Wachovia Championship
Couples captures third top ten of the season
Nobody was going to catch winner Anthony Kim at the Wachovia Championship – his 16-under total was five shots better than second place. Fred Couples managed a final round, even par, 72 to finish in a tie for eighth place – his third top ten of the year. Only 10 players have more top tens [...]
Couples moves up the leaderboard
An outstanding round that could have been spectacular moved Fred even further up the leaderboard on Saturday at the Wachovia Championship.
The round again featured a birdie barrage, as Fred made four birdies in five holes starting at the par five seventh. Fred would birdie 8, par 9, then make birdies at the par five 10th [...]
Couples closes with barrage of birdies
Fred Couples round was an exercise in treading water for 13 holes – he was 1-over and the cut was looming. However, starting on the fifth hole – Fred’s fourteenth – that changed in a hurry.
On the par five fifth, Fred would hit his third shot to 6 feet and make the birdie. After a [...]
Couples opens at even in Charlotte
Playing in his first tournament since the Masters, Fred Couples opened the Wachovia Championship with a even par 72. Fred had moved to 2-under on the day after a birdie of the par 5 fifteenth hole, but back-to-back bogeys on the 16th and 17th moved Fred from being up near the top of the leaderboard [...]
Wachovia Championship week
Fred Couples returns to action this week in the Wachovia Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. This is Fred’s first tournament since the Masters. It’s Fred’s second time playing the Wachovia Championpship. His only other appearance was in 2003 where he finished in a tie for 34th place.
