At the beginning of his career, Adam Scott was touted as a strong challenger to Tiger Woods. His swing -- matured by Butch Harmon -- burberry handbags outlet was a close kin of Tiger's powerful, athletic move. The Australian came after Sergio Garcia and before Rory McIlroy. He was a surfer attached to beautiful women.
At 23, Scott won the 2004 Players Championship and two years later the Tour Championship. He was on the move, but his game wasn't showing up at the majors. Coming into 2011, he had only four top-10s in 39 majors, but then in one year garnered top-10s at the Masters and the PGA Championship. He had five other top 10s last year, including a win at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in August.
AP Photo/Scott A. MillerAdam Scott's 6-under 66 on Thursday at the WGC-Cadillac Championship was just his sixth round of the season.
At Augusta, where he finished in a tie for second, Scott held the lead late on Sunday, but his 5-under 67 wasn't enough to hold burberry beige handbag off Charl Schwartzel, who had four closing birdies to win by two shots. Scott had Tony Navarro on his bag for Augusta, but then he hired Steve Williams in July after Tiger fired the caddie after 13 years.
From swing instructor to caddie, Scott has seemingly followed in Tiger's footsteps. Now he's taken up Tiger's habit of not playing very much golf, building his schedule around the majors and a few select other events, including the World Golf Championships. For years Scott kept a torrid schedule -- during one stretch early in his career he played 14 weeks in a row -- but now at 31, he wants to pace himself for the long haul.
On Thursday, his 6-under par 66 in the first round of the WGC-Cadillac Championship was only his sixth round of year.
"I'm trying to keep myself fresh and have myself ready, also at the same time for the biggest events of the year," said Scott, who is in a tie for the lead with Jason Dufner. "And that certainly starts here, I believe, until the end of September.
"When you're 21 it's pretty easy to fly around the world nonstop and just go play and do everything you want to do, but it's different when you're 31. You've got to do the right things for your game and not just go running off playing every week chasing World Ranking points or whatever you're playing for."
In December, Scott, the 11th-ranked player in the world, spent a month on the couch back in his native Queensland recovering from a tonsillectomy. He didn't have his first start in the U.S. until mid-February at the Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles.
"I just really enjoyed being home for three months. I think it's the first time in my whole career that I've been home that long," Scott said.
With world ranking points and millions of dollars burberry bags on the line seemingly every week in tournaments around the world, the long view can be a difficult proposition. Players who keep reduced schedules have the added pressure of performing well over a fewer number of events compared to most other players. They also tend to be players who love to practice.
Scott sounded like Tiger on Thursday when he talked about the joy he finds in working on his game.
"I enjoyed the practice as much as any result I had last year, so I do enjoy going home and spending hours on the range and the chipping green and the putting green." Scott said. "I feel that's the balance that I need to perform the best."
In 2011, Luke Donald, who shot a 2-under 70 on Thursday in his first week in 40 weeks not at the top of the world ranking, played in 27 worldwide events in a career-defining season. He won the money titles on both the European Tour and the PGA Tour. But how much did his busy international schedule hurt his ability to perform at the majors?
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After a tie for burberry sunglasses fourth at the 2011 Masters, Donald tied for 45th at the U.S. Open and missed the cut at the British Open. Yet he won the Barclays Scottish Open in the tournament leading up to the British and had top-10s in all but five events between the Masters and his season-ending JBWere Masters in Australia in December.
Donald's game was peaking at the right time, but for whatever reason he didn't play as consistently in the four majors as he had in his 23 other events.
Scott said he might play next week in the Transitions in Tampa, Fla., but he'll rest at least two weeks before heading to the Masters in early April.
"I'm just kind of leaving it to the last minute about next week. I feel like I'm playing well; it might be a good thing to go and play and keep building the confidence," Scott said.
Thus, the paradox: how do you keep building the confidence if you don't play? By Sunday night, Scott will have matched his total rounds of the burberry kids skirts cheap year coming into Doral. Can he withstand the pressure that many of his other competitors have already seen this year?
After 13 years as a professional, he believes he knows the answers to some of these questions.
"I think overall, for a lot of different reasons, I learned to trust my own instincts again," Scott said. "Do you really want to play; you've got to find the real answer inside, and not for other people and not for reasons other than what you really want. I think that's how you get the best out of your game."
So no matter how blustery the Blue burberry bags outlet Monster becomes during the weekend or what hell the water-filled 18th hole casts on the these top 74 players in the world, Scott will be rested and in the right place at the right time for his career.
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Fast forward to 2012 and the thrills are live
At home in Texas, Hunter Mahan burberry handbags outlet turned on the telecast of last Sunday’s final round of the Honda Classic. Never mind that the whole idea behind taking a week off is to untether oneself from the tour.
“I watched a little bit, because I saw Tiger was playing good,” Mahan said.
What if Tiger Woods, who closed with a 62 to tie for second, had been playing poorly? Would Mahan have kept watching?
“No,” he replied with a laugh. “I would have turned it off.”
At No. 10, Mahan is six places ahead of Woods in the world rankings. He has won three times on the PGA Tour since Woods’s last official victory — the 2009 BMW Championship — but has no illusions about his standing.
Woods, who counts 14 major titles among his 71 tour wins, “moves the needle like no one in the game,” Mahan said. “I mean, just when he’s there and when he’s not there, there’s a difference, there just is.”
The buzz created by Woods’s fantastic finish at the Honda Classic translated into the tournament’s highest overnight television ratings burberry beige handbag in a decade and has carried over into this week’s W.G.C.-Cadillac Championship at Doral’s Blue Monster.
The field is comparable to the Masters, with the top 50 golfers among those vying for the $1.4 million winner’s prize. For fans, it is as if the tour’s trade winds have created heavenly conditions: three generations in a competitive swirl.
There are the 40-somethings led by Phil Mickelson and Steve Stricker; the 30-somethings headed by Woods; and the 20-somethings steered by Rory McIlroy, who ascended to No. 1 with his victory in the Honda Classic. In the middle of it all is Woods, who turned pro in 1996 and brought to the tour an attitude and an approach that forever altered the game.
The proof is in Keegan Bradley’s victory in the P.G.A. Championship in his first major appearance; the 21-year-old John Huh’s win at the Mayakoba Golf Classic in his fifth tour start; and most of all, in McIlroy’s ascension to the top spot two months before his 23rd birthday.
When McIlroy took burberry bags leads into the final rounds of last year’s Masters and the United States Open, nobody wondered if he was too young to win. Shortly after Woods, then 20, turned pro, he was interviewed by the two-time major champion, Curtis Strange, who asked what were his immediate goals.
To win, Woods replied. Strange, taken aback, noted that victories were hard to come by on the tour and that second was not a bad finish. “There’s really no point in going if you’re not trying to win,” Woods reiterated, to which Strange smiled and said, “He’ll learn.”
A generation of golfers acquired a fearlessness, a disregard for an age-old pecking order, from watching Woods’s 12-stroke victory at the 1997 Masters. Mahan, who was 14 at the time, said, “I think he just opened the door for our imaginations to run wild.”
He added: “I think his attitude and the way he went about his business opened doors for us to realize that, you know what, we can do anything in burberry sunglasses this game if we want to. We are not held to anyone’s standard.”
McIlroy, who won his first PGA Tour event a few days before his 21st birthday and his first major, the United States Open, a month after turning 22, said, “I’ve never let anyone tell me that I was too young to do this or too young to do that.”
If Woods’s career trajectory crashed through one age barrier, Vijay Singh’s blasted through another. Jack Nicklaus’s win in the 1986 Masters at 46 inspired more awe than ah-ha’s, as other golfers assumed it took the Golden Bear to stave off golf’s golden years. Then along came Singh, who has won 22 of his 34 tour titles since turning 40. In doing so, he has inspired a generation that includes the 45-year-old Stricker.
“When Nicklaus won the Masters at 46, you’re like, ‘How can he do that?’ ” Stricker said. “But I can actually see that happening to players now. I can see them winning late into their 40s.”
Stricker, who has won 9 of his 12 tour titles since his 40th birthday, added: “As players, we’re always looking burberry kids skirts cheap at other players, secretly trying to compare ourselves, compare our games. I was looking at Vijay and saying, ‘Golly, if he can do that into his late 40s, why can’t I?’ ”
Somewhere, surely, a 7-year-old watched McIlroy’s poise under pressure in the final round of the Honda Classic and acquired the confidence to dream big — just as McIlroy did as a child in Northern Ireland watching the telecast of Woods’s 1997 runaway Masters win.
“I remember it quite well, actually,” McIlroy said, adding: “I remember he went out in 40 on Thursday, went back in 30, shot a couple of burberry bags outlet rounds of 65 and 66 on Friday and Saturday. I remember I had the tape of it, and watched that all the time.”
Fast forward to 2012 and the thrills are live. “Golf is in a great place with Rory being No. 1 right now and so many guys up there very, very close,” Mahan said, adding, “it’s pretty fun to be part of.”
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“I watched a little bit, because I saw Tiger was playing good,” Mahan said.
What if Tiger Woods, who closed with a 62 to tie for second, had been playing poorly? Would Mahan have kept watching?
“No,” he replied with a laugh. “I would have turned it off.”
At No. 10, Mahan is six places ahead of Woods in the world rankings. He has won three times on the PGA Tour since Woods’s last official victory — the 2009 BMW Championship — but has no illusions about his standing.
Woods, who counts 14 major titles among his 71 tour wins, “moves the needle like no one in the game,” Mahan said. “I mean, just when he’s there and when he’s not there, there’s a difference, there just is.”
The buzz created by Woods’s fantastic finish at the Honda Classic translated into the tournament’s highest overnight television ratings burberry beige handbag in a decade and has carried over into this week’s W.G.C.-Cadillac Championship at Doral’s Blue Monster.
The field is comparable to the Masters, with the top 50 golfers among those vying for the $1.4 million winner’s prize. For fans, it is as if the tour’s trade winds have created heavenly conditions: three generations in a competitive swirl.
There are the 40-somethings led by Phil Mickelson and Steve Stricker; the 30-somethings headed by Woods; and the 20-somethings steered by Rory McIlroy, who ascended to No. 1 with his victory in the Honda Classic. In the middle of it all is Woods, who turned pro in 1996 and brought to the tour an attitude and an approach that forever altered the game.
The proof is in Keegan Bradley’s victory in the P.G.A. Championship in his first major appearance; the 21-year-old John Huh’s win at the Mayakoba Golf Classic in his fifth tour start; and most of all, in McIlroy’s ascension to the top spot two months before his 23rd birthday.
When McIlroy took burberry bags leads into the final rounds of last year’s Masters and the United States Open, nobody wondered if he was too young to win. Shortly after Woods, then 20, turned pro, he was interviewed by the two-time major champion, Curtis Strange, who asked what were his immediate goals.
To win, Woods replied. Strange, taken aback, noted that victories were hard to come by on the tour and that second was not a bad finish. “There’s really no point in going if you’re not trying to win,” Woods reiterated, to which Strange smiled and said, “He’ll learn.”
A generation of golfers acquired a fearlessness, a disregard for an age-old pecking order, from watching Woods’s 12-stroke victory at the 1997 Masters. Mahan, who was 14 at the time, said, “I think he just opened the door for our imaginations to run wild.”
He added: “I think his attitude and the way he went about his business opened doors for us to realize that, you know what, we can do anything in burberry sunglasses this game if we want to. We are not held to anyone’s standard.”
McIlroy, who won his first PGA Tour event a few days before his 21st birthday and his first major, the United States Open, a month after turning 22, said, “I’ve never let anyone tell me that I was too young to do this or too young to do that.”
If Woods’s career trajectory crashed through one age barrier, Vijay Singh’s blasted through another. Jack Nicklaus’s win in the 1986 Masters at 46 inspired more awe than ah-ha’s, as other golfers assumed it took the Golden Bear to stave off golf’s golden years. Then along came Singh, who has won 22 of his 34 tour titles since turning 40. In doing so, he has inspired a generation that includes the 45-year-old Stricker.
“When Nicklaus won the Masters at 46, you’re like, ‘How can he do that?’ ” Stricker said. “But I can actually see that happening to players now. I can see them winning late into their 40s.”
Stricker, who has won 9 of his 12 tour titles since his 40th birthday, added: “As players, we’re always looking burberry kids skirts cheap at other players, secretly trying to compare ourselves, compare our games. I was looking at Vijay and saying, ‘Golly, if he can do that into his late 40s, why can’t I?’ ”
Somewhere, surely, a 7-year-old watched McIlroy’s poise under pressure in the final round of the Honda Classic and acquired the confidence to dream big — just as McIlroy did as a child in Northern Ireland watching the telecast of Woods’s 1997 runaway Masters win.
“I remember it quite well, actually,” McIlroy said, adding: “I remember he went out in 40 on Thursday, went back in 30, shot a couple of burberry bags outlet rounds of 65 and 66 on Friday and Saturday. I remember I had the tape of it, and watched that all the time.”
Fast forward to 2012 and the thrills are live. “Golf is in a great place with Rory being No. 1 right now and so many guys up there very, very close,” Mahan said, adding, “it’s pretty fun to be part of.”
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2012年3月6日星期二
The funerals for the three dead students began Saturday
A fired employee of Episcopal High School burberry handbags outlet in Jacksonville, Florida, returned to the school Tuesday, shot and killed the headmistress and then killed himself, authorities said.
The gunman, who was terminated earlier in the day and carried an assault rifle in a guitar case, went to the office of Headmistress Dale Regan, Undersheriff Dwain Senterfitt with the Jackonsville Sheriff's Office told reporters.
"He shot and killed Ms. Regan and then he killed himself," he said.
The sheriff's office later identified the suspected gunman as 28-year-old Shane Schumerth.
No students were believed to be involved in the incident.
"Our prayers go out to the Episcopal community," Senterfitt said, noting that he knew Regan personally and that his daughter had burberry beige handbag recently graduated from the same private school. "It's a tough day for us."
Regan had worked at Episcopal High School for 34 years, according to Kate Moorehead, dean of St. John's Cathedral in Jacksonville.
"We have full confidence that Dale Regan is already with God and in heaven," she said. "We ask you to please pray for us as a community."
A 17-year-old boy charged in a school shooting rampage that left three students dead was told by a judge on Tuesday that the case could be sent to adult court for trial.
Authorities will decide later whether T.J. Lane will be tried as an adult and face a possible life sentence if convicted.
Lane, who is charged with three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder and one count of felonious assault, did not enter a plea Tuesday when he appeared before Juvenile Judge Tim Grendell.
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Lane watched the judge without visible emotion, blinking occasionally. He was taken into court under heavy security, a deputy’s hand on his arm. He was dressed in an outfit similar to what he wore last week in court — a tan, open-collared dress shirt and dark slacks.
Relatives of the victims faced Lane from the jury box. Some wore memorial ribbons of red and black, the colors of Chardon High School.
Lane spoke in response to routine questions from the judge about his understanding of the case and his rights.
“Yes, sir, I understand,” he said repeatedly, and, “Yes, I do, your honor.”
Prosecutor David Joyce says Lane has admitted taking a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to the high school, near Cleveland, on Feb. 27 and firing 10 shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. Besides the three students burberry sunglasses killed, three were wounded, two seriously.
The motive for the shooting remains unclear, though Joyce has appeared to rule out theories involving bullying or drug-dealing. He has said that victims were selected at random and that Lane is someone “who’s not well.”
Joyce said he expects the case to be moved to adult court, where Lane could face life in prison if convicted. Minors are not eligible for the death penalty in Ohio, whether they are convicted as juveniles or adults.
Lane didn’t attend Chardon High School. He attended an alternative burberry kids skirts cheap school for students who haven’t done well in traditional schools, and he had been at Chardon waiting for a bus.
The funerals for the three dead students began Saturday and continued Tuesday, with the final one scheduled for Thursday.
The judge, who earlier banned courtroom photos of Lane, allowed them on Tuesday and, after a hearing, said that decision would stand. The judge said he would rule later on whether to release the county social services agency records on Lane.
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The gunman, who was terminated earlier in the day and carried an assault rifle in a guitar case, went to the office of Headmistress Dale Regan, Undersheriff Dwain Senterfitt with the Jackonsville Sheriff's Office told reporters.
"He shot and killed Ms. Regan and then he killed himself," he said.
The sheriff's office later identified the suspected gunman as 28-year-old Shane Schumerth.
No students were believed to be involved in the incident.
"Our prayers go out to the Episcopal community," Senterfitt said, noting that he knew Regan personally and that his daughter had burberry beige handbag recently graduated from the same private school. "It's a tough day for us."
Regan had worked at Episcopal High School for 34 years, according to Kate Moorehead, dean of St. John's Cathedral in Jacksonville.
"We have full confidence that Dale Regan is already with God and in heaven," she said. "We ask you to please pray for us as a community."
A 17-year-old boy charged in a school shooting rampage that left three students dead was told by a judge on Tuesday that the case could be sent to adult court for trial.
Authorities will decide later whether T.J. Lane will be tried as an adult and face a possible life sentence if convicted.
Lane, who is charged with three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder and one count of felonious assault, did not enter a plea Tuesday when he appeared before Juvenile Judge Tim Grendell.
The judge postponed a hearing on the adult-court matter from March 19 until April 3 because two new attorneys have joined the defense burberry bags team.
Lane watched the judge without visible emotion, blinking occasionally. He was taken into court under heavy security, a deputy’s hand on his arm. He was dressed in an outfit similar to what he wore last week in court — a tan, open-collared dress shirt and dark slacks.
Relatives of the victims faced Lane from the jury box. Some wore memorial ribbons of red and black, the colors of Chardon High School.
Lane spoke in response to routine questions from the judge about his understanding of the case and his rights.
“Yes, sir, I understand,” he said repeatedly, and, “Yes, I do, your honor.”
Prosecutor David Joyce says Lane has admitted taking a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to the high school, near Cleveland, on Feb. 27 and firing 10 shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. Besides the three students burberry sunglasses killed, three were wounded, two seriously.
The motive for the shooting remains unclear, though Joyce has appeared to rule out theories involving bullying or drug-dealing. He has said that victims were selected at random and that Lane is someone “who’s not well.”
Joyce said he expects the case to be moved to adult court, where Lane could face life in prison if convicted. Minors are not eligible for the death penalty in Ohio, whether they are convicted as juveniles or adults.
Lane didn’t attend Chardon High School. He attended an alternative burberry kids skirts cheap school for students who haven’t done well in traditional schools, and he had been at Chardon waiting for a bus.
The funerals for the three dead students began Saturday and continued Tuesday, with the final one scheduled for Thursday.
The judge, who earlier banned courtroom photos of Lane, allowed them on Tuesday and, after a hearing, said that decision would stand. The judge said he would rule later on whether to release the county social services agency records on Lane.
Copyright 2012 The burberry bags outlet Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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