BUICK INVITATIONAL NOTEBOOK: WOODS QUIETLY NEAR TOP.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. -- Tiger Woods  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled. made more headlines before 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. than he has during the tournament.
Woods had a news conference Wednesday, and the hot topic was his impending im·pend intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends 1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending. 2. fatherhood. He's playing in his first tournament of the season and has taken a back seat to rookie Brandt Snedeker Brandt Snedeker (born December 8, 1980) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. Snedeker was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Montgomery Bell Academy and then Vanderbilt University, where he was a Kappa Alpha, and won the U.S. , who has led every round. Woods shot a 3-under 69 on Saturday and is just two shots behind co-leaders Snedeker and Andrew Buckle. ``It's nice to be in contention the first week out,'' Woods said. ``That's why I prepared as hard as I did to put myself in this spot, and hopefully (today) I can stay out of the bunkers a little bit and make a few putts. Again, also staying bogey-free would be nice.'' Woods has an unbelievable resume compared with the trio that's playing in the final group. Rookies Buckle and Snedeker have never won on the PGA Tour. Sutherland has won a match-play event but never a stroke-play event. Woods has 54 victories. That's 41 more wins than Snedeker has starts on the PGA Tour. Paragliding: A paraglider paraglider: see glider. was flying awfully close to the fourth green when Snedeker badly mis-hit a chip shot from 100 feet below the hole. He left it 30 feet short, but if Snedeker was distracted, he didn't say as much. ``Those guys are insane,'' Snedeker said. ``They look like they are going to fly in the trees the whole time. I had more fun watching them today than I did watching myself play golf.'' Longtime love: Bob Steber has been a volunteer course marshal at the Buick Invitational since 1968 and has walked with many of the greats. I've walked with Bob Hope, President Ford, Sam Snead -- all the big names,'' Steber said. ``I call it a walk in the park.'' Local: Charlie Wi (Westlake High) shot a 1-over 73 and is tied for eighth, three shots behind the leaders. |
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