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Add Dustin Johnson's Dustup to Year of Officiating Hell

Aug 16, 2010 - 3:14 AM

Oh, that was a bunker? Looked like a dusty back road to a Wisconsin dairy farm, actually. And when was the last time a player hitting from a "sand trap" was surrounded by dozens of fans lined up on...

Pavin, Gray, Poor Play: Tiger Woods Should Go Away

Aug 11, 2010 - 10:51 AM

If we can feel sorry for a man who threw away something close to a perfect life, just so he could sleep with bimbos, then this is the time. Eldrick Woods -- I no longer see anyone resembling Tiger --...

St. Andrews: Chilling in Many Ways

Jul 20, 2010 - 9:50 AM

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- On the morning after the Open Championship, which is the only Open they acknowledge in the land of gorse and grouse, you almost can imagine the game of golf centuries ago,...

As Big Names Stumble, Louie Louie Keeps Cool

Jul 18, 2010 - 8:30 PM

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- This was as free and easy as the bagpiper playing behind the 18th green, more peaceful than the farm animals grazing on the nearby hills. Not to psychoanalyze what makes a...

Time to Ignore Tiger, Focus on Real Golfers

Jul 17, 2010 - 8:54 PM

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- Out along the ropes on the 14th hole, grown adults still were running and jostling for viewing space Saturday, even as Tiger Woods continued to shrink in relevance and...

As Winds Bury Woods, Vuvuzela Fever Returns

Jul 16, 2010 - 7:15 PM

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- My great concern this weekend, beyond a possible Lochness Monster sighting in the North Sea, is that a new swarm of vuvuzelas will descend upon the Old Course. Seems a...

Old Course Soothes Woes of Tiger, Daly

Jul 16, 2010 - 6:15 AM

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- A man can escape his personal hell, if only briefly, when he's whisked through the Kingdom of Fife on the left-hand side of a two-lane road, past sheep and ancient pubs that...

Tiger Botches Chance to Turn Around Career, Life

Jun 20, 2010 - 11:20 PM

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- He would hit another lousy putt, stand paralyzed in disgust, then look away as if the world was scheming against him again. He'd hook balls into the rough, swat them out...

Tiger Channels Past In Mesmerizing Swirl

Jun 20, 2010 - 12:48 AM

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Dressed in a white-and-cream ensemble that just invited a new round of late-night humor -- Tiger Woods, pure as snow? -- the most maligned/ridiculed/tortured man on earth...

Woods' Spiral Throws Legacy Into Chaos

May 11, 2010 - 8:05 PM

My first thought, upon watching him lose his wife and his health and his golf game and now his swing coach, was "The Record." It's one thing for Tiger Woods to trudge along in public shame after...

Tip for Tiger Stalkers: Focus on Golf

Apr 29, 2010 - 10:31 AM

Bill Clinton and John Edwards came before him. Jesse James came after him. How many more are in the on-deck circle, slipping into hotels past paparazzi who lurk behind fern plants and Starbucks...

The Ending We Needed: Phil and Amy, Hugging

Apr 11, 2010 - 11:02 PM

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- She was crying. Maybe you were, too. Seeing the glow on Amy Mickelson's face, the warmth enveloping her, we'd never have known about the debilitating radiation...