Day, who is on a tear having won two tournaments in dominating fashion, and Spieth, who has two majors under his belt, look to topple McIlroy as the year’s top player. TORONTO STAR | SPORTS | GOLF Continue reading
TORONTO — It was a blustery Friday afternoon at Augusta National two years ago and, had his golf ball travelled an inch to either the left or right, you wonder how the world of Tiger Woods would have unfolded in the months since. Amid all the post-mortems and eulogies offered in the past few days for the career of Woods, which was put on hold last week when he simply up and quit from a tournament at Torrey Pines, then announced that he would return at some unspecified time in the future, it was easy to overlook the fact that, as … Continue reading
The Irish reputation for loquacity is well-founded. Even when Padraig Harrington produced one of his less tortured rounds, a 63 in Phoenix two years back, his answer to a prosaic inquiry about his swing was 1,850 words long. It was almost baroque in its prolixity, encompassing everything from the interviews of Arnold Palmer to his visions of how good a golfer he might be at age 70. To listen to this sweetly tormented soul is to understand how James Joyce, Harrington’s fellow Dubliner, sat down one day to compose Ulysses and wound up stretching a day in the life of … Continue reading
