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Jim Furyk Won Not Just The Tour Championship But Also The FedEx Cup

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

With his hat on backwards to keep the rain out of his eyes, Jim Furyk sunk a two and a half foot putt on the 18th green to win not just the Tour Championship but also the FedEx Cup. Normally calm and collected, Furyk let out a roar of domination as he threw the winning ball into the crowd. Back in Tucson, his former collegiate coach Rick LaRose did something similar.

“I yelled at the TV, ‘We didn’t come all this way to layup’,” said LaRose. He was referring to Furyk’s clutch bunker shot that preceded the winning putt.

“I said that to him at the NCAA’s in ‘92,” LaRose continued. “He hit a ball in a bush off the tee on the very first hole. He had an 8 iron to the green. He said, ‘Coach should I chip this out? What should I do?’ I said, ‘Jimmy, we didn’t come all the way to lay up. Knock it on the green.’ He did and we won the championship.”

This past weekend, Furyk used the same bravado to claim the 10 million dollar prize awarded to whoever wins the FedEx Cup title. Not bad for a man whose chances dropped in August after he slept in and consequently missed his Pro Am tee time at the Barclays resulting in a disqualification from the first round of the Fed Ex Cup tournament.

“He’s an athlete,” said LaRose.” He’s a competitor. Jimmy would just like to beat your brains out for a nickel if he could. He’ll give you all you want.”

Furyk, as it turns out, is also generous. Wednesday, two days prior to the beginning of the 2010 Ryder Cup which he’ll be playing in, Furyk donated 25,000 dollars to his alma mater, the University of Arizona. The money will be used in conjecture with the PGA of America’s Play Golf America University.

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“If you ever had to have a son,” said LaRose, “you’d love to have Jim Furyk as your son. He’s just a great kid. He’s an all around good person.”

And a pretty darn good golfer. Thursday marks day one of competition of the Ryder Cup where Furyk will join the likes of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, and team captain Corey Pavin in an attempt to make it back to back wins over Rory McIlroy, Paul Casey, and Team Europe. The match play format of the tournament should play to Furyk’s strengths.

“I love him in that scenario,” said LaRose. He would know. After all, with Furyk’s help, Arizona captured the 1992 NCAA national championship in a match play format.

“There’s nothing I don’t like about Jimmy’s game,” said LaRose. “A lot of people get caught up in mechanics. Techniques. Style points. There’s none of that in golf. All there is, is low score wins. Get the ball in the hole in the fewest number of shots. He’s done good at that.”

He certainly has. His win at the Tour Championship rounded out his total victories in 2010 to 3. Furyk’s name is being tossed around a potential PGA Player of the year. But first there’s the matter of the Ryder Cup, being held across the pond at the Celtic Manor in Wales..

“I just told him to put this week out of your mind and try to concentrate on the Ryder Cup,” said LaRose. “He said that’s what they’re looking forward to doing.”

We’re looking forward to watching.

First round of the Ryder Cup begins Friday.

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Jim Furyk Picked A Bad Time To Sleep In

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Jim Furyk picked a bad time to sleep in.

Furyk overslept Wednesday when his cell phone lost power overnight and the alarm didn’t go off, causing him to be late for his pro-am tee time in The Barclays. That left PGA Tour officials no choice but to make him ineligible for the first of four FedEx Cup playoff events.

A two-time winner on tour this year, Furyk is No. 3 in the standings as the race for the $10 million prize gets under way at Ridgewood Country Club without him.

It is unlikely he will fall too far down the standings, although he eliminated any chance of improving.

“I’m kicking myself,” Furyk said. “I have a way of climbing into situations that are all my fault.”

Phil Mickelson appeared to be more furious than Furyk.

“The rule itself applies to only half the field,” said Mickelson, noting that only 54 of the 122 players were in the pro-am. “So if you’re going to have a rule that does not apply to everybody, you cannot have it affect the competition. … I cannot disagree with it more. I have no idea how the commissioner let this rule go through. It’s ridiculous.”

Mickelson said he told PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem how he felt at lunch.

Weir injury: Canadian Mike Weir has a partially torn ligament in his right elbow and is likely out for the rest of the season.

Weir, who said he had elbow pain before the British Open in July, told The Canadian Press on Tuesday that he had an MRI exam over the weekend. He plans to rest the elbow and seek treatment to avoid surgery.

Weir is coming off a season of eight missed cuts. His best finish was sixth at the Bob Hope Classic.

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Blasberg case: The doctor who found the body of 25-year-old professional golfer Erica Blasberg told Nevada investigators he hid a suicide note and pills because he wanted to spare her family embarrassment, according to a court document.

A Henderson police affidavit detailed the hours Blasberg and Dr. Thomas Hess spent together playing golf, watching TV in a casino sports book and in her home in the days before he found her dead May 9 with a plastic bag over her head.

Detectives investigating the golfer’s death searched the doctor’s Mercedes-Benz, which was parked in Blasberg’s driveway, and found a suicide note and Xanax pills obtained in Mexico.

Authorities have declined to release the contents of the note.

Tiger status: In his first tournament after getting engaged, Tiger Woods was runner-up to Davis Love III at the 2003 Target World Challenge. In his first tournament as a married man, Woods was runner-up to Retief Goosen in the 2004 Tour Championship.

The Barclays will be his first tournament as a divorced man.

Woods at least needs to make the cut, and probably needs to finish in the middle of the pack, to make it out of the first round of the FedEx Cup playoffs.

Etc.: It has been 19 years since no one on the PGA Tour won more than twice in a season. With 10 tournaments left on the schedule, five players have two victories. … How low was the scoring in Greensboro? John Merrick, Omar Uresti and Charles Warren shot in the 60s all four rounds and tied for 65th.

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Tiger Woods Tries To Turn His Mind Back To Golf Again

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Tiger Woods tries to turn his mind back to golf again on Thursday after admitting that playing while going through a divorce was “a lot more difficult than I was letting on”.

The world number one, whose marriage to Swede Elin Nordegren ended on Monday nine months after the world started to learn about his serial adultery, is in New Jersey for the opening event of the FedEx Cup play-off series.

The Barclays could also be the last event of the series for Woods because the field is cut each week and his position is under threat after nothing better than fourth place finishes in The Masters and US Open this season.

First, though, he was met with yet more questions about his private life yesterday.

“It’s a sad time in our lives,” he said. “We’re looking forward in our lives and how we can help our kids the best way we possibly can. That’s the most important thing.

“As far as my game and practising, that’s been secondary. We’re trying to get our kids situated to our new living conditions and how that’s going to be. That’s where our focus is going to be right now.

“You don’t ever go into a marriage looking to get divorced. That’s the thing – that’s why it is sad.

“My actions certainly led us to this decision. I’ve certainly made a lot of errors in my life and that’s something I’m going to have to live with.

“Being asked questions all the time, even as the tournaments are going, is always difficult, especially when I’m trying to work on a few things.

“Certainly you try and block it out as best you can and focus on a shot, but at times it certainly was difficult.”

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He has worked more with Sean Foley since the US PGA Championship two weeks ago and commented: “It’s just a matter of getting it more solidified.

“I still haven’t officially decided to change my swing yet, just because this would be the fourth time since I’ve been on the PGA Tour.

“It’s an undertaking that I have to wrap my head around because it’s going to take some time.”

The first big story of the tournament came before it started, with “third seed” Jim Furyk being disqualified for oversleeping and missing his tee-off time – not in the event proper, but the curtain-raising pro-am.

Furyk had set a wake-up call on his mobile phone, but the battery ran out during the night.

Points leader Ernie Els, who was due to partner Furyk in the first two rounds, said: “It’s obviously a bit of a shock.

“He paid the ultimate penalty. Jim is the ultimate professional, if there is one out there, but unfortunately we have rules.

“He does a lot of stuff for the Tour that benefits the Tour, so you could definitely have an argument to somehow help a player when he’s qualified for the play-offs. Maybe penalise him some points or something.”

Phil Mickelson described Furyk’s disqualification as ridiculous.

“The rule itself applies to only half the field,” said Mickelson, referring to the fact that not all the players are required for the pro-am.

“So if you’re going to have a rule that does not apply to everybody you cannot have it affect the competition.

“It’s got to be a different penalty. It can’t be disqualification if it only applies to half the field.

“It’s not protecting the players. It’s not protecting the sponsors. Yet it affects the integrity of the competition.

“I cannot disagree with it more. I have no idea how the Commissioner (Tim Finchem) let this rule go through. It’s ridiculous. I made my viewpoint very clear to him.”

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