Tiger's Life in the Fast Lane
Updated: 03/27/01
When asked last Saturday night about being paired with Tiger Woods in the final group of the final round of the 28th Players Championship, Jerry Kelly likened the experience to "playing golf in the middle of a freeway." Kelly's half-joke, half-metaphor was in reference to the constant clatter of Woods' galleries and one's ability to deal with such commotion, not whether a Mazda Protege can keep up with an 18-wheeler doing 100 m.p.h. in the left lane.
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Updated: 03/27/01
(March 26) -- Now, doesn't all that Tiger Woods slump talk seem just a little bit silly? After winning The Players Championship on Monday, doesn't it seem like he answered all the questions he needs to answer to go into Augusta National next week as the favorite to win the Masters?
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Updated: 03/27/01
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (March 26) -- Forget the slump and bring on the Masters.
Tigers Woods couldn't help raising his own season start after holding off Vijay Singh's late charge to win The Players Championship for his second straight victory.
Woods said people had been writing and talking about his slump when he went through his first seven starts this year without a victory.
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Updated: 03/27/01
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (March 25) -- Make no mistake, David Duval is going to Augusta. Duval pulled out of The Players Championship with tendinitis in his right wrist, leaving him and others wondering if he could be ready for the Masters in two weeks. He had an MRI done and the results found no ligament damage.
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Updated: 03/27/01
Happy Gilmore came to life last week and nearly won the Players Championship. For three days against the strongest field in tournament golf, Jerry Kelly could do no wrong. This former hockey player from Madison, Wis., stood on tee boxes with a defiant smile on his face and brashly smashed tee ball after tee ball at one of the toughest golf courses in the world. "You know, if I could hit it [like Gilmore], I'd be happy, too,'' Kelly said during one of his interviews. "But I'm not going to put tape on my putterhead anytime soon."
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Updated: 03/26/01
For the second straight year, rainy weather forced the $6 million tournament to conclude Monday. NBC Sports will go against "The Price is Right" to show the end of what could be Tiger Woods' first Players title.
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Updated: 03/26/01
(March 25) -- Now, doesn't all that Tiger Woods slump talk seem just a little bit silly? Even if he doesn't hold on to win the Players Championship when it resumes Monday, doesn't it seem like he answered all the questions he needs to answer to go into Augusta National next week as the favorite to win the Masters?
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Updated: 03/25/01
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (March 25) -- Storms left the leaders only two hours of daylight to play, which is all Tiger Woods needed to take the lead in The Players Championship.
Trailing untested Jerry Kelly by two strokes when the rains finally subsided Sunday, Woods caught him with a birdie-eagle start, chipping in from 90 feet, and then surged ahead with a 10-foot birdie putt on No. 9 when play was suspended.
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