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Haas leads after second round at Tour
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Singh bids to make it
an elite PGA foursome
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Qatar Masters To Be Co-Sanctioned By Asian And
EuropeanTours
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Golf 101: 8 characteristics of champion
golfers
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Haas
leads after second round at Tour Championship
Jay Haas is
almost 51 years old, but you’d never know it by the
way he’s playing at the Tour Championship.
Haas, who is 26 days short of his 51st birthday, fired
a 4-under-par 66 to claim a two-shot lead at 7-under
138 after the second round Friday at East Lake Golf
Club.
Haas, who shared the first round with Darren Clarke
and Jerry Kelly at 3-under-par, got his round going
with an eagle on No. 9. He holed his chip from 27
yards out of the intermediate rough to finish the
front nine at two-under-par.
On the back nine, he seized the lead with an 8-foot
birdie putt on the par-5 No. 15 and then sunk a slick
downhill birdie from 13 feet to close out his round on
No. 18 for a 33 on the back nine.
Woods, who started the day at 2-over-par 72, collected
three birdies on front nine — on Nos. 3, 5 and 9 —
to bolt into contention at 1-under-par. Then, he
birdied 14, 15 and 16 to post the best back nine of
the day at 32.
His most spectacular birdie came on No. 16, which
played as the toughest hole Friday. Woods’ drive
ended up way right in the rough, but his second shot
into the green set up a 13-footer for birdie — the
only one of the day at 16.
Vijay Singh, shooting for his 10th victory of the
season, shot a 3-over 73 and is nine shots back at
142. Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els, among the
pre-tournament favorites, are 10 shots back at 143.
Singh bids
to make it an elite PGA foursome
Nelson,
Hogan, Snead only golfers with 10-win years
The
list begins with Byron Nelson and ends with Sam
Snead. Ben Hogan is right down the middle, just like
when he played.
No
Arnold Palmer. No Jack Nicklaus. No Tiger Woods.
Vijay
Singh can join the short list of players with 10 or
more victories in a PGA Tour season. Singh enters
the season-ending Tour Championship, which begins
today at East Lake Golf Club, with nine victories.
It's Singh's one and only chance to become the
fourth man to reach double digits, because he needed
four victories in his past five starts to get to
this point.
"I
never knew about that record," Singh said.
"I mean, it would be an incredible thing to win
10 in a season. People don't win one and go through
their whole career. Being in the same boat and the
same page as Snead and Hogan and just comparing
against them, it just -- really, you don't have
words to describe it."
Singh
is a relentless range rat who also works out twice a
day, six days a week. Despite his seemingly
indestructible constitution, he admits he has begun
to feel the strain.
"I
need to get to bed earlier now than what I did
middle of the season," Singh said. "Come
10, 10:30, I'm done. That's when you know that
you're getting tired at the end of the season. I'm
glad this is the last tournament."
Qatar
Masters To Be Co-Sanctioned By Asian And European
Tours
The
Qatar Masters will be jointly sanctioned for the
first time by the Asian Tour and European Tour next
year. This groundbreaking development will ensure a
strong presence of the region's top stars in the
elite field as 44 Asian Tour members will line up
alongside the best from Europe.
The eighth Qatar Masters, which will be held from
March 10-13, 2005, has a prize fund of US$1.5
million with golfers battling for the magnificent
Pearl Trophy. This is also the first event in
the Middle East to be sanctioned by both the Asian
and European Tours.
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World
Star
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PGA
TOUR MONEY LEADERS
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Rank
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Player
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Events
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Money
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1
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Vijay
Singh
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27
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$10,725,166.39
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2
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Phil
Mickelson
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18
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$5,672,322.50
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3
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Ernie
Els
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14
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$5,629,025.00
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4
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Tiger
Woods
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18
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$4,717,472.31
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5
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Stewart
Cink
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23
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$4,344,670.06
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6
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Adam
Scott
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11
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$3,619,384.48
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7
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Sergio
Garcia
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16
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$3,115,415.20
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8
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Davis
Love III
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18
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$3,075,092.38
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9
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Stephen
Ames
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20
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$3,055,205.38
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10
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Todd
Hamilton
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18
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$2,970,178.17
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Golf
101 
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Here's
are the 8 characteristics of champion golfers:
1. Focus and Concentration.
2. Abstract thinking.
3. Emotional Stability.
4. Dominance.
5. Tough-mindedness.
6. Confidence.
7. Self-sufficient.
8. Balanced state (not tense but not completely
relaxed either).
Golfers
recognize the challenge of the game. It is this
challenge that hooks people on the game in spite of
great frustration.
A lower handicap is the
Mount
Everest
of golf. To climb it because it is there.
To shoot the lowest round possible is the ultimate
goal.
Why is golf so hard?
1. The ball just sits there. In tennis,
basketball or baseball, the ball is moving. You
HAVE to react to it. In golf, the ball waits for
you and your internals get in the way.
When you begin to think about your swing, how you are
holding your shoulders, where your arms are, who you
are playing, what people watching you are thinking,
you give yourself NO chance to focus.
2. Golf has significant down time. There is too
much time to contemplate the game. Tennis
players don't have this challenge.
The minutes between each shot add up to hours in an
afternoon. Golfers are really good at beating
themselves up.
3. There is absolutely no limit on perfection.
The more you know about the game, the worse it can be.
There's an old saying about a little bit of knowledge
being dangerous. It certainly applies here.
4. Golf can be physically draining. A round of
golf can take 4 or more hours. So one must
conserve and protect his physical and mental energies
while playing.
When you play golf are you quiet and focused on your
game or are you warm and outgoing?
Studies show that quiet and focused players do better.
Every golfer has a physical set up routine. You
need a mental one as well.
That's
where you put your game on automatic pilot.
All of these steps follow your calculations on which
club to use and where you want to direct your shot.
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