Now that Michelle Wie has withdrawn from the final event of the 2009 LPGA Season due to a worsening ankle injury, it is a good time for evaluation. The problem most people face in doing so, however, is dealing with ...
While the Monterey Peninsula and Southern California area enjoy a reputation for fine golf, often overlooked is the central coast of California.
It?s a little tougher to get to, but it?s well worth it if Monarch Dunes Golf in Nipomo is ...
The International Association of Golf Tour Operators are in Malaga, Spain for their tourism conference, and last night they voted Orlando as the Top North American Golf Destination for 2010.
Get beyond Disney World, Wet ?n Wild and those funky ...
I?ve been told I?m part Irish and that the Deegan name is a big Irish name.
Maybe it?s my turn to write a book about how a golfer goes back to Ireland to play golf. Oh, and maybe I?ll look ...
Everyone in the world of golf has to be happy Michelle Wie has her first LPGA win. Playing in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico, Wie, Creamer, Shin and Kerr created great theater right up to the final day, all ...
Not since man first came up with the idea to hit a ball with a stick until it?s in a hole has the golf world had a bigger, more important day than yesterday. Yes, on one epic Sunday, both Tiger ...
http://www.GolfMadeSimple.com #1 You don?t practice enough
Do you need to practice your golf swing in order to improve? This is an often asked, yet excellent question. So to give you an answer, I?d like to use an analogy to make ...
Not since ?Yeah, wanna make 14 bucks the hard way? have I wanted to type those three tantalizing words: the hard way. WELL, all things come to an end.
I cannot confirm nor deny (since I am ...
A few days ago, I received an e-mail from golf author Bob Thomas?s wife, Mary Anne. She informed me that Bob had had a major stroke about 11 weeks ago. Bob is on his way to what is hoped to ...
I hope the grip and posture review last week was helpful for your golf swing. This week will be a golf lesson on aim and ball position.
The video below will explain how aim isn?t as easy as it sounds and ...
To date, Natalie Gulbis has won only once on the LPGA Tour - the 2007 Evian Masters. She was wielding a uniquely effective putter that week, a flat stick she used not only in that lone victory, but also in ...
A release just hit my desk announcing nominees for this year?s Golf Tourism Scotland?s Gold Standard Awards. The nominees for Golf Course of the Year are:
Ailsa Course at Turnberry
Balcomie Links (Crail)
Castle Stuart Golf Links (Inverness)
Duke?s Course (St Andrews)
Kingsbarns Golf Links
Muirfield
North ...
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In this week?s podcast, host Dave Berner talks to Dr. Mac Powell, the dean of the National University Golf Academy in Carlsbad, Calif., about using movie-making techniques to help improve ...
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Similarities between Lorena Ochoa and Tiger Woods have become all too evident this year. Both are certainly not showing their stripes as best golfer of the LPGA and PGA Tour although each have done justice to their ...
Y.E. Yang came from behind to upset Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship Sunday. It was the 37-year-old Yang?s first major, and the first by an Asian-born golfer ?
?This might be my last win as a golfer,? Yang, who ...
Take a look at one of Las Vegas? top golf courses for players of all handicaps, Siena Golf Club. As you will see I fail to take Head Professional Gerry Montiel?s advice on the 16th hole.
We live in a fast paced, muti-tasking society. We eat in front of the TV, we text while in the grocery store, we email while having a conversation with someone across the room. Geezzzz?talk about attention deficit disorder! ...
David Feherty, golf analyst and my personal favorite funnyman, is finding himself in a tub o? hot water due to his latest column written for a Dallas local magazine, opining on his new neighbors, George and Laura Bush.
The line ...
Look, regardless of what kind of golf clubs you think Nike makes, just having Tiger Woods endorse your products guarantees a large number of sales. But Nike has done wonders with its new SQ Dymo2 STR8-FIT driver as it tries ...
It?s good to see that the historic presidential victory of Barack Obama is being placed in the proper prospective. On sports talk radio in Northern California the day after that meant hosts and callers alike asking, ?If Barack Obama can ...
For a while there, it was hard to keep up with all the new golf courses. Golf course development was running wild, just like new houses.
Not now, of course. Golf course developers are cutting back on building new courses and ...
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Though often overlooked, Massachusetts is a little state with a big-time golf reputation, including host to some of the decade?s most memorable golf events.
Host Ben Larsen highlights the golf courses and many prestigious Massachusetts golf events ...
It is with much sadness that I report the news that TravelGolf.com blogger Cheap Bastard has apparently perished, after the boat he was traveling on to Zimbabwe was attacked by pirates.
Cheap Bastard, whose real name was Percy Ramirez-Epstein, reportedly stowed ...
The Cheap Bastard is in a pickle. A really big pickle (obviously). After years of giving of myself, management now wants more. ?Where are the great deals you promised,? they asked. ?Why don?t you post more,? they scream. ?If we ...
It may seem like a fluke that Trevor Immelman won the Master?s, but it just didn?t happen by accident ?
I was talking with some friends of mine about the Master?s and one of them said to me ?who is this ...
The golf business measured by numbers of players, rounds played, and equipment sold could be generously described as flat. Why the slowdown in the game?s growth and where is it headed?
First of all, the good news? ?Baby Boomers? and ...
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Katherine Dyson takes another look at a great combination - golf and spas - this time east of the Mississippi. From special massages and body wraps to Olympic-size swimming pools and fitness classes, resorts in the eastern states have no shortage of options for recreation and relaxation. Better yet, all this indulgence takes place within a chip shot of some world-class golf courses.
Ranking among the "best of" selections in several golf magazines, Grand Bear Golf Course in Saucier, Miss. is a kindler, gentler Jack Nicklaus design, with just the right amount of teeth, Katherine Dyson writes. Just 40 minutes from Biloxi, Grand Bear has everything you'd expect in the wilds of the deep South - cypress wetlands, live oaks, aged magnolias, and gum trees - as well as all the doglegs and bunkers that make a Nicklaus track so much fun.
The venerable TPC Sawgrass, home to perhaps the most famous par 3 in the world, is among seven golf resorts to make the 2010 list of the Readers' Choice Rankings: The Top 50 Resort Courses among the readers of Golf Digest and Golf World magazines. Florida ranked second among U.S. states, only behind Hawaii, which placed eight resorts on the list.
So your golf group has finally decided on Ireland for your golf trip next year. Now the real fun begins, deciding between Ireland's top two pockets of links courses: southwest Ireland or Northern Ireland. Both region's top five are as good as you'll find in the British Isles and Ireland. I've done the tour of both now in the last couple years, and the golf experience for the visitor in each is spectacular but a bit different for a variety of reasons.
Like paying for so many other things, finding an affordable golf course in Ireland is simply a matter of shopping around. Thanks to widely varying green fees, Brandon Tucker writes, you can play some fine links golf venues for less than $100 on the Emerald Isle. While these courses are sometimes less trafficked than their more famous counterparts, that doesn't mean you won't find stunning vistas, rich Old World history, and plenty of challenge for your buck.
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Arthur Hills Course at Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort in Hilton Head, S.C.
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Jones course at Palmetto Dunes Resort - Hilton Head Island, S.C.
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Bay Harbor Golf Club is still king in Northern Michigan
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Caribbean Resort & Villas: Raising the bar for golfers in Myrtle Beach
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The Golf Club at Ballantyne in Charlotte, N.C. gets high marks for redo
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Crescent Pointe Golf Club in Bluffton, South Carolina: An Arnold Palmer gauntlet
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A guide to golf in Ayrshire, Scotland, birthplace of the Open Championship
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Forget football: Five must-play golf courses near Athens, Georgia
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Where to golf, what to see in San Francisco during the Presidents Cup
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Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge Golf Course in Jasper, Canada
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When and when not to be a Rules Nazi on the golf course
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Traditional doesn't always mean old: Five standard bearers in Colorado golf
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Ten years later: Bandon Dunes holds its own as the resort's flagship golf course
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Going West? These resorts combine combine the best spa and golf experiences
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Silvertip Golf Resort in Alberta: Roller coaster golf in the Canadian Rockies
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Bandon Dunes Golf Resort turns back the clock with the new Old Macdonald course
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The Wisconsin Dells: Family fun meets great golf in the upper Midwest
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Heavy Putter comes through with heavy match on the line (but it doesn't do dishes)
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Best of golf and Lyon in France's Rhone-Alps region
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CommonGround Golf Course near Denver: Affordable golf geared to grow the game
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Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai: China's "secluded little world" of golf
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