RealClearSports: Tiger Shows Up Late While Others Talk

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. -- He showed up, if late. Took his bag, his caddy and his suspicions into the blast furnace they call summer in Georgia. Tiger Woods was on site, practicing his swing and, maybe the way things have been going, his counter attack.

Tiger talks Wednesday, his official media interview in this prelude to the 93rd PGA Championship, which starts Thursday at Atlanta Athletic Club. Don't expect revelations. The question is what we should expect from his golf.

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Global Golf Post: In Us Vs. Them, Nobody Wins

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

SANDWICH, ENGLAND -- To the British, the Open Championship, that exercise in broken umbrellas and broken dreams – for verification, see Donald, Luke and Westwood, Lee – is less a golf tournament than a national treasure to be protected at all costs from Americans.

We are, as George Bernard Shaw pointed out, two nations separated by a common language. More than that, we are kept apart by different sporting philosophies.

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Copyright 2011 Global Golf Post

Global Golf Post: Watson To Be Honored At 2012 Memorial

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

DUBLIN, OHIO — Tom Watson was announced Sunday by the Captains Club as the honoree of the 2012 Memorial Tournament.

Watson won eight majors, including five British Opens, and is no less famous for losing a playoff in the British Open two years ago at age 59.

He follows Nancy Lopez, the 2011 honoree ...

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RealClearSports: Memorial Golf Uplifting in Columbus Gloom

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- This is football country. This is disgraced-school country after what has happened to Ohio State -- the cover-up and the needed departure of coach Jim Tressel.

For a few days, happily, this is also golf country. The Buckeyes matter, but for the rest of a difficult week, they aren't the only game in town. Fore!

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Global Golf Post: Neither Wind, Nor Hail, Nor Cold...

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

MARANA, ARIZONA -- What we learned during a week of hail, high winds and unplanned hikes into cactus and mesquite trees -- not that we didn't know -- was the best players in golf are from Europe and that the worst conditions in golf most likely are at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.

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