2008 PGA Tour

[BSharma]

A look at the leaderboard at the end of the third day at Deutsche Bank Championship shows several topnotch golfers in the top ten. Mike Weir (-17) leads the tournament held during the Labor Day weekend and Camilo Villegas (-15) is in second place. Vijay Singh and Sergio Garcia (-14) are tied for 3rd, Ben Crane, Ernie Els and Jim Furyk (-13) share the 5th spot, and Tim Clark, Heath Slocum and Briny Baird (-12) finish off the top ten places with a tie for 8th place. Phil "Who is he?" Mickelson (-2) did not make the second cut and is out of the tournament, which he won last year.

[Kumar]

VJ just blew away the field in the Deutsche Bank championship with 8 under 63 and won by 5 strokes over Mike Weir

wow!!!This gives him a 12225 K point cushion over Garcia in fedex cup ranking...

[BSharma]

Congratulations to Vijay Singh for winning back-to-back titles in the FedEx Cup.

This man believes in positive thinking.

Singh, who has long struggled with the putter, convinced himself last week that he was the best putter in golf when he won The Barclays in a three-man playoff.

Singh wins for the second straight week

[ajay]

I fully enjoyed my holiday sitting on the couch and watching Vijay play a great great round. Vijay was a class apart today. The way he was dropping putts, it seemed the gods were conspiring with him. Some of the putts will wobble, and they look like breaking away to left and then to right and then to left again, but ultimately, they will follow the line and fall dead center in the hole. And then you see other players putting and the ball won't listen to them as the ball will invariably leave the line for good and pass the hole. No doubt he was the best putter of the world, at least this day, or probably I should say he was the best putter for over four days. Or better I should say he was the best putter in the world for last two weeks. Wasn't it just a week back when I was praising the Vijay's long putt in the first playoff hole when he snatched the victory from the jaws of shark like Garcia. Heck, why not admit that he IS the best putter in the world right now!

[Kumar]

. Heck, why not admit that he IS the best putter in the world right now!

Especially when those opportunities are pretty rare!!!

[BSharma]

The FedEx Cup – A Piece of a Cynic’s Mind

The PGA Tour came up with the FedEx Cup – a four-tournament-playoff to hand over ten million bucks to the winner – to bring excitement among the pro-golfers and fans. The only person I have seen laughing all the way to the bank is Tiger Woods, and Vijay Singh may soon join him this year.

Some wise guy came up with a bright idea that PGA Tour can organize a golf playoff and the sports fans will switch from watching football and basketball to golf if PGA Tour can find a sucker to pay $10 million to the winner.

The same wise guy envisioned that Phil “Is-He-Really-the-Second-Ranked-Golfer?” Mickelson would win the first of the four playoff tournaments while Tiger Woods spends time playing with his daughter Sam in Florida. Phil would certainly get the American crowd involved in the FedEx Cup even if the Americans can no longer win the Ryder Cup.

The wise guy thought that letting a foreign golfer win the second one would bring in the fans from all over the world. Can you imagine the excitement golf would generate when Vijay “The-Man-with-the-Golden-Gun … oops …Putter” Singh or Sergio “Can’t-Win-a-Major” Garcia or Retief “Lays-an-Egg-Every-Time” Goosen or Geoff “Wins-a-Tournament-Every-Two-Years” Ogilvy wins the second playoff tournament when Tiger Woods shows up with Sam’s golf set by mistake?

One does not have to be a wise guy to fathom that Tiger Woods would win the third tournament of the playoff if his mind is into golf and not into creating a sibling for Sam.

Tiger would win the PGA Tour Championship and ten million dollars by a mile … sorry, by a dozen strokes, just to pay for the upkeep of his expanding clan.

Can any sport, forget golf, challenge American football (NFL and NCAA) and Basketball (NBA and NCAA) for viewership in fall and winter in America? May be, NHL and ice hockey can do it in states bordering Canada, and I don’t count pro wrestling as “real” sport.

So why do PGA Tour officials try to prolong the misery of a handful of golf fans still trying to stay interested in snatching a glimpse of golf tournaments in between football or basketball commercial breaks on TV?

Why not play the PGA Tour Championship during the Labor Day weekend and call it a day until the Mercedes Championship in Hawaii on first of January?

Come to think of it, just skip the golf tournaments in early January in Aloha State and in California in February and start the season in March when the weather starts to warm up, at least in southern states.

I say, six months of golf in USA is plenty.

[arjun2761]

The self proclaimed "best putter in the world" is back to his usual putting taking 32 putts to get around the first round at Cog Hill. His even par round places him currently at T-36 in the 70 person field and 5 strokes of the lead.

[BSharma]

The self proclaimed "best putter in the world" is back to his usual putting taking 32 putts to get around the first round at Cog Hill.

It just goes to show how many more PGA titles and majors Vijay could have won if he could putt well.

[BSharma]

Camilo Villegas won the BMW Championship and Vijay Singh was tied for 44th place. However, Vijay earned enough points that he will win the FedEx Cup and $10 million unless he does not show up or gets disqualified at the PGA Tour Championship.

Apparently Vijay Singh refused to speak to NBC Sports and walked past a group of other media after finishing his round. I did not watch golf today, but can someone post his or her impression of what happened?