Archive for July, 2005

British Open: kudos, mulligan

Yazan: mulligan | 17 July 2005 | Comments Off on British Open: kudos, mulligan
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Mulligan will soon be on a plane, so I’ve decided to give credit where credit is due. Mulligan’s usually filled with hot air (or at least some of us here think so), but sometimes even Mulligan can get lucky and be spot on. Well, here’s what Mulligan said way back on March 7 of this […]

British Open: Tiger 10 down, 8 to go

Yazan: mulligan | 17 July 2005 | Comments Off on British Open: Tiger 10 down, 8 to go
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Tiger Woods won Major No. 10 today at -14, shooting a pretty safe yet impressive -2, 70. For only 5 to 10 minutes, things got somewhat close, with Colin Montgomerie closing the gap to 1-stroke at -11. But Colin was undone again by the “loop,” suffering two quick bogeys on 11 and 13. Jose Maria […]

British Open: commercial break

Yazan: mulligan | 17 July 2005 | Comments Off on British Open: commercial break
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Being in a family of avid golfers can be a blessing and a curse. Today, I had to fulfill my familial obligations in bringing back some Open souvenirs. I got there “early” around 10 am, thinking the crowds would not be bad. I was wrong. It was chaos, with hordes of avid golf fans scrounging […]

report from St. Andrews: moving day, Day 3

Yazan: mulligan | 16 July 2005 | Comments Off on report from St. Andrews: moving day, Day 3
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I’ve followed Tiger Woods plenty of times in the States. Today, it was a quite different experience: the fans at St. Andrews were overwhelmingly cheering for the Scottish hero Colin Montgomerie. I don’t know how many times I heard “C’mon Monty!” today. At the beginning, I’d say it was 90-10 percent fan support, Monty-Tiger. By […]

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