No Tiger Woods
The big news this week at the AT&T is once again that Tiger Woods will not be playing. In fact, Tiger has said that the most golf he has done since bowing out of THE PLAYERS is hitting a few putts. There is much speculation as to the date which Tiger will return, anything from the British Open to the PGA Championship to 2012. I’m guessing 2012 is the most likely.
The Course
Click to see my photos of Aronomink
Aronomink (The Mink) is a beautiful tree lined golf course designed by one of the most famous golf course designers in the last 100 years, Donald Ross. You may have heard of one of Ross’ other designs, Pinehurst #2. Donald Ross himself called “The Mink” his masterpiece, not #2. There’s even a plaque near the 1st tee quoting Ross on that very fact at Aronomink. How do I know this? I played the course about 10 years ago with my best bud.
The Mink’s greens are quite a challenge. They’re very undulating and can be very tough if the speeds are pushed up to tour level pace. Think of Augusta only with some even more severe shaping on the putting surface.
Aronomink Photos
As I mentioned, I played the Mink years ago, back when digital cameras sucked. So I have some photos of Aronomink from back then, but they’re not the quality level you may be accustomed to from the HOG Image Gallery.
I’m not sure what to make of this, but it is sure interesting. Tiger Woods’ caddy Steve Williams is going to be on the bag of Aussie Adam Scott this week at the U.S. Open as reported by numerous golf news sources. Reportedly Tiger has given his approval for Steve’s gig this week and still considers Williams his caddy.
Some of my close and top secret sources tell me that Steve Williams and Adam Scott have been putting in a lot of practice time “missing high fives.” A couple of other sources tell me Steve Williams has been brushing up on his camera smashing too. I’ll report more news about this as it becomes available.
43 minutes ago Tiger Woods posted that he will not be competing in the U.S. Open next week at Congressional:
“Not playing in US Open. Very disappointed. Short-term frustration for long-term gain.” ~Tiger Woods
And I was just about to predict that he wouldn’t win the Open this year… Guess I was right.
Tiger Woods announced that he will be staying with his agent Mark Steinberg, formerly of IMG.
“Staying with Mark Steinberg. Total confidence in him. Excited about the next stage in my professional life. Fond memories of Mark McCormack.” ~Tiger Woods, via twitter
The popular question regarding this seems to be whether that is a good move for Tiger. Time will tell. But there’s no doubt it is good for Mark Steinberg!
This is a bizarre tweet on twitter from Tiger Woods.
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Today Tiger has a press conference about the AT&T National at Aronomink and apparently is not interested in entertaining questions about his leg, the one question everyone even remotely interested in professional golf would like to have answered.
UPDATE: The first two questions were directly about the leg, and for the first 15 minutes of the interview 90% of the questions were about Tiger’s leg and health.
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