NICK WATNEY RUMORS & GOSSIP

Tiger likely to miss cut; Watney leads

Nick Watney answered what he referred to as a wake-up call at the Wells Fargo Championship. Tiger Woods might need one. Watney had gone nine straight rounds on the PGA Tour without breaking 70 and had failed to crack the top 10 in all nine of his stroke-play tournaments. He worked hard to change that, and it paid off Friday with an 8-under 64 that put him atop the leaderboard at...
Via AP on Fox  |  23 days ago

Watney takes lead as Woods heads home

The Wells Fargo Championship looks like it will be missing Tiger Woods on the weekend for the third straight year. Woods couldn't buy a putt in his round of 73 and was at even-par 144, almost certain to miss the cut for the eighth time in his career. Instead, the leaderboard was filled with a couple of players looking to turn their games around. Nick Watney, who has not had...
Via AP on Fox  |  23 days ago

Something amiss for Tiger in defeat

Nick Watney was off to the side of the green, studying his yardage book, trying to decide what he should hit off the tee on the first playoff hole. He was one-up at the time and safely in for par, meaning his opponent needed to win the hole to extend their second-round match at the Accenture Match Play championship. And it was a five-and-a-half footer for birdie, straightforward...
Via Fox Sports  |  February 23, 2012

Early exit: Tiger eliminated from Match Play

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer MARANA, Ariz. (AP) -- Tiger Woods couldn't buy a putt Thursday and won't be sticking around at the Match Play Championship. With a chance to send his match against Nick Watney into overtime, Woods missed a 5-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole and failed to get out of the second round for the third straight time at Dove Mountain. Watney will...
Via Fox Sports Arizona  |  February 23, 2012

Showdown, Week 4: Watney, Crane, & Snedeker

So in an attempt to inject a bit more life and interest into tournaments, and because we're all inveterate gamblers who are one bad card from being out on the streets, Jay Busbee, Jonathan Wall and I are playing a golf version of a football suicide pool: We each pick one golfer per tournament and see how they do against each other, straight up. Victory over the other guy gets...
Via Devil Ball Golf  |  January 25, 2012

2012 PGA Preview: The Most Underrated Player on Tour

As you probably could’ve gathered, I’m of the belief that golf statistics are incredibly revealing.  The sheer amount of information at your fingertips on the PGA’s website is breathtaking, and it really gives you some good insight as to how the best players in the world get it done.  You can see right away why certain players are consistently contending because...
Via The Victory Formation  |  January 25, 2012

Showdown, Week 1: Woodland, Watney & Toms

So in an attempt to inject a bit more life and interest into tournaments, and because we're all inveterate gamblers who are one bad card from being out on the streets, Jay Busbee, Jonathan Wall and I are playing a golf version of a football suicide pool: We each pick one golfer per tournament and see how they do against each other, straight up. Victory over the other guy gets...
Via Devil Ball Golf  |  January 06, 2012

Heidi Watney Leaving Sox

As if the sting of the Boston Red Sox September collapse was not enough, now it is losing NESN in-game reporter Heidi Watney who is leaving for a bigger gig in her native California with the Los Angeles Lakers (hey are they playing now?).  Heidi was a former runner-up as Miss California and has worked with the Red Sox for four seasons.  She is the cousin of professional golfer...
Via Fantasy Baseball Dugout  |  November 20, 2011

One hole especially lucky for US

It is one thing to have a difficult shot. It is quite another when the challenge is simply to get into position to play the shot. But there was Nick Watney, twisting and contorting, bending and crouching, all in an effort to figure a way to stand so that he could play his third shot during the opening foursomes. Representing the American Presidents Cup team, it looked more like...
Via Fox Sports  |  November 17, 2011

29 Greatest Heidi Watney Moments In Red Sox History

The reports, despite Heidi Watney saying differently on Twitter, are that the leggy blonde has covered her final game as a Boston Red Sox sideline reporter for NESN. Watney is currently in Australia watching her cousin Nick Watney hit some golf balls. Red Sox Insider Sean McAdam says Watney is headed to Time Warner Laker broadcasts for the ’12-13 season. We had the time this...
Via Busted Coverage  |  November 16, 2011
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