When people think of golf the first name that pops into people’s mind is Tiger Woods. Tiger has seventy-nine professional golf tournament wins and fourteen majors. Even though Tiger still hasn’t passed Jack Nicklaus’ eighteen major championship people still believe that Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer who ever lived. Tiger’s career hasn’t been all positive, though; the 2008 United States Open being the last major tournament he has won. Because of this slump, Matt Cochran advocated that Tiger…
by showing age did not matter the most to play, and showing even when you think everything is going well it could go bad. Tiger had one of the best amatuer golf careers ever. In 1991, he became the youngest player to win the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship at the age of 15. For the next three years Tiger won the amatuer titles. He then went to Stanford University and won the collegiate title. After the new title, on august 29, 1996 Woods went pro. His first PGA tournament, “he won two titles…
qualifying round for the amateur open he lost on the last hole. He needed to get a 78 and misses a 3-foot putt. However in the Open Championship he is coming up on that hole again where he lost before. He knew he needed to adjust his golf game to win the hole. So he just relaxed and played his own game of golf and won the hole. His approached changed in the Open championship and he was more confident in his ability. The film takes an interesting turn next. After the final round of the U.S. open…
Dustin Johnson and the red hot Hideki Matsuyama. The last time Tiger played in a competitive tournament was the Hero World Challenge, which is not an official PGA Tour event. Woods has not played an official PGA Tour event since the 2015 Wyndham Championship. The Torrey Pines South Course is home to the Farmers Insurance Open, where Tiger Woods has won eight times over the years. His last victory…
Jordan Spieth His season is considered one of the best ever seen during the Professional Golfers Association. With a season including five wins, two of them being major championships, Jordan Spieth sure did earn the 2014-2015 title of Player of the Year. In order to attain this amazing season Jordan Spieth had to change his game to be successful on the the PGA Tour. The changes Jordan made included spending more hours of time with his coach perfecting new techniques, working out and getting…
go ahead to win it for a third back to back time the next year. At 16 he contended in the Nissan Los Angeles Open, his first PGA Tour occasion. At 18, Woods won the U.S. Novice Championship, the most youthful to fulfill this deed. Next, he enlisted at Stanford University and at 19 effectively shielded his Amateur Championship title, the second of three back to back titles. In August 1996 Tiger turned professional and…
Payne Stewart American athlete Payne Stewart began golfing at the young age of four and was earned a spot on the PGA tour just two years after he graduated college. Stewart became famous on the tour and among fans for his singular style, he dressed in old fashion golf clothing. He had eleven tour victories and three major titles under his belt when he died at age 42 in a plane crash. For Payne Stewart to get into the PGA it took years of practice. Payne Stewart started when he was four, and…
golf tournament at Augusta, one of the world’s finest golf courses, Greg Norman played one of the greatest eighteen hole games he had ever played. Norman shot an incredible score of 63, which still stand today as a course record. Norman went into the second day of gold with a fifteen stroke lead, only to choke under pressure scoring a 78 the day after shooting such an amazing game. Nick Faldo managed to come from behind and defeating Norman by a five stroke margin winning the 1996 Masters…
into other counties becoming a bigger brand, gaining love for the game from all over the world. However the NBA needs to limit its professional athletes participation in FIBA basketball because the risk of injuries, fatigue and distractions to players and their impending NBA season. Earlier there were no issues with NBA player’s involvement in FIBA basketball but overtime with recent advances in sports medicine and an increase in games to the NBA season the NBA should not allow players to be…
The Ultimate Fighting Championship, or the UFC, is currently one of the world’s fastest growing sports in the world. This recent rise in success is due in part of featherweight champion Conor McGregor. The Irishman’s ability to “talk the talk” at press conferences and “walk the walk” at his fights are the reasons why the UFC company has emerged as such a successful sport. In McGregor’s next fight at UFC 205, he will be competing against lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez. The two fighters…