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Golf is good for you, sort of
Here's the scoop: Playing golf while walking prolongs your life. On the other hand, it messes up your swing. At least that's what two separate studies announced over the past few days suggest. The first study of Swedish golfers, published...
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Slow Play
Fred Brattain of Corona, California, has been following the slow-play debate on the tours, reported on by Jaime Diaz earlier this month in Golf World. Having played a three-hour round (walking) myself this morning and then heard from a friend...
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More Fields on W's Golf
Not since our ill-fated change of type size has anything riled Golf World readers like Bill Fields' column on Pres. Bush's decision to quit playing golf during the war. (At least you could read this one). His piece--and Geoff Russell's...
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Tiger's Knee
Terry Smail of Seattle, who has had a little experience in the area, writes about Tiger's knee. I am very worriedâ¿¿about Tiger's left knee. I've had 10 knee operations—5 'open' procedures including a total knee replacement two years ago and...
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Fields on W's Golf, cont'd
The letters continue to arrive in response Bill Fields' column about President George W. Bush's decision to stop playing golf during the Iraq War, "Golf a casualty when war of words heats up," in the May 23 issue. They also...
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Memorial Day
Golf Digest Rankings Editor Topsy Siderowf received a letter from Iraq this week reporting on your response to our April appeal to send equipment to the troops there. This letter and Len Shapiro's moving piece in the latest Golf World,...
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Fields on W's Golf
I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal. President George W. Bush Whether George W. Bush played golf or not throughout his presidency while his war raged—CBS News says his last round was nearly two months...
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US Open Contest and Torrey Pines Slope
"You're really doing this? He's going to play the Open course? He won't be able to think straight...Tour pros can shoot in the 80s on an Open course. What does that say for a 7-handicap?" Padraig Harrington Actually, our U.S....
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Is Equitable Stroke Control Equitable?
For Tim Fulton of Davie, Florida, the U.S. Open Contest, and Guy Yocom's June-issue story in Golf Digest on what constitutes a 10-handicapper, unearthed a great deal of resentment about the USGA Handicap system. After reading “What is a 10-handicapper?”,...
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What is a 10 Handicapper?
When the Golf Digest U.S. Open Challenge is played at Torrey Pines on the eve of the U.S. Open, we'll see a test that is perfect in scale. A 10-handicapper trying to break 100 at Torrey, in front of a...
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