PGA Tour Confidential: Playoff Storylines

With Tiger Woods out of the FedEx Cup playoffs, will Wyndham winner Webb Simpson or another young star separate himself from the crowd? Without Tiger, will fans even notice? Our experts debate this, a senior major win for Fred Couples, the Solheim Cup team, the U.S. Amateur and more.


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Hogan showed the best can achieve greatness after absence

From The New York Times Magazine: If Tiger Woods wins the Masters in his return to professional golf, he will have matched a feat seen just once before. To return from such a long layoff and win a major championship would prove that Woods actually can turn his game on and off at will. Both Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer said they could not imagine being away from the tour for so long and winning a major. But one golf great has done so before. Ben Hogan won the 1951 Masters after nine months away from competitive golf. Hogan's feat...

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Fantasy Preview: Transitions Championship

This week it?s off to the Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club for the Transitions Championship. The Copperhead Course at IR&GC (as the kids call it) is a par 3-heavy course (five of 'em) featuring the kind of tight fairways that...


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Is Woods's return bad for the PGA Tour?

From The Wall Street Journal: Tiger Woods is golf's moneymaker. The PGA Tour, CBS, Augusta National, everyone associated with the Masters is breathing a huge sigh of relief that Woods is returning for the year's first major. But Woods's return may be the worst possible thing for the PGA Tour in the long run. Certainly, hundreds of golfers can thank Tiger for driving up purses and making sure that even the relatively mediocre are living quite comfortably. But Woods's dominance is a clear sign of the superstar effect which causes opponents to concede, rather than rise to the occasion when...

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Hot this week? Couples, long putters, 'Big Break.' Not? USGA, FedEx hype

Fred Couples won his first Champions Tour major title, and that's enough for one of golf's coolest players to land on Alan Shipnuck's Hot List. Not hot this week? The USGA, Solheim Cup points system and FedEx Cup hype.


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