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• Extreme Golf

  Go ahead and tell us that as golfers, we aren’t really athletes. Go on depicting us as bland, fair-weather, high-life sports people. Draw all the distinctions you want between the well-mannered men and women of the club-house and cage fighters, extreme skiers and sumo wrestlers. We don’t mind. We know the truth. We know that …

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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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• Peter Jacobsen: Oregon’s Favorite Son

  This one’s for me. I love the sports scene in the state of Oregon. However, it’s also for you, because my patch of the world, with all the beaches, forests, green valleys, great rivers and semi-deserts, produced one of the PGA’s most interesting members, and he even racked up some neat little wins along the …

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• Severiano Ballesteros: The Mark of Zorro

  I remember it all, clear as a bell. Other children were affirming their intentions to enter realistic, albeit noble roles in life, but I was fixated with the character of Zorro. My generation had never seen such clarity and poise, such fearlessness. That’s what I was going to be, yes sir! Yet, I too, would …

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• Welcome the New Hall-of-Famers

  Two major presences on the men’s and women’s tours were inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame this week. I always thought you had to be hundred years old to achieve this honor, like a saint being canonized or a baseball player born before the invention of color film.  Apparently, you only need to …

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• The Great Mickey Wright: Rocket to Recluse

  I’ve heard it said more than once (particularly when Michelle Wie was new to the tour) that a tall, powerful female golfer with a big swing arc is going to have special problems mastering the long game. Such a statement may appear all well and good in theoretical conversation, but if we look back at …

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• Byron Nelson: Misguided Namesakes and Strange Descendants

  Endorsements could be viewed, I suppose, as tributes of a sort. I’ve played with a lot of “Golden Bear” this and that’s. My Arnie wedge putter still stands in a dusty corner of the basement (either I didn’t get the right model, or he just used it a lot better than I did). The storage …

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• Review of the Cobra S3 Driver

  The Cobra S3 and S3 Max Driver for Women For some years now I have been dithering about my golf clubs. When I read Matt Keller’s review of the Top Women Drivers for 2011 it spurred me into action. This is why I am now considering the Cobra S3 Driver for women. For years I …

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• 2011 Canadian Open and the Seagram’s Gold Cup

  The Seagram’s Gold Cup and Pat Fletcher As the talented golfers from around the world are arriving to play in the 2011 Canadian Open the Seagram’s Gold Cup has come back to Vancouver. In our family this has been greeted with great excitement. In 1954 my father Pat Fletcher won the Canadian Open and was …

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