Focus on Matt Kuchar

American golfer Matt Kuchar has been dubbed as one of the gentlest man in all of the sport and is a regular in the US PGA Tour, having previously played on the Nationwide Tour. He has won five titles on the US PGA Tour, with all of these wins spanning a period of 11 years. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 2000s before suffering a massive slump in his form during which time he was struggling to maintain his playing status on the US PGA Tour.

However, he kept up the fighting spirit that he is known for and on the back of a new, one plane swing, he reinvigorated himself and began to climb up the rankings of the Official Golf World Rankings. Matt Kuchar has earned fame as one of the most consistent players at present in the US PGA Tour over the last five years, having won prize money amounting to $ 15 million in these years and between 2009 and 2012, he recorded a whopping 30 finishes in the top 10. He also topped the money list of the US PGA Tour in 2010.

But his biggest success came in 2012 when he won The Players Championship, the flagship annual event of the US PGA Tour. This win catapulted him to number five in the world golf rankings, his highest ever ranking till date. In what can be best described as his will to win, Matt Kuchar has fought tooth and nail to keep his status as a top 10 player for forty straight weeks.

The new season has also began on a promising note for the American as he defeated Hunter Mahan to win WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship, his first and arguably the most important for him in the World Golf Championship.

Johnson dating Paulina Gretzky

Paulina Gretzky, everyone’s favorite model on the social networking platform Instagram, is dating professional golfer Dustin Johnson, who currently plays on the PGA Tour. Rumors about their relationship had been surfacing for quite some time and now, the daughter of legendary hockey player Wayne Gretzky has given her followers the photo to prove what had been speculated is indeed true when she posted a photograph of herself and the golfer on her Instagram. The photo shows the 24 year old Gretzky and the 28 year old golfer cozying up to each other with a simple blue heart in the captions section.

According to several reports that have surfaced over the last few weeks, the pair was absolutely inseparable in Kapalua in Hawaii when Johnson was taking part in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, with several media outlets even reporting that Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky chose to stay back at Hawaii a few days after the tournament had concluded. Gretzky is famous for posting raunchy photos of her on her Instagram account as well as her singing career on some occasions.

Paulina was even linked to Jarret Stoll, someone who is considered as the playboy of the National Hockey League in recent months but in a recent interview with a magazine, the buxom blonde moved to dispel those rumors where she stated that the two of them met through mutual friends but they are not dating each other, before adding that she would never date a hockey player.

And her comments means Dustin Johnson has more than a fair chance at Miss Gretzky. The American golfer, who went on to win the tournament in Hawaii had previously been linked with Amanda Caulder, his college friend and supposed ex-flame as well as Natalie Gulbis, who plays on the Ladies PGA Tour.

Furyk speaks about his 2012

For golfer Jim Furyk, the PGA season 2012 season was not that good – with several meltdowns and back to back losses. Still Jim did not stop from speaking about all the painful loses with a leading golf magazine.

He admitted that this was the most depressing interview he has ever given to anyone. Davis Love III had famously told the magazine that Jim was probably only 3 swings from being a Player of the Year nominee, but Jim answered that, whilst he is trying to take that as a compliment – that he is so close to the top of the game – he struggles to see past the fact that he game consistently let him down time and again last season. Read more “Furyk speaks about his 2012”