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by Chris Henry on June 8, 2009
Necessity is the mother of invention.
How true, especially these days.
If you have wandered through your favorite department store recently, you've probably seen some pretty amazing deals: 60...
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by Chris Henry on May 8, 2009
Courtesy: golfswitch.com
Back after an extended hiatus so let's get right to it.
I note that the PGA Tour has landed its first new sponsor since the economic meltdown. Depending on which economi...
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by Chris Henry on April 17, 2009
Courtesy: Augusta National
On the day of the Par 3 tournament at The Masters, I wrote that it was unfortunate that live streaming of the event at masters.com was limited only to computer users with I...
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by Chris Henry on April 13, 2009
The recreational golf season is now underway in the chillier parts of North America.
The bite of winter has been replaced by the cool winds of spring but there is still a cold feel to the start of ...
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by Chris Henry on February 6, 2009
598,000. That's the number of jobs lost in the first month of 2009 in the United States.
It exceeds the number lost in December and matches the number of jobs lost in November of last year.
I ...
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by Chris Henry on February 3, 2009
PGA Village, Port St. Lucie, Florida
The PGA Golf Club at Port St. Lucie, Florida, has come up with a novel way to beat the depression.
Bob Baldassari, general manager at the club was interviewed th...
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by Chris Henry on January 27, 2009
Courtesy: Northwick Park, London, England. Note the pin setup on the double green.
PowerPlayGolf is revolutionizing the game.
It's revolutionizing it at the recreational level but it might also...
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by Chris Henry on January 26, 2009
Peter McEvoy is on the verge of something huge.
Peter is a former England amateur champion - in fact, he's won just about every amateur tournament and cup that means anything in the game, both ...
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by Chris Henry on January 20, 2009
PGA Commissioner Tim Finchem had some interesting things to say about what the Tour faces, given the current economic situation.
Remember, that situation is what Barack Obama referred to as a "...
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by Chris Henry on January 15, 2009
Rankmark is an interesting company within the golf industry in North America.
The firm conducts a wide range of club testing, using amateur golfers of varying handicaps, both men and women and publ...
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by Chris Henry on January 13, 2009
Kapalua's Plantation Course, Hawaii
Everything is related. Make no mistake about it. Yet, when I peruse The stories the golf media is writing these days, it's as if everything is fine.
But ...
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by Chris Henry on January 10, 2009
Courtesy: jameswagner.com
There's a paragraph in a New York Times story today that begins "...the economy [is] facing what now seems to be the sharpest downturn since the 1930s".
And i...
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by Chris Henry on January 9, 2009
Courtesy: Steve Garufi. Golf in the Future?
A couple of years ago, I wrote about the effects of global warming on the recreational golf industry in North America. My comments were based on a climate...
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by Chris Henry on December 20, 2008
What's that? Two Pins??
In my younger days as a broadcast journalist, I spent a number of years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
As its name implies, it's a large company, spannin...
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by Chris Henry on December 12, 2008
I've said it once and I'll say it again: 2009 and beyond will be very difficult years for professional golf tours around the world.
I will offer this prediction: the Asian tours will fare b...
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by Chris Henry on December 8, 2008
Tiger Woods is still rehabbing his bad knee and generally taking it easy. But he is still the world's top drawing card when it comes to the game of golf.
Australian tour pro, Geoff Ogilvy, is p...
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by Chris Henry on November 24, 2008
Courtesy: autoblog.com
8 million dollars. Car companies spend that on Super Bowl advertising. Or flying executives around the country on corporate jets.
They dish out cash like that for fancy smoke-...
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by Chris Henry on November 22, 2008
Courtesy: nytimes.com
I want to write further about the global economic financial situation and its impact on the game of golf. I do so because the current situation is unprecedented.
It is the wor...
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by Chris Henry on November 22, 2008
Artist's View of San Antonio Hill Country Resort Courtesy: JW Marriott
You know times are bad when even the casino corporations are losing billions. How far behind can golf resorts be?
The Las V...
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by Chris Henry on November 2, 2008
Tiger in Dubai. Courtesy: The Telegraph
There is a dark cloud looming for the PGA Tour in America.
No, it's John Daly's latest drunken binge, although that is bad enough (the man is through...
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by Chris Henry on August 27, 2008
Courtesy: daylife.com
We're living in a bubble in the western world. Climate change is something that we see on the news but something that few of us have had to experience in a negative way.
Th...
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by Chris Henry on August 5, 2008
Courtesy: Hanover Developments
Golfers are a lot like boaters - power or sail. They get itchy for new toys. With boaters, it's called "foot-itis", the desire for a boat that's a foo...
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by Chris Henry on April 28, 2008
Courtesy: BBC
Greg Norman certainly knows on which side of his bread the butter is found.
Norman finished respectably in the top 20 at this weekend's BMW Asian Open at Shanghai's Pudong Golf...
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by Chris Henry on April 4, 2008
Courtesy: Scotland golf tours
Scotland is bracing for a rush of major golf events to its shores.
And various Scottish bodies are undertaking some high-level marketing efforts to wring the maximum ad...
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by Chris Henry on March 25, 2008
Courtesy: Tavistock Cup.com
Players Arrive by Helicopter for Tavistock Cup
What's with this Tavistock Cup? It's billed as a "fight to the finish" between PGA pros from two high-end ...
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by Chris Henry on March 20, 2008
Organizers of the Faldo Series Asia have announced their 2008 schedule and it is growing.
The Faldo Series Asia has added several new tournaments so that the 2008 calendar features 11 events in 8 d...
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by Chris Henry on March 4, 2008
2008 Mercedes Championship
German automaker, mercedes benz, is stepping up its involvement in the game of golf.
But it's doing so in a very clever way.
The luxury car maker already has a high p...
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by Chris Henry on February 26, 2008
What constitutes a hard core golfer today? The guy or gal willing to play in a downpour? The weekend duffer who drives two hours to play a track he hasn't experienced before but has heard about?...
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by Chris Henry on February 6, 2008
Courtesy: Today's Golfer
The women's professional golf game has truly gone global. And it has been the LPGA Tour's salvation.
LPGA players are starting to pull in some decent sponsorship...
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by Chris Henry on January 28, 2008
Courtesy: PGA.com
Dave Pelz is getting back into the club making business.
Pelz, of course, is that big bear of a guy who has made a very comfortable living by dominating the niche short-game marke...
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