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Tour Edge , one of the highest-tech golf equipment companies you’ve maybe never heard of, is offering a premium shaft upgrade to golfers who purchase a new Exotics XCG or XLD driver.
To find a VariableFit Interchangeable Fitting System location near you, click here .
You must hurry, though, as the offer expires July 31.
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Natalie Gulbis, LPGA player and leggy calendar-girl , announced on June 24 an essay contest .
The theme of the essay is, “Who’s Behind Your Success?” and entries of 200 words or less can be submitted at the link above.
According to RSM McLadrey, the official accounting, tax, and business consulting firm of the PGA of America and the sponsor of the contest, the grand ...
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Natalie Gulbis
Anyone who was at the U.S. Open and paying attention knew something was not right with Tiger’s knee. Now it’s official: He’s done for the season .
According to Tiger’s own website , he needs surgery on a blown ACL and time to heal two stress fractures in his tibia.
I guess when he said that the pain he was experiencing during th Open was different , he ...
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Tiger Woods
Rocco Mediate
The 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines was choc-a-bloc full of drama and character and story lines. But I am left with none of the lingering buzz that appears to affect some of the younger, appletini-drinking writers around here .
Instead, I’ve got a U.S. Open hangover.
And it’s not just that my liver looks like SpongeBob SquarePants, thanks to the open bar and attentive ...
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Tiger Woods
Rocco Mediate
As I stood behind the tee box at the 389-yard 2nd hole at Torrey Pines, I figured Tiger Woods would try to recover from yet another triple bogey on the 1st hole (his third in four rounds), with a safe long iron down the middle of the fairway.
Instead, he pulled driver. When the guy next to me asked what he was hitting driver for, I said he was going to try to hit a big cut, which would ...
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Tiger Woods
Anyone out there remember the 1971 U.S. Open? ( BTuck , you’re excused.)
Chatty, wise-cracking Lee Trevino squared off against the intense, and intensely favored, Jack Nicklaus in an 18-hole playoff.
On the first tee Monday morning, Trevino flipped a rubber snake over onto Jack’s bag as Jack reached for his driver. Trevino’s practical joke cracked up the gallery and ...
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Rocco Mediate
Tiger Woods
Major sporting events in that there are really two events running in parallel: The actual sporting competition, and the see-and-be-seen world of celebrity-rich parties.
The 2008 U.S. Open is no exception, especially in the SoCal setting of La Jolla .
Last night, USGA partner Lexus threw a red-carpet gala at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, celebrating “The Power of h” ...
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Annika Sorenstam
Players have sung the praises of Torrey Pines as a U.S. Open venue.
It’s “tough but fair"—a phrase that seems to be a mantra around here this week.
This said, Torrey Pines has some flaws. And I’m not just saying this to be contrarian .
A couple of examples leap immediately to mind (and land with a sickening thud smack dab on my hypothalamus):
The tee box at ...
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There was a theme that emerged in the media interview room during the post-round interviews over the first few days at this year’s U.S. Open at Torrey Pines:
They like the course and the set-up a lot better than the last few years.
This isn’t saying the course isn’t tough – it is. Take, for example, this comment by Luke Donald:
“The USGA is pretty good ...
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found this 24 days ago on
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Sitting here tippy-typing away in the Lexus Hospitality
tent, I overheard the following from a fellow bloody
Mary aficionado: “After seeing Chi Chi Rodriquez and Johnny Miller up close, I have a whole new respect for these guys.” The comment naturally led me into a small discourse on the difference between golf—and pro golfers—of yesteryear vs. today. Here, I ...
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There is nothing like the weekend at the
U.S. Open . And there never has been anything
like the 2008 U.S. Open, as this is the first time it has ever been held at Torrey Pines. The USGA has begun a trend of awarding Opens to public courses, like Torrey, ever since the success of the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black , the so-called “People’s Open.” The latest good news for ...
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Arriving just past midnight last night in Los Angeles on my way down to La Jolla for the final three days of the U.S. Open, I realized that I have overlooked a critical piece of golf equipment during my stint as Equipment Editor for WorldGolf.com:
My car.
Actually, I realized this as soon as I settled into the soft leather seats of the Lexus LS 600h L hybrid sedan I’m in command ...
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – I’m on my way to board a plane for Los Angeles, where I’ll be picking up a shiny new Lexus hybrid sedan and tooling on down to La Jolla for the final three days of the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines .
The best part? I get to take my father-in-law, Donald Hicks, with me for Father’s Day .
Even better? The current leader at the championship is a guy ...
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Justin Hicks
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found this 28 days ago on
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For people living in the upper Midwest, the
Wisconsin Dells is like the Poconos or Catskills for
those living in the Northeastern seaboard. It’s a huge and, until recently, quite wild and natural network of lakes, rivers, and rocky woodlands. And, within only the last eight years or so, golf courses, water parks, and Indian casinos have sprung up like morels in springtime on the ...
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Chi Chi Rodriguez (and other old-school players) can ...