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Golf News
on January 28, 2009
Frilford Heath. Home of the Euro Tour Q-School
The European Tour released its 2009 schedule today under the heading "First courses revealed".
This strikes me as a little odd since the sche...
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Golf News
on January 28, 2009
Colin Montgomerie
We can look forward to next year's Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor in Wales with special interest.
Long time Ryder Cup player and noted sound-bite artist Colin Montgomerie will be ca...
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Golf Business
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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Golf Business
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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Golf Equipment
on January 22, 2009
Frank Thomas has taken on the USGA again in his weekly Frankly Golf e-newsletter.
A reader writes to ask Frank about the square groove rule change announced by the USGA last August.
The reader is ...
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Golf Wanderings
on January 21, 2009
Courtesy: bencayetano.com
In keeping with yesterday's theme of presidents who play golf, I came across an amusing and enlightening story about President Bill Clinton's golf game.
Clinton app...
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Golf Business
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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Golf Courses
on January 20, 2009
Courtesy: Viet Nam Tourism
Golf is a healing game, it turns out.
That truth surprises me a bit because I know golf to be a game that also tears wounds deep into the psyche.
But it heals, as well. ...
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Golf News
on January 20, 2009
Courtesy: politicalbase.com
Today was quite a day.
The first African American sworn in as president of the United States is a truly momentous and historic moment.
It signals an end to an enormous ...
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Golf News
on January 19, 2009
Courtesy: Golf.com
There's a good story over at PGATour.com written by John Maginnes.
It deals with the current economic situation (or, as I call it, depression) that is settling in upon all of ...
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Golf News
on January 19, 2009
Courtesy: Afrogolf.com
When the Northern Trust Open tees off at Riviera next month, there will be one "minority" golfer in the field who will be playing by way of an exemption.
The organiz...
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Golf News
on January 16, 2009
Colt Knost at 2007 Walker Cup
The 2009 PGA Tour officially welcomes its newest "rookie" at this week's Sony Open in Hawaii.
Colt Knost, however, is no rookie to competition on the Tour...
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Golf News
on January 15, 2009
Katie-Jane Stanley. Photo courtesy of Middleton Guardian
I tell ya, I wish I was a kid again. I'd take up the game of golf at the age of 9.
And I'd soak it up like a sponge.
Have you ever ...
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Golf Wanderings
on January 15, 2009
In these growing deflationary times, cash - as I keep saying - is king. A dollar, yuan, yen, euro or pound sterling goes further because it buys more.
Well, I'm not alone in that thinking. Fran...
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Golf Business
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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Golf Wanderings
on January 14, 2009
Courtesy: Sarantel
In late November of 2008, the English Golf Union ruled that distance measuring devices would be legal for use in its championships throughout 2009.
The EGU is the governing body o...
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Golf Business
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 ...
Read more of Tour To Lose More Tournaments?
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Golf Travel
on January 12, 2009
Courtesy: Getty Images
Over the past couple of years, authorities in the United States have increased their scrutiny of people entering the country - whether they're visitors or returning America...
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Golf Fitness
on January 10, 2009
Katherine Roberts
The winter months for those of us in the northern hemisphere are characterized by a great degree of immobility. In other words, we hibernate and don't move much.
And that doesn...
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Golf Business
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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Golf Business
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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Golf Travel
on January 8, 2009
Courtesy: Arroyo Golf Club, Las Vegas
As predicted in a recent post, the deepening recession, particularly in the United States (nearly 700 thousand jobs lost in December alone!), is leading to a lot...
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Golf Courses
on January 4, 2009
Once upon a time in Zimbabwe...
There is a fine piece in golf Digest about the state of golf in Zimbabwe.
As we know, Robert Mugabe, once a responsible leader, has taken an economy that was thriving...
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Golf News
on January 3, 2009
John Daly has admitted that he's been banned for 6 months by the PGA Tour.
But in typical Daly fashion, he still doesn't get it.
However, neither does the PGA Tour. Daly's ban runs ou...
