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Jul
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How He Hit That: Like Tiger, control your irons

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...

02

Jul
Mon

Trending: Is the 'Is Tiger Woods Back?' debate back?

Tiger Woods' back. Photo by: Stan Badz/Getty ImagesIf one more person asks if Tiger Woods is back, I'm going to go postal. I realize the phrase "going postal" is a bit dated, but it's appropriate being that it dates back to around the time everyone wants Woods to revert to. And now that he's collected another trophy -- passing Jack Nicklaus' career win total in the process -- professional golf journalists the world over are back to beating the proverbial horse. That poor horse; if it ain't dead, it's dying a slow, painful death. So now that he's passed Jack in career wins, is he back? Maybe he was back when he won his first tournament in two years? Or was he back when he took the lead in wins on the PGA Tour this year? Leading the money list? Apparently none of these accomplishments have satiated the journalistic quest of golf pundits. As if pounding it into our ear holes will make us want to carry on this fruitless debate any longer. So let the horse-beating resume. Related: How Tiger's swing has changed After winning the Memorial, the question dominated most every sports page. A Google search for the phrase "Is Tiger Woods Back" on June 4 (the day after the Memorial), returned 106 results. 106 different people proposed, and tried to answer, the question in one day. If you assumed the past 24 hours wouldn't yield such high results, you'd be right -- only 96 posts so far, although the day is only half over (and this makes 97). In the past month alone, from that June 4 to today, there have been 542 to pose the question. Those are but a drop in the bucket of the over 59,000 articles online containing the exact phrase. ESPN has no fewer than 447 search results for the phrase "Is Tiger Woods Back", including a video with the very SEO-friendly title. CBS Sports at least had the presence of mind to try and reframe it around the tired conversation instead of the question itself. But maybe that's because they're letting CBS News do the heavy lifting (vote now!)Our very own Ron Sirak and John Strege have asked it; although to be fair, Strege did rephrase it as, "Is he the best player in the world?" -- well played. After this weekend, SBNation not only posed it, they dubbed it a "key question." Hell (no pun intended), the Christian Science Monitor even weighed in. Of course the list goes on and on. And while we may not be able to agree upon the level of Tiger's back-ness, at least there is one thing we can agree on: Tiger Woods can finally put the horse out to pasture by winning one of these last two majors. Let's hope he does, because I don't think I can take another year of this hard-hitting journalism. Besides, we still have a few more decades of the "Who's the next Tiger Woods?" debate to look forward to. -- Derek Evers 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");

02

Jul
Mon

Video: Tiger provides plenty of entertainment at the AT&T National

Whether you believe Tiger Woods is "back" or not, his swagger certainly is. Dressed in his trademark Sunday red shirt, Woods put away his third win of 2012 at the AT&T National with vintage play -- and plenty of showmanship. First, there was the ridiculous hook onto the 12th green in which his 9-iron ricocheted off a tree in front of him. Then, the birdie putt on No. 15, which seemed like it would miss until Tiger asked for it to turn left and it obeyed, causing him to point a finger to the sky in celebration. And finally on No. 18, when he struck a perfect 9-iron from 188 yards and immediately started walking after it. Missed any of that yesterday? Simply want to see it again? Treat yourself with a look at the highlights: Add it all up and despite staying at No. 4 in the Official World Golf Rankings, John Strege argues that Woods has reclaimed his stake to the title of the game's best player. He sure looked -- and acted -- like he was at Congressional. -- Alex Myers 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");

02

Jul
Mon

Sean Foley: Maintaining Balance

Maintaining balance is often discussed as a key to making a good golf swing, but what you rarely hear about is proprioception. What is it? Tiger Woods' swing coach Sean Foley explains.

01

Jul
Sun

Is Tiger again the best player in the world?

Tiger Woods' best won't necessarily win beauty contests the way it once did, nor is victory the given it once was, but, as Woods is wont to say, it's all about the W, and he has resumed his habit of collecting them. His victory in the AT&T National at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., on Sunday was his third of the year, which puts him up in the PGA Tour player of the year competition and re-establishes him as the best player in the world, notwithstanding the World Ranking that hasn't caught up. Three victories leads the tour and are two more than the major champions, Bubba Watson and Webb Simpson, have. He also leads the tour in scoring average (69.04) and in earnings ($4.22 million). Yet more revealing statistic is that Woods has won 27 percent of his starts in 2012 (three of 11), which betters his career mark of 26 percent (74 of 285). It also was his third win in his last seven starts. Yet a question remains and it is a major one. His 74th career victory leaves Jack Nicklaus behind in a category that matters less to Woods than the one in which he trails. Nicklaus' 18 major championships remain the benchmark and Woods is stuck on 14, though he does seem to be applying large doses of WD-40 to his game in effort to get unstuck before the British Open in four weeks. Related: How Tiger's swing has changed His performance on Sunday had much to commend it, including the six-foot par-saving putt he made on 17 to break a deadlock with Bo Van Pelt. "Feels almost like old times," CBS' David Feherty said. He also played the difficult 18th hole flawlessly -- driver in the fairway, 9-iron to 17 feet. The latter shot, explained in his own words, suggests that his newest swing is not the work in progress it has been. "It was 159 [yards to the] front and we're looking at 10 [yards] on, downhill, it's hot, ball's flying, a nice smooth drawing 9-iron," he said. "It just fit my eye for some reason. I just saw it and I hit it." There are still demons, notably a driver that often betrays him (though it did not do so on the 18th tee). There, too, was the overheated wedge that bounded off the back of the 16th green and down a slope, resulting in a bogey that Van Pelt repaid in kind. That shot did not feel like old times, unless old is defined as last August. On the upside for Woods, he had played the previous 41 holes without a bogey on a course little more than a year removed from hosting the U.S. Open. Woods has one more start before resuming his Nicklaus chase. He is playing in the Greenbrier Classic for the first time next week, then has two weeks off before the British Open, which presumably will be played in cooler climes than the D.C. area was offering. "After that weekend of heat in DC, I think I have an idea what the brisket and pork butts feel like when I cook 'em," barbecue maestro Stewart Cink wrote on Twitter. He and his brethren ought to be sweating for another reason, too. Tiger, with a new swing that has started producing recognizable results, has begun turning up the heat. -- John Strege 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");

30

Jun
Sat

Lang takes Pettersen to the cleaners

The ultra-competitive Suzann Pettersen might be a sucker for a side bet, but on Saturday at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, she ended up, well, just a sucker. Paired with an on-form Brittany Lang, who...

30

Jun
Sat

Still an underdog, Joe Daley embraces chance for redemption at Senior Players

FOX CHAPEL, Pa. -- Joe Daley has spent years on golf's undercard, but Sunday at the Constellation Senior Players he will simply be an underdog. After plugging away in the third round at Fox Chapel GC Saturday after a poor start to shoot a 68, Daley shares the 54-hole lead with Mark Calcavecchia at 12-under 198, one shot ahead of Fred Couples and Tom Lehman. That trio has majors and millions. Daley, 51, has two Nationwide Tour wins in 272 starts. He has one top-10 in 59 PGA Tour events.Photo by: Hunter Martin/Getty Images On the penultimate hole of PGA Tour qualifying school in 2000, Daley got one of the worst breaks in golf history when a four-footer, rolling at perfect speed, somehow hit a raised cup liner just wrong and bounced out. He threw his cap to the ground in disgust and disbelief, and missed getting his card by one stroke. The thin man -- "I'm swimming in these 32s," he said Friday, tugging at his waistband -- kept grinding. He had worked in offices until he was in his early-30s, and he loves the golf life, vagaries and all. Bogeys at Nos. 3 and 4 Saturday were just the latest setbacks. "I made some mistakes early, but that's golf," Daley said. "Then I fought back and made some birdies and plugged on from there." The Fox Chapel course suits his eye, reminding him of rolling layouts around the Philadelphia suburbs, where he grew up. Daley had respectable finishes in the first two Champions Tour events of 2012 after Monday-qualifying. He got into the Senior PGA Championship as a result, and he parlayed a 66-64 close to a T-4 there. As Roger Chapman, the journeyman from England, proved at the Senior PGA, resumés don't win tournaments, golfers do. Through three rounds, Daley is poised for his biggest day in golf but he'll try to go through it in increments of a few seconds. Clichés are boring, but they've worked for Daley through 54 holes. "I'm taking it one shot at a time," he said. "Just being patient in my mind, staying focused on where I'm at and what I'm doing. For me, that's as simple as it gets. It's not complicated for me. When I do that, I control my emotions better and I'm more into what I'm doing. I'm happier too." Against those names off the senior marquee, the odds won't be with Daley Sunday but then they never have been. A self-taught player, he has long been hooked on the self-reliant angle of professional golf. He will earn what he gets Sunday afternoon, hopefully with a smile on his face. "This is a great opportunity for me," Daley said. "If I'm on that page of the attitude side, the outcome is always better than going the other way. When you stay on that positive, forward, can-do page, things happen and it's good. I'd rather be there than on the other end. Take the high road, you know?" If the sport's many journeymen could summon some golf justice for one of their own, Daley's Sunday ride will end in victory with a four-footer on No. 18 that settles safely in the bottom of the cup. -- Bill Fields Follow @BillFields1

30

Jun
Sat

Weekend Tip: Short game, short game, short game

Through the Fourth of July holiday and over the next couple of weekends, a lot of local golf tournaments are being played across the country. If you want to compete at your highest level, there...

29

Jun
Fri

Fitness Friday:

Every week my colleague Ron Kaspriske, Golf Digest Fitness Editor, presents Fitness Friday on the Instruction Blog. This week he discusses how different people are motivated differently to do their workouts. And he suggests...

29

Jun
Fri

Fitness Friday: Is heavy lifting bad for your golf?

Every week my colleague Ron Kaspriske, Golf Digest Fitness Editor, presents Fitness Friday on the Instruction Blog. This week he discusses how different people are motivated differently to do their workouts. And he suggests...