Steve Stricker rides a second round 63 to victory

Steve Stricker started off the 2012 season with a three shot win over ....... at the season opening  Hyundai Tournament of Champions in KAPALUA, Hawai'i. Stricker held the lead the entire weekend, but he did have some competition.

A slow start in the final round brought Stricker to within one shot of losing the lead, but just as his shots were off the mark to start the day, a brief pep talk to himself after bogeying the sixth hole helped him find him mojo again and Steve held on to the win by three strokes over Martin Laird who closed Monday's final round with a 67.

Stricker had three players, Laird, 2011 champion Johnathan Byrd and Webb Simpson get to within a shot of a lead that was five strokes at the start of the day. Three birdies in a row put Laird into contention, but bogey's on the eighth and tenth holes dump trucked his chance to win.

Stricker answered Laird's bogey on eight with a birdie of his own. Stricker also birdied holes nine, twelve, sixteen and eighteen to pull away for the victory. Steve needed to be good in the final round. The top five players all closed with rounds of minus five or better.

Laird's 67 (-6) was good for second place. Webb Simpson's 68 (-5) was good for third, Byrd's 68 (-5) was good for fourth. Nobody had a better day the K. J. Choi who posted an eight under 65 to move all the way up to fifth place.

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Couples dominates on the Champions Tour

Fred Couples set a new tournament scoring mark with a 54-hole total 193 (23under par) on his way to a seven shot victory over Mark Calcavecchia at the AT&T Championships in San Antonio, Texas. Couples dominated play at the TPC San Antonio winning with the biggest margin in 2011.

Fred also became the third multiple winner on the Champions Tour in 2011, joining Tom Lehman and John Cook. Only five players; Cook, Lehman, Russ Cochran, Peter Senior and Mark Calcavecchia have a chance at the title with the Champions Tour hits San Francisco's TPC Harding park for the 2011 Charles Schwab Championships Oct. 31st - Nov. 6th.

Lehman leads the race for the Charles Schwab Cup with 2,338 points and he is followed by Calcavecchia who has 1,956 points. Peter Senior, the only player in the hunt who has not won in 2011 is third with 1,782-points. Cook is fourth with 1,726-points and Cochran is hanging around with 1,0508-points. The winner at TPC Harding Park will take home 880-points

Tiger Woods returns to the Bay Area

9/19/2011 - The Fry.com Open got a huge boost when Tiger Woods signed on to compete at the CordeValle Golf Course in San Martin, just south of San jose, Ca.

Woods will not be the only talent out on the course Oct. 5th -9th. Some of the best the world has to offer will tee it up at CordeValle.

Ernie Els, Steve Flesch and Elkington, Angel Cabrera, Ben Curtis, Lee Janzen, Trevor Immelman and David Duval are just a few of the players wins wins on the PGA Tour that are playing at the 2011 Frys.com Open.

You can look forward to a great weekend of golf out at San Martin

Tiger Woods is coming back out to the area were he was last the Tiger everybody loves.

Tiger had just led the US to Victory up in San Francisco at Harding Park at the 2009 Presidents Cup. We all know  what happened a month later.

Tiger's game has not been the same since. He has shown flashes at a couple of majors, but otherwise Woods has just been another golfer out there hacking away and not coming close to winning.

Tigers play in the last two Masters where he placed 4th both times has shown Presidents Cup coach Fred Couples that Tiger can step his game up when the stage gets big.

It will be at the Presidents Cup November in Australia.

Woods needed to play another tournament to qualify for the Presidents Cup and the Frys.com Open is the place where Woods picked to do it.

2010 Frys.com Open winner Rocco Mediate will be back to defend the title he won by a shot over Bo Van Pelt and Alex Prugh. Rising star Rickie Fowler finished 3rd, two shots back of Rocco.

KJ Choi survives to claim 2011 Players Championship 5/15/2011 - It did not look good for KJ Choi Sunday at the Players Championships one shot behind leader David Toms late in the round. Toms approach shot on 16 got wet and he bogeyed the hole to open the door for Choi. Toms would make up for that by nailing an 18-footer to force a playoff on 18 but then he missed a 3 and a half footer that would have won it on the extra hole.

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