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Jordan Spieth a Grand Winner, Dustin Johnson a Tragic Loser
While matching or breaking some age-related records, Jordan Spieth won the 2015 US Open to make it his second Major title of the year, leaving him the opportunity to possibly even complete the Golf Grand Slam in one year, although all that wouldn’t have been possible without Dustin Johnson providing an epic collapse on the final hole.
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Jordan Spieth Makes Winning the Masters Look Easy
Out of nowhere comes 21-year old Jordan Spieth to deliver on of the most dominant wins at the Masters ever, leading it wire to wire and finishing with the green jacket without a shred of a threat from anyone else.
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Ryder Cup – Tiger Woods Isn’t Going to be in it
It hasn’t been a very good year for Tiger Woods in 2014 – injuries and simply playing badly, before and after his back surgery. While Tom Watson wanted to keep him in consideration, the biggest name in Golf has taken himself out of the running.
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PGA Championship – Rory McIlory Proves He’s Special Once Again
The popular thing at the moment is trying to figure out just how great Rory McIlory can be by comparing him to the legends of golf, but simply focusing on the fact that he’s the best golfer in the world, winning the 2014 PGA Championship to make it two titles in that tournament and four majors over the last four years is enough to distinguish himself from the rest of the field.
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Tiger Woods Won’t Let Injury Stop Him From Playing in the PGA Championship
It’s been one year since Tiger Woods last won a title, and it’s been much longer since he has seen success in a Major Tournament and specifically the PGA Championship. That drive to prove he’s still good enough to last four days against the best competition seems to be pushing him beyond the injury that cast a doubt over his participation in the final major of the year.
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Rory McIlroy Wins the Open Championship – Close to the Career Grand Slam
The final day of the 2014 Open Championship wasn’t the best Rory McIlroy had during the four days at Liverpool, but he did just about enough to claim his third major title, finishing two strokes ahead of Rickie Fowler and Sergio Garcia, getting one title closer to the career grand slam.
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Tiger Woods, Despite Everything, With Another Career Worst
It used to be an automatic for Tiger Woods. Winning majors, when heading into the weekend tied for the lead. He was 8 for 9 in that situation heading into Saturday of the 2012 US Open, tied for -1 along with Jim Furyk. Both of them imploded eventually, leaving the road open for Webb Simpson. But it was longer, more painful, as always, to watch Tiger going through another meltdown.
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John Peterson With a Hole-In-One at the US Open
Tiger Woods falling behind in the 2012 US Open after sharing the lead is the big story this weekend from San Francisco, but some of the spotlight did go to John Peterson who made a hole-in-one on the 13th hole.
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Tiger Woods Missing the Cut Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone
Tiger Woods just can’t live up to what people percieve his name, his brand, to be. If his terrible performance at Augusta wasn’t enough of a warning sign to fans and experts regarding Woods’ place in the current pecking order, came his terrible Wells Fargo Championship performance, missing the cut of a tournament for only the 8th time in his career.
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Phil Mickelson Blows Chance For 4th Masters Title With a Triple Bogey on Hole No. 4
Phil Mickelson had an incredible opportunity to win his fifth major and a fourth masters title, to tie things with Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer. But he shot a triple bogey on the fourth hole, finishing the day with a 72, two behind Oosthuizen and Watson who went on to win the green jacket.