Blog: Local Knowledge
- PGA Tour tweaks tournament eligibility categories
- MADISON, Miss. -- Not that it's likely to have a significant impact on tournament fields, but the PGA Tour has made a change to some of its bottom-tier membership categories beginning in 2010. Players in...
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- Missed by that much (92 strokes)
- Occasionally players get into the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament (in this case the Pre-Qualifying Stage) who don't belong. The recent pre-qualifier at Seaside, Calif. was a case in point. One player had rounds of 97,...
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- Hart: Comeback Player of the Year?
- ATLANTA -- It was just a year ago that Dudley Hart was looking at a few months of being snowbound in Buffalo, NY, and then facing the prospect of having to scramble to keep his...
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- Harmon aims to teach less
- By no means is Butch Harmon retiring, but after a lifetime of working with everyone from high handicaps to multiple major champions, the acclaimed swing coach has decided to cut back his client list of...
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- Atlanta Event Still Looking For a Sponsor
- DULUTH, Ga. -- When Tiger Woods called about his July 4th tournament in Washington, D.C., AT&T answered the phone. And who wouldn't want to associate their corporate name with the best player who ever lived?...
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- Tinkering With Riviera's Greatness
- PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. -- Reverence for the Riviera CC continues to abound among PGA Tour players, a sentiment that occasionally is expressed with a caveat, that it remains a gem in spite of some of...
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- Curtis, Toledo perform heroic deeds
- On Thursday afternoon at the PGA Tour's FBR Open, Ben Curtis was eating lunch with Geoff Ogilvy's wife, Juli, and fellow PGA Tour player Steve Allan, when he noticed Allan didn't look well. Asked if...
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- Make up your mind already, Rory
- Either Rory McIlroy, the prodigy from Northern Ireland, is having trouble making a decision or he has been sending mixed signals about his intention to join the PGA Tour in 2010. The Guardian reported on...
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- Your FedEx Cup Fixes
- What I love about the FedEx Cup is how many letters it generates. Confusion, revulsion, admiration, all these sentiments add up to you writing. Here are a couple of your latest views, the first in...
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- Charity is the loser in a recession
- The most benevolent tournament on the PGA Tour typically is the FBR Open in Scottsdale, Ariz., which in 2008 distributed $8.6 million to charities in 2008. So how big a hit did its benevolence endure...
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- Tiger's Domination Over?
- Let the record show that the first letter signaling the beginning of the end of the Tiger Woods' Era arrived this week, just after the Open Championship. The King is dead, says our friend from...
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- Goydos Leaves Tour After Ex-Wife's Death
- Having become an everyday hero to many PGA Tour fans after going head-to-head with Sergio Garcia at the Players Championship last May, only to lose in a playoff, PGA Tour veteran Paul Goydos continues to...
