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Tiger Woods’ niece qualifies for US Women’s Open

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Cheyenne Woods, the 21-year-old niece of Tiger Woods, has qualified for the

Cheyenne Woods

U.S. Women’s Open at Blackwolf Run July 5-8 in Kohler.

Woods finished Thursday’s 36-hold qualifier at Carolina Trace Country Club in Sanford, North Carolina at 2-over par 146.

Cheyenne Woods will make her professional debut at next week’s LPGA Championship.

Cheyenne Woods is the daughter of Tiger Woods half-brother, Earl Woods Jr.  Her uncle, Tiger Woods is a three-time winner of the men’s U.S. Open.  Tiger shot a 2-under par 70 yesterday in the first round of the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio.

Stricker runs out of steam at Open

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Madison’s Steve Stricker started his final round of the 2011 U.S. Open on fire, pulling out 5-birdies in his first 10-holes.  Then Stricker double-bogeyed 12 and dropped 4-shots over the last 8 holes to finish 1-under par for the tournament and tied for 19th. 

Stricker birdied the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th and 10th holes before his game fell apart. [Read more…]

Tee times of note for “The Masters”

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The 2011 Masters, golf’s first major of the season, starts tomorrow (Thursday).

The three Wisconsin golfers in the field have the following Thursday-Friday tee times.

Jerry Kelly – 7:07am & 10:14am  with Camillo Villegas & Jeff Overton

Mark Wilson – 8:13am & 11:31am  with Martin Laird & Bo Van Pelt

Steve Stricker – 11:53am & 8:24am  with Fred Couples & Luke Donald

Other groupings of note are Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler and Jason Day at 8:24am & 11:42am.  #1 ranked Martin Kaymer, along with Lee Westwood and Matt Kuchar at 9:19am & 12:26pm.  Tiger Woods, Graeme McDowell and Robert Allenby at 9:41am and 12:48pm.  And defending champion Phil Mickelson goes off with Geoff Ogilvy and amateur Peter Uihlein at 12:48pm and 9:30am.

Stricker looking to defend Deutsche Bank title

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Madison’s Steve Stricker heads to Monday’s final day of the Deutsche Bank

Steve Stricker

Open trailing leader Jason Day for 4-strokes.  Stricker shot a 4-under par 67 on Sunday. 

Day was one better, shooting a 5-under par 66 to take the lead, 1-shot better than Brandt Snedeker and 2-shots better than Luke Donald.  Stricker is tied for 3rd with Charley Hoffman 4-shots off the lead.

Phil Mickelson is 5-shots off the lead and Tiger Woods is 10-back entering today’s final round.

Stricker makes U.S. Ryder Cup team (AUDIO)

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Madison’s Steve Stricker was named to the 2010 U.S. Ryder Cup team. 

Steve Stricker

Stricker was among the top 8 players as determined by points.

Also gaining automatic spots on the team are Phil Mickelson, Hunter Mahan, Bubba Watson, Jim Furyk, Dustin Johnson, Jeff Overton and Matt Kuchar.

U.S. Ryder Cup Captain Corey Pavin will make four additional captain’s selections on Sept. 7th.  The next four golfers according to points are Anthony Kimm, Lucas Glover, Zach Johnson and Tiger Woods. [Read more…]

Tiger is a mess as PGA Championship draws closer (AUDIO)

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Hunter Mahan fired a final round 6-under par 64 to win his first World Golf

Players warmup at Whistling Straits

Championship, the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio. 

Mahan started the final round 4-shots off the lead.  He ran off 5-straight birdies on the front 9 to take the lead, then put together three clutch par saves to hold off Ryan Palmer by 2-shots.

Tiger Woods will remain number one in the World Golf Rankings for the 270th consecutive week.  But Woods is coming off the worst tournament of his career.  He closed with a final round 77 to finish 18-shots over par for the tournament, his highest score on the PGA Tour as a pro or amateur. 

Woods is clearly struggling heading into the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.  It’s his last chance to get it together this season, trying to earn a Captain’s pick for the upcoming Ryder Cup by American Captain Corey Pavin.

Practice rounds started at Whistling Straits yesterday for the 92nd PGA Championship which starts on Thursday.  Whistling Straits also played host to the 2004 PGA Championship and will host the 2015 event as well. 

AUDIO: Bill Scott takes a look at Tiger Woods entering the PGA 1:30

Play suspended in 2nd round at British Open

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The second round of the British Open had a wind delay early and nobody went under par when play resumed.  Enough time was lost though to force suspension of the 2nd round, which means some players will go back out early tomorrow morning to complete the round. 

Luis Oosthuizen shot a 5-under par 67 to go 12-under for the tournament.  He’ll take a 5-shot lead over Mark Calcavecchiainto the 3rd round tomorrow.

The projected cut line was at -1 early on.  As conditions got worse, that line went to 1-over par.  That means Madison’s Steve Stricker, who shot a 2-over par 74, settled at +1 for the first two rounds.  That will keep him around for the weekend.  Fellow Madison native Jerry Kelly will head home early.  Kelly shot a 3-over par 75 to finish the first two rounds at 10-over par.

Tiger Woods shot a 1-over par 67 and heads into the weekend at 4-under par.

Mickelson is a feel good story at the Masters

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The 74th Masters couldn’t have turned out better.  Instead of Tiger Woods returning to golf to win his 5th green jacket, Phil Mickelson captured his 3rd.

It was an emotional win for Mickelson, who has watched while his wife and his mother are both battling breast cancer.    Watching Mickelson be able to share the moment with his wife Amy and his family, was both emotional and thrilling. 

Mickelson said, “I don’t normally shed tears over wins, but when Amy and I hugged off 18, that was a very emotional moment for us and something I’ll look back on and cherish.” [Read more…]

Stricker to play a round with Tiger today

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Tiger Woods, speaking after a practice round at the Masters yesterday, said he’ll play a practice round today with Madison’s Steve Stricker.  Woods played 18 holes at Augusta National with Fred Couples on Monday.

Stricker, ranked 2nd in the world, was paired with Tiger Woods at the Presidents Cup in October.  The two have become friends in recent years.

Tiger apologizes over and over and over

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Tiger Woods told a national audience today that he was sorry for all the wrong he did.  His message today, could have delivered a month or more ago.  He apologized to his wife and children, although none of them were on hand to see or hear it.  He apologized to his sponsors and the rest of the carefully selected guests that were on hand to show their support. 

Woods showed anger towards those that fabricated stories about his wife abusing him after finding out about the extra-marital affairs that Tiger had taken part in.  He admitted his indiscretions over and over and then repeatedly asked for forgiveness. [Read more…]