BUICK INVITATIONAL NOTEBOOK: DUVAL: I'M BETTER THAN EVER.Byline: JILL PAINTER Staff Writer SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Once upon a time, David Duval David Robert Duval (born November 9, 1971) is an American professional golfer and former World No. 1 who competes on the PGA Tour. Background and career Amateur career Duval was born in Jacksonville, Florida. was the world's top-ranked player. It seems like eons ago, but it was just five years ago when he won the British Open. Then his game went in the tank in a well-publicized meltdown. This year, he's playing on a one-time exemption because he's in the top 25 on the career money list. The way he's talking, he might not need an exemption to stay on tour next year. He just doesn't think anyone is noticing. ``I feel like my swing and my golf game is better than it's been, certainly in many years,'' he said Wednesday at the Buick Invitational The Buick Invitational, is a PGA Tour professional golf tournament played in the San Diego, California area in the early part of the Tour season, known as the "West Coast Swing. . ``You know, nobody wants to seem to hear it, but I dare say it's better than it ever was. ``I feel like over the course of the last few years, I've learned a lot about what it takes for me to play well, what truly are my fundamentals, and I think having such a good grasp of that has made me that much more confident and comfortable in what I'm doing.'' Tiger's improv A multidimensional Windows spreadsheet from Lotus that allows for easy switching to different views of the data. Data are referenced by name as in a database, rather than the typical spreadsheet row and column coordinates. Improv was originally developed for the NeXt computer. : Buick will debut two new commercials with Tiger Woods In the first one, Woods throws a golf ball at the guy, which hits him in the back. Then Tiger told the director he wanted to chase the guy down. ``I just think (in the first one) that wasn't me. If someone took my bag, I would do something a little bit more than just throw a golf ball at him, OK?,'' Woods said. ``... I told the actor there, `You know what? I think I'm going to come up from behind you, and I'm going to get you.' He said, `All right. I'll be ready for it. No worries.' ``Well, as I got closer to him, I got into it a little bit, probably too much, and I got a little excited and yeah, he had a little scratch on his forehead.'' Tiger actually tackled the guy. Daly's dish: John Daly John Daly is the name of:
``It's like any other tournament that you're fortunate enough to win,'' Daly said. ``It just gives you good vibes, gives you confidence. It's great that I could get in.'' |
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