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The World Golf Championship And Bridgestone Invitational Kicks Off Next Week

Friday, July 30th, 2010

The World Golf Championship and Bridgestone Invitational kicks off next week at the Firestone Country Club and Anthony Kim announced Tuesday that he will be making his first PGA appearance in three months at the tournament. Tiger Woods, Carl Pettersson and Louis Oosthuizen, to name a few, have also confirmed their entrance for what is shaping up to be an action-filled tournament next week.

golferThe tournament will take place August 3rd through to the 8th in Arkon Ohio. Kim revealed the news of his return to the game first to fans on his Facebook page: “I will be back next week at the wgc…looking forward to (being) back,” he posted on the online social network.

Kim has been absent from Tour events since May when he underwent surgery to repair the torn ligaments in his left thumb. Kim opted for the surgery days after he tied for seventh at the Quail Hollow Championship though he had been complaining of pain in his thumb as far back as the spring of 2009. The injury has cost him 20 yards off the tee and has been very painful, though Kim does not like talking about the weakness.

“It’s definitely uncomfortable and something I didn’t want to talk about,” Kim said. “I have a great doctor . . . and he’s trying to figure it out. Maybe we go to Nike and get a new glove that fits my thumb and holds it in place a little bit better. We are just trying to figure something out.”

Kim’s doctor, Thomas Graham, told Kim he would be out for 10 to 12 weeks. Kim is ranked in fourth place on the Ryder Cup standings after dropping two points due to his absence. Only the top eight players at the end of the season will be automatically selected to join Corey Pavin on the American Ryder Cup team and Kim is determined to be one of those people. He began shooting balls again in early July and has remained in the top 10 on the FedEx Cup points standing despite his leave.

Kim won the Shell Houston Open in April and had three top ten finishes out of five starts this season prior to the surgery. There are only four more weeks remaining in the 2010 season, so every event counts. The final PGA Tour event is the PGA Championship and will be held the week following the Bridgestone Invitational at Whistling Straits.

Woods, defending champion of the Bridgestone Invitational, is still hoping to turn his luck around and win a tournament this season. He is a seven time winner of the World Golf Championship, the first and only player in PGA history to win that many times. Woods beat out Irishman Padraig Harrington in a playoff last year when he was still considered a player to contend with. Woods has played, and won, on the Firestone course every year since 2005 except for in 2008 when he missed the second half of the season to recover from knee surgery.

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As always, golf enthusiasts are wondering if this is the tournament that will bring Woods career back from the dead. After his performance at St Andrews for the British Open landed him in 23rd place, it seemed safe to say (if it hadn’t already been) that Woods’ career is on a downward spiral that doesn’t look like it is going to get better any time soon. Woods has never finished lower than fourth in the Firestone event.

The Bridgestone Invitation field includes members of the Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup teams, as well as winners of tournaments held around the world in the past year. Players who have an Official World Golf Ranking in the top 50 are invited to participate and the winner of this week’s Greenbrier Classic and Irish Open will be given a berth if they did not already qualify.

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Carl Pettersson:The Newly Minted RBC Canadian Open Champion Flirted With The Fitness Craze

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

You’re much more likely to find Carl Pettersson in the local watering hole than in the fitness trailer, especially this year. But hey, whatever works.

The newly minted RBC Canadian Open champion flirted with the fitness craze that has swept through the Tour ever since Tiger Woods unveiled his conspicuous guns. But like others before him — David Duval comes to mind — Pettersson didn’t get the results he wanted from the extra elliptical time, limping through a 2009 season that saw him plummet from 21st to 154th in the FedExCup points standings.

Carl Pettersson“I had a really poor year last year,” he said after a final-round 67 allowed him to overcome Dean Wilson’s four-shot lead. “I’ve been fairly successful out here. I worked hard for it.

“And last year my game left me. And you know, you start questioning yourself if you’re good enough to play, and am I ever going to win again. And yeah, I was feeling it coming up the last hole. I knew anything could happen, but it was a most important win for me coming back after last year playing so poorly.”

The portly Swede looked in the mirror a year ago and succumbed to the pressure to conform to the conditioning trend.

“I kept thinking what am I going to do to get better, and obviously I was a little overweight,” he said. “I thought, well, I’ll get fit. So I actually lost 30 pounds, and my game completely left me. I guess the timing of the swing and everything was thrown out, and I really struggled in ’09.

“I’ve played fairly well this year, not great, but I’ve had moments of doing good stuff, and I don’t know. You know, I’d love to be fitter, but I’m not going to go down that road again.

“I’m not your typical Swede, as you know. I don’t have a 28-inch waist, and I don’t eat bananas at the turn, stuff like that.”

Pettersson’s fourth career win didn’t come easily; he had to sweat out the cut after a pedestrian opening round. He posted a second-round 68, putting him at 1-under and in serious danger of missing the weekend.

The waiting was made easier by a few adult libations.

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“Well, we knew we had a chance because there’s a computer in the locker room. So we had all the scenarios. You can do it play by play, and we had all the guys coming in.

“Right when I finished I thought I had missed (the cut). I made a 10-footer to stay at 1-under on 18. And I was tied for 71st; and then I spoke to Johnny, the PGA official that does the scoring, and asked him what he thinks. He goes, it’s 50/50 because there’s a few guys still out there at 2-under.

“And I walked in the locker room and Jay Williamson had all the scenarios written out, and he’s like, grab a beer. Before you know it I’d had seven beers (laughs). Made the cut. And my caddy had to drive me home. I wasn’t in that bad of shape, but I didn’t want to drive. I can usually handle seven beers.”

Obviously. Pettersson handled the hangover to the tune of a third-round 10-under 60.

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Seven Of The Top 13 Players In Golf’s World Rankings Are Europeans

Monday, July 26th, 2010

If European golf wasn’t already hotter than summer asphalt, along came Sunday’s final round of the Canadian Open and threw another log on the fire.

Carl Pettersson

It’s not enough that seven of the top 13 players in Golf’s World Rankings are Europeans. When Sweden’s Carl Pettersson carded a final-round 67 Sunday to win the Canadian Open, he became the fifth European to claim a PGA Tour title since the first week of June.

How strong is Euro golf right now? Pettersson’s fourth career victory isn’t even enough to earn him more than a courtesy glance for this fall’s European Ryder Cup team.

With Euros Lee Westwood, Rory McIlroy, Paul Casey, Luke Donald, Ian Poulter, Graeme McDowell and Martin Kaymer filling up the majority of the world’s top 13 spots, it’s not easy getting captain Colin Montgomerie’s attention these days. All the same, Pettersson made himself the center of attention at Ontario’s St. George Golf & CC.

After surviving Friday’s 36-hole cut on the number, Pettersson carded a third-round 60 before following it with Sunday’s 67. His final two rounds were the lowest closing 36 holes in tournament history. And, considering the Canadian Open, first played in 1922, is the fourth oldest tournament in golf, that’s a considerable accomplishment.

“Right when I finished (Friday) I thought I had missed the cut,” Pettersson said. “I made a 10 footer to stay at 1 under on 18. And I was tied for 71st; and then I spoke to the PGA official that does the scoring, and asked him what he thinks. He goes, ‘it’s 50/50 because there’s a few guys still out there at 2 under.’

“And I walked in the locker room and Jay Williamson had all the scenarios written out, and he’s like, grab a beer. Before you know it I’d had seven beers. Made the cut. And my caddy had to drive me home. I wasn’t in that bad of shape, but I didn’t want to drive. I can usually handle seven beers.”

From beer to eternity. With weekend life, the 32-year-old former North Carolina State golfer came back to finish 14 under and one shot better than runner-up Dean Wilson and two in front of Donald.

“It’s unbelievable. I still can’t believe I won the tournament,” Pettersson said. “I didn’t have the greatest front nine at all, or first eight holes. Then I birdied 9. I birdied 8 and 9. And I still was, I don’t know, four or five behind Dean. And then I started playing really well, and then I kind of felt like I took control of the tournament coming in.”

Six strokes behind Wilson after seven holes and four back with seven remaining, Pettersson rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-3 13th to pull within one of his playing partner, then took the lead with a 25-footer from the fringe on the 480-yard, par-4 14th.

Wilson bogeyed 14, hitting into the thick rough to the right of the green, chipping through the putting surface to the opposite fringe and missing a 15-foot par try.

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“Yeah, it was a big swing there,” Wilson said.

Pettersson then pulled clear on the par-5 15th, recording his third straight birdie and fourth in five holes, after hitting wedge to 4½ feet. Wilson’s approach trickled into the back fringe and his birdie try came up 2½ feet short.

“I started talking to my caddy on that back nine, I was like, let’s see if we can get close to him,”Pettersson said. “When I was within four, I wanted to get within three, and I played very aggressive coming in. And that was fun. That helped me. And all of a sudden I had the lead when I birdied 14.”

As satisfying as the win was for Pettersson, it was every bit as disappointing a loss for Wilson.

The 40-year-old native of Hawaii came to the Open as a replacement for a sponsor exemption on Monday. Most known by golf fans as Annika Sorenstam’s playing partner when the LPGA star competed against the men in the 2003 Colonial, Wilson lost exempt status last year and is playing a limited schedule this year.

A victory would have changed everything. But golf hurts.

“It’s tough, you know,” Wilson said. “But if you told me at the beginning of the week I could have second by myself, I would have taken it skipping.

“I’m happy with moving up on the money list, moving up on the FedEx Cup point list, but my options are pretty slim. I’m not going to get in very many tournaments from here on out. I’m going to have to make a few more bucks to move up a little bit to assure my card so I don’t have to go to Tour School next year.”

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