GOLF: BIG EASY JUST LOVES BEING SECOND BEST
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ERNIE ELS got the better of Thomas Bjorn to win his first World Golf Championship title yesterday and send sparring partner Tiger Woods a place further down the world rankings.
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NORTON -- Truisms that resonated yesterday from a day of golf that could only make a true ball-striker smile:
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With so few things to count in this vale of tears we call life, the deposing of Tiger Woods as the world&#39;s No. 1 player in golf counts as more than simply a numerical representation of what we all knew in
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ERNIE ELS was as good as his word. On Friday, when he led the American Express Championship by two strokes after 36 holes, he said it was time he rededicated himself to golf after being overshadowed by Vijay Singh.
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Ernie Els is a red-hot favourite to win the Dunhill Championship, which begins at Leopard Creek in South Africa early tomorrow. The Big Easy is as short as 11-10 with the fixed-odds firms to brush aside a
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Tiger Woods was in upbeat mood despite being deposed as world number one by Fiji&#39;s Vijay Singh on Monday. Singh took over top spot in the rankings by
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Golf finally felt easy to Jeff Sluman, and it wasn&#39;t hard to see why. From a fairway bunker on the 18th hole, he had to play a 20-yard hook to avoid the trees and reach the elevated green.
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Tiger Woods had an easy time advancing Thursday in the Accenture Match Play Championship. And with Jim Furyk, Phil Mickelson and the other top seeds no longer around, his road to an eighth straight PGA Tour victory started looking easier, too.
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Golfâs caretakers seem complacent with the sport the way it is: safely suburban, affluently anchored. The private politics of the United States Golf Association say so.
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The playoffs arrived on the PGA Tour and delivered an ideal first-round leader in Rory Sabbatini, a brash South African who loves the idea of going head-to-head and is not afraid to speak highly of his chances no matter who's in his way. Too bad Tiger Woods wasn't around Thursday at The Barclays.
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Georgia golf store manager Bill Leonard shot a 2-under 70 on Sunday to share stroke-play medalist honors with Paul Simson in the USGA Senior Amateur.
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Vijay Singh is making it look easy by winning tournament after tournament, and millions upon millions of dollars, while chasing Tiger Woods' single-season money record. Singh's ability to turn bad lies into good shots helped him to an even-par 72 that kept him in the 84 Lumber Classic lead Saturday.
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PHIL MICKELSON confessed he was amazed to join the exclusive &#39;59&#39; club - the best score in professional stroke-play history - after winning the PGA&#39;s Grand Slam of Golf in Hawaii.
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HAVEN, Wis. -- For 18 holes, Stuart Appleby played flawless golf in yesterday's third round, four birdies and 14 pars. It wasn't until he was done playing that he discovered that it wasn't as good a day as he had thought, that he had made a quadruple bogey.
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World number one Vijay Singh, already  established as the game's most dominant player, appears to be  getting even better.
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Perhaps it was the name at the top of the leaderboard which inspired Ernie Els. Todd Hamilton was the first round leader but Els cruised past the Open champion with an eight
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Aaron Baddeley and Jonathan Byrd were well on their way to the top of the leaderboard Friday at the BMW Championship when Tiger Woods figured he better get going if he didn't want to be left behind. That's about the time he started losing his swing and finding his putter, which wasn't a bad combination at Cog Hill.