RealClearSports: Couples Taking Heat for Taking Tiger

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

SAN FRANCISCO — This isn't about the Fred Couples who was tied for the lead after the first day of the Charles Schwab Championship, the Champions Tour's year-end tournament.

This is about the Fred Couples who is finding out what it's like to be Tony La Russa or Phil Jackson, who is taking heat for taking Tiger Woods for a national team.

Couples, with a personality as relaxed as his swing...

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Global Golf Post: Jury Still Out On Woods' Game

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

SAN MARTIN, CALIFORNIA — He still can play golf. Still can break 70. Tiger Woods may not be what he was two years ago but seemingly neither is Tiger what he was two months ago.

The tournament he needed may not have been exactly the reassurance golf needed but it was progress.

Anybody but Tiger and a golfer returning from a two-month layoff...

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Newsday (N.Y.): Fan throws hot dog at Tiger Woods

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

SAN MARTIN, Calif. -- Tiger Woods got the competition he wanted and almost got a gift he didn't want: a hot dog hurled at him by a fan at the seventh green.

It was part of a wild Sunday at the Frys.com Open in which Woods recorded a third straight 68 and, no less significantly, Briny Baird recorded his 348th tournament without a victory.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Tiger starts to get his mojo back

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

SAN MARTIN, Calif. -- He said he's figured out the course, which he never had seen until Wednesday. More importantly, Tiger Woods said he's figured out himself.

In going forward, Woods in effect moved back toward the Tiger that golf once knew.

Woods shot a second straight 3-under...

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SF Examiner: Poor putting plagues Tiger Woods at Frys.com Open

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

The mantra of golf is “It ain’t how, it’s how many.” Style points aren’t counted, strokes are. And the most important are those on the greens, which can save a round, or for Tiger Woods on Thursday, ruin one.

“This is probably the worst putting round I’ve ever had,” Woods said. Maybe an exaggeration. Maybe not.

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