By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
SAN FRANCISCO – The star system is unbeatable. No “I” in team, the coaches advise. But there is I in “ratings.” And “interest.” Roger Clemens virtually everywhere Thursday. Brett Favre almost everywhere else, including the front page of USA Today.
We felt rejected out here in the State of Confusion, a.k.a California. All the …
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By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
So the cry has been raised: Let’s rewrite the rules of golf. And then what, baseball? Football? If it’s unfair a player can’t ground his club in a bunker, it’s also unfair that three strikes are out or that a fumble belongs to the last man who had possession.
Indeed, golf has a …
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By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner
SAN FRANCISCO — The hero passes, the moment lives. In photos on the club level of AT&T Park. In recordings played a thousand times.
“The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!”
One swing of the bat, and ecstasy. And agony.
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By Art Spander
Special to Newsday
MILWAUKEE — Corey Pavin didn’t directly say he would make Tiger Woods one of his four captain’s picks for the Ryder Cup team, but he certainly implied as much.
Pavin was asked yesterday morning — a day after the eight top points leaders through Sunday’s PGA Championshipautomatically qualified - the pros and cons of selecting …
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By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com
SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN — The PGA Championship, for reasons logical or not, used to be called the major that’s a minor. Oh how that has changed. And we’re not Whistling Straits, uh, whistling Dixie.
There wasn’t much more anybody could wish for from this year’s tournament, whether it was the buildup surrounding Tiger and …
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By Art Spander
Special to Newsday
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. – Phil Mickelson feels nothing is wrong now. Tiger Woods probably feels little is right.
Mickelson shot a 5-under-par 67 Sunday, low round for the day, in the 92nd PGA Championship. And while his 72-hole total of 6-under 282 was considerably higher than the leaders, he was feeling good, literally and figuratively.
“I feel nothing’s wrong now,” …
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By Art Spander
Special to Newsday
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — For the world beyond America, it was another major championship. For Dustin Johnson, it was another heartbreak, and how many can one man absorb?
For golf, it was another one of those decisions which prove as depressing as they are bewildering. Martin Kaymer won the 92nd PGA Championship Sunday at Whistling Straits. …
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By Art Spander
Special to Newsday
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — In a game that suddenly seems dominated by 20-somethings such as Nick Watney, Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy, there’s room for 51-year-old Tom Lehman.
Lehman, who qualified for this 92nd PGA Championship by winning the Senior PGA, made a hole-in-one during the third round Saturday at the 223-yard 17th …
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By Art Spander
Special to Newsday
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — In the rankings, if not in actuality, they are the two best golfers in the world: Tiger Woods, No. 1, Phil Mickelson, No. 2. And when they began the third round of the PGA Championship Saturday afternoon, each believed he would be a factor.
Mickelson shot 33 his last …
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By Art Spander
Special to Newsday
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Glory’s Last Shot — that’s what they call the PGA Championship. In truth, it’s anything but a last shot for so many of the contenders, first and foremost Nick Watney, the kid from Northern California who has worked himself into the 54-hole lead.
He grew up in small-town Dixon, …
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