Courtesy: BBC My thanks to Golfblogger for the inspiration for today's post. Golfblogger spotted a piece in the Economic Times, an Indian publication, about snow golf. The author says he first...
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by Chris Henry on January 29, 2008
CBS is complaining that the ratings for its first golf broadcast of the season - the Buick Invitational - were down nearly 20 percent from last year's broadcast. On Sunday, Tiger Woods waltzed to...
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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 market....
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by Chris Henry on January 27, 2008
Kelly Tilghman went back to work on Thursday, completing her two week suspension from The Golf Channel for her infamous remark regarding Tiger Woods. Her return to the golf airwaves has prompted some...
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Has the USGA created a monster? Frank Thomas, the former technical director at the USGA has a very reasoned take on the latest trend in equipment: interchangeable shafts.......
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by Chris Henry on January 23, 2008
Courtesy: EMMAR-MGF India is set to make its mark in international tournament play. The Indian Masters debuts next month at the Delhi Golf Club in New Delhi. This is a brand new tournament on the...
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by Chris Henry on January 21, 2008
Golf in China is exploding. That was the word at the recently concluded PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando. But who stands to benefit could be the 64 dollar question. Zhang Xiaoning, who is the...
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Last summer, the USGA announced a rule change that allows recreational golfers to interchange shafts on their clubs. Essentially, the USGA wants duffers to have the advantages of the tour pros -...
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by Chris Henry on January 19, 2008
Courtesy: AP The editor of Golf Week magazine was fired yesterday in response to the magazine's latest cover which you can see atop this post. The cut line alongside the image reads "Tilghman...
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Wentworth, West Course. Home of the World Match Play: HSBCgolf.com This past week has seen world stock markets take a big hit and more and more economists talking about global recession. When global...
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by Chris Henry on January 17, 2008
There was more than a little confusion when European Tour players gathered this week for a meeting. The confusion surrounded some perceived discrepancies in the drug lists between the PGA and...
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Courtesy: ImageWire.com Canadian golf magazine, Score, has an audio interview with Mike Weir on its site. The magazine likes to follow Canadians on the tour, naturally, but Weir is international in...
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by Chris Henry on January 14, 2008
John Daly: "It's just a bad rule" There's trouble in River City. Tour players are expressing anger and surprise over the PGA Tour's new cut rule which was exercised for the...
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I have just completed one of the best stretching routines I've ever experienced. A few weeks ago, Mike Pedersen sent me his Golf Stretching for a Better Swing DVD. I shoved it in the DVD player...
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by Chris Henry on January 12, 2008
Courtesy: AP The golf media could have some fun with this one. Fred Funk seems to have a new swing coach with him at the Sony Open in Hawaii. This is not a person known in professional golf circles...
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by Chris Henry on January 12, 2008
Courtesy: Waialae Country Club, Hawaii There is a new rule in effect on the PGA Tour this season regarding the cut line. Players at the Sony Open at Waialae Country Club have just got a taste of it....
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by Chris Henry on January 11, 2008
Courtesy: The Daily Telegraph There was a time when a teenager turned professional and it made headlines around the world. Perhaps it started with young tennis phenom, Tracy Austin, who turned pro at...
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by Chris Henry on January 10, 2008
Courtesy: Golf-Babes.blogspot.com Kelly Tilghman, a long-time commentator and host on The Golf Channel has been suspended by the specialty channel for two weeks. This comes, as many know, after her...
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by Chris Henry on January 09, 2008
Tiger Woods is two things. First, he is the greatest golfer on the planet. We all know that. Secondly, he is very private. The media knows that well. Whatever goes on in his private life stays there...
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Courtesy: Alpha Golf At the end of December, I received an email from Joe Simon at Alpha Golf, a division of Kent Sports. Joe had read my post on Andrew Coltart's issues with length off the tee....
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by Chris Henry on January 07, 2008
Courtesy: AP PGA Tour officials were few and far between. The top brass from FedEx were nowhere to be seen this year after ballyhooing the Cup at the season opener last year. But, all in all, the...
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Courtesy: AP Photo I was perusing GolfIndustryOnline this morning and noted that they have extensive lists of "top ten" products from last year. The site breaks the products down into...
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