Results for June 2009
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Tiger deflects Jim Brown's critcism
Football legend Jim Brown recently was interviewed on the HBO show "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" and criticized Tiger Woods for his lack of social activism. "You know what's so interesting about Tiger to me?" Brown said. "He is a killer, he will run over you, he will kick your (bleep). But as an individual for social change? Terrible. Terrible....
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Feinstein recovering from bypass surgery
Prolific author and Golf Digest contributing editor John Feinstein underwent successful heart bypass surgery on Monday "and is recovering well," according to an update on his website, feinsteinonthebrink.com. In a Sunday blog post, Feinstein announced that he was undergoing surgery the following morning. He said that an angiogram late last week revealed “'four to six,' blockages in my heart—one of...
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Finchem says the tour intends to implement new groove rule on schedule in 2010
PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem abruptly ended questions about implementing the U.S. Golf Association’s new groove rule in 2010 with a single sentence during a teleconference Tuesday afternoon.“It is our intention to move ahead and utilize the condition starting on Jan. 1, 2010,” Finchem said. The announcement came after a meeting of the PGA Tour Policy Board, which Finchem said...
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Aaron Stewart at Pinehurst: A good walk embraced
Aaron Stewart today will play Pinehurst No. 2, the course on which his late father Payne won his last tournament, the U.S. Open, a decade ago, and it is a round from which he has no intention of shying. Stewart is there to play in the North & South Amateur, and he will employ the same caddie with whom his...
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Just wondering...
...whether two holes at Augusta National ultimately will keep Kenny Perry from the World Golf Hall of Fame. Perry, whose victory in the Travelers Championship on Sunday was the 14th of his career, would have remained a Hall of Fame long shot even had he parred either the 71st or 72nd hole at Augusta and won the Masters in April....
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Norman is Australia's richest celebrity
So says Smart Company, an Australia-based company that calls itself "an online news and resource site for entrepreneurs." Apparently Norman's divorce settlement of $103 million a year ago was only a momentary setback, his net worth having increased in the last 12 months by $123 million (to $377 million). It puts him $39 million ahead of the second richest celebrity...
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Poetic license with Obama's tee parties
President Obama was on the golf course again on Sunday, and we'll leave it to others to decide whether he ought to be teeing it up so often with the world in turmoil. But one pundit, Asher Embry, has taken notice. Embry, a frequent contributor to The American Spectator, has taken to weighing in politically in verse. Here's his Sunday...
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John Daly: It's not a comeback yet
John Daly does seem somewhat dedicated to resurrecting a career gone awry, to wit the weight loss and the newfound patience he has shown when his golf is uncooperative, the latter evident by the fact that he hasn't withdrawn from a tournament in more than a year. The w/d once was a staple on Daly's resume. The fact that he...
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Ryo earns British Open berth
Ryo Ishikawa, the Japanese star who has yet to do anything on the international stage to warrant such billing, nonetheless has earned a spot in the British Open next month by winning the Japan Golf Tour's Mizuno Open. Ishikawa, 17, had missed the cut in three of four PGA Tour starts, and finished 71st in the other, the Transitions Championship....
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Player takes another exclusionary club to task
Gary Player was among the first to speak out against Augusta National's membership policy that excludes women, so it should have come as no surprise to the hierarchy at Muirfield that he disagrees with the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers' similar men-only policy. Yet it apparently caught club secretary Alastair Brown off guard when Player spoke out against Muirfield's policy,...
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