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When the U.S. Open golf tournament tees off in June at the Olympic Club, we all know the preferred final day pairing. That would be defending champion Rory McIlroy walking down the 18th fairway alongside Tiger Woods, trophy on the line. The problem: If there is one golf course and one major championship where that will never happen, it's going to be this summer at the Olympic's Lake Course in the U.S. Open. And it's not just because of what happened at the Masters a few weeks ago, when people expected a McIlroy-Woods duel that didn't materialize. Because in truth, that duel did materialize. Sort of. "It was a two-horse race for 40th place," McIlroy joked Monday in a conference...
So much for being intimidated. Tiger Woods has a relatively new adversary in Rory McIlroy, the No. 1-ranked player in the world. McIlroy clearly has the skills and talent to make life on the golf course more difficult for... more »
Predictably, Tiger Woods resorted to humor to defuse Greg Norman’s bombshell assertion that he’s “really intimidated” by Rory McIlroy. And neither did it serve McIlroy to weigh in too earnestly on what is a sensitive... more »
A personal note to Greg “Tiger’s Really Intimidated By Rory” Norman: We were going to watch anyway. That has to be what this is about, right? The PGA Tour and the FedEx folks needed something to drive potential viewers... more »
Of course, it’s a hell of a boost to have the game’s dominant player in our ranks. Indeed, such is his form I wish Rory could play 10 matches at Medinah, not five. But there is also a danger in having the... more »
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