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The Independent
| 8 months ago
It really did sound like the first day of the rest of the Tiger's Ryder Cup life yesterday. The man who once said that he had a million reasons all of them bearing the official stamp of the United States treasury to prefer the hand-to-hand conflict...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 8 months ago
As great as Woods' career has been, with his 74 PGA Tour titles and 14 major championships, the Ryder Cup has simply not been his thing. He's played for the U.S. side in six of the biennial competitions against Europe and has only one team win to...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 8 months ago
Ill. No other trio of American golfers has qualified for more consecutive Ryder Cup teams than Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk. Collectively, they have won 146 official tournaments around the world, including 19 majors. That only makes...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
European During a period where Woods reigned supreme over the golf world winning 74 PGA Tour titles, including 14 majors, he has been unable to extend his dominance to the biennial competition that pits the U.S. best against Europe's best. A mediocre...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Rookie Brandt Snedeker knows what it is like to win $11.44 million at just one event but he is under no illusions he will have to contend with unprecedented emotion and intensity at this week's Ryder Cup . Snedeker, who earned his mind-boggling pay-...
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The Naples Daily News
| 8 months ago
It seems anytime Greg Norman makes a comment about Tiger Woods , it creates a firestorm...Franklin Templeton Shootout golf tournament in Naples being played Dec. FoxSports.com story that Woods was "intimidated" by Rory McIlroy, who won the PGA...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
I would say that he is, at this moment, very close to how good Tiger was in that time between 1999 and 2002," said European skipper Olazabal. "He's full of confidence. He's got the whole game and in that regard it's great to have players like that on...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
They've won twice in that 15-year span, and, the one victory, the 2008 matches at Valhalla, came when Woods had his leg up after massive knee and leg surgery...Ryder Cup team appearances with his ninth this week, is in the Hall of Fame...And Furyk is...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Having missed the US victory at Valhalla four years ago through injury it means that he has finished on the winning side only at Brookline in 1999. Along with Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk, Woods represents the experienced heart of captain Davis Love...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
Tiger Woods today admitted he shoulders responsibility for the United States' poor recent record in the Ryder Cup ahead of this week's contest in Chicago. Europe have won four of the last five biennial contests, with Woods absent through injury from...
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Chicago Tribune
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk and Tiger Woods are counting on that 13th man to morph into tens of thousands of enthusiastic fans at Medinah. I know the Chicago fans are good fans, said Furyk, who will play in his eighth Ryder Cup. I know they are loud. I know they are...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
Tiger Woods are set to lead their Ryder Cup teams this week after final-round fades cost them a chance at a $10 million US PGA playoff prize. American Brandt Snedeker, a US Ryder Cup captain's choice selection by Davis Love, won the Tour Championship...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Italy's Alessandro Tadini has gone top of the leaderboard after Day 2 of the Russian Challenge Cup. The European Challenge Tour begins its Russian leg this week, with the Challenge Cup being held just outside Moscow. It's one of the country's biggest...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker , who won the Tour Championship and $10 million for the FedEx Cup title, moves into the Top 10 of the men's world golf rankings. Snedeker shot 6-under-par 64 Saturday and had a 68 Sunday in winning the championship by three strokes...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker doesn't claim to be the best player in the world, the best player on the PGA Tour or even the best overall player in the FedEx Cup playoffs. All he needed was the best round of his career at East Lake to become FedEx Cup champion,...
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Independent
| 8 months ago
Snedeker (31) romped to a three-stroke victory in the Tour Championship to clinch the FedEx Cup and the $10m bonus that goes with it, making US skipper Davis Love look like a genius for handing him a wild card to Medinah next weekend. The Tennessee...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
While Brandt Snedeker was still finishing off the biggest and richest week of his golf life late Sunday afternoon, a side parking lot at East Lake Golf Club had a line of vehicles with their trunk lids open. There was Phil Mickelson at the back of a...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Atlanta Brandt Snedeker celebrates winning the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup. Photograph: Tami Chappell/Reuters Rory McIlroy 's aspirations of landing at the Ryder Cup with a $10m confidence boost were dashed by one of the players he will face...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
European Anderson, an 18-year-old college freshman, is in a responsive coma, recovering from head and neck injuries he sustained in a one-car accident in Florida the same week Snedeker was named to his first United States Ryder Cup team as a captain'...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
Caption competition News in pictures Sport blogs Goals galore, comebacks, and contentious refereeing decisions. All part and parcel of Championship f... by Jonathan Campkin 21 September 2012 01:01 AM It's hardly a secret that Liverpool (15/8) and...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Tour Championship winner Brandt Snedeker and runner-up Justin Rose were among a host of players who delivered sparkling form in the final event of the PGA Tour 's regular season ahead of next week's Ryder Cup . With the triumphant Snedeker leading...
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The Star
| 8 months ago
American Brandt Snedeker won the US PGA Tour Championship and claimed a $10 million bonus for capturing the tour season playoff title after firing a two-under par 68 in Sunday's final round. Snedeker was among five players, including 14-time major...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
Getty Images American golfer Brandt Snedeker has earned a multi-million-dollar pay day by upstaging the likes of Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods to claim both the US PGA Tour Championship and the season-long FedEx Cup. Snedeker claimed the $US1.44...
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Denver Post
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker won something far more valuable than money Sunday...Snedeker knew his best chance to be the FedEx Cup champion was to win the Tour Championship, no simple task with East Lake as tough as ever and Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods going...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker held off a late charge by fellow American Ryan Moore to win the season-ending Tour Championship by three shots on Sunday, along with FedExCup honors and the eye-popping $10 million bonus. Tied for the lead overnight with Britain's...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
Snedeker, a third-round co-leader, shot a 2-under 68 on Sunday and finished at 10-under 270. He won by three shots over fellow overnight leader Justin Rose at East Lake Golf Club...He pocketed $10 million for the FedExCup win and an additional $1.44...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
Snedeker played the biggest round of his career for the biggest payoff in golf. Needing to win the Tour Championship on Sunday to beat out Rory McIlroy for the FedEx Cup, Snedeker came up with three big birdies on the back nine at East Lake to take...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker has won the US PGA Tour Championship in Atlanta and claimed a $US10 million bonus for capturing the tour season playoff title...Snedeker was among five players, including 14-time major winner Tiger Woods and world No.1 Rory McIlroy,...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker played the round of his life and claimed the biggest payoff in golf. Snedeker, needing to win the Tour Championship on Sunday to beat out Rory McIlroy for the FedEx Cup, made three big birdies on the back nine at East Lake and pulled...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
European Par for a typical finishing hole on the PGA Tour is four or five, which means the flag can be detected off in the distance, if at all. At the Tour Championship, though, the pin is far away by par-3 standards, but seems near enough for a No...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
European At the FedEx Cup version of the Super Bowl , Snedeker has driven himself into perfect position with three solid rounds at East Lake Golf Club. That includes a six-under-par 64 on Saturday that catapulted him into a first-place tie at eight-...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
There is no telling the story of what Sunday holds at the Tour Championship without some sort of narrative picture-in-picture...Then there is the tournament itself, with its separate purse and the possibility of the winner being only the second...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
Think of Sundays final round of the Tour Championship/FedEx Cup playoffs this way: On one table, theres $1.44million for the winner of the Tour Championship at East Lake, where Brandt Snedeker and Justin Rose share a two-stroke lead over Ryan Moore...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
England's Justin Rose fired a bogey-free two-under par 68 Saturday to match American Brandt Snedeker for the lead after the third round of the $8 million US PGA Tour Championship. Snedeker shot a bogey-free 64 at East Lake to join Rose on eight-under...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
American Brandt Snedeker is in prime position to cash in on a $10 million payday in Sunday's final round at the Tour Championship but he says his sole motivation is to win the tournament. Snedeker, one of five players who began this week knowing that...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
American Brandt Snedeker edged ahead of world number one Rory McIlroy in the FedExCup playoff race by charging into a tie for the lead in Saturday's third round of the elite Tour Championship . On a tricky day for scoring at a sunny but breezy East...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
Rory McIlroy hoped he had saved his best for last as the battle for a $10 million (£6m) payday went down to the wire in Atlanta. McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Brandt Snedeker and Nick Watney came into the final week of the FedEx Cup play-offs...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Justin Rose is tied for the lead with Brandt Snedeker after the third round of the PGA Tour Championship. The Englishman is eight under par after shooting a round of 68, but American Snedeker put himself in the frame in Atlanta after a superb round...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker had one of his best rounds of the year, a 6-under 64 on Saturday that gave him a share of the lead at the Tour Championship...Snedeker, in control of his game despite increasing wind at tree-lined East Lake, made a collection of tough...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Snedeker, who entered the final event of the season-long FedEx Cup as one of five players who control their own destiny, shot a bogey-free six-under-par 64 to move to eight-under-par, tied for the lead with Englishman Justin Rose (68). They have a...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker had what he called his best round of the year, a 6-under 64 that gave him a share of the lead Saturday at the Tour Championship...Snedeker was tied with Justin Rose, who had a 68, going into the final round Sunday at East Lake. The...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
It has been the game-plan of the European team in most every recent Ryder Cup, a variation on cutting off the head to kill the snake. Beat Tiger Woods and the rest of the team would fall like dominoes into Europe's lap...Europe when the sides go at...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk could not have asked for a more enjoyable day at East Lake on and off the golf course. It started with writing seven 3s on his scorecard to start the round, which eventually added to a 29 on the front nine. And despite missing a 5-foot par...
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The Journal Gazette
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk, the only American on the Ryder Cup team without a win this year, put himself in position Friday to join them. Furyk made seven birdies through 10 holes at East Lake including seven 3s to start the round until he missed a few greens on the...
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Independent
| 8 months ago
East Lake yesterday but still remained bang on course for the $10m FedEx Cup jackpot, especially after a shocking second-round implosion by Tiger Woods . McIlroy's two-under-par 68, featuring a splendid eagle three on 15, lifted him to three-under...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
American red, European blue - were enough to produce raw emotion, enormous pressure and compelling theater. And that's what makes the 39th edition of the Ryder Cup seem even bigger...Jim Furyk referred to the 23-year-old from Northern Ireland as a "...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk's looping swing brings to mind a rodeo cowboy throwing his lasso...These truths Furyk himself cited Friday after a second-round 64 gave him the lead at the Tour Championship, and perhaps for the moment stilled any voices claiming his career...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Soon to be without a house, Rory McIlroy again showed he feels completely at home in the PGA Tour 's FedExCup playoffs as he stayed on track on Friday to secure the season-long title and the bonus of $10 million. The globe-trotting world number one,...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
At the same time, Jim Furyk sure didn't mind writing down all those 3s. "To be able to write '3' on your card nine times in the first 11 holes was a lot of fun," Furyk said after Friday's six-under-par 64 propelled him to a one-stroke lead over...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
European With a scoresheet that Reggie Miller would admire, Furyk registered 3's the first seven holes all but two for birdies and 9 of the opening 11 Friday at the Tour Championship. Despite missing a three-and-a-half-foot putt on the par-3 18th...
