Going into the final day of the British Open Tiger Woods was in pretty good shape but he loused up his final round and ended up a non-factor. For several years now, he has established a pattern in majors -- stay close and then flop on the final day. I [...]
Is Tiger Woods still a superstar?
I don't play golf, am not familiar with all the rules, so I have some questions about Tiger Woods' transgression. Please help me. Should Woods have known better than to drop the ball where he did? Was he trying to cheat? Is it right that he got penalized two shots [...]
Here are the first few paragraphs of my Monday column after the grand finale of the U.S. Open: SAN FRANCISCO Congratulations to Webb Simpson for winning the 112th U.S. Open Golf and Masochism Tournament played at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. He started Sunday four shots back but he [...]
Here is the opening to my Sunday column about the faltering Tiger Woods at the US Open: SAN FRANCISCO You can't exactly say Tiger Woods choked. You can't say he choked even though he shot six bogies on Saturday, bogeyed two of his last three holes like some amateur who'd [...]
Here is the opening to my Saturday column about the U.S. Open: SAN FRANCISCO -- Answer this question. Who has the largest personality at the U.S. Open, which now has reached the halfway mark, which has passed cut day? If you said Tiger Woods, a reasonable answer, you'd be wrong. [...]
Here is the opening to my Friday column about the golf threesome -- Tiger Woods, Bubba Watson and Phil Mickelson: SAN FRANCISCO The world stopped at 7:33 Thursday morning. Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson were approaching the tee at the ninth hole of the U.S. Open at [...]
Here is the opening to my Thursday column on Phil Mickelson which really is a compare and contrast of him and Tiger Woods. Hey, I was an English major. SAN FRANCISCO When reporters interviewed Tiger Woods at the Olympic Club this week, they mostly asked about him. But when reporters [...]
Here is the opening to my Wednesday column about Tiger Woods: SAN FRANCISCO Tiger Woods had just gone full snippy in a Tuesday news conference. He tries to act nice, he really does, but full snippy is right below the surface. A reporter asked the obvious question, the key question [...]
Here are the first few paragraphs of my Tuesday column about Casey Martin at the US Open: SAN FRANCISCO Casey Martin is playing in the U.S. Open. That may not seem like big news to you, but it is. In 1998 when he played in his first and only Open [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.