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For the most part, the pro golf season is over. The major champions have been crowned, the FedEx Cup winner has been decided, and the Ryder Cup has gone to the Europeans. The only thing left is the PGA Tour's fall series and the "silly season," where golfers line their pockets in unofficial events.
So here is a look back at this past season on the PGA Tour and a look ahead to 2011:
FIVE MEMORABLE MOMENTS
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Cigar guy revealed: We find the man who stood behind Tiger Woods and became an internet sensation
By
Ian Gallagher and Andy Whelan
Last updated at 10:21 PM on 9th October 2010
It all started with an extraordinary
photograph, some say one of the best sports pictures ever taken.
Captured by The Mail on Sunday's Mark Pain, it showed Tiger Woods
fluffing a chip at the Ryder Cup – his ball heading straight towards
the camera lens. If that wasn't remarkable enough, there was another
arresting element to the image.
Standing behind Woods was a
wide-eyed spectator smoking a fat cigar and wearing a Groucho Marx
moustache and ginger wig. Nicknamed 'Cigar Guy' he became an overnight
internet phenomenon after the picture appeared in The Mail on Sunday
and MailOnline last week.
Suddenly millions were obsessed with
the moustachioed mystery man. His smiling face was pasted into the
backdrop of countless historic photographs which then buzzed around the
net. He acquired his own fan club and received marriage proposals.A reward was offered to anyone who could unmask him.
How it all began: The picture pf Cigar Guy in ginger wig, fake moustache and chomping on a large Havana in an apparent tribute to iconic Spanish golfer Miguel Angel Jimenez
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McDowell adds a Ryder Cup to his resume
Published October 04, 2010 | Associated Press
NEWPORT, Wales – Graeme McDowell's day began later than most, which was fine with him. The last player off the tee in the Ryder Cup, he wanted nothing more than a nice relaxing round of golf, followed by some celebrating with the rest of a European team that seemed to be on its way to an easy win at home. What he got was the toughest back nine of his life, and a place in Ryder Cup history. Enjoying his golf one minute, he was shaking inside the next. Like a condemned man heading to the gallows, he knew it would soon be his turn. "I didn't want it to come down to me, that's for sure," McDowell said. "I hoped these guys beside me were able to do the job and my caddie was going to give me the nod at one point to relax and to know that we had done the job." The job, though, was his. McDowell knew it from the minute he got to the 10th green, looked up at the leaderboard and started to do the math.
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Complete results from the 38th Ryder Cup matches at Celtic Manor. Europe reclaims the Cup 14 1/2 to 13 1/2:
Saturday
Fourballs
United States 2 1/2, Europe 1 1/2
Lee Westwood (FSY) and Martin Kaymer (FSY), Europe, def. Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson (FSY), United States, 3 and 2.
Stewart Cink (FSY) and Matt Kuchar (FSY), United States, halved with Graeme McDowell (FSY) and Rory McIlroy (FSY), Europe.
Tiger Woods (FSY) and Steve Stricker (FSY), United States, def. Ian Poulter (FSY) and Ross Fisher (FSY), Europe, 2 up.
Bubba Watson (FSY) and Jeff Overton (FSY), United States, def. Luke Donald (FSY) and Padraig Harrington (FSY), Europe, 3 and 2.
Foursomes
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Fans hit right note at Celtic Manor
Oct 4 2010
by Anthony Woolford, Western Mail
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ANTHONY WOOLFORD found the fans in high spirits at the 2010 Ryder Cup despite the wet and windy weekend conditions
THOSE attending Saturday’s matches had a real treat if they watched the afternoon foursomes from the first tee grandstand.
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Ian Poulter celebrates holing a putt on the 15th green Oct. 3 at the Ryder Cup.
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NEWPORT, Wales – Dim the lights. The party’s just about over. This Ryder Cup is almost a foregone conclusion. Get ready to hear the cries of “Ole, ole!” echo around the Welsh valleys in celebration of another European victory.
Only a miracle can help the U.S. team recover from a three-point disadvantage to retain Samuel Ryder’s trophy. Europe is set to claim the trophy for the 11th time, and eighth victory in the last 11 matches.
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Last half point crucial to U.S. cause
NEWPORT, Wales -- You didn't need to understand a word of the vowel-laden language of Welsh, or even know a thing about the vagaries of match play, to figure out what was happening on the final hole of the Twenty Ten course at Celtic Manor.
The sun actually had peeked through the clouds late Sunday afternoon, causing a glare that forced you to squint to see the par-5 green. Up there, Europeans stood in the mud surrounding the hole, singing and chanting, the scoreboard off to the side telling the story.
The home team was victorious in five of the six Ryder Cup matches, with only Americans Stewart Cink and Matt Kuchar left on the course, leading Italian brothers Francesco and Edoardo Molinari 1-up.
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Ryder Cup 2010: US PGA seek earlier start for future tournaments
Ryder Cup organisers believe they have received a “firm commitment” from the
PGA Tour to stage future matches no later than the last week of September to
avoid a repeat of the chaos wrought by the weather in Wales this week.
Torrential rain in Wales overnight has again delayed play at Celtic Manor and
highlighted the folly of playing the match so late in the year, and appears
to have hardened the resolve of Ryder
Cup organisers to secure a regular slot for the match.
Crucially the schedule change should ensure that the 2014 match at Gleneagles,
currently pencilled in for the second week of October, is moved to a more
realistic slot.
Joe Steranka, chief executive of the PGA of America, which owns half of the
Ryder Cup, said this morning that he has set a “hard stop” on the last week
of September in talks with PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem.
The PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup series, which concluded last weekend has been blamed
for pushing the match back, but Steranka said Finchem had given a commitment
to play the match earlier.
The Ryder Cup is co-owned by the PGA of America and the European Tour but the
PGA Tour, the paymaster for the world’s leading players and the dominant
force in scheduling the golf calendar, has no financial interest in the
event.
The changes will be brought in after 2012, when the PGA Tour will have a new
television deal that will allow the Ryder Cup to take a regular slot.
“We have started talking to the PGA Tour and Tim Finchem has given us a
commitment that the Ryder Cup will not be played later than the last week of
September,” Steranka said.
“We have put a hard-stop on that date because we believe that it will give us
more flexibility to get matches finished. You can’t guess the weather but if
you have more daylight then you can make up time.”
The changes would see the FedEx series move forward a week, with the Ryder Cup
the climax of the season.
“We believe it is best to have the Ryder Cup after the FedEx because then you
have the American team arriving in their peak playing form, and that gives a
better match.”
Steranka also denied that the PGA Tour is entirely to blame for the lateness
of the match this year.
“It is very easy to blame the Tour and the FedEx series but there are many
factors, and we have an excellent relationship with the PGA Tour and talk to
them all the time.”
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It's official - Phil Mickelson is the biggest loser after losing Ryder Cup match 17 at Celtic Manor
By
Mike Dickson
Last updated at 10:49 PM on 3rd October 2010
Phil Mickelson has many career achievements of which to be proud, but yesterday he clocked up a title he will not be happy with - that of America's biggest individual loser in Ryder Cup history.
When Ian Poulter and Martin Kaymer consigned him and rookie partner Rickie Fowler to a 2&1 defeat it was the 17th time he had lost a match, edging him ahead of Raymond Floyd.
The 40-year-old lefthander from San Diego may have won three US Masters and a US PGA crown among 46 career titles all over the world but he has rarely recaptured the magic in Ryder Cup.
Bad day at the office: Mickelson lost yet another Ryder Cup match
And it may not get any better today, judging by recent history, as Mickelson has lost his past four singles matches in the event as part of a fast deteriorating record.
He goes out in the 10th slot this morning against Sweden's Peter Hanson - but if all goes to plan for Europe after yesterday's blistering fightback, the contest could be all over by then.
This is world No 2 Mickelson's seventh Ryder Cup and he won all three matches on his debut in 1995.
But he is now in negative territory with 16 points from 33 matches. Aside from team play not sitting well with him, the American is not a great traveller to these shores, as he shows with his regular shortfalls at The Open, where he has achieved only one top-10 finish - third in 2004.
Even his coach Butch Harmon was critical of Mickelson on television yesterday, saying that he needed to do more to lead his 21-year-old partner and fellow Californian Fowler.
Mickelson could only manage two birdies as his short game, usually such a strong feature, again let him down.
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