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Chicago-area golf fans are guaranteed a head-to-head showdown between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in the season's final major, the 88th PGA Championship on Aug. 17-20 at Medinah Country Club. PGA of America officials traditionally group the year's first three major champions together for the first two rounds of the PGA, meaning Masters winner Mickelson and British Open champion Woods will play with U.S. Open champ Geoff Ogilvy.
  -- Chicago Sun-Times

Woods is not expected to play in another tournament before arriving at Medinah, where he won the 1999 PGA. Phil Mickelson, the defending PGA champion, likely will play in the International in Colorado the week before the PGA.
  -- Chicago Sun-Times

No one ever has seen Woods away in the fairway as often as he was at Hoylake. Even 49-year-old Nick Faldo was 40 or 50 yards ahead of him on occasion. You had to love the scene at No. 2 yesterday, when Sergio Garcia was about a 100 yards in front of Tiger after their drives. Woods was in the fairway. Garcia was in the rough. Tiger parred. Sergio bogeyed. As someone observed during the week, "Who knew Tiger could hit long irons like Byron Nelson?"
   -- Boston Globe

Chris DiMarco virtually locked up a Ryder Cup spot he was sure to get as a captain's pick anyway. His second-place finish at the British vaulted him from 21st place in the Ryder Cup standings to sixth yesterday.
  -- New York Post

Before Woods and García walked to the final green, a group of vandals in the gallery threw what looked like powder bombs that landed on the green and left purplish-black marks in eight spots. No one was hurt, and the police quickly escorted the group off the course.
  -- New York Times

García's one-over-par 73 to finish tied for fifth continued a trend of poor final rounds. He is ranked 184th out of 194 in scoring average in a tournament's last day this season. On Sunday -- as has often been the case -- García struggled to make short putts. He missed a 4-footer for par on No. 2 and a 3-footer for par on No. 3.
  -- New York Times

Garcia said the back injury that forced him to pull out of Washington's Booz Allen Classic in June, where he was defending champion, has now completely healed.
  -- Washington Post

Royal Liverpool had not been in the British Open rotation for 39 years. Based on player responses, the venerable club will not have to wait that long again. Woods called it a "fantastic test" that allowed for more creativity than usual for a British Open. It was a brown links course, courtesy of a hot, dry spell in England that turned the rough into wispy strands of grass. Asked if the Open should return to Royal Liverpool, Woods replied, "Yes."
  -- New York Times

With the steep sod-wall bunkers that pepper links courses, the last thing a player would ever think of using is a Texas wedge. Stymied in a greenside bunker on the fourth hole on Friday, Jim Furyk had no good options to avoid a double bogey. So he turned to his caddie, Fluff Cowan, with a strange plan to putt it from the sand onto the sod bank, ride the ridge and maybe settle between two bunkers or roll back into the same bunker where he might be able to get it out close to the hole. "Greatest links shot I've ever seen," said veteran BBC commentator Peter Alliss.
  -- Florida Times-Union

Fred Funk said he plans to play only one more Champions event this season -- the AT&T Championship in San Antonio in late October. Funk said he hit the ball better than he ever has during the two senior events but "putted worse than I ever have in my life." He played well enough to make the cut on the number at the British Open but a third-round 75 leaves him tied for 64th.
  -- Florida Times-Union

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