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• Abu Dhabi: Tiger at the HSBC

  Get an eyeful of the Abu Dhabi Golf Club, and you’ll see one of the new international faces of the golf world. Where Augusta was carved from the Azaleas and Pebble Beach from the sea, this showpiece of golf luxury was fashioned out of the desert. Designed by Peter Harradine, and opening in 2000, the …

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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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• Royalty and Golf: Rank Still Has Privileges

  The world is perceived as growing more democratic each day. So many present day democracies were monarchies one or two centuries ago, and most of the prominent ones that remain have lost their “Off with his head” powers. Few can send troops or declare war unilaterally anymore, but in the game of golf, the mention …

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• Lefty Golf: The Far Side of the Ball

  I learned how to play golf as a left-hander because those were the clubs available from aunt and uncle hand-me-downs. I wasn’t great, but got my game up and running somewhat  (although the comment once made of Jim Furyk’s swing applied – “beheading a snake in a phone booth.”)  I switched, once new equipment became …

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• Founders of the LPGA: A Recent Loss

  The LPGA was founded in the year of 1950, and there was little financial incentive to do it. The tour that we know today was not the brainchild or Herculean project of a single individual, but a group of thirteen female golfers who share an unequal degree of fame today. They were all golfers, and …

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• Peggy Kirk Bell: LPGA Pioneer

  As I study the famous names of golf history, I run across the name of Peggy Kirk Bell wherever I turn. During the past few months, it got to the point where I couldn’t turn the page without seeing the name of Peggy Kirk Bell. Always on the way to investigate something or someone else, …

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• Belly Putters

  Still struggling with short putts?  The next few articles are geared toward improving your putting stroke. The topics will discuss different putting strokes and popular putters.       There are three types of putters, a traditional putter, belly putter and long putter.  The traditional putter has the most feel, however the shaft provides the least …

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• The New face of LPGA

  Hello World? I have been waiting for this for a long time. Lexi Thompson will be playing on the LPGA full time as a member in 2012. At the age of 16, she has proved herself to the world that she is ready for the next step… pro golf – LPGA. Lexi is already a …

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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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• Golf in the Middle East: Who Knew?

  Contrasting societies all too hastily develop mythologies around one another, and when at last we take a closer look, we are surprised to find that everyone on planet Earth eats, walks and PLAYS. In the western golf world, we are peripherally aware that the United Arab Emirates are developing luxurious and thought-provoking venues with the …

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