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Ron Sirak: Head Of States?

Tiger Woods' individual brilliance is unquestioned, but his record in team events raises doubts about him being a successful American Ryder Cup captain.

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What's In My Belly: What Tour Pros Eat

We take a look at how the pros stay energized during a round.

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How He Shot That: Branden Grace Fires a 60

Editor's Note: Every Monday Kevin Hinton, Director of Instruction at Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, N.Y. and one of Golf Digest's Best Young Teachers, tells you how a tour player hits a key...

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Disappointed Woods apologizes to Ryder Cup rookie teammates

By Tim Rosaforte Tiger Woods registered a mere half point in the U.S. loss to Europe in the Ryder Cup, but to hear his teammates frame it, his investment in the event went far deeper than that. Related: How the U.S. lost the Ryder Cup The 14-time major champion was so disappointed in his performance at Medinah that he approached the U.S. team's four rookies and apologized for not producing enough points to clinch an American victory. Photo by Getty Images"He came up to us after it was over," one of those rookies, Brandt Snedeker, told Golf World. "Walking out, (Tiger) grabbed us all and said, 'I want to let you know, I'm sorry. My job is to get more points than I did. I didn't do it. I feel bad. Put this one on me, it's my fault." Related: Tiger says he hopes to captain the U.S. 'some day' Woods went 0-3-1 for the U.S., with his half point coming in what ended up being an inconsequential singles match against Francesco Molinari. In his professional career, he has still been part of only one victorious Ryder Cup team, at Brookline in 1999. But according to Snedeker and others, Woods was a vocal and supportive teammate at Medinah. "The rap on him is he doesn't care," said Snedeker, who after claiming the FedEx Cup title, went 1-2 in his Ryder Cup debut. "Spend five minutes in the team room and you know he does. Going out for our match, he's like, 'Hey man, make some putts, take it to them.' He was beaten up about it, that he didn't play the way he wanted to play, but he was a huge reason why the rookies that played well played well." Woods was also not above taking shots at himself. After an 0-2 start on Friday, the former No. 1 joked about his benching the next morning. "At dinner Friday night, he said he wasn't playing in morning, and that finally somebody could win a point," said Snedeker. Related: Tiger's list of "bromances" through the years Snedeker wasn't the only rookie impressed by Woods' influence that week. Keegan Bradley, who went 3-1 in his Ryder Cup debut, said Woods took a proactive role before the matches began, even inviting Bradley to dinner during the Barclays to discuss his Ryder Cup experience. "It's ridiculous," Bradley said of criticism directed at Woods. "His record doesn't show it but he helped all of us rookies win points . . . I can't stress enough how awesome he's been to me, and for no reason. He deserves credit because he doesn't get any. He gets beat up all the time. He's a good dude." Follow @TimRosaforte !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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The Style Blog: Top it off

By Argy KoutsothanasisI am often told that one of the great privileges to living in the Northeast is getting a front-row seat to all four of mother nature's seasons. I don't know if I buy...

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Loudmouth Golf: Captain Thunderbolt in a windshirt

By John Strege Loudmouth Golf continues to expand its colorful (to put it midly) line of apparel and is now offering windshirts with familiar color schemes, including the windshirt shown above in Captain Thunderbolt...

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New Titleist Pro V1/V1x debuts in Vegas

By E Michael JohnsonWhen players arrived at the Justin TimberlakeShriners Hospitals for Children Open last week, there was a sense of excitement as well as deja vu. That's because Titleist had stuffed several dozen balls in...

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A repeat and a rally lead to this week's top honors

By Ryan HerringtonGOLF WORLD COLLEGE PLAYERS OF THE WEEKOct. 1-7MENPatrick Rodgers, StanfordThe first-team All-American got his sophomore season off to a familiar start when he defended his title at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational, earning...

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New Turkey event lures big stars, but at what price?

By John Huggan BELEK, Turkey -- The model, one assumes, is the old World Match Play Championship devised by Mark McCormack, the founder of International Management Group. Started in 1964 with an elite field of eight players, the World Match Play was essentially an exhibition event with many frills, not the least of which was the venue. McCormack's baby "lived" at the prestigious Wentworth club just outside London for more than four decades and under a variety of sponsors before a brief hiatus and its current (albeit much lower-key) revival in Spain. And this one -- the grandly titled Turkish Airlines World Golf Final -- has a similar feel to it. Back in '64, the first winner at Wentworth was Arnold Palmer, still at least the second-best golfer on the planet, and the general emphasis was on quality, both on and off the course. The players were pampered far beyond what was the norm at the time; they all stayed in five-star hotels downtown and were chauffeur-driven to and from the course. In so many ways, McCormack's brainchild became the model for all such events to follow. Related: Rory is Tiger's latest on-course "bromance" It is one that still works, as the field, venue and purse (a cool $5.2 million) in Turkey surely illustrates. Five of the eight are ranked in the world's top-ten -- Rory McIlroy (1), Tiger Woods (2), Lee Westwood (4), Justin Rose (5) and Webb Simpson (8) -- with the three others - Matt Kuchar (14), Hunter Mahan (20) and Charl Schwartzel (30) -- all inside the top 30. Closer inspection also reveals the presence of two current major champions in McIlroy and Simpson and a total of 18 Grand Slam titles all told, albeit the vast majority of those are "owned" by one man, Woods. Ryder Cup foes McIlroy and Woods will tee it up in Turkey. (Photo: Getty Images)The format of the four-day event that runs from Tuesday through Friday (the weekend was off-limits as a sop to the concurrent events on the PGA and European Tours) is simple and obviously designed to keep the players on the Antalya course -- venue for both the Ladies' and Men's World Amateur Team Championships over the last two weeks. Split into two groups of four, the participants will each play three round-robin matches over Tuesday and Wednesday, with the top two players from each group advancing to Thursday's semi-finals. The final will take place on Friday. Those are the bare details of an event that has already provoked more than a little controversy. PGA champion McIlroy, for example, reportedly pulled out of the PGA of America's "Grand Slam of Golf" in Bermuda two weeks hence because of his commitment to this event. Related: A frame-by-frame look at McIlroy's swing But the "World Golf Final" has implications wider than the game's highest-ranked player opting out of an event that has, if we're brutally honest, seen better days. Not affiliated to either the PGA Tour or the European Tour, it is not, as one would imagine, the most popular development with those in authority in either Ponte Vedra or Wentworth (although George O'Grady, chief executive of the European circuit, will have been mollified slightly by the introduction of a new "Turkish Open" on his 2013 schedule). The last thing either tour wants is to see their leading practitioners performing on far-flung and exotic stages where someone else is making money. And, as members of either -- or both -- circuits, the players do have something of an obligation not to take part in so-called "competing" events (hence the absence of play on the weekend). So deals will surely have been done to ensure the presence of all eight in Turkey -- a nation with big ambitions to become a major player in golf over the next decade or so and, not coincidentally, to host an Olympic Games in the not-too-distant future. Woods, of course, already has a financial relationship with Turkish Airlines and is seen as a key component in the nation's Olympic ambitions. Related: Why the U.S. lost the Ryder Cup Still, strong rumor has it that guaranteeing the presence of the 14-time major champion and the seven other PGA Tour members gathered here has come at a price. All eight have apparently undertaken to appear at least once over the next three years in the Frys.com Open, which (surprise, surprise) is taking place in California this week. PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem, as ever, has minimized the damage to his schedule and made the best of a situation where money was talking -- the eighth and last player here will collect $300,000, with the winner picking up $1.5 million -- and he was doomed to inevitable defeat. As for the venue, the PGA Sultan Antalya course has the inevitable "American" look to it, although the 7,124-yard layout is the work of the European Tour's architectural department, European Golf Design. Water is a common hazard amidst the tree-lined fairways -- it is safe to say the four nephews of Uncle Sam in the field will have no trouble feeling at home. Follow @johnhuggan !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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Daly: An 'epic collapse' or business as usual?

By John Strege Las Vegas has never been the best town for John Daly, whose prodigious appetite for gambling has been well chronicled, even by himself. In his autobiography, he claimed to have lost $600,000 in 90 minutes on a $5,000 slot machine at the Wynn Las Vegas one year. His latest Vegas escapade has nothing to do with gambling other than to note that a man with his erratic history is generally a better bet these days to draw attention to himself for something other than the quality of his golf. "Daly follows 8-under 63 with epic collapse, falls to last place," the headline in the Las Vegas Review-Journal said on Sunday morning. In the third round of the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas on Saturday, Daly ran up a score of 86, according to the accounting firm of PriceWaterhouseCoopers that was brought in to audit a scorecard that beggared belief. It came in the wake of the aforementioned 63 on a TPC Summerlin course that was substantially more generous than the Wynn slot machine was stubborn. Ryan Moore won with a record 72-hole score of 24-under par. "His harshest critics will say that John quit," Golf Channel's Charlie Rymer said about Daly's round on Saturday. "Only John knows if he quit. I think for John this was a day that got way out of hand." Related: John Daly analyzes Bubba Watson's swing Doesn't it require that Daly's career be labeled lamentable, notwithstanding two major championships, when the first thought anyone has is whether he quit on his round? Any claim he had on the benefit of the doubt took its leave years ago. Did he quit? Here's what we do know, in addition to his history of having done so: He made no post-round claim of injury, though the Review-Journal writer Steve Carp suggested that he might have aggravated on old elbow injury playing from the rocks at the third hole; that his 86 was nine strokes higher than the second worst round of the day; that it was six strokes higher than the second worst score of the week; that he was six-over par through three holes, leaving him 15 holes redeem himself; that he played those in nine-over par. Daly was nine shots better on Sunday, though a 77 is more fodder for the argument that he doesn't warrant the sponsor exemptions that continue unabated. The attraction is what, bad golf or bad behavior? He has finished in the top 10 only twice in the last seven years and has withdrawn from tournaments 12 times in the same period, while playing almost exclusively on the benevolence of sponsors. Daly, 46, at least is closer to earning his starts than he has been at any time previously in those seven years. He began the Timberlake tournament 132nd on the money list, then positioned himself to break into the magical top 125, before spending the weekend slapping the ball around and jokingly asking on Saturday whether he can get his amateur status back. Related: Jaime Diaz on John Daly's issues Rymer noted that after Saturday's round, "he stayed, he signed autographs, he did the interview." Kudos, in other words, for meeting the minimum obligation of a professional. Follow @JohnStrege(Photo by Getty Images) !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");