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Making the Cut: Peyton, Tiger and Daly

Tiger Woods, Peyton ManningEach 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. Peyton Manning -- Courtesy of the PGA Tour Twitter, Manning's Pro-Am round at Quail Hollow with Tiger Woods was apparently pretty darn entertaining. On the first hole, Peyton hit a bomb that was only 10 yards behind Woods. The crowds were reportedly three or four rows deep, which isn't that normal for a pro-am.

LPGA Players Worried About Swine Flu

Golf tournaments in Mexico are supposed to be relaxing. You are out of the country. The weather is top notch. Hell, it's called the Corona Championship. That was not the case this past week with the LPGA, who had to deal with a golf tournament falling at the same time as fear of an epidemic is sweeping our neighbors to the south.

LPGA golfers were concerned over the swine flu that has claimed at least 103 people in Mexico during their second trip below the border this season in Morelia, Mexico. Lorena Ochoa, the top female golfer in the world, won the event, but the talk seemed to revolve around getting out of dodge as quick as possible.
"It's definitely scary," said Brittany Lincicome, the Kraft Nabisco champion who missed the cut at Morelia, home to the Corona Championship. "It's a very serious situation, and I'm just praying none of the girls gets sick. I feel fine."

Is Ochoa More Dominant Than Tiger?

Every Monday during the PGA Tour season, Monday Pin Placement will run as a wrap-up of the weekend's action. Basically, we'll focus on what you missed while you were out grinding on the putting green.

Ochoa vs. Woods -- When Annika Sorenstam was at the peak of her game, a stretch between 2001-05 that had Annika claim eight major championships in 18 stars, she became buddies with Tiger Woods, text-messaging Woods after majors to compare their big tournament wins.

With Lorena Ochoa continuing to dominate the LPGA, it might be time for Tiger to land Lorena's phone number.

Wie, Ochoa Set Pace at Corona

If the LPGA was looking for an energy boost after three weeks of no tournaments, they might have got it.

On Thursday at the Corona Championship, the LPGA's current star and hopeful star both played out of their minds, as Lorena Ochoa carded an 8-under 65 to lead all golfers and Michelle Wie is just a shot back at 7-under.

Blogger Wears Caddie Bib for LPGA Pro

This weekend, Shane Bacon will be out at the J Golf Phoenix LPGA International caddying for one of the pros on the LPGA Tour. You can follow him daily with his Caddie Tales.

If you had a big tournament coming up and were going to go out searching for a non-caddie to caddie for you, picking yours truly probably wouldn't be the worst idea. At least that's what I told LPGA golfer Erica Blasberg.

I have played a lot of tournaments with buddies, bosses and even my dad on the bag. Since I was a 14-year-old heading to Wichita Falls, Okla. for the Texas-Oklahoma Junior Golf Tournament, caddying was something I was immersed in.

Monday Pin Placement: Is Ogilvy New King of Match Play?

Every Monday during the PGA Tour season, Monday Pin Placement will run as a wrap-up of the weekend's action. Basically, we'll focus on what you may have missed while you were out grinding on the putting green.

Ogilvy Takes Accenture Handily -- Well, that looked easy.

Geoff Ogilvy dominated the 36-hole final on Sunday against Paul Casey, winning the match 4-and-3, and taking his second Accenture Match Play title in four years. Also in the last four years, Ogilvy has made it to the finals three times, which might just make him the new king of match play over a gentleman named Tiger Woods.

Serena Now Richest Female Athlete Ever

With the retirement of Annika Sorenstam, this was inevitable, as long as, say, Serena Williams didn't want to start writing for GQ or start her own puppy clothing line.

Williams, who absolutely erupted through the Australian Open, winning the finals match 6-0, 6-3 against Dinara Safina, became the all-time career money leader in all of women's sports.

Lorena Ochoa Is Reportedly Engaged

If your goal in the last year was to marry an LPGA golfer that was ranked at the top of her sport (and went to the University of Arizona), sadly, you might be searching for a new goal.



Less than a week ago, Annika Sorenstam, who retired from the game in 2008, was married to a gentleman by the name of Mike McGee (who some think looks a lot like Padraig Harrington). Now it is Lorena Ochoa's turn.

FanHouse Chats With Natalie Gulbis

In women's sports, there are two types of athletes -- the successful ones and the attractive ones. Luckily for golf fans, Natalie Gulbis is both, a golfer that wins and looks good doing so. Natalie, in partnership with RSM McGladery, hosted a contest all across the nation to find the perfect golfer to tell "Who's Behind Your Success?" Contest winner Taylor Anderson, a student at George Washington University who is paralyzed on his right side but still plays this crazy game, won with a video about his mother. Before Anderson got to enjoy his Sunday with the pro, Gulbis chatted with us about what Taylor could expect, pro-ams, and if she'd ever play on the PGA Tour. She even touched on the media's criticism of Michelle Wie, who just earned her LPGA Tour card at Q-School.

Editor's Note: This interview was conducted early in the week of Dec. 1, prior to Gulbis' meeting with Taylor Anderson.

Shane Bacon:
First, talk about the "Who's Behind Your Success?" contest. What are you and Taylor (Anderson) going to do in Las Vegas?

Natalie Gulbis: I am going to meet him on Sunday. He is going to come in the morning, we are going to work out, and then he is going to play my home golf course with me at Lake Las Vegas, and we have a boatload of gifts and stuff for him and he is going to come over to my house for dinner.


Bacon: And this was a national contest to find the winner?

Gulbis: We ran a national contest that anybody could write in an essay on who's behind your success and then RSM actually narrowed it down to 10, and then I voted on the 10 (to narrow it) to three, as did all the RSM McGladery employees nationwide, then we got it down to three and I picked the winner based on a video.

Bacon: You went to University of Arizona, as did I. You went there, Annika Sorenstam went there, Lorena Ochoa, Erica Blasberg ... what's in the water for the female golfers?

Annika Sorenstam to Play Last LPGA Tournament This Week Before Retirement

She isn't just the queen of golf, she was the LPGA when golf hit its boom. Annika Sorenstam was the female equivalent of Tiger Woods when Tiger became the face of the sport and not surprising, the two became competitive buddies.

Sorenstam, in news that has to make golf fans a little disappointed, is stepping down from the game this week in her final event as a full-time LPGA member, at the ADT Championship. Just 38, Sorenstam made the announcement in May to leave competitive golf because she, like so many other prominent females, has made the difficult decision to trade the birdies for the babies.

Annika's legacy is undeniable. She burst on the scene in 1995 with a U.S. Open victory that she successfully defended the following year. A product of the highly successful University of Arizona women's golf department, Sorenstam took some years to find that major championship touch again, but find it she did.

From 2001 to 2006, Sorenstam won the same amount of majors as Tiger has in any six-year stretch of his career. Annika claimed eight out of the possible 24 majors, putting her career total at 10 and placing her fourth all-time in major victories on the LPGA.

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