This week’s Sympatico column, about the challenges of not having Tiger Woods in the Tour Championship, is online and you can read it here. If you want more to entice you to read...
Tag - FedEx Cup
Roy Macgregor, love you but not sure you’re 100% right on Fedex...
Roy’s piece in today’s Globe “Fedex Cup Fails to deliver” is another good essay from Granny...
Read More Sympatico: FedEx Flop?
My latest column, this one on the FedEx Cup, went live on Sympatico on Thursday: It may no longer be the FedEx Flop, but the...
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Welcome to the Real Silly Season!
Many people have labelled the events following the Fall Finish on the PGA Tour as golf’s “silly season.” You know the events; The...
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Ames Wins in Playoff in FLA
It is the second time Ames has won the event at Disney in FLA, taking the Disney event in a playoff after shooting a final round 64. It should move Ames into the Top 50 in the world —...
Sympatico Column: Weir Still Hoping Work Pays Off
I spoke with Mike Weir last week before he went to San Francisco to play for the International Team at the Presidents Cup. He was in good spirits, though I must admit he sounded tired. The...
FedUP Cup; World Cup: Random Monday Morning Thoughts
Spent yesterday afternoon watching Phil Mickelson one-putt his way around East Lake in an impressive dismantling of the golf course. Yep, yet another course that has been reworked by Rees...
Sympatico Column: Els' Career Distractions
Ernie Els has a reputation as being easy to deal with, if not exactly entirely forthcoming in interviews. I spoke with him last week when he was in Toronto courtesy of Callaway for a...
Sympatico Column: Where Did the Season Go?
My latest Sympatico column went up last night and asks the question — where did the golf season disappear to and was Adam Scott really once the third-best player in the world? Really...
FedEx Limps to a Close; RT Montreal Bound
So Vijay Singh won the FedEx Cup, despite not winning either of the final two events of the so-called playoff. Tell me, someone, how this possibly makes sense. The fellow who did take the...
New NatPost Column: FedEx Ends With a Whimper, Not a...
My latest National Post column is in today’s paper. IIt asks the question, how can an event where the players make no money be so much more intriguing than one where they can win $10M...
Weir in 2008 — Best Season In Last Four Years
Interesting to see that none of the pundits on PGATour.com are picking Mike Weir as a possible winner this week at the BMW, the third event in the FedEx Cup playoff. A bit strange since...