Category Archives: Tiger Woods

‘We don’t need another bar’: St Andrews film fans take on Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake

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Celebrity plan to turn a much-loved retro cinema into a sports bar faces stiff opposition from thousands of angry movie goers

In central St Andrews, the New Picture House (NPH) independent cinema, with its 1930s facade and distinctive pointed roof towering above nearby restaurants and houses, has stood relatively unchanged for the past 94 years.

Open every day of the week and boasting three screens, the category B listed building has showed blockbusters and independent films, as well as plays, community events and festivals, for the best part of a century.

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Saudi leader trying to avoid ‘pariah’ status with LIV-PGA merger, says rights group

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Mohammed bin Salman said to look to repair his reputation after 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul

The proposed merger between the Saudi-backed LIV Tour and the American PGA Tour marks the latest maneuver by Riyadh in its campaign to repair its reputation and head off the sort of blacklisting that occurred after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent advocate for democracy in the Middle East told the Guardian.

“This is a merger in name only. This is really about the Saudi government throwing a premium at PGA Tour that they obviously found too overwhelmingly tempting to resist,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn).

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Tiger Woods’s ex accuses him of sexual harassment while she was his employee

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Erica Herman files court documents alleging she was forced to sign an NDA about their relationship or lose her job

Tiger Woods’s ex-girlfriend has accused him of sexually harassing her while his employee, alleging that the star golfer forced her to sign a non-disclosure agreement or be fired from her job.

According to a court document filed on Friday and reviewed by Sports Illustrated, Erica Herman dated Woods for more than five years. She was also an employee at his south Florida restaurant The Woods Jupiter before she alleges that she was forced to sign an NDA about the pair’s sexual relationship under the threat of termination, which she argues amounted to sexual harassment.

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Tiger Woods driving at 87mph in 45mph zone at time of car crash, police say

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  • Police reveal details of crash that left golfer seriously injured
  • Officials have said drugs and alcohol not a factor in accident

Tiger Woods was driving at speeds up to 87mph (140km/h) in a 45mph zone when he was involved in a serious car crash earlier this year, Los Angeles police revealed during a press conference on Wednesday.

Los Angeles county sheriff Alex Villanueva said the speed was “unsafe for the road conditions” and Woods did not brake in the run-up to the collision, perhaps because he pressed the accelerator instead of the brake pedal in a state of panic. Villanueva said Woods will not receive a citation over the crash and blamed the incident of Woods’s excessive speed and loss of control of the vehicle.

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Tiger Woods: what now for golf’s comeback king? | Ewan Murray

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Just as golf owes 15-times major winner absolutely nothing, there is precious little left for him to prove

Summoning the spirit of Ben Hogan might not be enough for Tiger Woods to prolong a remarkable career. That the golf world is not prepared for Woods to call time on tournament pursuits was clear in the aftermath of the road accident that left the stricken 45-year-old requiring prolonged surgery on his right leg.

Hogan did it, why can’t Tiger? Golf wants to cling on to an individual who transcends the sport and has single-handedly hauled it into a different commercial stratosphere. The post-Woods age has lingered somewhere in the distance for some time, with no one really willing to address what it may entail. The reticence is completely understandable: Woods is a one-off.

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Police say Tiger Woods ‘lucky to be alive’ after car crash in California

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  • 45-year-old undergoes surgery after crash in suburb of LA
  • Reports say golfer suffered compound fractures to legs

Tiger Woods has been taken to hospital with serious injuries to both legs after a car accident, with a Los Angeles police officer saying the golfer is “very fortunate” to have survived.

Carlos Gonzalez, the first LA county deputy to respond to the scene, added that Woods was “calm and lucid” despite being trapped inside his vehicle. Woods was removed from the crash by firefighters, and his vehicle suffered “major damage”.

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Tiger Woods wins Masters to cap comeback with fifth Green Jacket

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• American all-time great claims 15th major by one stroke
• Dustin Johnson, Koepka, Schauffele share second

Tiger Woods wins the Masters. If ever five words did not do justice to an outcome …

Let debate now rage as to where this sits in the pantheon of sporting comebacks. Fourteen years after last donning the Green Jacket, 11 years after last winning a major and 24 months after conceding to friends “I’m done” Woods completed a triumph which rates as extraordinary even by his standards. It seemed poetic for the sensational act to transpire at Augusta National, where Woods began altering the shape of golf back in 1997. Twenty two years on a 43-year-old Woods celebrated more wildly than ever before in the company of his mother and children.

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Trump Starts Christmas Celebrations (How Else) at His Golf CourseNewsweek

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President Donald Trump has spent much of his first year in office at one of his golf courses, so it makes sense he would kick off his Christmas vacation at the links. Pool reports indicated the president went to Trump International Golf Club near his Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida just after 9 a.m. CNN's Kristen Holmes tweeted that this marked his 107th day at a Trump property during his presidency and his 84th day at one of his golf properties as president.

Trump could triple Obama’s time on golf course

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President Donald Trump could be on track to spend as much as triple the time former President Barack Obama did on the golf course in his first year in office -- and to play more than former President George W. Bush did in eight years in office. Trump spent Saturday at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, marking the 81st day that the president has visited one of his golf courses -- and his fourth straight day at a club.