Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 17, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba c4 Winnipeg free press thursday August 17, 2006 Golf dry weather Means few headaches h on the links of do you rate the 2006 Golf season so far fever there was a foregone conclusion this is it ? sensational. But just in Case we be missed some thing we thought wed Check in with those who Best know Golf courses their superintendents. You la remember those hard working types who fretted and worried their Way through beyond belief Rainy sea sons of 2004 and 2005. They re now heaving a collective sigh of Relief across most fairways. Dry playable fairways. It seems we can twin flood or drought but this years been great said Steinbach Fly in super Rob fast. Its been great growing weather and a non disease year As far As greens Are yeah we re happier and so Are golfers agreed Southwood a Ray Savard. They can Golf when they want to not in Between rain drops. And talk ing to other superintendents its really Nice to hear compliments about Reed Saxon / associated press archives All the courses Tim instead of Whin Australia a Geoff Ogilvy May end up in Tiger Woods Doghouse with remarks about his swing changes a topic that can earn Woods ire. Campbell ing and the pea championship among All the Happy people you la probably find nobody whistling a More pleasant tune than Tony Feher Egyhazi at Bridges Golf course. Bridges had the rain everybody else had but you la recall it was possibly Ogilvy is Man in the Middle that hardest hit area club last year los ing nearly a month during Midsummer due to la Salle River flooding. And when Winter broke this year the will serve As human Buffer Between rivals Woods and Mickelson la Salle did it again leaving water on the course for another three weeks in in the company of Fred couples lefty Woods no Eye Contact list after some its almost like what Are you doing april. By Mark Whicker m replied amount of of his Blithe observations tuesday. How Good were you in ?99 through ?02? that forced Feher Egyhazi screws to i Don to talk that Ryder cup pairing probably Why is that Boring Why is that not Start yet another cleanup and to extend Dinah ill. ? Jimmy much when i a set it More in motion Ogilvy said. Good enough the reseeding work of much of 2005. They Don to they walked on the first tee and they i Don to know if he a take offence at but once that filled in Well its hard available and Allun Media championship play practice were on both sides of the tee. They to believe we were actually pumping tors were Busy. Woods said. Carter and Mills Lane weren to in a major Don to play practice rounds together Good Chance Geoff. 750,000 Gallons a Day off the course rounds Ogeth and they re the two Best players in the but it wont keep Ogilvy up nights. Last year Feher Egyhazi said this shield Between Tiger Woods and Phil with Marko or and they re world and that a a bit of a the 29-year-old australian entered week. We did that with eight pumps Mickelson Here tomorrow and Friday. Good Friend the two Best another Story has been the scrutiny 2006 with a no. 50 world ranking and for about 10 Days last summer. Woods and Mickelson get along like Mark Omeara so Geoff Ogilvy will be the human i be played of Woods swing changes which always that dreaded potential sign on his this year is just the reverse. We re players in the fails to amuse him. When Cess Peter neck. He shredded it with his victories putting lots of water on which sure is a Goodyear and Firestone or wind nothing except world and Kostis critiqued them Woods refused in the wac match play at la Costa lot easier ? that a a storms and Toupes. Or really Nick Here a your Mcenroe and Connors did or before and said to do Post round interviews with him a and then the open and now he a no. 8. Make no mistake the current extra that a a bit of Boycott that is just now ending. It adds expectations he said but ordinarily dry year has still been Stonewall your rival. Ogilvy earned a Story like most of us Ogilvy does to it also takes the pressure off. The rest labour intensive but the kind of work somehow Hal Sutton did to grasp that this front Row Laus and Palmer. Its natural to understand Why Woods even bothered. Of the year does to matter. At Christ Manitoba a superintendents know How in 2004 when he made Phil and Tiger play seat at the zoo by ? Geoff Ogilvy on i saw him hit a few shots in Flint Mas i can sit Down and say i had a to do. What All of them like most is the Wood Mickelson where Woods won two weeks ago and Good year and won a major. Control. Formed on both putters they lost to Colin open or More together at the Ryder cup. As icicles winning the . Relationship he had that kind of swagger kind of but i went to the British and Fin the boys have been working hard Montgomerie and Padraig Harrington accurately by twirling the club after he hits Ogilvy shed 16th, which is pretty Good and i pumping water but the right Way in the morning and Darren Clarke and sweeping up the pieces into his Dustpan said. He has to had that no one is beat was disappointed. That would to have said fast who has seen Steinbach a Lee Westwood in the afternoon. After Mickelson dropped it from the top ing me look in his Eye for a while. Happened a year traffic increase dramatically to the asked How today would differ from of the hospitality tent on 18. You re Happy the Best player in the Point where the course May clock masters sunday when Mickelson won but he also might Rise near the top of world is Back playing the Way he can. ? the Orange county Register 30,000 rounds in a season for the first time in More than 10 years. This is fantastic for the profitability of the Golf Industry. We re extremely Ogilvy the chopped liver in the Sand Weir Happy about it since we can finally Saywich. Some Bills. But at the end of the year / continued from Page c1 that la be a Gong show. I a kind of Well i think the Price of Golf around glad not to be in that pairing the first Here has to go up. If you can to make i two Days. For the rest of us it could be you might say that. A lot of things in a year like this you might As Well just like a casual round out there said got away from him including Woods a close the Weir who tees it at 7 40 . Cost with army of Well muscled attendants who Savard has also experienced Aphis buddy Craig Barlow and 2003 escorted the Man from Green to tee upswing in play of several thousand British open Winner Todd Hamilton. Leaving Weir to fend for himself. And rounds so far at Southwood and said the phenomenon that is Woods can sure enough he got lost in the Melee of being Able to control the amount of still be an arresting sight even for a typical Day at the office for Woods. Water helps keep turf diseases in Check. Someone normally tuned into his own Twilight there a just different mental Prepa with All the moisture and a our game. Ration different things you have to be property like ours sitting on our Mani he a a talented Guy Weir added. Golf ready for when you play with him. Toba Gumbo you have a lot of turf that he hits some incredible shots but you everybody a excited to see Tiger and just sits in water when its too wet now starts at 3 pm can to get caught up in it. I can to hit a they tend to forget there a somebody Savard said. This Way we have more260-Yard 2-Iron up and Over the Trees. Ielse in the group Weir said. Control and this Way there a less Dis remember playing with him in the there a just a lot More commotion. Buick one year and he hit it in the deep its not him but its everybody running Savard has noticed an All round ease rough and then hit a smoking 2-Iron $2150 around to get in position ? camera in the supers stress too. Onto the Green. For me it would have men. If it was just he and i out playing its been easier certainly this Way includes tax been an 8-Iron Layup and then still have it would be different but with All the he said. I think Back to last year and walking 140 Yards to the Green. He does things other stuff going on you have to be you do worry about All that rain eve like that and you just have to say Able to Back off regroup. Some of though you have no control Over it. You hey that a not my game. I wish it was those things did frustrate me in ?99. Want your course looking Good. You but i can to do i did to have any Security and after know when you re losing turf its going what Weir can do is grind his Way the second Hole Tiger walked to the $3600 to look ugly and people see into position. There Are recent signs next tee and i could to get through. It finally there was an unanimous that his game is coming Back but even includes tax probably took ? i might be exaggerate weather prayer for the rest of 2006. In lean Ball striking times he has with cart ing ? it seemed like five minutes to i think everybody a just hoping for always been very focused at majors 2006 Dodge get through the crowd to the third tee. Average just the Normal Feher egy caravan and usually Able to scrape out a decent he a up there ready to tee off and i a Hazi said. That would be Good for finish. 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