By Art Spander
Featured Columnist
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Once he provided all the answers. We knew all we needed about Tiger Woods, the golfer, if not the person.
He was the champion who could win U.S. Opens on a bad leg, who could set scoring records and who could do almost everything except walk on water.
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By Art Spander
Featured Columnist
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — They are the major characters in this major championship, the 96th PGA, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, at least for a couple days, facing each other and facing the probability they may never pass this way again.
The game is one of personalities, stars, and during the past decade there have been no greater leading men than Woods and Mickelson, in popularity and frequently on the scoreboard.
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Email Article By Art Spander
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — He’s the man, all right. All you had to do was listen to the shrieks and the shouts. “Hey, Tigah, in the hole. Hey Tigah, over here.” No question he’s the heart of golf in America.
But Tiger Woods, who made a stirring return on a steamy, humid afternoon with a practice round in Louisville on Wednesday, also is the mystery man.
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By Art Spander
Featured Columnist
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — One round for Phil Mickelson, who must have played 10,000 rounds of golf in his life. Maybe 50,000. One round, but even for a man who’s been there, done that, won majors, won millions, it's a round that could make a difference.
How strange, the PGA Championship, the tournament which carries the reminder "This is major" at the front of the media tent, is being played at a course named after a hall named for slain warriors in Norse mythology, Valhalla. It is on a course with a funeral connotation Mickelson again seeks to find life.
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By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com
PITTSFORD, NEW YORK — This was the week we were supposed to learn something about Tiger Woods. Perhaps we did.
Woods came to the PGA Championship after a victory, after a tournament in which he shot 61 the second round. Surely we would see the old Tiger.
What we saw, however, was an older, perplexed Tiger.
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