Tiger Woods, eyeing a return to the No. 1 position in the golfing world, fired a 3-under 69 and rests four shots behind leader Justin Rose after the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Country Club in Orlando. Woods has won this tournament seven times and has himself well-positioned after Day [...]
Tiger Woods Rolls; Retaking No. 1 Spot In Sight
March 11, 2013 | Posted by
Tiger Woods could return to No. 1 in the golfing world with a victory in two weeks at Bay Hill. By the way he handled the exemplary field at the WGC-Cadallic Challenge at Doral, not many are willing to bet against him regaining his place at the top of the game. Woods capped a brilliant [...]
Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy Face Off In Private Match
February 26, 2013 | Posted by
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, who were eliminated in the first round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona last week, set up their own event on Sunday, playing two rounds in Florida that few people got to see. “We thought we would play our own match play final, except it was over 36 [...]
Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy Out After 1st Round of Match Play
February 22, 2013 | Posted by
It snowed in the Arizona desert on Wednesday, so it should not come as much of a shock that Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy were eliminated in the first round of the Match Play Championship in Marana, Ariz., Thursday. Golf’s brightest stars and two of its best players were knocked off by lesser-known foes, which [...]
Tiger Woods Earns Career Win No. 75 At Torrey Pines
January 28, 2013 | Posted by
Tiger Woods won Monday, taking the Farmers Insurance Open by four shots, and not only proclaimed that he is back, but said, “I never left.” Some may disagree, but this much is certain: except for an unconscionable stretch in today’s final round when he went bogey, double bogey, bogey, bogey, Woods played the week in [...]
Penalty Causes Tiger Woods To Miss Abu Dhabi Cut
January 18, 2013 | Posted by
One of those ambiguous golf rules cost Tiger Woods a two-shot penalty and a chance to play the weekend in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, his first tournament of 2013. On the fifth hole, Woods sought the opinion of playing partner Martin Kaymer about whether his ball was embedded and entitled to a drop. He [...]
Tiger Woods to Open PGA Season at Torrey Pines
January 14, 2013 | Posted by
Tiger Woods has not been seen on a golf course in more than a month, a period during which he said he was more daddy than golfer. And the change suits him well, he insists. At 37 with two children, Woods has mellowed some from his days of nonstop golf. He took a break from [...]
Rory McIIroy defeats Tiger Woods in Head-To-Head Exhibition
October 29, 2012 | Posted by
In the first head-to-head exhibition between the two biggest names in golf, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, McIlroy managed to shoot a 5-under 67 to defeat Woods by one stroke in an 18-hole match on Monday in Zhengzhou, China. The match labeled as “Duel at Jinsha Lake,” McIlroy jumped out to an early lead with [...]
Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy Lose Opening Matches In Turkey
October 9, 2012 | Posted by
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy both lost their opening-round matches in eight-man, match play field in the World Golf Finals in Turkey. The hope was that they would breeze through the field and meet in the ultimate head-to-head encounter for the $1.3 million first-place money. They will meet, but it will be on Wednesday with [...]
Ryder Cup: Tiger Woods Loses Again, but U.S. In Control
September 29, 2012 | Posted by
It hardly has been the Ryder Cup Tiger Woods envisioned. He was awful in his first match Friday, outstanding in a losing effort in the afternoon. Captain Davis Love III sat him for the morning session Saturday — the first time in his Ryder cup career that he did not play every match — and [...]
