Category Archives: Player Spotlight
Spotlight: Y. E. Yang
Y. E. Yang not only won his first major championship at the PGA Championship, the first for an Asian player, but he became an answer to what will become a classic sports trivia question…who is the first player to come from behind on Tiger Woods on Sunday to win a major? Yang is enjoying a [...]
Spotlight: Steve Stricker
Steve Stricker finally broke through with his first win of 2009 in sudden death at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. He outlasted Steve Marino and Tim Clark, who were both looking for their first ever PGA TOUR wins. The victory puts Stricker back into the top 10 on the Official World Golf Rankings at number eight.
Spotlight: Rory Sabbatini
Rory Sabbatini claimed his first victory in two years with a win at the HP Byron Nelson Championship, finishing with a final round 64. The win moves Sabbatini up to 27th in the Official World Golf Rankings. Sabbatini is having a solid 2009 season, with three top 10s and the victory. He started the year [...]
Spotlight: Sean O’Hair
Sean O’Hair won his first tournament of 2009 at the Quail Hollow Championship, putting an exclaimation mark on an already solid 2009 season. The win moves O’Hair to 12th on the Official World Golf Rankings, a career high. O’Hair started the season at the Mercedes-Benz Championship, by way of his victory at … in [...]
Spotlight: Lorena Ochoa
Lorena Ochoa went wire-to-wire to win the Corona Championship last week, successfully defending her 2008 title. Ochoa, the Rolex Rankings top ranked player, has won the Corona Championship three of the last four years, with second place as her worst finish there. Ochoa has two wins in the 2009 LPGA Tour season. The first [...]
Spotlight: Jerry Kelly
Jerry Kelly won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans for his first PGA TOUR victory since 2002. The win puts Kelly at 78th on the Official World Golf Rankings, up 63 spots. Kelly has played in 10 events this year, making seven cuts. Three of those events resulted in top 10 finishes, including the Puerto [...]
Spotlight: Nick Watney
Nick Watney earned his first win since the 2007 PGA TOUR season with a come from behind victory at the Buick Invitational. Watney is off to a great start in 2009 with the win and two top 25 finishes in three events. He is scoring just over 68 per round on average in 2009 and [...]
Spotlight: Pat Perez
Pat Perez secured his first PGA TOUR win at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, ending an eight year wait and getting the 2009 campaign off to a terrific start. For the past two years, Perez has played consistent golf but only finished in the top three once at the 2007 AT&T National. He has finished [...]
Spotlight: Helen Alfredsson
Helen Alfredsson won her second event of the 2008 LPGA season at the Grand China Air LPGA in Hainan Island, China. Alfredsson has played in 23 events this season with nine top 25 finishes. In July, she notched her first win of the season at the Evian Masters. She started the 2008 season missing four [...]
Spotlight: Cameron Beckman
Cameron Beckman won last week at the Frys.com Open at Grayhawk Golf Club in Arizona. It is his first win since the 2001 Southern Farm Bureau Classic. Playing in 27 events in 2008, Beckman has three top 25 finishes. He finished tied for 23rd at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans and had a tie [...]
Spotlight: Morgan Pressel
Morgan Pressel won her sponsor’s event this week at the Kapalua LPGA Classic. Serving as tournament host, Pressel played her way to the winner’s circle with two clutch birdies in the final three holes, including a key sand save on the 17th hole. Pressel is having a good 2008 season. She played in 22 events [...]
Spotlight: Marc Turnesa
Marc Turnesa raised his first PGA Tour trophy at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, Nevada, making him the eighth rookie to win on Tour this year. His win, a wire-to-wire finish, came at the hands of a smooth putter. Turnesa showed toughness as he lost in [...]
Spotlight: Zach Johnson
Zach Johnson grabbed his first win of the 2008 season at the Valero Texas Open. The 2007 Masters champion has struggled this year cracking the top 10 only once at the World Golf Championships-CA Championship (tie-9th). He has made 17 of 22 cuts with six top 25 finishes. His other top finishes include a tie [...]
Spotlight: In-Kyung Kim
In-Kyung Kim won her first LPGA Tour event at the Long Drugs Challenge. The second-year player has enjoyed a great sophomore season on Tour. She has only missed five cuts in 22 events played with six top 10 finishes. Kim started the season with a tie for eighth at the first event of the year [...]
Spotlight: Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh is the PGA Tour Playoff champion, hoisting the FedEx Cup after a 22nd place finish at THE TOUR Championship. Singh separated himself with victories in the first two events – The Barclays and the Deutsche Bank Championship. Singh was having a good year until getting on fire in August. The first two-thirds of [...]
Spotlight: Camilo Villegas
The FedEx Cup was a coming out party for runner up Camilo Villegas. He missed the cut at The Barclays, the first playoff event, by one shot…a shot that later cost him $7 million. Then, a tie for third at the Deutsche Bank Championship. Finally, Villegas wins his first two events on the PGA Tour [...]
Spotlight: Carl Pettersson
Carl Pettersson won the Wyndham Championship for his first trophy in two years. The host venue Sedgefield Country Club is somewhat a home away from home as Pettersson serves on the board of directors. Pettersson is having a good 2008 season and heads into the FedEx Cup playoffs in 13thplace, a jump up 45 spots thanks to the win. He finished [...]
Spotlight: Katherine Hull
Fifth-year pro Katherine Hull grabbed her first LPGA Tour trophy at the CN Canadian Women’s Open at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club, coming back from six strokes on the final day. The win pulls Hull up to 17th on the LPGA’s Official Money list and qualifies her for the season ending ADT Championship tournament. Professionally, Hull [...]
Spotlight: Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh captured his first World Golf Championship trophy at the Bridgestone Invitational and became the oldest WGC champion in the events history. Marking his 32nd career win, Singh becomes the PGA Tours career wins leader among international players. This season, Singh has five top five finishes. He lost in a playoff at the AT&T Pebble Beach [...]
Spotlight: Stewart Cink
Stewart Cink reached the winners circle for the first time since 2004 with a one-shot victory at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut. The 2008 season has been good to Cink as he has only missed one cut in 15 events, recording 11 top 25 finishes. He has seven top 10s, including two runner-ups and two [...]
Spotlight: Eun-Hee Ji
Eun-Hee Ji recorded her first LPGA Tour victory at the Wegmans LPGA in Pittsford, New York. She is enjoying a good sophomore season with two top 10s to go along with the win in 13 events, making nine cuts. Ji finished fourth at the Safeway International, presented by Coca-Cola for her best finish before the [...]
Tiger Woods to have ACL surgery
Tiger Woods announced that he will undergo season-ending, reconstructive knee surgery to repair a torn ACL in his left knee, his fourth surgery on his that knee. Apparently, Woods tore ligaments in his knee at last years British Open. Woods also revealed that he is suffering from stress fractures in his left tibia that were [...]
Spotlight: Justin Leonard
Justin Leonard claimed his first victory of the 2008 PGA Tour season at the Stanford St. Jude Championship, beating Trevor Immelman and Robert Allenby on the second hole of a sudden death playoff. Having a successful 2008, Leonard has only missed one cut in 15 events and recorded five top 10 finishes. He was the [...]
Spotlight: Yani Tseng
With her sudden death playoff victory, rookie Yani Tseng captures her first major championship at the McDonald’s LPGA Championship and her first LPGA victory. Tseng turned pro in 2007, playing on the Asian Golf Tour and the CN Canadian Women’s Tour. On the Asian Tour, she won the DLF Women’s Indian Open. She also won [...]
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