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Golf and Drugs
The subject of drugs and drug-testing, subject of recent reports by Matt Rudy for Golf Digest and Ron Sirak for Golf World, came up again Tuesday at Peter Dawson's press conference--where Dawson announced that the R&A would not begin testing...
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Dan Jenkins
Reader Gary McCormick of San Jose, California, writes lovingly of Dan Jenkins. Dear Mr. Jenkins, I just learned that you have a new book coming out. I have pre-ordered "The Franchise Babe" and am counting the days 'til it hits...
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How Green is Golf, cont'd
Dick Carver of Clifton, Virginia, is another reader who takes exception to our "How Green is Golf?" package. He brings up a provocative piece by Patrick Michaels in the Wall Street Journal. I have been a golfer since I was...
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How Green is Golf, cont'd
Ontario, Canada, reader Cam Pettit writes with an interesting idea, inspired by his reading of the Jay Feldman and Mike Hurdzan interviews in John Barton's How Green is Golf ? article in the May issue. Feldman, who directs Beyond Pesticides...
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U.S. Open Contest Voting Hits 100,000
Without about a week to go in the voting, our U.S. Open contest has surpassed 100,000 ballots. The contest will give one of five finalists--selected from almost 60,000 entrants--the opportunity to play Torrey Pines just days before the U.S. Open,...
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How Green is Golf, cont'd
It was beginning to look like our readership was a whole lot more intransigent on environmental issues than we thought--previous posts and responses on the subject here--but a poll this week on our web site suggests otherwise. We asked: In...
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Masters Lost Its Roar? cont'd
Just when we'd thought we made a convincing case that new course conditions at Augusta, given the right weather, will produce the requisite scores and roars, here comes a letter from Mick Herron, Director of Golf and General Manager at...
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Has the Masters Lost Its Roar?
Some of us thought perhaps we'd watched a different tournament when post-Masters reports called the it boring and decried the loss of roars post course-alteration. Players--Tiger included--were happy to cooperate with these reports, calling the course just "too tough" and...
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US Open Contest Finalists
I love this letter from Stewart Thomson of Newport Beach, California. In it he reports on a pre-test of the whole US Open contest: Can a 10-handicap golfer break 100 on the Open course under Open conditions? Like several contestants...
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How Green is Golf, cont'd
Interesting note from Michael Morris of Santa Rosa on the How Green is Golf? story by John Barton in the May issue. The story has generated tons of comment, much of it suprisingly negative, but Michael supports one of our...
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