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Making the Cut: Casey Coming of Age

Posted: May 27th 2009 12:40PM by Shane Bacon (author feed)
Filed under: PGA

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Each Wednesday during the golf season, FanHouse will list the top five names in golf and why they're important. Did Barack play 18 with Tiger? Did a certain player do something controversial off the course? Or was just playing golf enough to get the pot stirring? Join us for a new weekly ranking feature we call Making the Cut.

5. The Mickelsons -- A week after learning that Amy Mickelson was diagnosed with breast cancer, the golf world has jumped directly behind Phil Mickelson and his family during this tough time. John Daly wore pink pants in honor of Amy. A flurry of support from fellow tour players including Twitter posts has shown that no matter what you think of Phil, everyone understands and respects the man as one of the better family men on tour. He will be missed on the golf course, but he is where he should be right now, and for that he is quickly earning tons of respect from places that it may have been lost over the last few years.
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FanHouse U.S. Open Media Guide, Page 11

Posted: Jun 11th 2008 3:40PM by Shane Bacon (author feed)
Filed under: Golf, PGA

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As I continue to miss five footers for bogey in the blogging world, it's the FanHouse Media Guide.
  • Colin Montgomerie -- 2 -- I'm just going to come out and say it -- I like Monty. This guy still catches hell from people, even when he isn't a factor anymore. As crazy as it is that he finished in the top three four times at the U.S. Open, it's even crazier that Colin won 40 professional tournaments, none in the United States.
  • Artemio Murakami -- DNP -- Just 24, Murakami had a solid 2007 on the Asian Tour, winning the Iskandar Johor Open (say that five times fast) and finished 57th on the Order of Merit. He took up the game at age nine, where he would follow his father to the driving range.
  • Sean O'Hair -- t-26 -- O'Hair is one of my favorite stories in golf, breaking away from his deranged father and continuing to play some rather impressive golf. It would be beneficial to his confidence to have another strong national showing after his collapse at The Players Championship in 2007.
  • Mark O'Meara -- t-3 -- I love when people like O'Meara still try (and succeed) in qualifying for the U.S. Open. The Windermere, Florida resident had his best finish in a U.S. Open (1988) ten years before his breakthrough season when he won both the Masters and British Open.
  • Joe Ogilvie -- 40 -- The Duke graduate won his first PGA Tour tournament in 2007 and lists Warren Buffett and Bill Gates as his heroes, which obviously means he just wants to be a member of Augusta National.
  • Geoff Ogilvy -- WON -- I lived in Scottsdale for a couple of years and never got the opportunity to visit "MOJO Pies," Ogilvy's Original Australian Pie shop. I think Ogilvy's (pictured) on a short list of guys to win this week, especially if Phil Mickelson is standing on 18 with a one-shot lead over him (sorry, had to do it).
  • Rod Pampling -- t-32 -- The reason I will always remember Pampling is because of the 1999 British Open, where he shot an opening round 71 at Carnoustie to take the lead, only to shoot an 86 in the second round and miss the cut. You know, I bet John Daly can relate.
  • Pat Perez -- t-40 -- At first glance Perez looks like a sneaky pick to win this week. He grew up on Torrey Pines, an obvious advantage over anybody else. But a closer look at his finishes in the Buick Invitational show seven starts, four missed cuts and only one top-10. You can't fool the fooler buddy.



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