Monday February 13, 2012
And here is the first image of
Natalie Gulbis from the 2012
Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition:
Photo by Kayt Jones/Sports Illustrated
This Natalie Gulbis photo is from the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which is on sale now.
So I guess we can confirm that Gulbis is in the issue, eh?
Gulbis is actually not wearing a swimsuit in the image above, nor in any of the other photos in the magazine. It's bodypainting. Gulbis is one of three athletes included in the bodypainting section of the 2012
SI swimsuit issue. (Soccer star Alex Morgan is another, and the third is swimmer Natalie Coughlin.)
Gulbis' inclusion in the swimsuit issue was first revealed about two months ago, although nobody (
except us) seemed to notice. On Dec. 10, Gulbis' friend Cristie Kerr tweeted about it, but that tweet was quickly deleted.
Many more of Gulbis' bodypainting pics will be appearing at
si.com/swimsuit.
This isn't the first time Gulbis has posed in a bikini (although it probably is the first time said bikini was, in reality, paint applied to her body). Her first swimsuit calendar was released in 2004, and also in 2004 she appeared in a photo shoot for
FHM magazine.
If you enjoy photos of Gulbis looking glam, then also check out this gallery, which includes pics from some of those Gulbis calendars of yore:
More about Gulbis:
Monday February 13, 2012
It will be tough for this week's PGA Tour
Northern Trust Open to top last week's AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. A near-perfect final round from Phil Mickelson for the win is always an event.
But Mickelson is playing at Riviera Country Club this week, so who knows? Plus, the Northern Trust Open sports the best field we've seen so far on the PGA Tour in 2012.
In addition to Mickelson, the field includes Luke Donald, Ernie Els, Jim Furyk, Fred Couples, Sergio Garcia, Rickie Fowler, Padraig Harrington, Ryo Ishikawa, Matt Kuchar, Justin Rose and Adam Scott, to name a few.
The defending champion is Aaron Baddeley, and Badds is going good at the moment.
To view the list of past champions, plus more tournament info and trivia, see our
Northern Trust Open tournament page.
Elsewhere, the European Tour is playing the
Avantha Masters in India; and the LPGA Tour is in Thailand for the
Honda LPGA Thailand.
Monday February 13, 2012
Take a look at the new
Cleveland Classic driver and you might think Cleveland Golf has produced a persimmon driver. The company has gone retro with its latest clubs, but not
that retro. The Classic driver has a modern titanium head painted to resemble the old persimmon woods.
Cleveland also is expanding its Mashie line with a new Mashie hybrid, plus irons and fairway woods under the Mashie monicker.
View the new clubsSunday February 12, 2012
Phil Mickelson played a brilliant final round on Sunday at the
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am to win the tournament and notch his 40th career PGA Tour victory.
The fact that he did it playing alongside
Tiger Woods in the final round? Phil's fans will love that, too. Woods struggled, particularly on the green, and shot a final-round 75, dropping to 15th place.
Mickelson, on the other hand, blistered Pebble Beach with a 64, the best round of the day by three strokes. It is Mickelson's fourth win in this tournament, his previous wins happening in 1998, 2005 and 2007.
And, as noted, it is career win No. 40 on the PGA Tour for Mickelson. Forty wins? That's huge, and we really need to appreciate Mickelson's accomplishment.
To wit: Only eight golfers in history have won more times on the PGA Tour than Mickelson. Those eight golfers are Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus, Woods, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Byron Nelson, Billy Casper and Walter Hagen.
Mickelson is tied at ninth on the
PGA Tour career wins list with Cary Middlecoff. He's now one ahead of Tom Watson. And Phil is five behind Hagen.
Here's another way of putting it: Mickelson has more PGA Tour wins than Gary Player and Fred Couples combined; more than Greg Norman and Ben Crenshaw combined.
See also:
Phil Mickelson's PGA Tour victories
Golfers with most wins on the PGA Tour
