Courtesy: Eaglemont, Mt. Vernon, WA The 49th parallel is the longest, undefended border in the world for a reason: Canadians and Americans like each other. The openness of our border has posed some...
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Courtesy: Deer Creek North, Toronto It strikes me that there has never been a better time to be a public golfer. I have mentioned in passing that I prefer playing different courses rather than being...
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Courtesy: AP Photo I have always liked matchplay golf and watching the World Golf Matchplay final on Sunday reminded me of why. Golf has always been about the golfer against the golf course. And the...
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Courtesy: Sandra Post Okay, folks. Here is part one of the Sandra Post Interviews. I won't recap Sandra's stellar career on the LPGA Tour. If you want the details, see this previous post....
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Courtesy: Iceland Tourism The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrew's Handbook for Golfers says the most northerly 18 hole golf course is in Iceland. It's called the Akureyri Golf Club....
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Courtesy: Antiqueathlete.com When I was in high school, in grade 9, we were forced to study English history. Actually, it probably wouldn't have mattered whose history we studied. Force was...
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Courtesy: The GolfExpert.com I had an email from Anne Chouinard the other day. Anne is the director of golf at the Canadian Golf Academy in beautiful Prince Edward Island (where some of Canada's...
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Is the golf swing the most over-analyzed physical action in sports? Are golfers closet lunatics? I would say yes. Without a doubt. To both points. In fact, an entire sub-industry in the game has been...
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by Chris Henry on February 20, 2007
Courtesy: Sandra Post When Sandra Post was just 19 years old, she joined the LPGA Tour. That was in 1968. She turned 20 that season and less than three weeks later, won a major, the LPGA Championship....
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Here are three questions that haunt a lot of us: 1. What confuses you the most about golf equipment? 2. What shot scares you the most? 3. What part of your game needs the most help? For the answers,...
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Courtesy: Golf Punk Online I like Darren Clarke. I like anybody whose demeanor says "what you see is what you get". I probably wouldn't like too many Hollywood stars for that reason. But...
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Courtesy: Callaway Can a golf club be too good? For the pros? That might be the case with the new square head drivers that several manufacturers have developed. The square head isn't a marketing...
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Courtesy: Thornhill Country Club, Toronto Think of private golf clubs and you tend to think of parking lots filled with high end automobiles like BMW, Mercedes, Lexus and so on and wealthy members...
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Courtesy: Thornhill Golf and Country Club There's a private club in Toronto that has launched an innovative program. The club's general manager calls it a "win-win" situation. But,...
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Courtesy: John Daly Fan Club.com I don't think Anna Nicole Smith ever played golf. She would have been more at home in the left-hand seat of a 42 foot Fountain offshore boat chasing across the...
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Courtesy: Sedona Golf Resort Sedona Golf Resort in Sedona, Arizona, is a perfect combination of stunning beauty and gee-whiz technology. My wife and I played Sedona Golf Resort last August on a golf...
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by Chris Henry on February 12, 2007
John Mallinger: Nationwide Grad "All the people, they'd step back/ When a young man walked by": The Who Phil Mickelson certainly made Pebble Beach look like a municipal course on...
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Courtesy: Element 21/NASA There appears to be another revolution occurring in golf equipment. First, steel shafts gave way to graphite and we began to appreciate the lightness, strength and improved...
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by Chris Henry on February 10, 2007
"Powerplay Pete" McEvoy The Scots won't like it a bit. The English are messing with their game. In London this week, a new kind of golf was unveiled. It's called Powerplay Golf. And...
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by Chris Henry on February 09, 2007
Jason Zuback: Long Drive Champion I happened to turn on my TV yesterday afternoon to see, if by any chance, there might be something worth watching at 2 in the afternoon. There rarely is; such is the...
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Courtesy: Ian Andrew Golf Design "If you're building public golf, I think you have to build public golf that works". So says Canadian course designer, Ian Andrew. And that's one of...
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Courtesy: Ian Andrew Golf Design I wonder how many amateur golfers can tell a good golf course from a bad one. What I mean is, do we know a great design when we see it? I guess it's all in......
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