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Dan's First Masters
Reader Mike Fiechtner writes to give thanks, for, among things, Dan Jenkins' "The First Masters I Covered" piece. I just wanted to let you know that I really appreciated reading your article on golfdigest.com and hearing about your first experience...
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Weighing the value of the $875 paperweight
Phil Monk of Granger, Indiana, takes exception to our characterization of Marty Hackel's gift suggestions in the January issue: "Smart Gifts" must be an acronym for "Some More Awfully Ridiculous Trinkets." I mean, $875 for a paperweight, $185 for driving...
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US Open Contest at 16,000 plus
As the U.S. Open Contest passes 16,000 applicants, the essays take on certain themes. One is, what I'd shoot and how I'd break 100. Our readers have lots of formulas. My favorite is "Bogey, bogey, double bogey; smile & repeat."...
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More Tiger
The talk continues on Tiger and our photos and story about him in the January issue. Besides the comments on this blog, reader Steve Kass of Castle Rock, Colorado, has something to say about Jerry Tarde's references to Tiger in...
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Best New: How it's Done
Reader Virgil Burmaster of Fort Wayne wants to know how we compile the list of Best New courses featured in the January issue. I read with great interest the article in January about all the new and rebuilt courses. My...
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US Open Contest passes 13,000
Our U.S. Open Contest, through which one lucky reader will play Torrey Pines under Open conditions in front TV cameras the weekend before next June's Open, has reached 13,067--a heck of lot of Walter Mittys. One of them is Jeffrey...
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What Was in My Bag
Reader Gil Roy of Keller, TX likes Golf Digest's "What's in My Bag" section, but notices that it sometimes gets upstaged by player deals with equipment manufacturers. It was kind of funny reading your January 2008 edition. Just before reading...
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Travel Woes
Reader Dave Ebmeyer from Marysville, Michigan, is a cynical man. In his darkness, he's cried out to us: Last month I took a trip to Southern California to play golf. I arrived at LAX around 10:30 PM on a Monday...
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The Tale of Muddy Joe
Each Christmas I tell my wife Julie that I don't want any presents, just her okay to take the annual spring buddies golf trip that four of us have been doing for 26 years. It's a wonderful gift and fortunately...
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Too Much Tiger?
We continue to get lots of comment about the Tiger cover photo and story in the January issue. V.J. Meyers of Woodbridge, Illinois, agrees with some other writers about Walter Iooss, Jr.'s photo: Just to let you know that I...
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