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I spent a couple hours yesterday watching the PGA Mercedes Championship. One of the first things I noticed was how large some of the greens are on the Plantation Course in Maui, Hawaii.
The good thing about larger greens is that it’s easier for those pros to get their ball on the green - given such […]

ESPN has released its PGA Tour Predictions for 2006 on its website. The panel consists of Bob Harig (ESPN.com), Jason Sobel (ESPN.com), Ron Sirak (Golf World), and Brian Wacker (GolfDigest.com) giving their predictions on who they feel is favored to be Player of the Year, the Comeback Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year, […]

Well the PGA Tour is set to get underway starting tomorrow at the Mercedes-Benz Championships at Hawaii’s Kapalua Resort, with at least four of its top players who will not be attending. At the start on Thursday, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Retief Goosen, and Padraig Harrington have sent their regrets that they will not be […]

According to an unnamed source in an article appearing on usatoday.com, ABC stated that it has lost money on golf and has not signed up to be part of the PGA tour new television contract for next year, when the tour’s contract expires at the end of this year.
This will leave the two other […]

Three tournaments on the PGA Tour have had Tuesday Pro-Ams: The Tour Championship, Jack Nicklaus’s Memorial, and Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Invitational. Starting in 2006, they will all change to the traditional Wednesday Pro-Am schedule that all other tournaments use.
The reason involves player commitments. Many pros plot out the entire year in advance, including […]

The PGA of America has announced that it has teemed up once again with USA Today to provide a Golf Equipment Hotline during January 26-29, 2006.
The Golf Equipment Hotline will allow golfers to call in and receive tips and advice about selecting the right golfing equipment from PGA professionals, and it is being help […]

Last week the PGA announced the names of the recent 13 graduates from their Certified Professional Program.
Currently there are another 80 people who have completed the program and obtained certification.
According to George Ancuta, who completed the program, “The PGA Certified Professional Program allows for easy access to a lot of functional information, and […]

Monday, I made a short post about Woods going for the PGA Tour Grand Slam after winning the Dunlop Phoenix Tournament. He won that tournament today, by a commanding five strokes, for the second straight year. This will probably be the last successive Grand Slam in Kauai Hawaii, although it may return for a year […]

Old news, I know. Tiger Woods won the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan last weekend. He stepped it up in the final stretch and came out a winner.
After that, it appeared that he might not be playing in the Grand Slam of Golf due to either his ankle, which he twisted on a tee shot, […]

A story just came in at Yahoo News that the Grand Slam of Golf, which has been played in Kauai Hawaii since 1991, may be relocating in the future. The plan is to allow other cities to get a piece of the action.
A number of locations, including Las Vegas and the Caribbean, have expressed interest […]