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Fitness Friday: It's hard to play good golf without good ankles

By Ron Kaspriske When you consider the amount of weight, torque and stress that stems from dynamic movements such as a golf swing, you have to marvel at the durability of an ankle. Even...

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Ryder Cup: When Ollie Met Seve

The attitude that typified Jose Maria Olazabal's partnership with Seve Ballesteros will be part of Ollie's Ryder Cup captaincy.

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Davis Love III: The Ride of His Life

Captain Davis Love III gets a Ryder Cup capper.

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Swing Sequence: Matteo Manasser

Matteo Manassero is still a teenager, yet his golf resume is already filled with some impressive accomplishments. See a frame-by-frame look at his swing with analysis by Alberto Binaghi, Italian Golf Federation coach.

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Sep
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Rory and Tiger are enjoying the familiar ride

By Jim MoriartyATLANTA, Ga. -- Despite the comedic offerings of the baton-passing Greg Norman who, unencumbered by excessive knowledge, was able to divine like Carnac the Magnificent that 36-year-old Tiger Woods was, in reality, intimidated by 23-year-old Rory McIlroy, what seems to be increasingly clear is that Woods is neither envious or afraid of the youth and skill of the young Irishman nor is McIlroy in any way awed by the elder statesman who has won 12 more major championships than he has. If anything, they seem to share a mutual respect and actually enjoy playing together, which is something they've done a lot of lately. Woods and McIlroy have kicked off three of the four FedEx Cup Playoff events paired together. Tiger was one shot better in the opening round at the Barclays while McIlroy nipped Woods by a shot the first day at BMW. Tiger put a little distance between them with a four-under-par 66 to McIlroy's 69 in the opening round of the Tour Championship at East Lake CC. It was also good enough for a share of the lead with Justin Rose. Of course, McIlroy won two of the three previous playoff events, so opening round results, like a financial prospectus, aren't necessarily indicative of future returns. Related: Like Tiger, like Rory By now, neither Woods nor McIlroy can dodge the questions about one another, with or without the help of Norman. "I enjoy playing with Rory," said Woods. "He's a great kid. Over the years there are certain pairings for me that I've enjoyed and Rory is one of them. You probably don't believe this, but I get along really well with a lot of guys out here. Rory is no different. I give it, they dish it, and we have a great time. This is a fraternity out here." McIlroy agreed. "It was great. I always say groupings like that, it's a great atmosphere, it's a great buzz. I wish I could have shot a couple shots better," he said. Woods, birdied two of the first three holes, both of East Lake's par fives and hit it close on the 12th and 16th holes against a bogey on the fourth when he didn't get up and down from a greenside bunker and another on the 14th when he lost his driver right into the deep Bermuda rough. "It's long enough but it's also thin enough that every ball is going down to the bottom," said Woods. "It's tough to get out of there. I mean, I saw Rory at 13, he missed the first cut by less than a yard and had no shot." Related: Tiger Woods vs. Rory McIlory Rose, who along with McIlroy will be facing Woods and the rest of Davis Love III's American squad in the Ryder Cup next week at Medinah CC, rolled in a downhill 52-footer for birdie at the last to cap off his four-under-par 68. While Woods and McIlroy are among the Fab Five who win the FedEx Cup automatically if they win the Tour Championship -- and thus control their own fate, as it were -- Rose, not so much. The scenario for the Englishman taking the $10 million goes something like this: McIlroy finishes 17th or worse; Woods in a three-way tie for fifth or worse; Nick Watney in a three-way tie for third or worse; Phil Mickelson T3 or worse; Brandt Snedeker a three-way tie for second or worse; Louis Oosthuizen T2 or worse; Sean Foley's digital video camera implodes; the entire state of Georgia runs out of barbecue sauce; and the Atlanta Falcons are flexed into prime time. Or something like that. "From a FedEx Cup point of view, it's a position of having nothing to lose, really," said Rose. "I've only got this tournament on my mind. A lot of other guys have two trophies on their minds." And, lest we forget, Samuel Ryder makes three. Follow @GWMoriarty !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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Norman's jab at Woods the latest evidence of a strained relationship

By John Strege They were reasonably close once, Tiger Woods and Greg Norman, but the chasm that now separates them is too wide to bridge -- and had been long before Norman's most recent knockdown shot at Woods. "What I'm seeing is that Tiger's really intimidated by Rory," Norman told Robert Lusetich of FoxSports.com. The notion itself seems folly even beyond Woods' 14 major championships and 74 PGA Tour victories; McIlroy isn't the only player who's outplayed Tiger of late, just the best among them. Photo by Getty ImagesWhatever Norman's reasons for his latest analysis of Woods, it is an extension of a clash of egos that dates to 1996 and effectively ended a relationship that had begun five years earlier, when Woods was 15. Tiger was in Florida for a junior tournament, when an arrangement was made for the two to play golf together at Bay Hill Club in Orlando. Related: How Tiger's swing has changed Two years later, Tiger's father Earl, citing how impressed he was with the work Butch Harmon had done with Norman, asked Harmon to begin working with his son. In 1995, when Woods was playing in the Masters for the first time, he and Norman played practice rounds together on Tuesday and Wednesday. At Augusta National the following year, they played practice rounds together on Monday and Tuesday. When Woods turned pro at the Greater Milwaukee Open in late summer of 1996, he outlined his schedule for the rest of the year and included Norman's Shark Shootout on it. Shark Shootout representatives, however, said that Woods had not yet been invited, Earl Woods said then. Eventually, Woods was formally invited, but declined the invitation, citing a full schedule that incidentally had him taking off the week of the Shark Shootout (though he and Norman both played the Australian Open the following week). Related: How My Shot: Greg Norman There were murmurs from the Woods camp, meanwhile, that Tiger's disillusionment with Norman had began to form a few months earlier when Norman squandered a six-stroke lead through 54 holes of the '96 Masters and lost to Nick Faldo by five. Woods often sought the counsel of the game's elder statesmen, but Norman's collapse somehow rendered him poison. Woods also has an aversion to those hitching a ride on his bandwagon and he left some with the impression that he perceived Norman to be overtly passing himself off as a mentor. The resentment,whatever the foundation, apparently is mutual. Norman's "Tiger intimidated" pronouncement was only the latest in what has become a series of headline-creating criticisms. One was that Tiger would not win another major championship. Another questioned Fred Couples' choice of Woods over Keegan Bradley for the U.S. Presidents Cup team last year. Related: Like Rory, Like Tiger Norman, meanwhile, said he reached out to the Woods camp, offering to counsel Tiger in his bid to reclaim the form that made him the game's most dominant player. "I've had no response," he said on Golf Channel's "Morning Drive" show a year ago. "We live a half mile from each other. I think it's great he's in the neighborhood. But Tiger's his own individual. He's going to do things his way." There was never a chance at reconciliation anyway, given Tiger's stranglehold on grudges. Norman's most recent jab, deftly timed on the eve of the Tour Championship, simply amplified the fact. Follow @JohnStrege !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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Trending: Eastwood and Timberlake created bond at Augusta

By Derek Evers Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, and Justin Timberlake at the Trouble With The Curve premiere after party. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images If you're a red-blooded American male, chances are you envy the lives of Clint Eastwood and Justin Timberlake. Success, fame, money, women, toughness (well, Eastwood at least); they seem to have it all. And just when it seems it can't get any better for two of the country's preeminent leading men comes word the pair spent some time together playing golf at Augusta National. Two rounds. A week before the Masters. Let us take a moment as the collective sighs dissipate. In a recent interview with USA Today promoting their new film Trouble With The Curve, Eastwood and Timberlake admitted their shared passion for the game led to some off-set time on the course during their Atlanta-based production. Being that Eastwood didn't direct Curve, he was able to spend some time working on his game in-between shoots. Related: Celebrities who should play golf "When you're directing, you never get to play golf," Eastwood told USA Today. "But we managed to get a few rounds in down there." "Down there" of course refers to Augusta National, and though scores weren't revealed, the time the two spent together seems to have served at least their sense of humor well. "If [Timberlake] had been a lousy player it would have been, 'He can't play the role.' " Eastwood joked, probably knowing a trip to the home of the Masters was in the cards during his stay in Georgia. "He might be great on the tape, but what's his handicap?" Timberlake fired back. Related: GD interview with Justin Timberlake Timberlake sports an impressive plus-5 handicap, so he had no problems sharing a few rounds with the legend, and maybe a few laughs at his expense. Which is more than can be said for director Robert Lorenz and the rest of the Curve crew. "The two of them would go off and have fun while the rest of us were working all the time," Lorenz added. But can we expect the duo to make any future tee-times together? "We were just talking about that. When does the sun go down?" Timberlake asked, somewhat rhetorically. "I don't know." Eastwood replied. "How late do you think the driving range is open?" Sigh. Follow @derekevers !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 Syllabus: Settling in

One of the best things about college golf is that the top programs in the country go head-to-head against each other as much as any sport. Case in point: the Ping/Golfweek Preview, which begins Saturday...

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Gear On Tour: Navistar Classic

What LPGA Tour players are using at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.

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Golfer suing course after freak stabbing during round

By Alex Myers "Playing through" is a common occurrence at golf courses, requiring a simple two-step process: 1.) The group behind plays through; 2.) The group in front allows the group behind to pass them. Apparently, things aren't always so simple. On Jan. 19, a brawl broke out between two groups on the 13th hole at the Golf Club at the Resort on Eagle Mountain Lake near Fort Worth, Tex. Here is the Feb. 6 story from the Dallas Star-Telegram about the fight, which ended with someone being impaled by a golf club. It seems that when Clay Carpenter's threesome tried to play through the foursome in front of them, he was attacked with a putter that broke. After trying to fight back, he ended up falling on the broken club's shaft, puncturing the femoral artery in his right leg. Related: 10 rules to avoid an on-course dispute Eight months later, Carpenter and his wife, Gina, are suing the golf course for his injuries, according to the Dallas Morning News. The report says Mr. Carpenter now has limited use of his leg and still could face amputation. The course is being sued because the Carpenters claim that one of its marshals "insisted" that their group play through the group in front of them. Related: Golf's most debatable rules It will be interesting to see how the courts rule on this case and whether or not it will have any effect on how golf courses try to speed up play. Not to make light of the situation, but the most amazing part of this whole story is that an on-course marshal actually did something. Follow @AlexMyers3 !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");