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• Francis Quimet: Father of Amateur Golf

  Ask a hundred people to identify America’s first golf hero, and most will miss it. Ask who staged one of the greatest golf upsets in history (the greatest at that time), and most won’t remember it. Frances DeSales Quimet of Brookline, Massachusetts, became the first American to be elected captain of the Royal and Ancient …

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• Lewis, Fowler and Phatlum

  Lewis, Fowler and Phatlum: Youth Rules Golf This Week One should be careful throwing around the word youth these days, because it’s including younger and younger players all the time. I’m going to give Stacy Lewis the benefit of the doubt, even though she’s approaching her late twenties. Considering what she went through to get …

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• Nancy Lopez Wins Byron Nelson Prize

  Nancy Lopez Wins Byron Nelson Prize There are a lot of generous folks from the sports worlds. Directed to the charities of their choice, individual players donate huge sums annually, and their foundations sustain a steady stream of assistance for those who often wouldn’t get it from anywhere else. Golf, however, stands out as a …

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• The Big Three: Nicklaus, Palmer, Player-One More Time

  Nicklaus, Palmer, Player For a younger generation of golf lovers, to describe the way that the golfing public viewed the big three players of the fifties through eighties might require some thought. Try this one – if the Beatles were professional level golfers, they might have been on the magnitude of the “Big Three.” The …

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• Girl’s Golf in North America

  The LPGA and Golf Canada Watch out, Lexi. You’re getting on, and there’s a wave of greats coming in behind you. Here’s where they’re coming from, as if you didn’t know. In the U.S., the LPGA has truly done what it set out to do, “bringing women’s golf under one umbrella.” The developmental tour, ages …

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• Small School Golf: Women’s Div. II, III, NAIA

  Small School Golf Review We may be under the impression that we know where all the tour members come from, and which schools boast the national power programs in the U.S. and Canada. Certainly, Division I sports holds considerable advantages over the others, enjoying a huge talent draw. The requirements of a Division I athletic …

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• Yani Tseng & Ai Miyazato: Would You Like to Be Queen for a Day?

  A lot of readers probably wouldn’t remember that old show, but in a sense, it’s a flipped version of what we’re seeing in the LPGA these days. Three women would be brought on a panel to tell their tales of woe, and the audience would respond by means of an Applause –O-meter. The most woeful …

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• Missing The Cut

  Golf, as we all know, is a game of “What have you done for me lately?” It doesn’t care if you won a major last week, or what your endorsement income is. You can rest on your laurels all you want, but you can’t enter them as this week’s scores. There is a particular limbo, …

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• Padraig Harrington: Sneaking Up

  So, let’s take a look at Ireland from an American perspective, putting aside for a moment all the great golfers and courses from the countries of the world, just for the sake of analogy. The Republic, to the south, is home to around four and a half million people, and the north is home to …

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• Titleist 910H Hybrid Review

  Titleist 910H Hybrid Review     By the looks of things, Titleist designed another winner.  The 910H hybrid has the same glossy black finish as the 910 driver and fairway woods.  In addition, the SureFit Tour Hosel allows players to manipulate loft and lie into 16 different configurations.  The deep face of the 910H gives …

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