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LPGA Championship & tribute to Mary Mills
2008-06-05 17:55:00 Today is the first day of the year?s second LPGA Major Championship , the McDonald?s LPGA Championship. It would also be an appropriate time to salute our very own, Mary Mills. Mary is a two-time winner of the LPGA?s second oldest, Major Championship. When Mary became the second youngest winner of the tournament in 1964, she beat ... More About: Golf , Tribute
Questions that keep???
2008-06-02 01:05:00 The Sunday Manifesto (random thoughts keep finding their way back): Why doesn?t Karrie Webb win every tournament she plays in? (in our humble opinion, she has the best golf swing, male or female). When will Justin Rose finally win a tour event in the US? Is there a streakier player than Kenny Perry? Is ?streakier? a word? Will the winning ... More About: Questions , Golf
Call me Old Fashioned
2008-05-29 01:10:00 Arnold Palmer said 5 years ago, that money could ruin the game. At the time, I didn?t think that the ?King? was accurate with that quote. It may be that he was spot on. One of the endearing and special attributes of this great game, is that it demands ?old fashioned values?. Manners, if you will. ... More About: Golf , Call , Old Fashioned
Not so fast, Annika
2008-05-14 17:44:00 Annika Sorenstam announced her retirement (at the end of this year) from competitive golf, yesterday. Kind of. She has left the door open for a ?return? in a year or two. True to her meticulous nature, this has been something that she has been thinking about and planning for quite some time. Sorenstam has a great ... More About: Golf , Fast
The Grown Up Garcia
2008-05-12 16:31:00 On a course that often times rewards the best ball strikers; the world?s second best ball striker came through; finally. Sergio Garcia is the 2008 Players Champion and that ?thud? that you just heard is the sound of a very large monkey jumping off the brilliant Spaniard?s back. Garcia has been agonizingly close to wining big ... More About: Golf , Grown
The Island Green
2008-05-10 01:38:00 It plays 137 yards from the back tees and may well be the hardest hole in golf. But is it golf? The 17th. hole at the TPC Sawgrass is a great ?spectator? hole; and think that ?Nascar? (people who are always waiting to see a good wreck) fans embrace it because of all the things that ... More About: Golf , Green , Island
Youth is Served
2008-05-05 16:47:00 Two formidable young players won Tour events yesterday. On the PGA Tour, Anthony Kim broke through for his first win (we, as well as many others, have predicted a huge future for this young man). Kim is 22 years old and has the makings of a star. He is very long, hits a lot of ... More About: Golf , Youth
Why Golf is??..
2008-04-27 17:46:00 So special. Darren Clarke, just sunk a 40 foot putt on the last hole of regulation play, to win the Asian Open by a shot, claiming his first European Tour victory in nearly five years. Two years ago, Clarke?s wife, Heather, lost her battle with cancer and Clarke has had to overcome a great many ... More About: Golf
The courage to be ?Different?
2008-04-23 00:12:00 Throughout the history of the game, all the greatest players have had ?swing quirks? that might not be ordinarily taught. The commonality, of all great players, though, is that they do the same thing, every time (and this is the lesson that we can all learn from them). They understand their weaknesses but play to ... More About: Golf
The Masters- A Tale of Two Styles
2008-04-14 19:31:00 As usual, The Masters , was gripping theater. It is golf?s center stage and as such can reveal so much about its participants. 2008 produced a very worthy winner in South African, Trevor Immelman. The 28 year old Immelman, who has carried that ?can?t miss? tag for 10 years, may indeed be the young player that ... More About: Golf , Styles , Tale , The Masters
Sunday at The Mastsers
2008-04-13 16:02:00 Sunday at Augusta. The best day in tournament golf, of the year. This year should prove no exception. There are several reasons why The Masters is such thrilling theater. Most poignant, is that the players have to be so exact with their shots that on any given hole, they can make a birdie or a double ... More About: Golf , Sunday
The Golden Era Of Golf
2008-04-08 02:21:00 We are in a magical era of Golf . Lorena Ochoa dominated the Kraft Nabisco Championship and won her second consecutive Major by 5 shots. One more win (which could come fittingly next week in her home country of Mexico) and she will be in the LPGA Golf Hall of Fame. Lorena is going to be ... More About: Golden
Streaks
2008-03-24 18:05:00 It had to come to an end. All things do. There were ?two streaks? that ended this week and both deserve our reverence. The first one, that you will immediately be aware of, is Tiger?s latest streak of winning 6 PGA Tour events, in a row. Tiger finished two strokes behind, Geoff Ogilvy at the CA ... More About: Golf
A new word; for Mr. Woods
2008-03-17 20:17:00 Was there any doubt? Tiger, yesterday, on the 18th. hole at Bay Hill, was faced with a 28 foot put (which broke some four feet from left to right), to win the tournament. Tiger had not made a putt over 18 feet long, on any of the previous 71 holes he had played (in fact ... More About: Golf , Word , Woods
OR ELS?..
2008-03-06 00:47:00 ?The Big Easy?, Ernie Els returned to the winners circle last week in Florida. Ernie had not won a PGA Tour event in four years. For a player of his caliber (and were it not for one Eldrick Woods, Els would have 7 or 8 Majors to his name by now), four years between wins ... More About: Golf
SHARON MILLER
2008-02-22 20:06:00 SHARON MILLER: was yesterday elected to the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame; CONGRATULATIONS! We are all so very proud of you! I first met Sharon ten years ago. She didn?t have any reason to know who I was, but I most certainly had read about and knew of her. On that Colorado afternoon, I just watched ... More About: Miller
NEW STARS FOR 2008
2008-02-20 01:15:00 In the last few weeks the cream of the crop has definitely risen to the top. Tiger won his first PGA tour start at Torrey Pines (where the US Open will be held later this year) and Anika won her first LPGA Tour event in more than a year, in Hawaii. Have there ever been ... More About: Stars , Golf , 2008
2008 POLL
2008-02-07 00:44:00 Greetings fellow golfers! I hope that you have wintered well, and that those of you living in the colder reaches of the world, will be enjoying Spring conditions soon! After a Winter hibernation, we are back to the Blog; so thought it might be interesting to start things out with a poll. Which of the following predictions ... More About: Golf , Poll , 2008
Winterize your golf game
2007-10-18 16:25:00 As winter approaches and you find your golf season coming to a close; here are a few tips, on how to winterize your golf game. EXERCISE. Without question the best way to increase flexibility (which will make your swing faster and thereby let you hit the ball, further) is to do stretching exercises. The best form ... More About: Golf , Game
PEGGY CHAPIN
2007-10-06 14:34:00 Peggy Chapin has been the Director of Golf , at Wild Horse Pass (Whirlwind) for the last 5 years. I first met Peggy a year and a half ago and in the intervening months have had the great pleasure to come to know Peggy. Often times, we label people, ?great? because of their fame as a ...
Lefty and Tiger; is a rivalry born?
2007-09-04 16:34:00 Phil Mickelson has, perhaps, as much talent as Tiger Woods. He is the only golfer in the world that you can say that about. Now, perhaps, he has, or is developing, the mental strength to be able to compete on Tiger?s level. After the second round of the Deutsche Bank Classic (Tiger and Phil had been ... More About: Golf , Riva
?The FedEX Thingy?
2007-08-29 16:47:00 That is how Ernie Els describes the inaugural FedEx Cup on the PGA Tour. I have to agree with the Big Easy. This hasn?t got me fired up, either. The whole idea of the FedEx Cup was, ala Nascar, to generate more interest in PGA Tour events in the latter part of the year. The ... More About: Golf , The Fed
What all great golfers have in common
2007-08-26 18:04:00 Although, in the modern era of golf, you will see many more swings that look alike, all the great players have idiosyncrasies that make their swings unique. There are myriad reasons for that. Most players have different coaches and therefore different ?swing models?. Their genetics; i.e. tall or short, thin or heavy-set, long arms, short ... More About: Golf , Great , Common
Why Tiger is the GOAT
2007-08-15 23:17:00 G. Greatest O. Of A. All T. Time He works harder than anyone else on his swing. It would be very easy to be the best at the world, at something, and become complacent. Tiger believes that he can always do better. Raymond ... More About: Golf , The Go , The G
OLE, OCHOA!
2007-08-06 16:33:00 Lorena Ochoa won her first Major Championship at the Women?s British Open, this weekend. Like, Padraig Harrington, who won the Men?s Championship, two weeks ago, there could not be a more deserving winner. Lorena has had several chances to win a Major, and up until now, has fallen short. Those ?failures?, only heightened the pressure ... More About: Golf
Irish Eyes
2007-07-24 02:40:00 Are smiling. I cannot remember a more deserving winner of a Major Championship, than Padraig Harrington. Once again, Carnoustie gave us splendid theater. Garcia, held a three shot lead at the beginning of the day, but by the time he had played the front 9, there were 14 players within three strokes of the lead, ... More About: Eyes , Golf , Irish
SEVE
2007-07-19 18:49:00 Seve Ballesteros announced his retirement from competitive golf yesterday, at the site of this year?s British Open, Carnoustie. Seve played his first Open Championship at Carnoustie, in 1975. His, was and is, an amazing story. One of eleven children, he started caddying at age 11, to help support his family. By the time he was ... More About: Golf
It?s not ?..
2007-07-09 16:46:00 Whether you win or lose; but how you play the game. One of my golf heroes, showed his mortality, yesterday. Tom Watson had the US Senior Open in his grasp until the 11th. hole at Whistling Straights, where he made a double bogey-7, and then folded like a house of cards. It was hard to watch. ... More About: Golf
Youth is served
2007-07-01 19:39:00 There were 25 teenagers at the US Women?s Open at Pine Needles. 25. Including, 12 year old Alexis Thompson, who played well but did not make the cut. 12 years old; WOW. To have qualified at that age is a remarkable achievement. Let’s hope that Alexis gets to enjoy her life as a teenager (and ... More About: Golf , Youth , Serve
A Star is born
More articles from this author:2007-06-24 15:23:00 This wonderful account comes to us from one of our fantastic students; Andrea Bodnar. Andrea recently played in the Pro-Am for the Canadian Skins game in which, John Daly, Retief Goosen, Stephen Ames, Geoff Ogilvy and Colin Montgomerie participated. Andrea has made huge strides with her game (she has worked with both Tim Peightal ... More About: Golf , Star 1, 2, 3 |
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