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View Finder: A look inside the MetLife blimp
Look up, way up, in the skies above Torrey Pines -- or just about any PGA Tour event -- and you'll spot it patrolling at 1,200 feet like some sort of Behemoth Brother, a 130-foot-long, 4,400-pound, helium-filled sky whale out for a leisurely swim. It is the MetLife blimp, to golf what Cracker Jack is to baseball, a ubiquitous -- if gigantic -- strand of the game's DNA, right down to the white noise its whirring engines produce.
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The 10 Best Duels in U.S. Open History
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Game plan: How Tiger will attack Torrey Pines
Tiger is the odds-on favorite to win the U.S. Open. We asked his swing coach Hank Haney what the keys will be for the World No. 1.
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The Secrets of Tiger's Amazing Mind
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Angel Cabrera remains thoughtful, fiery and blunt after his U.S. Open triumph
"Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn'tmean I'm going to change the way I live,"Angel Cabrera told Sports Illustrated last August in his native Argentina,for a profile co-written by Luis Fernando Llosa. "I'm going to do whatI've always done."
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The Phil Who Could Have Been Jack
The living room of Phil Rodgers' San Diego bungalow looks like a memorabilia shop -- full of relics of a career that was and another that might have been. A large framed photo of Cypress Point adorns a wall covered in tartan wallpaper. A thigh-high winner's trophy from the 1955 International Jayvee golf tournament stands near the patio door. A plastic Masters cup rests on the coffee table. But the real conversation piece hangs above the television: a 1963 Sports Illustrated cover that features a flat-topped Rodgers flashing a toothy grin. The cover line reads: PHIL RODGERS, THE BRASHEST MAN IN GOLF.
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Twenty years after his first of back-to-back U.S. Open wins, we reveal what made Curtis Strange tick
At the 1985 Panasoniclas Vegas Invitational, after closing the third round with a brain-cramp bogey, Curtis Strange, 30, stormed into the parking lot and made his worst swing of the day. His takeaway was perfect, but impact was a problem: flesh struck metal. "It was the darnedest thing," Strange recalls. "The hood of my car came up and hit my fist."
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Woods doesn't get mad, he gets 'mad decisive'
Tiger Woods is two down toJ.B. Holmes, and fuming.
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Phil Mickelson never made a move at the Players Championship
Phil Mickelson stood on the penultimate hole of the Players Championship on Sunday, passing his pitching wedge and 9-iron back and forth to his caddie, Jim Mackay. After several minutes of discussion, Mickelson chose the wedge, launched his tee shot into the breeze, and watched his ball land short of the island green and in a bunker.
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Paul Goydos didn't win the Players, but he did steal the show
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Paul Goydos was the first Players competitor to hit a ball into the water at the 17th green Thursday. He was also the last man to hit a ball into the same lake Sunday evening as the sun began to settle behind the mix of palms and pines, and for that reason, he is not your new Players champion.
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