Archive for September, 2009

After Jiyai Shin had a big day yesterday, Na Yeon Choi decided to come out and top that today. She shot a 9-under 63 to take the lead in San Diego at the Samsung World Championship.

Things can’t get much better for Jiyai Shin right now. She’s been playing some unbelievable golf in her rookie year on the PGA tour, and she’s got the lead at the Samsung World Championship after the second round.

With the men of the PGA off this week, we’ll turn our attention to the ladies, as they start play today at the Samsung World Championship at Torrey Pines. Paula Creamer is your defending champion, and it should be a great tournament to watch.

When you talk about the FedEx Cup Playoffs, you’re bound to bring up the topic of the scoring system. More importantly, just how the heck do we understand this point system? Gary Van Sickle wrote an interesting piece over at Golf.com discussing the current FedEx Cup point system, and offered a solution as to how and make the scoring a little more fair.

Well ladies and gentlemen, the Tour Championship will be getting underway next week, which will mark the end of the FedEx Cup playoffs. Some of you may like that, others may not. But we will have a FedEx Cup champion after the tournament at East Lake next weekend, as for who that will be…..that remains to be seen.

It’s Monday morning, which means it’s time to take a look back at this weekend’s action at the BMW Championship. Plenty of interesting things to talk about, so let’s get right to it:

As if there was any doubt, Tiger Woods managed to hang on to that seven shot lead heading into the final round, and won the BMW Championship today at Cog Hill. Woods didn’t play particular great today, but it would have been kind of hard to knock off the course record for a second straight day. He shot a 3-under 68 to win the tournament by eight shots, which is vintage Tiger.

So of all the days I could have missed a round of golf, why did it have to be yesterday? And of course, what does Tiger Woods do? He shoots a Cog Hill course record (62) and sits at 16-under par for the tournament. The next closest person to him heading into the final round? Brandt Snedeker. At 9-under, and seven shots back.

In a not-so surprising turn of events at the BMW Championship, a man named Woods has found a way to get to the top of the leaderboard. That’s right ladies and gentlemen, Tiger Woods is at the top. Woods shot a round a 4-under par 67 today, and has made his way atop the leaderboard, and is currently tied with Mark Wilson at 7-under. Here’s the AP story on the day’s action.

Didn’t get a chance to see much of the action today at Cog Hill, but here’s an AP story recapping the day’s golf in Chicago. And you can view the full leaderboard here. Rory Sabbatini is clearly a little angry after being left off the Presidents Cup team, and shot a 5-under 66 in the first round today. But we’ll see if that can be used as momentum throughout the entire week.

Things get going today at Cog Hill, as the FedEx Cup race continues at the BMW Championship. And then things get started tomorrow for the ladies at the P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship. In case you missed it yesterday, here’s my predictions for the BMW Championship. Let’s go Tiger! So, if you want to catch some great professional golf, then you’ve gotta know when and where to watch it, right? Here’s the TV schedule for the week:

The third tournament of the FedEx Cup playoffs gets going tomorrow in Chicago, as Camilo Villegas tries to defend his BMW Championship in what should be an exciting few days of golf. Here’s a video recapping some final round highlights from last year: