Posts from — August 2008

PEBBLE BEACH, California (Ticker) — Jeff Sluman shot a 5-under-par 67 to win the First Tee Open by a comfortable five strokes on Sunday.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Jeff Sluman won for the second time this year (Bank of America Championship) and claimed his second career title on the Champions Tour. He became the eighth player to register a pair of victories on the Champions Tour this year, joining Bernhard Langer, Scott Hoch, Denis Watson, Tom Watson, Fred Funk, Jay Haas and Eduardo Romero.

Sunshine began to bake the greens, the wind kept players guessing and the birdie cheers kept right on coming Sunday in the Deutsche …

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Jeff Sluman followed in the steps of last year’s Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach winner Gil Morgan and got his revenge on Pebble Beach Golf Links.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — On Tuesday before the Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, John Cook tried his luck on Cypress Point Club, the private, mystical course designed by Alister MacKenzie in 1928.

Jeff Sluman won the First Tee Open for his second Champions Tour victory, closing with a 5-under 67 at Pebble Beach on Sunday for a five-stroke victory over Fuzzy Zoeller and Craig Stadler.

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Jeff Sluman won the First Tee Open for his second Champions Tour victory, closing with a 5-under 67 at Pebble Beach on Sunday …

Mike Weir holed a 5-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a 4-under 67 to take a one-stroke lead Sunday in the Deutsche Bank Championship, leaving him in a familiar position with hopes of a better outcome. It was the 10th time the Canadian has had at least a share of the 54-hole lead on the PGA Tour, but he has only one victory when leading going into the final round.

Jeff Sluman won the First Tee Open for his second Champions Tour victory, closing with a 5-under 67 at Pebble Beach on Sunday for a five-stroke victory over Fuzzy Zoeller and Craig Stadler. Sluman, a six-time PGA Tour winner who won the Bank of America Championship in June for his first Champions Tour title, had a 14-under 202 total.

NORTON, Mass. — Take the top 10 guys on the leaderboard going into Monday’s final round of the Deutsche Bank Championship. Now see if you can divide them into three distinct categories.

The only golfing Tiger Woods is doing these days is in video games. “I do play quite a bit,” Woods said. “A heck of a lot more now.”

NORTON, Mass. — Camilo Villegas listened with great interest last week when Vijay Singh talked about how he had convinced himself he was the best putter in the world.

Q. Tough day but great finish there on those last two holes to sort of help things out a little bit.

Q. Three birdies, three bogeys, until you got to the 18th hole, that second shot, 5-iron in your hand. Why don’t you tell us about it.

Q. 2-under par 69 today, but it seemed like your round revealed itself rather late. You were 1-under par until fairly late in the round. Were you pleased with the way it ended?

Q. Sergio, 3-under par 68, do you feel like that was as high as you could have shot today?

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Q. 69 today, it seemed a little bit hard to get things going out there. Is that how you felt?

STEWART MOORE: We’d like to welcome Mike Weir to the interview room here at the Deutsche Bank Championship after a great round of 67 out there. You’re heading into tomorrow with the lead, and you said coming in that round by Camilo must have been one heck of a round because conditions were certainly a lot more difficult today than they were the first two.

American Jim Furyk
expressed surprise after Britain’s Darren Clarke was overlooked
as a wildcard pick by European Ryder Cup captain Nick Faldo on
Sunday.

American Jim
Furyk expressed surprise after Britain’s Darren Clarke was
overlooked as a wildcard pick by European Ryder Cup captain
Nick Faldo on Sunday.

NORTON, Mass. (AP) — Mike Weir holed a 5-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a 4-under 67 to take a one-stroke lead Sunday in the Deutsche Bank Championship, leaving him in a familiar position with hopes of a better outcome.

NORTON, Mass. — Because 86 players made the cut after Round 2, there was a subsequent second, 54-hole cut on Sunday afternoon that reduced the field to 72 players for Monday’s final round. Even though 14 players will not play in the final round, they will receive FedExCup points and monetary earnings based on their 54-hole finish.

NORTON, Mass. — Sergio Garcia and Vijay Singh have been making nice with the tops of leaderboards all over the PGA TOUR lately.