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Ask Rex: Q&A from Abu Dhabi (3:22)
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GolfChannel.com senior writer Rex Hoggard tackles your GolfChannel.com and Facebook questions at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.
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-Hello again, and welcome back to Abu Dhabi here in
the United Arab Emirates, and we're here at the Abu
Dhabi HSBC Championship, and Rex Hoggard, Senior Editor of GolfChannel.com.
I'm Steve Sands, and there's a lot going on here
including right here on the phone. You know, what these
are? -A Blackberry. -A Blackberry. I know that, but do
you know what's on the Blackberry? -I hope those are
the questions I emailed you earlier in the day. -Those
are the questions you emailed me because GolfChannel.com's Facebook page
is welcoming everybody's questions, and we are gonna answer 4
of them or at least Rex is going. Ready? Peter
wants to know, "Any chance of a rain delay here
in the desert?" -Sure. Yeah. Absolutely. It actually might snow.
No, it's not gonna rain here in the desert. We
don't have to worry about a Monday finish 'cause that's
what you and I are always worried about, the Monday
finishes. -75 and sunny every single day is the forecast,
Peter. Alright. Bob wants to know how much money is
Tiger Woods getting to play this week here in Abu
Dhabi. -That was a big talk on the range. Everyone
wants to speculate. It's 7 figures; we both know that,
whether it's 1.7 million, 2 million, who knows. I think
what's interesting, when he was asked about it multiple times
today during the press conference, that he makes a good
point, pointing out that the United States, the PGA Tour,
is the only tour in the world that doesn't allow
appearance fees. -He's getting 7 figures more than you're getting
to be here, I can tell you that. Alright. Brad
wants to know, "Does Tiger's new swing appear to be
working on the range, Rex, or is he having control
issues with new swing." -I think it's working fine on
the range. I think it's working fine on the range
back home in South Florida. It's when he gets out
here, he gets between the ropes. We'll see on Thursday
exactly what he has. Let's face it though. The last
3 events, he's played pretty well. I think he's starting
to figure it out. -And you and I watched him
played in Tuesday's practice round. The first with 5,6 holes,
that stinger looked awfully good. -The stinger looked good and
you know, it got me on the first hole, right-to
left wind. He always struggled. He struggled mildly last year
in Dubai with that right-to-left wind 'cause he couldn't cut
the ball. I saw him standing on the first hole
today and hit a beautiful cut right in the middle
of the fairway up against the wind. -The last question
comes from Linda. What are the chances for Kaymer, Luke
Donald, Ian Poulter and Sergio, my favorite Europeans. Don't care
about TW. He is auto paid for this one. I
like the European Tour as much as the US PGA.
Linda writes. -Luke Donald, I don't vote against, but didn't
Kaymer win by a gazilion here last time? -8 shots
last year, 24 under. -Yeah, he owns this place. I'm
gonna go with the German on that one. -Okay. So
Martin Kaymer is your winner again? -Again. -Back to back.
Kind of like Paul Casey did a few years ago.
-Yeah. I like that. -Paul Casey is not here this
week. Okay. Again, please email in all of your questions
at Facebook in our Facebook page. Girl, I don't know
anything about Facebook, you can tell. Golf Central account or
if-- -Or you Twitter them. -Do you have a Twitter
account? -I do. Do you? -I do not. Why are
you making fun of me? Okay. Here it is. Tuesday
here in Abu Dhabi and we are going to tell
you 3 things we learned today. Number 1 would be
what? -Tiger Woods can hit that cut, and whether if
he can bring it to the, you know, between the
ropes on Thursday when he needs to have it, well,
we're gonna see, but he hit the ball solid today
out there. -You know what we learned today? About 200
miles that way, only 200 miles, I ran. -My wife
told me that. She wasn't very hungry. -Alright. Final thing?
-Sure. Upcut's Fantasy of Flight, the newest writer of the
Upcut is apparently right here behind us. -Can you see
that? What is that? -It's the falcon, the Falcon Clubhouse
here. Built in 1995, and let me tell you something.
That falcon is staring at Rex Hoggard like it's gonna
be dinner. -Gawking at us. -Look at that. -It's a
45-minute away. I'm gonna go get in line. -That is
a spectacular clubhouse behind the 18th green here at the
Abu Dhabi Golf Club. For Rex Hoggard, I'm Steve Sands.
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