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• Bobby Locke: South African Golf

  As golf buffs, we can name a few high profile players from South Africa…Retief Goosen, Bobby Cole, Ernie Els, Fulton Allem, etc.  These and several others have an ongoing presence on the world stage of golf, but what else do they share in terms of lineage? Who was their inspiration? In large part, it was …

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• Dubious Golf Honors: What’s Really Going On?

  It’s a very nice game, played by very nice people, shooting very nice scores at the worst – right? Wrong. Just guess at how much expensive hardware lies at creek and pond bottoms (Charley Hoffman’s putter-what did he use the rest of the round?). What are they really saying after a bad shot as the …

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• Erik Compton: Science on Tour

  Growing up in a world of burgeoning science, those of my parents’ generation were in awe as the first kidney transplant was performed in 1953. I remember my childhood introduction to the polio vaccine, our first answer to a disease that was at one time thought invincible. We were and continue to be duly impressed …

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• Golf Writers and Commentators: Heady Stuff

  All smugness aside, golf writers and broadcasters often speak with a tiny edge of “know-it-allism,” and they’re usually not entirely out of bounds in doing it. After all, it isn’t the writers, but the game that just insists on that little twist of pomp, especially when the subject gets anywhere near the British Isles. Some …

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• Babe Didrikson Zaharias: From There to Here?

  This is how it works if you want to play professional golf. You play through childhood, win every local thing you can find, get into the qualifying system, play until you’re blind and score consistently well. Get your card, go out there, and do your best to keep it, much less win something. It’s a …

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• New Kid in Town: Golf World Gets Tebowed!

  Like so much of America, I’ve been bitten by the Tim Tebow bug, especially with the New England Patriots lying in wait for the surprising Broncos this weekend. I like the guy, and I have no reason to rip on him for any reason. Not everything demands a moralistic response. Things are often just what …

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• The Open: Where – Which One?

  The PGE probably feels a little cocky starting its season in Maui this week, with all the pleasures and treasures that such a location suggests. Before you know it, the U.S. “Open” and other events employing that term will come around, and we’ll be in the thick of the majors. The Europeans, however, are also …

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• Sophie Goes Public

  What does Sophie Gustafson have in common with Judy Rankin, Tom Watson, Barbara Douglas, Ken Greer, Erik Compton, Denis Watson, Paul Azinger, Robert Allenby, Bruce Edwards, Jeff Julian, Scott Verplank, Jose Maria Olazabel, Casey Martin, Lee Trevino, Ken Venturi, Terri Jo Meyers and Steve Jones? They have all been awarded the GWAA Ben Hogan prize …

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• Why Golfers Don’t Improve

  Why Golfers Don’t Improve   It’s no secret golf is a game that requires patience and persistence to improve.  Obviously, a vast majority of players fail to improve because they don’t play and practice.  On the other hand, many players put a lot of time and dedication into their golf game.  They practice the full …

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• PGA Season Underway? How Can You Tell?

  What if they held an international golf tournament in the Garden of Eden, and nobody came? What if the PGA held its first event of the 2012 tour, and Mickelson, Woods, McIllroy, Clarke, Schwartzel, Donald, Scott, Kaymer, Johnson, Rose, Snedecker and Jacobsen didn’t appear? What if up to one third of the eligible players of …

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