What do you think Tiger Woods was doing Thursday? Possibly watching the U.S. Open as many others were, knowing he should have been playing, and would have been playing, were it not for that knee injury? Was he sprawled on the couch, grabbing a potato chip or a Gatorade when he might have been grabbing a wedge? Or was he a avoiding the telecast from Congressional Country Club in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., trying to escape another reminder of his situation? Read More

In the mind’s eye, there’s Payne Stewart standing in disbelief on the severely sloped 18th green at San Francisco’s Olympic Club, his 8-foot birdie putt attempt rolling 25 feet below the hole. Ah yes, the U.S. Open, agony and very little ecstasy. That was then — and might be again next year when the Open returns to Olympic — but this is now, the 2011 Open at Congressional Country Club in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. The bewilderment and suffering are much the same. Read More

After clinching his spot by virtue of a seventh-place tie in the Central Coast Section Boys’ Golf Championships, Terra Nova High School’s Dan Robertson is looking forward to the Northern California Golf Championships, which begin Monday in Chico. The senior golfer edged out San Benito’s Will Cross in a playoff at the CCS tournament at Rancho Canada West in Carmel to determine who would receive the final individual automatic qualifying spot into NorCals. Read More

He could be called the second-most famous golfer currently at Stanford. He could be called the one Stanford golfer in the Masters field who hasn’t won the tournament. Such negative observations about the most positive of young men. Read More