Blog: Local Knowledge
- What Jiyai Shin teaches us about Ryo
- LA JOLLA, Calif. -- There is a temptation to temper enthusiasm about Japanese prodigy Ryo Ishikawa's potential, given that his World Ranking (49th) is based entirely on his success on the Japan Golf Tour and...
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- Ryo Ishikawa: Playing in the Masters at 17
- He's only 5-feet-7, 150 pounds, but this 17-year-old sensation from Japanese received an invite to play in this year's Masters
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- Golf in the Olympics: Good as gold. And green...
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Golfers are a contrary, disparate group, which means a consensus among them is something to savor. And so when it came to the announcement that golf would indeed be included in the...
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- The Presidents Cup: rife with drama, intrigue, and so far, mediocre golf
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Whether it's nerves, or the conditions, or the fact that all these guys have inhaled too much secondhand smoke from Michael Jordan, the early going here at Harding Park hasn't exactly been...
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- Are Norman's wild cards about to pay off?
- On the eve of the Presidents Cup, International team captain Greg Norman suddenly looks prescient for using his captain's picks on an 18-year-old and a falling star. The 18-year-old, Japan's Ryo Ishikawa, wasn't a stretch....
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- Ryo makes his case for Presidents Cup
- An 18-year-old in the Presidents Cup? It seems all but certain at this point, as Ryo Ishikawa, the 17-year-old Japanese wunderkind (who turns 18 later this month), won the Fujisankei Classic by five strokes today,...
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- Will Norman go out on a limb with captain's picks?
- A Presidents Cup with a 17-year-old, a Nationwide Tour player, or both? Here's hoping that International team captain Greg Norman has the courage to do so. Andrew Both of the Australian Associated Press writes that...
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- Norman's Presidents Cup conundrum
- Barring a second-straight playoff win by Heath Slocum, U.S. Presidents Cup captain Fred Couples will have captain's picks that, in his own words, will be "nice and easy." Couples backtracked a bit at the PGA...
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- Yang: An Asian No. 1? Not for awhile
- Is PGA Championship winner Y.E. Yang understating the quality of golf in Asian when he suggests that it might be 20 years before an Asian player would challenge for No. 1 in the World Ranking?...
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- Another victory for Ryo
- The victory Sunday by Ryo Ishikawa in the Sun Chlorella Classic in Otaru, Japan, should not be discounted simply because it came on the Japan Golf Tour. It isn't the quality of the tour that...
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- Teenagers
- Dave Riffey, our ornery Wisconsin friend writes from Florida, still ornery. He was nice enough to copy us on a letter to Golf Channel regarding Michelle Wie. Subject: LPGA Here we go ... A whole...
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- Tokyo giant
- On the tee with Ryo Ishikawa
