The Masters champion had dodged the start of the PGA Tour’s resumption, adding to the clamour to see the state of his gameA Friday evening check by the United States golf media has long since become both routine and mundane. As entries close for the following week’s PGA Tour event, a scan of the talent list is necessary to find out if a certain T Woods will single-handedly raise the status of any given tournament. Through the stages of Woods’s incredible career – greatness, epic decline, greatness again – his ability to draw eyes has never wilted. Arguably, the Woods aura is now stronger than ever.Quite why Woods enjoys his scheduling plans being so shrouded in mystery has always been...
PGA Tour’s first event since March will mark the death of George Floyd at 8.46am and sees the world’s top three grouped together for the first two rounds In the most optimistic of outlooks, a journey which begins with Ryan Palmer cracking a tee shot at the Colonial Country Club in Forth Worth, Texas, will conclude with the crowning of a Masters champion in front of adoring galleries at Augusta National on 15 November. So much in between – including the Ryder Cup – remains unclear as golf steps forward for its new beginning. To its credit, the PGA Tour has already confounded widespread scepticism by reaching this point of tournament return. Golf is back.Ninety-one days will have passed between...
This week’s roundup also features Champions League highlights, Lance Armstrong and Football Italia1) This was supposed to be Champions League final week, with a return to Istanbul, scene of 2005’s all-time classic, hosting the showpiece this Saturday evening. The Ataturk Stadium appears to have had something of a scrub-up since then. Those missing the Champions League can relive the thrills and spills of last season’s competition here.2) The Women’s Champions League final was due this week too and set to be played in Vienna’s Viola Park if a date can be found. Lyon won the last four finals, though were set to be without the brilliant Ada Hegerberg, out for the season with a ruptured ACL. She scored a hat-trick...
Fijian beat Tiger Woods in his pomp at Augusta in 2000 but this complex character seems happy to shun the limelightAnniversaries of the sporting kind may be the only currency to soar in a pandemic. With live action paralysed, it isn’t difficult to envisage starved writers scraping around for first-hand accounts of Pindarrie’s triumph in the 2000 Guineas of 1820.Using an equine analogy, Vijay Singh was unquestionably a thoroughbred. The Fijian spent 32 weeks as the top-ranked golfer in the world. He defeated Tiger Woods in his pomp and returned three major victories in a professional haul of 64. In 2004, Singh won nine times. He sits fourth in the PGA Tour’s all-time money list, having collected more than $71m....
God forbid that anyone should have to wait another couple of months before swinging a club in public, well that seems to be the viewStephen Moore appeared on the Today Programme on Tuesday morning to talk about the US protests against the lockdown. Moore, who is a member of Donald Trump’s economic recovery taskforce, made headlines recently with his radioactively obnoxious opinion that the people out complaining about physical distancing are modern-day equivalents of Rosa Parks, a comparison that makes you wonder whether earplugs ought not to be considered an essential bit of PPE.“People are protesting against their basic civil liberties and constitutional rights,” he told the BBC. “People in many states feel politicians are trampling on those rights.” It...