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OK, I’ve got a bone to pick with some of you. FIX YOUR DANG DIVOTS!!! You know who you are, and the rest of us are not happy with you, mister or missus. I know a golfer who collects divot repair tools. He has an entire wall full of them […]

Davis Love was everybody’s odds-on favorite in the final match of the 2006 Match Play Championship at La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, CA this past weekend. Everybody’s but Geoff Ogilvy, who beat him to win this WGC event that pits the world’s top 64 players against each other. Ogilvy must have felt positively […]

One of the best training aids I ever saw was myself swinging a golf club. You just never truly know what you’re body is doing in key portions of the swing until you can see it on video. What feels like a good move may actually be out of kilter. But if […]

Tiger Woods was able to finish 9 and 8 in a record match against Stephen Ames during the Accenture Match Play Championship. “It’s been a while since I played one like that,” Woods stated.
However the way Woods played was due to earlier comments by Ames who had stated to a reporter from the Golf channel, […]

Golf is not a game that requires great strength or stamina. Let’s face it, any game you can play where they drive beer out to you while you’re playing it isn’t exactly one demanding world-class athleticism! However, there is one physical area where you can greatly improve your ability and lower your scores […]

With a score of 14-under-par 202, Loren Roberts became the first player to win the first three events of the Champions Tour season. Playing at the ACE Group Classic in Naples, Florida, Roberts was tied with Brad Bryant and Don Pooley when they entered the final round.
However, after a birdie at the first at […]

The Nissan Open at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, CA concluded today, with Rory Sabbatini hanging on for the victory by one shot over defending champion Adam Scott. Sabbatini looked at times like he didn’t want to win, but as happens so often, one hole saved his day. In this case, […]

Leafing through an old Golf Digest (April, 2003) the other day, I re-read an article in which Tiger Woods answered some email inquiries he’d gotten over the years. While all the questions and answers were instructive, one stuck out in my mind. A fan asked Tiger how far out he typically used his […]

It is currently being discussed that by 2009, the PGA Tour will bring the Presidents Cup to Harding Park. According to PGA Tour spokesman Bob Combs, “A number of sites have been mentioned inside the PGA Tour, and Harding would be on that list. Harding has proven itself to be a good venue for unique, […]

OK, there’s definitely some bad blood going on between Vijay Singh and Phil Mickelson. Even before last year’s much publicized row over the length of Mickelson’s metal spikes at the Masters and the mess he was leaving on the greens with them, inside sources had been whispering that the two just didn’t like each […]