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Golf's Distance Debate: Whitten Respoonds
A couple of days ago Dave Reinhardt, a Florida club professional, wrote to complain about comments by Sandy Tatum in Ron Whitten's Lido Competition story about "unfortunate" increases distance off the tee. Reader Reindhardt said, in effect, what's the big...
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LPGA English Policy: Another View
From our carmudgeonly Wisconsin correspondent, Dave Riffey, comes this brief but heartfelt note on the new LPGA policy requiring players to speak a modicum of English. I duplicate the all-caps, not the scarlet letters: LPGA: DON'T BACK DOWN !! YOU...
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Golf's Distance Debate
PGA Professional Dave Reinhardt of Jacksonville, FL, has had it with the hand-wringing over the distance players hit the ball today. Golf World's story on the Lido architectural competition by Ron Whitten, quoting Sandy Tatum, bugged him: I finally got...
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LPGA English Policy: Fast Response
It took no time for us to get our first response to the LPGA's new English language policy, which will require that LPGA players speak enough English to conduct interviews. Jennifer Morrow is an English teacher from Indiana: I was...
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Tiger's Knee
With Tiger Woods acknowledging yesterday that his recovery from knee surgery has been frustrating, adding that he hopes to be hitting balls by the beginning of the year, this letter from Texas physical therapist Randy Nutt is somewhat sobering. Nutt...
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In Praise of Sergio Garcia
We gets lots of letters complaining about Sergio Garcia's inability to win--or inability to lose graciously. (Although we thought he did much better at the latter yesterday). But we also occasionally, only occasionally, get letters like this one from Austin...
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Golf in China
With the emphasis these past two weeks on China, George Kiefer of Tucson, who just returned, writes in reaction to John Barton's China feature in the August issue of Golf Digest. Upon returning from teaching in China just last week...
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Our PGA Championship Coverage
Maybe it's all that Olympic judging, but Golf World readers took the opportunity this week to grade our PGA Championship coverage. Not sure we medaled. Here's Rick Barnes of Downey, California: TV Rewind stated the PGA was the best theater...
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Beginner's Take on the Cost of Golf
We talk a lot in the magazine and on this blog about bringing new players into the game--and the obstacles to keeping them. But we don't hear often from those new golfers themselves. Here's Clinton Hotchkiss of Yonkers, New York:...
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Leaning "No" on Zinger
The Ryder Cup sniping has begun. The problem is, it's not all trans-Atlantic. Mike McAlpine of Lousiana, an American state, finds serious fault with U.S. Captain Paul Azinger's comments in our September issue. Sure hope I'm the only one, but...
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