's a pretty pedestrian performance by his exalted standards.
Beginning yesterday alone in the lead by two shots, Rose bogeyed the first three holes, shot 42 on the front nine and staggered to a 9-over 81 that dropped the 23-year-old Englishman into a tie for 20th place.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040411/news_1s11mastnote.html   (803 words)

  
 Nine Woods ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Early March is the traditional time to begin gathering wood for the Beltane Fire.
A good Beltane Fire is made from nine different kinds of wood, consisting of three pieces of each kind.
Sacred to Hecate, add willow as a celebration of death.
www.iit.edu /~phillips/personal/lore/belfire.html   (94 words)

  
 Woods not packing it in just yet - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
After three rounds at the Masters, Woods has sandwiched a pair of 75s around a 69 and is 3-over par, nine shots behind leaders Chris DiMarco and Phil Mickelson.
After shooting a nondescript 38 on the front nine, Woods double-bogeyed the 13th and bogeyed the 14th.
When he found his ball, it was on a pile of rubble from trimming that had taken place on trees in that vicinity.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/golf/s_188830.html   (857 words)

  
 Woods falls nine behind in Germany - PGATOUR.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
ALVESLOHE, Germany -- Tiger Woods fell nine strokes behind leader Padraig Harrington after shooting a 1-under-par 71 Friday in the second round of the Deutsche Bank Open.
Woods is trying to become the first player on the European tour to win three consecutive titles in two events.
The New Zealander came close to equaling the lowest two-round ever on the European tour, then shot a 73 while Woods had a 63.
www.golfweb.com /u/ce/multi/0,1977,6374848,00.html   (414 words)

  
 Golf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Our original Grand nine, built in 1901 and redesigned in 1987, continues to be refined each year.
The Woods nine added in 1994, was designed by prominent golf course architect Jerry Matthews, and features bent grass tees, greens and fairways, majestic woodlands and nearly five acres of ponds.
Transportation between the Grand nine and Woods nine is by specially designed horse-drawn carriages at no charge.
www.grandhotel.com /todo/golf.html   (137 words)

  
 LEFT HANDED LADIES GOLF CLUBS
We have 14 degree titanium drivers, nine woods, eleven woods, (even 13 woods through 19 woods), hybrid golf clubs, and full sets of hybrids to replace all of your irons....
Be sure to click on several of the categories on the left side (titanium drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, beginner sets, etc.) to see some of the "neat stuff" we have.
These clubs are much easier to hit than the traditional lower lofted fairway woods, and long irons.
www.left-handed-golf-clubs.com /left_handed_ladies_golf_clubs.htm   (332 words)

  
 nine woods and fairway woods
Nine woods are becoming one of the most popular clubs today, for the player that struggles with the 4 or 5 iron.
Nine woods is much more forgiving on mishits and gives you a higher ball flight than the 4 or 5 iron, and lands much more softly on the green.
There’s a saying that goes “drive for show, putt for dough.” Well we have some titanium golf drivers that will help your show and save you dough.
www.golfclubsforeless.com /nine_woods.html   (191 words)

  
 Putter lets down Tiger — again - Golf - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Woods' charge falls short with missed putts on Nos.
Missed putts plagued Tiger Woods in the U.S. Open, particulary the back nine Sunday.
PINEHURST, N.C. - The birdie putt dropped from 5 feet, Tiger Woods pumped his fist in excitement, and the roars echoed through the tall Carolina pines.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6448213/did/8282266   (679 words)

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