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Traders betting against Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest have had a lucrative run this year. Shorting the firm’s family of eight exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has turned investors a mark-to-market profit of $2.4 billion so far in 2022 – more than twice the $941 million profit they made in all of last year, per figures from data analytics firm S3 partners. Of that gain, $492 million has been generated since mid-August, as technology stocks resumed a downslide amid renewed rate hike fears and… Source link

Almost a decade later, Tiger Woods is back on the cover of a video game. Woods announced on Wednesday night that he will grace the cover of two versions of PGA Tour 2k23 this fall. Woods initially signed a deal with 2K in 2021, shortly after it dropped its first golf game with Justin Thomas on the cover. The company did not put out a version last year, but will instead drop 2K23 later this fall. [Set, hut, hike! Create or join a fantasy football league now!] 2K is expected to release more… Source link

For a sport steeped in stately tradition and the slow unfolding of tension, golf is looking a whole lot like the hypercharged, quick-cut, meme-heavy NBA these days. Just as you can keep up with the flow of an entire NBA season without ever watching a full game, you don’t need to know who won last week’s PGA Tour event — or last month’s LIV tournament, for that matter — to ride the sport’s waves of status quo-shattering news. The latest arrived Tuesday afternoon, as Tiger Woods… Source link

The voices echoed across the dwindling reaches of St. Andrews, the accents different but the sentiments the same as in America: “COME ON TOY-GAH!” As the sun set on a long, slow day in Scotland, Tiger Woods plodded his way through the last few holes of the Old Course, frustration evident on his face, in his shoulders, in his slow walk. He ended the day at 6-over, a rugged 78 that left him buried near the bottom of the leaderboard. This wasn’t how it was supposed to go for Woods, not how he… Source link

With the 150th British Open just five days away, Tiger Woods got in a full 18-hole practice round on Sunday at St. Andrews. It’s not something he has previously done ahead of major tournaments since his return to the PGA Tour. Woods played just nine-hole practice rounds in the lead-up to both the Masters and PGA Championship earlier this year because of the physical limitations he is still experiencing in the aftermath of the February 2021 car wreck that nearly cost him his right leg. Those… Source link

Greg Norman, the public face of the breakaway LIV Golf series, says the executives and agents who currently run golf “are conspiring against LIV to protect an antiquated system that prevents golfers from realizing their own power and worth amid a global movement of athlete empowerment.” In a story by the Washington Post titled, “The Shark is on the attack again,” Norman also criticized Rory McIlroy and others, suggesting they’ve been “brainwashed” against the LIV movement…. Source link

You don’t hear much applause at golf tournaments anymore. “The art of clapping is gone,” Tiger Woods said a couple years back. “Everyone’s holding a cell phone.” Oh sure, you’ll still hear plenty of “woo” and “mashed potato” and “Tiger Tiger Woods y’all” and, of course, “get in the hole.” (“Baba Booey” has faded as Howard Stern’s cultural footprint has diminished. “Brooksy” mostly vanished when Koepka and DeChambeau squashed their beef. And “dilly dilly” died the lonely, unmourned… Source link

Tiger Woods withdrew from the 2022 PGA Championship on Saturday night. This is not a surprise. The surprise is that he was in the field. The surprise is that he has fought his way back from another would-be career-ending catastrophe. The surprise is that anyone, at this point, is still surprised by Tiger Woods. The 2022 PGA Championship will forever have a “WD” next to Woods’ name. That doesn’t begin to cover the significance of the week. Yes, he stumbled to a +12 finish Saturday after a… Source link

    After three days in which his score and his pain grew progressively worse, Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the PGA Championship. Woods began the tournament Thursday with an early charge that put him within a stroke of the lead. That hot streak soon faded. Friday was a battle just to make the cut, and Saturday was a debacle — a nine-over round that left Woods +12 for the week and in obvious pain. “I didn’t do anything right,” Woods said after the round. “I didn’t hit many good shots…. Source link

There are limits to Tiger Woods’ ability to work miracles. Somewhere. There have to be, right? Woods won’t win the PGA Championship. He might not ever win a tournament again. But he’s staying in the fight long after so many others would have quit. Fifteen months after a devastating car wreck that nearly cost him his leg, six weeks after his return to competitive golf at Augusta, one day after a round at the PGA Championship that started hot but stalled late, Woods fought through one of the… Source link