July 20th, 2006
Tiger Woods made an eagle on the closing hole at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club on Thursday to pull within one of the leader, Graeme McDowell, who sits at 6-under heading into the second round. Heavy overnight rains softened the course and made the course easy to tame for the world’s best golfers. In fact, […]
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July 19th, 2006
This the third of the four majors for the year and it should be a wide-open affair for the first time in a long time. Royal Liverpool Golf Club is unknown to almost everyone (including the European players) so there’s no home-field advantage as usually the case when playing across the pond.
Early reports indicate […]
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July 18th, 2006
So you went out to the local driving range or maybe even went to the local municipal course to see if you’d enjoy the game. I hope you enjoyed the experience as it will only get better. At this point, if you’re really serious about playing golf and getting the most out of […]
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July 17th, 2006
The Open Championship (a.k.a. British Open) begins this week on Thursday at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Liverpool, England. Yup, it’s the same Liverpool where the Beatles began their career. In fact, the last time the Open Championship was played in Liverpool was 1967, the same year Sgt. Peppers was released. Suffice to say that […]
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July 16th, 2006
LPGA
Natalie Gulbis missed yet another opportunity to win her first LPGA tournament when she missed a 9-foot birdie putt that would have forced the playoff to continue. Mi Hyun Kim won the Jamie Farr Owens Classic by making an 18-foot birdie putt on the third playoff hole.There was a push earlier this year by […]
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July 14th, 2006
PGA
Michelle Wie, suffering from heat exhaustion, withdrew from the John Deere Classic and was transported to the local hospital by ambulance. This was yet another setback in her attempt to try and make the cut on the men’s tour.
Multiple accounts of Wie’s round on Friday clearly indicate she was under the weather fairly […]
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July 13th, 2006
Michelle Wie stuggled to a 6-over 77 for the first round at the John Deere Classic, for which she received a special invite. As I’ve mentioned in the past, Wie is definitely not in tune with reality after she has a bad round. After completing her round, she said, “It was very […]
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July 12th, 2006
PGA
Michelle Wie is playing in her fifth men’s tournament on the PGA and is still trying to make her first cut. The tournament director asked Wie back this year because he had a tremendous turnout at last year’s event and is hoping to draw similar numbers.On the one hand, I think it’s great that […]
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July 11th, 2006
Time for a look back at the first six months of the golf world, from the surprises, disappointments, and just strangeness of it all.
PGA Tour
The biggest surprise has to be that Geoff Ogilvy is number 2 on the money list halfway through the season, and that Ernie Els is number 50! Granted, Els is […]
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July 10th, 2006
So you want to start playing golf? Where do you start? How do you start? What’s it cost? Where do I play? What about golf clubs? Balls? Shoes? Over the next few weeks I’ll be tackling some basic beginner questions for those wanting to try the […]
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