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- The Choice Via Inbox
- On the eve of Election Day, this email started popping up within the inboxes of golfer's around the world. What may be perceived as a right-wing message played off Barack Obama's spreading of the wealth...
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- Rosaforte: Time to Talk Presidents Cup
- Fall Series already got you down? Going through your Camilo Villegas withdrawal? You wanted more than Boo Weekley on Jay Leno's couch? Well, you're not alone. While Joe Steranka and the PGA honchos start teleconferencing...
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- The Golf Channel Loses Key Exec
- ORLANDO -- One of the big questions going into this year: How is The Golf Channel going to do broadcasting the PGA Tour? One of the big questions going into next year: How is The...
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- East Lake's Repair Plan For Next Summer
- There's nothing worse than bad greens, but like PGA Tour tournament director Mark Russell said last week, trying to grow bent-grass greens in the South is like trying to grow palm trees in Northern Canada....
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- Remembering John Montgomery: "Senior"
- One of the game's greats died this summer at 80 without many headlines, but if you were part of professional golf in the late 1970s through the 1990s it was hard to not know...
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- Try Growing Grass In Atlanta During September
- LEMONT, Ill. -- This is a hard time of year to grow grass -- at least grass suitable for a FedEx Cup event. You may remember how the greens at Westchester CC were an issue...
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- The Strongest Man In Golf
- LEMONT, Ill.--There was a guy standing outside the ropes behind the ninth green at Cog Hill on Thursday who called me over as we waited for Tiger Woods to exit the scoring trailer. "Ask Tiger...
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- Zach Sings For Chicago
- LEMONT, Ill.--Growing up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Zach Johnson was more a fan of Ozzie Smith and the St. Louis Cardinals than Ryne Sandberg and the Chicago Cubs. But when the Masters champion was asked...
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- George Lopez Always Has an Opinion About Golf
- NEW YORK--Outside the Ritz-Carlton, Central Park, George Lopez was easy to spot. The iconic comedian/tournament host and cast member in those beautifully done Crowne Plaza round-tables was in Manhattan on Wednesday for the debut...
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- Annika's Tears Of Joy
- After I learned from my Golf Channel colleague Frank Nobilo that his neighbors Annika Sorenstam and Mike McGee announced their engagement Saturday, I contacted McGee to congratulate him. I've known Mike since he was a...
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- Young Giuliani's Play Impresses Mickelson
- It didn't surprise Phil Mickelson that Andrew Giuliani (right, with Tiger) was doing so well in the Met Open, shooting 71 in the opening round Wednesday at the Meadow Brook Club on Long Island....
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- From Golf Digest to Michigan State Head Coach
- I got a call yesterday from Sam Puryear, giving me a heads-up that he had just been hired as the head golf coach at Michigan State. The news had been a long time coming...
