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  • Lindsey Vonn Holds Head High, Laughs At Joel McHale’s Tiger Woods Joke in Light of Amanda Boyd Scandal

    Lindsey Vonn held her head up high and laughed at a joke Joel McHale made at the ESPY Awards earlier this week. McHale joked about Tiger Woods, with whom Lindsey Vonn recently ended a relationship. Woods is rumored to have cheated on Lindsey Vonn with Amanda Boyd–the ex-wife of fellow pro-golfer Jason Dufner.

    “Many are calling Jordan Spieth the new Tiger Woods,” McHale said of the 21-year-old golf sensation. “Which is great news for golf and terrible news for the future Mrs. Jordan Spieth.”

    The camera then panned the audience–lighting on Lindsey Vonn–who made faux sad eyes and laughed along with the audience. The audience was at first unsure how to handle the joke, but seeing Lindsey Vonn’s reaction, erupted into full laughter instead of nervous laughter.

    “Is uh, Lindsey behind me right now?” McHale asked as Lindsey Vonn shyly lowered her head in response to the laughter. “She wasn’t married to him! Is she mad?”

    Lindsey Vonn looked sexier than ever at the ESPYs in a tight red dress.

    Vonn and Tiger Woods announced their “mutual” split back in May. Many wonder if she got out while the getting was good, as Woods reportedly relapsed in the sex addiction area–allegedly the same way he did while married to Elin Nordegren. He was allegedly seeing Amanda Boyd for months prior to his split from Lindsey Vonn.

    Did you catch Joel McHale’s joke about Tiger Woods at the ESPY Awards earlier this week? Do you think it was too soon for that kind of joke or was he spot-on with his timing?

    And don’t you think Lindsey Vonn handled the situation like a champ? She is, of course, a champ on the slopes. Now she qualifies for a gold medal in social sort-of humiliation as well.

  • Tiger Woods Struggles in Return to PGA Tour

    If you’ve been wondering why you haven’t heard much from the golf world lately, it’s perhaps due to a few reasons: 1) The NBA Finals (Go Spurs!); 2) The World Cup (Go USA!); and 3) The absence of Tiger Woods.

    Whether one appreciates Tiger Woods for the elite athlete he is or not, everyone has to admit that golf is a much more entertaining sport when he is on the green. Before teeing off at the Quicken Loans National at Congressional Country Club on Thursday, it had been 3 months, or 109 days, since Woods had last competed against golf’s best due to surgery on a pinched nerve in his back. And boy, did it show.

    Woods started the day in a group with Jason Day and Jordan Spieth, two current top-ten ranked golfers in the world. With a grouping of such high caliber, one would expect Woods to elevate his game and shine. However, it seemed to be quite the opposite – Woods bogeyed the first two holes, as did his two partners.

    “I think the hard part was just getting into the rhythm of playing competitively. You play with your buddies for cash and it’s just not the same. It’s not the same as tournament golf. Different level. It unfortunately took a while to get the feel for it. You saw the putt I hit on 11 was awful. I left it 10, 12 feet short. My feels were off,” stated Woods.

    The rough start on the first two holes would trend through the front nine and through the first two holes of the turn, with Woods bogeying seven of the first 12 holes. In the last six, however, Woods would finally find his groove, birdieing three of the last six holes.

    “He said it was a little different starting out and he finally found his rhythm and we saw what happens when he found his rhythm,” Spieth commented.

    While he finished the day with a three over par 74, Woods was still happy with his overall performance: “The score is not really indicative of how I played. I had four up-and-downs right there on 15 through 18. I had an easy pick on 2, don’t get that up-and-down and a wedge in my hand on 3 and I jerk it in the bunker.”

    Perhaps most importantly, Woods was satisfied with his health: “The back’s great. I had no issues at all. No twinges, no nothing. It felt fantastic.”

    Despite his poor performance on Thursday, both fans and professional golfers alike are excited for Tiger’s return, with even Ernie Els (the man who has finished second to Woods more than any other golfer) commenting, “It’s good to have him back, man.”

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  • Henrik Stenson Wins Fed-Ex Cup Championship

    Before play began at the Tour Championship on Thursday, three men were the betting favorites for winning the Fed-Ex Cup: Henrik Stenson, Adam Scott, and Tiger Woods. With 5 wins under his belt this year already, and simply because he is arguably the greatest golfer of all time, Tiger Woods was the expert’s pick. However, Sunday’s competition at the Tour Championship saw no world-famous fist-pump from Tiger. Instead, it was the calm composure of a Swede which won the day.

    Henrik Stenson went into Sunday’s round of the Tour Championship with a four-stroke lead. Despite the comfortable lead, all the pressure was on Stenson. Not only was the immediate victory of the Tour on the plate, but also the title of Fed-Ex Cup champ, which came with a $10 million dollar bonus. For a brief moment on Sunday, it appeared that Stenson was not going to be able to withstand the enormity of the situation. However, Stenson had been in a situation of such pressure before.

    At the beginning of the 2012 season, Stenson was not even ranked amongst the top 200 players in the world. A slump ten years earlier, caused by poor health and simply poor golf, left Stenson in a position where he had no control over his game. Despite Stenson’s hard work, his career almost hit a brick wall when his financial sponsor, Stanford Financial Group, had its assets seized by the US government for suspicions of running a Ponzi scheme.

    Stenson’s rough and tumble career paid off on Sunday, though, as he was able to hold off a surprising charge from 20-year-old Texan, Jordan Spieth. Beginning at the 13th hole, Spieth was able to score 4 birdies in a row, decreasing Stenson’s lead to merely one shot.

    The Swede’s nerves of steel and the Texan’s inexperience both showed themselves in the latter-half of the back 9, though. On the 17th hole, Spieth decided to make an aggressive shot to put even more pressure on Stenson, but his shot wound up in the front bunker and Spieth bogeyed. Meanwhile, on the 15th, Stenson hit a nice approach shot on the par-5 15th, allowing him to chip his 3rd shot to within 7 feet of the hole and score a birdie.

    Once his lead stretched to 3 with 3 holes left, Stenson was able to play defensively and saved par on the last 3 holes, securing the Tour Championship win and also the Fed-Ex Cup. The win was Stenson’s second in three Cup-playoff matches, and culminated an amazing stretch of golf by the Swede: “Since the Scottish Open, it’s been just an incredible run,” he said. “I’m speechless. It was a tough day out there. To hang in there the way I did, I’m really satisfied. … It hasn’t quite sunk in yet. I had to fight hard mentally to keep all this aside, and I managed to do that.”

    Tiger Woods and Adam Scott were never in contention for victory, finished 20th and 14th respectively. However, Woods was able to finish 2nd in Fed-Ex Cup standings, with Scott finishing 4th.

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  • Jordan Spieth Not Like Many 20-Year-Olds

    Jordan Spieth Not Like Many 20-Year-Olds

    The Tour Championship showcased the talents of the 20-year-old who just last year was a sophomore at the University of Texas. Even though Henrik Stenson won the Tour Championship, the FedEx Cup, and the prize money, everyone can’t help but talk about the young rookie who played close on his heels.

    Jordan Spieth won the John Deere Classic in July, making him the youngest winner of a PGA Tour event in the last 82 years. Adding to his accomplishments it was noted that at the end of the PGA Tour this season he was 10-under 270. Not bad for a 20-year-old. In fact, it’s more than not bad — the young athlete is quite impressive.

    Jordan spoke openly about his experiences during the 2013 year where he initially started with no PGA Tour status and was originally placed on the lower-tier Web.com Tour. “It’s been a dream come true. The beginning of the year, my goal was just to get on Tour next season. It was just to get my 2014 PGA Tour card. I thought that it would come through the Web.com Tour this year. Those couple of weeks at Puerto Rico and Tampa really changed my golf life. To be able to play the PGA Tour this year, and then obviously (winning) the John Deere opened things up.”

    Don’t expect Jordan to get a big head and rest on his laurels after these successes.

    “I won’t stop until the President’s Cup. There’s no need to let everything sink in. I’ve got to stay focused, start letting anything sink in about the year, it’s maybe not as intense about the next tournament,” he said.

    The talented golfer shared his enthusiasm with his Twitter followers, where other viewers were happy to return the enthusiasm.

    [Image Via Wikimedia Commons And Courtesy of USGA]