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Lettermakers of the Year III
Ranking No. 5 in the Lettermakers of the Year Awards, based very roughly on Golf World's Newsmakers of the Year issue--terrific this year and very much worth your while--is Readers Editing Editors. If I really wanted to embarrass us, I'd...
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Lettermakers of the Year II
Michelle Wie, from tragic to triumphant, has to be one of our Lettermakers of the Year. We'll make her No. 4. Gene Martineau, a frequent correspondent, may have said it most aptly in his latest (very succinct) email: Dear Editor,...
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Not this reader's environment
Golf Digest's environmental stories in December, which included a story on water conservation by David Owen and an interview with Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Friedman, did not impress reader Ross Hatcher. Dear Editor, Enough with the global warming articles already!...
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Jenkins on the '09 major winners
Golf Digest reader Mike Powers from Georgia is the first one to take exception to Dan Jenkins' account of this year's major winners. I expect he won't be the last, because Jenkins suggests that the "wrong" guys won.... Dear Editor,...
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Money List Fix ?
Money is the root of all golf tours and money lists, the ultimate measure of a player's season, other points calculations notwithstanding. Here's an interesting idea from a Golf World reader on a revision of the present money list calculation....
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Masters and NASCAR-- Oh, that's why...
Perhaps we're a bit golf-centric here at Golf World and Golf Digest. At least one reader thinks so. Dear Editor, I had to laugh about you thinking NASCAR didn’t want to go up against Masters Sunday (Golf World, Bunker News)....
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Lettermakers of the Year I
Golf World is about to publish it's http://www.golfdigest.com/golfworld/columnists/2009/11/golf_newsmakers_title issue. Look for it this week, it's terrific. To honor that important issue, I offer the first annual Lettermakers of the Year series of posts, beginning with our Top 3 letter-making subjects...
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Patriot Golf Day--a big success
Around Labor Day we talked here about Maj. Dan Rooney's Patriot Golf Day, supported by the PGA of America, which seems to be doing a lot of good things these days. Makes sense around Veteran's Day to report the results...
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More Tiger v. Jack (style-wise)
This question of whether Tiger Woods "showboats" more than Jack Nicklaus--the subject of letters here and in the Mail column of Golf World--caused two more readers to weigh in, both in support of Tiger and in opposition to letter writer...
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Tiger vs. Jack (style-wise)
Alas, another letter reminding us aging editors, that we're dinosaurs, believing, as the old coach said, that athletes ought to act "as if they've been there before." How about you? In reader Wickersham's list below, do you prefer column A...
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