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July 14, 2013
Lefty On The Loch
Phil Mickelson missed the cut in last week’s Greenbrier Championship before traveling to Scotland this week to play the Scottish Open, largely in preparation for next week’s Open Championship. The Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open at Castle Stuart Golf Links was a picture of serenity for the first 3 rounds, while players took advantage of […]
July 12, 2013
The Front 9-Edition 4
1. 77 year old legend and nine- time Major Champion Gary Player has just posed in the nude. Twice. Player can be seen, literally, in this month’s edition of ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue,” which this year features two golfers completely nude. The other golfer in the buff is 21-year-old Carly Booth, who plays on […]
July 11, 2013
The Alisal Guest Ranch and Resort partners with the Bird Golf Academy to be the exclusive site for Bird Golf’s Santa Barbara Golf Schools
The Alisal Guest Ranch and Resort, California’s premier Guest Ranch and Resort, and The Bird Golf Academy, universally recognized by their Registered Trademark “The Ultimate Golf Learning Experience®”, today announced their new five year partnership. The Alisal has become the exclusive Santa Barbara area site for the Bird Golf Academy, the nation’s leading golf school, […]
July 11, 2013
Linda Van De Water
Two Amazing Accomplishments in One Day! On Wednesday July 10, Judge Linda Van De Water did two remarkable things in one day, she had a hole in one, and shot her best ever round! Here is how it happened, in her words: “I give Shirley (her teacher, Shirley Furlong) all the credit for my new […]
July 1, 2013
“It’s Scary To Think What Else I Can Do”
So said Inbee Park after winning the US Women’s Open at Sebonack GC in Long Island today when she was asked about her future. This is Park’s third Major Championship win in a row which already puts her in exalted company. The only other female golfer to do this was Babe Didrikson Zaharias in 1950. […]
June 23, 2013
The Back 9-Edition 3
1. Ernie Els won his 28th European Tour event on Sunday at the BMW International Open. After opening with a first round 63, the 43 year Els shot three consecutive 3-under 69’s to finish at 18-under par for the event, besting runner-up Thomas Bjorn by one shot. 2. Tiger Woods has withdrawn from next week’s […]
June 16, 2013
Coming Up Roses
They said that Merion was past its time as a Major Championship venue. They said that the modern day player would be playing pitch and putt on the venerable old lady that has been host to 18 USGA Championships which is more than any other course in the country. They predicted that all manner of […]
June 9, 2013
The Front 9-Edition 2
1. Despite a disastrous quadruple bogey 7 on the par 3 11th hole in Saturday’s third round of the St. Jude Classic, PGA Tour rookie, Shawn Stefani, birdied 4 of his last 5 holes to shoot a 66 and lead the tournament. Very few players can recover from a setback like that and to do […]
June 8, 2013
“I’ll Play My Way In”
After the first two rounds of the weather delayed Wegmans LPGA Championship, 49 year old Laura Davies, is tied for 14th place six shots behind leader, Morgan Pressel. A long-shot at best to win the season’s second Major Championship, it would none the less be the perfect twilight ending for the most distinguished lady from […]
June 6, 2013
Bird Golf Academy Announces 5 Year Partnership with Foxfire Resort & Golf Club in Pinehurst, North Carolina
Foxfire Resort and Golf Club, a 36-hole Championship Golf facility located in Pinehurst, North Carolina, and The Bird Golf Academy, the world leader in private golf schools, today announced a five year partnership. Bird Golf Academy has 19 locations across the United States in California, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Minnesota, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and now for the first time, in North Carolina.
June 2, 2013
The Back 9-Edition 2
1. Tiger Woods barely made the cut at The Memorial (an event he has won 5 times) and then started his third round on the back 9. Woods shot his highest ever 9 hole score in competition; a 44. Perhaps his “new swing” is not quite finished yet. 2. Michelle Wie-remember her? Wie was actually […]
May 27, 2013
The Front 9
Boo hoo. Boo Weekley won the PGA Tour’s Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial yesterday to register his third career win and first since 2008. The absolute best ‘quote’ on the PGA Tour, who will always tell you exactly what is on his mind, Weekley’s welcome return to the winners circle is a blessing for golf […]
