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| Fed Excess | |
| The Fed Ex Cup chase is in its fourth year now and the question still screams to be asked: Does anyone really care?Obviously, the folks who run the World Golf Championships don’t.To this point, the four-tier “playoff” that was supposed to inject some late-season excitement into the post-PGA Championship Tour schedule has produced more yawns and, subsequently, tweaking to its point...
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| Ama-Tour Status | |
| In the middle of October, a player named Michael Muehr won the Middle Atlantic Amateur near Baltimore. It's not a remarkable story except for the fact that Muehr, 37, played two full seasons on the PGA Tour. In 2001, Muehr won more than $400,000 on Tour and finished 130th on the money list.Now, Muehr is an amateur and therein lies the problem. It's downright criminal that Muehr regained his...
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| Star In Waiting | |
| I’m crazy about Kristy McPherson. Don’t tell her, lest her boyfriend comes after me with a 60-degree wedge with low bounce. I also love Sheryl Crow and Erin Burnett on CNBC, so I can spread it around. Sheryl Crow on Soundstage is a keeper and even though I don’t have any money, everything I know about credit default swaps, Libor spreads and covering my shorts I owe to Burnett. What these...
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| Long John's Act Is Wearing Thin | |
| Eighteen years is a long time, relatively speaking, except in the life of John Daly, in which it seems like only yesterday. The year was 1991 and Daly improbably won the PGA Championship, hoisting the Wannamaker Trophy over his head and a monkey on his back. A few thousand beers and cigarettes and a few lost millions later, the Great American Folk Hero is in grave danger of losing his grip and...
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