19 August 2005

PGA

Tiger struggles, Mickelson shares lead at PGA msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/3882248?CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=220
While Tiger Woods looked anything like the world's No. 1 player Thursday at the PGA Championship, Phil Mickelson regained his form and, thanks to a 3-under 67, grabbed a share of the lead with five other players. Woods, meanwhile, finished eight strokes back at 5 over.

Woods left town before extra day of PGA seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2002443917_golf18.html?syndication=
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Tiger Woods needed only three players to make bogey on the final hole of the PGA Championship to get into a playoff, and it's a good thing...

Let's play, too: Taylor leading PGA's 'other' event sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=2137761&CMP=OTC-DT9705204233
Defending champ bolts to early lead by Associated Press RENO, Nev. -- Defending champion Vaughn Taylor birdied six of his last eight holes for an 8-under 64 and the early clubhouse lead Thursday in the windy first round of the Reno-Tahoe Open. Sweden's Fredrik Jacobson and Todd Fischer of Reno were a stroke back...

Tiger came close to playing fool
www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/saraceno/2005-08-18-saraceno_x.htm
Arrogance. That's the only word I can come up with for why the world's No. 1 golfer jetted home to Florida last Sunday before the PGA Championship was decided at Baltusrol.

Reno-Tahoe Open course one of the toughest in PGA
www.sierrasun.com/article/20050818/Sports/108180008/-1/rss03
RENO Jack Nicklaus ranks Montreux Golf & Country Club as one of the five best he ever designed.

Todd Fischer - Profile
www.golfweb.com/players/intro/460106
• His best finish on the PGA TOUR in 2005 is T9th at the Chrysler Classic of Tucson. • He ranks T7th in Putting Average on the PGA TOUR.

Second To None www.golfdigest.com/majors/pga/index.ssf?/majors/pga/gw20050819moriarty.html
If I wanted to go there, I wouldn't start from here. Phil Mickelson must have surely felt that way coming into the PGA Championship. In a season in which he got progressively worse in golf's first three majors, Mickelson was criticized for everything from his girth to his mirth.
The State, Thu, 18 Aug 2005 5:31 PM PDT
Woods among leaders at NEC Invitational http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/12418754.htm
AKRON, Ohio - Three days after the major championship season ended, Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh played like they still have plenty to prove Thursday by taking a share of the lead in the NEC Invitational.Woods twice escaped trouble from the trees but never came close to making bogey on a Firestone course that offered no letup for those coming off the PGA Championship. He made a 15-foot birdie on

Drysdale and Lawrie make up for call-offs /www.theherald.co.uk/45314.shtml
David Drysdale and Paul Lawrie received plaudits yesterday, not just for their good scores in the first round of the Gleneagles Scottish PGA Championship, but also for simply turning up.

Meat industry to be briefed on latest in EG Green woes www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1441292.htm
The Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) is still trying to determine the number of beef producers who are owed money by troubled processor EG Green and Sons.