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Look out Tiger Woods; there’s a young New Zealander hot on your heels. Eighteen-year-old, Danny Lee won the US Amateur Championship this week, making him the youngest player to ever win the tournament. He breaks the record previously held by Woods by 6 months and 29 days.
His victory gives Lee an exemption for next year’s US and British Opens and a ten-year exemption for the US Amateur as long as he remains an amateur. Lee indicated that he had no immediate plans to turn pro. First, he needs to finish high school.
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Tiger Woods may not be playing as he recuperates from knee surgery, but that doesn’t mean he’s not on the course. Today, the world’s number one golfer announced the new master plan for Tiger Woods Dubai, an exclusive golf community development in that Middle East country.Scheduled for completion in 2009, Tiger Woods Dubai will included the Woods-designed 13 million square foot Al Ruwaya golf course, a professionally-staffed golf community, a high-end spa, a boutique hotel with 90 suites and 14 bungalows, a Guy Savoy restaurant, an upscale retail arcade, and 197 residences, ranging from 50,000-square foot “palaces” to 30,000-square …read more

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The video that’s getting all of the attention this week on the Web is a clip from the new EA Sports game, Tiger Woods 09. The player originally thought this was a glitch, but nope, Tiger really can walk on water…at least in the game.

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Michael Phelps, winner of eight Gold Medals at the Beijing Games and the hottest sports story of the month, has been compared repeatedly to Tiger Woods in the past few days. Certainly there are similarities:

Both have risen to unprecedented acheivement in their sports
Both are unusally tough mentally
Both adher to a regimented, seemingly crazy, work-out routine.

Still, one major difference–at least to me–appears. Phelps has yet to pass the test of sustained greatness as Tiger Woods has. But that’s just my opinion. Seemingly, everyone on the Web has an opinion on this issue. Below are just a few:World Golf …read more

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The second annual FedExCup PGA playoffs begin this week with The Barclay’s Tournament in Paramus, New Jersey. The FedExCup spans four tournaments and rewards the top finishers with an extra bonus of up to $10 million. The FedExCup period this year spans five weeks instead of four as the Ryder Cup event falls within September and is not a part of the playoff event.
Beginning the playoffs, the top ten players are:

Tiger Woods
Kenny Perry
Phil Mickelson
Padraig Harrington
Anthony Kim
Stewart Cink
Vijay Singh
Justin Leonard
Ryuji Imada
Geoff Ogilvy
Of course, Woods will not be competing in any of the FedExCup events due to his having knee surgery earlier …read more

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According to the update that Tiger Woods posted on his Web site yesterday, the world’s top golfer indicated that he is recovering from his knee surgery, but likely won’t swing a club until next year.
On whether he’s sitting home watching golf, he said that he’s watched a little, but that it’s frustrating to not be out there on the course. He is watching the Olympics (aren’t we all?) and he assures fans that he’ll be watching the Ryder Cup matches and cheering on Team USA in September.
To read the entire letter, visit tigerwood.com (you have to register to view …read more

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The fourth and final major tournament of the PGA season–the PGA Championship–is this week, August 7-10 (2008). The event, nicknamed “Glory’s Last Shot” because it’s the last chance in the year to win a major tournament, will be held at Bloomfield Hills’ Oakland Hills Country Club, just outside of Detroit.
Oakland Hills is a par 70, 7395-yard course as illustrated above. One hundred, fifty-six players will compete for a purse of $7 million. The defending champion is Tiger Woods.
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I came across this video about Tiger Woods while looking for something else on YouTube this morning. I’d seen clips of his golf skills as a child, but never all together like this. This video shows his development from age 2 to 20. It’s amazing that his golf swing at around age 4 looks very very similar to his swing today. Yes, the concentration is there, but it’s also good to see that he was just a kid, too. Take a look:

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On his Web site this morning, Tiger Woods announced that he will have additional Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgery on his left knee and will miss the remainder of the 2008 PGA Tour season.
Woods also disclosed that he suffered a double stress fracture in his left tibia, an injury that doctors attribute to his intense training and rehabilitation schedule in preparation for the US Open.
Said Woods about his knee injury, “I know much was made of my knee throughout the last week, and it was important to me that I disclose my condition publicly at an appropriate time. I …read more

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Following his dramatic win yesterday in the 108th US Open, his 3rd Open win, Tiger Woods told reporters that he was “going to shut it down for a while,” meaning that he was going to give his knee a chance to heal properly following his surgery on April 15.
Woods also admitted that he had been advised by his doctors to skip the US Open. He declined to say whether he’ll be playing in the British Open, which begins July 17.
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