{"id":352090,"date":"2011-03-30T21:19:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T21:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/30\/tour-report-couples-playing-in-pain-picking-uconn-for-title-pgatour-com\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T21:19:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T21:19:24","slug":"tour-report-couples-playing-in-pain-picking-uconn-for-title-pgatour-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/tour-report-couples-playing-in-pain-picking-uconn-for-title-pgatour-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour Report: Couples playing in pain, picking UConn for title (PGATOUR.com)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let\u2019s get this out of the way now.<\/p>\n

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He has tickets to the semifinals Saturday. He\u2019s not sure if he can go. And he wants UConn to go all the way. His caddie Joe LaCava does too.<\/p>\n

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Yes, we\u2019re talking Fred Couples. All-round sports fan. Former Shell Houston Open champ. Former Houston Cougar. And, no, he isn\u2019t going to be able to make any of the Guy V. Lewis\/Phi Slamma Jamma goings-on this week, even though he\u2019d like to.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf Guy Lewis was in the Final Four on Saturday would he be out here Saturday morning watching me play golf?\u00a0 I\u2019m in the same boat,\u2019\u2019 Couples said. \u201c \u00a0went to Houston, I love Houston, but got to play golf, and, I mean, there\u2019s not enough time on my feet, you know, to do all that.\u00a0 I think they know.\u00a0 But, it\u2019s a hard thing.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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Yep, Couples is here to play golf. He won the Administaff Small Business Classic here last fall and now he\u2019s back playing the SHO with the kids and getting ready for next week\u2019s Masters. Two years ago, he tied for third here, then missed the cut at the Masters. Last year, he shared 55th<\/sup> here, then finished sixth in Augusta.<\/p>\n

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Rhyme? Reason? It always comes back to, well, his back. And it\u2019s been worse than usual for the past five months.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m excited to be here and there and then we\u2019ll see what happens,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cI think I\u2019m going to take some times off after these two events. You know, I\u2019m so stuff and tired right now that it\u2019s \u2013 I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s been like this since October and it\u2019s now \u2013 having a bad back is okay. Having pain and a bad back is like a double whammy.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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Can\u2019t shake it? \u201cIt ain\u2019t going away,\u2019\u2019 he said, before shuffling off to tape a few commercials for the Administaff folks.<\/p>\n

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And, yes, he\u2019s feeling every bit of his 51\u00bd years.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve been out here since 1980,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe, yeah, 30 years, you know.\u00a0 What I can\u2019t believe is that I\u2019m still playing.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I can\u2019t believe.\u00a0 Why, I\u2019m not really sure.\u00a0 I love to be here, but, you know, this isn\u2019t \u2014 this is an old man\u2019s course.\u00a0 I played with Emmitt (Smith) and Sec (former Secretary of State and former Treasury Secretary James Baker) and Marvin (Odum) from Shell, so we had a great time, but I need to play like that tomorrow and get a little momentum going into Augusta.\u201d<\/p>\n

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If not for Augusta next week and his ties to Houston \u2013 the city embraces him as one of its down \u2014 Couples might be teeing it up at the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo me obviously I just played at Newport Beach in the Champions Tour, and this golf course is probably ten times harder, but it\u2019s all golf,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201c You know, I mean, honestly if I wasn\u2019t going to school here and didn\u2019t play here every year, you know, there\u2019s a tournament in Mississippi this week that I probably should be at, but going to school here and I love the tournament, there\u2019s no way I was going to not come here, and it\u2019s a better tune-up for Augusta.\u00a0 But, you know, I belong on the Champions Tour, but every now and then I come out and enjoy it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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With an eye on Final Four.<\/p>\n

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And a VCU-UConn final.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter that, hope for a great game because I\u2019ll be sitting with my feet up watching it Monday night,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cMaybe a double overtime.\u00a0 You know, we\u2019re rooting for UConn to go all the way.\u2019\u2013 Melanie Hauser<\/i><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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