Tiger Woods – His Many Moods During A 2012 Pre Masters Press Conference.

It generally agreed by those present that it was one of Tiger Woods’ brighter news conferences featuring the four time Masters champion. So often a Woods press conference can be very clinical and with journalists struggling to get anywhere near a decent story. But on the occasion of Woods 18th year competing at Augusta it was a conference conducted in the Media Centre at Augusta where Woods provided some excellent copy. There was not one question on Hank Haney’s controversial book ...

Tiger Woods Declares McIlroy Has All ‘The Hallmarks Of Being A Great Champion’.

Four time Augusta National winner Tiger Woods declared Rory McIlroy has all the hallmarks of being a great champion. More details later.

Rory McIlroy Offers His Masters ‘Graveyard’ Site Simply A Passing Glance.

Rory McIlroy insisted he has played Augusta’s 10th hole and offering simply a passing glance at the graveyard site of last year’s Masters meltdown. Twelve months ago McIlroy went into the final round leading by four shots at 12-under par and looking to end a 44-year Irish victory victory wait since legendary Joe Carr contested the 1967 Masters. McIlroy displayed telltale signs of the start of a green carpeted funeral procession even if he made the turn at one over par for the day with ...

2012 Masters – First Practice Day In Pictures

It was a sun-splashed first day of the practice for the 2012 Masters and hereunder is a selection of snaps from the day. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */

Jason Day Under Pressure To End Australia’s Augusta Anguish

Jason Day has only competed in one Masters and already he is under enormous pressure to help finally end Australia’s Augusta National anguish. Of all the major golfing nations, Australia and Japan remain the only two not to have won on the Georgia golfing gem. Of course, Greg Norman went close particularly in 1996 when he led going into the final round before imploding and losing out to arch rival Nick Faldo. Day greatly impressed last year in making his Augusta and carding a 64 on day two, which ...

Augusta National Remembers Furman Bisher.

In a wonderful tribute Augusta National officials have remembered the late Furman Bisher. Furman was the long time golf correspondent for the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper who passed away on March 12th at age 93. Furman had covered more Masters than other journalist. He was a wonderful individual who will be sadly missed.    

Janis Joplin – Unique In The History Of Rock & Roll

Due to thunderstorm delays at the Shell Houston Open I asked a number of colleagues where you could spend the day away from the golf course without too much driving Having previously visited the USS Texas, the NASA Space Centre and last year heading down to Galveston, it was suggested I could pop down to the Port Arthur region. And while Port Arthur has obviously seen far better days it was the town where Janis Joplin was born and where she went to school before climbing onto the international stage ...