Annika Finishes Round One on Saturday! Courtesy: USGA It's Saturday and the cut still hasn't been determined at the 62nd women's U.S.Open at Pine Needles Golf Club in North Carolina. The...
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The Defending Champ The women's U.S. Open begins Thursday at Pine Needles Golf Club in North Carolina. Pine Needles won't be set up anything like Oakmont was for the men but it will still be a...
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Courtesy: Score Golf There are those professional golfers who burst onto the scene in a blaze of glory, fade or burn out quickly and disappear. There are those like John Daly whose blaze of glory is...
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Team USA: Copa de las Americas Courtesy: RCGA There is an interesting post by my colleague, Robert Thompson on his fine blog, Going for the Green. Robert recently came across a story in a Canadian...
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Team Canada: Courtesy - RCGA Most of the attention paid by the golf media is to the pros - the players, the tours, the big prize money. So it's easy to forget and overlook the tremendous effort...
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Courtesy: AP Yes, I am, indeed, a monkey's uncle (see yesterday's post). And as I said to my nephew, the chimp, this morning, it's a track record of blown predictions like yesterday's...
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Courtesy: Steve Gibbons/USGA As I write this, the final round of the US Open has yet to be played out. But I think it's reasonable to predict a winner at this point. If you examine the statistics...
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Courtesy: Getty Images It takes a confident golfer to say about Tiger Woods "I'm out to beat him" when both players are in the same tournament. And this week that tournament is the U.S....
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Oakmont's Diabolical 8th Hole Courtesy: Christopher Hunt They call Oakmont the toughest golf course in America. And that's before the USGA gets its hands on it. Remember all those comments...
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Courtesy: Canadian Golf Academy I'd like to try something a little different today. I want to begin an interactive discussion on the golf swing. Specifically, I'd like to know what you find...
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Golf and bad backs seem to walk hand in hand. There is very good reason for this: the golf swing itself. The swing is a rotational force exerted on the back with the lower back often taking much of...
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Courtesy: AP The eyes of the entertainment world and, sadly, much of the rest of the world as well, were fixed firmly on a Los Angeles County courthouse on Friday as Paris Hilton was ordered to serve...
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Courtesy: Bodog Nation A couple of things conspired this week to remind me of the importance of the short game in golf. The first event occurred earlier this week. I was in attendance at Angus Glen...
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The most fanatic people you will find anywhere are those who are converts to something or other. Ex-smokers are a fine example. Me, I'm a convert to golf lessons. My standard approach in years...
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Courtesy: BBC Sport The U.S.Open will not have Ulsterman Darren Clarke in the field this year. The much liked and highly regarded golfer from Northern Ireland failed to qualify for the championship at...
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Celtic Manor, Wales Courtesy: Golfbreaks.com Sir Terry Matthews is quite a guy. Before he became a "sir", Matthews was just your average multi-millionaire. Matthews was born in Wales but...
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Courtesy: Associated Press A week after I wrote that the only one commenting on Michelle Wie's future plans in golf is her swing coach, David Leadbetter, Michelle pipes up. Wie spoke after her...
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