Newsday (N.Y.): Scott in control of British Open; Tiger, McDowell, Els lurk

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England -- The opportunity is in front of Adam Scott, because for the first time after three rounds of a major championship everyone else is behind him.

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Copyright © 2012 Newsday. All rights reserved.

SF Examiner: 'Graveyard of Legends' has new victims after 2012 U.S. Open

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

Tiger Woods didn’t have a chance. Either did Jim Furyk or Graeme McDowell. Or Ernie Els. Not at Olympic Club.

Not on the Lake Course. Not in a U.S. Open.

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Copyright 2012 SF Newspaper Company

Global Golf Post: Pebble Beach Revealed as Beauty AND Beast

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA -- It's a near-lethal combination, the U.S. Open and Pebble Beach, a tournament which can ruin your mind and wrench your wrists, and a course where the sun rarely shines and the putts hardly fall.

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Copyright 2010 Global Golf Post

SF Examiner: McDowell the last man standing

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

PEBBLE BEACH — The winner, of course, was the course, Pebble Beach. Graeme McDowell was the champion, the guy who finished first, but it was Pebble — tough, mystical Pebble — that proved the winner.

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Copyright 2010 SF Newspaper Company

RealClearSports: Els Was on Target With Tiger

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

MARANA, Ariz. -- Ernie Els nailed this one. He was on target. Tiger Woods only would be on cue. Only acting out a carefully staged production.

Only telling us how he made mistakes. And telling us during the golf tournament in which Els was playing before he got eliminated.

Which is why Els nailed this one. And nailed Tiger, figuratively that is. Said on the record what many of Els fellow golf pros were saying in private.

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