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- Are we still having this conversation?
- Former NBA player Sam Bowie has applied for membership to the Idle Hour Country Club in Lexington, Ky. Should he be accepted, he would become the first African-American member in club history. "We have no...
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- 'Who does this (bleep) think he is?'
- The fawning press coverage by Australian media outlets of Tiger Woods' Australian Masters appearance and performance was not universal, it turns out. Peter FitzSimons, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, demonstrably (and colorfully) took Woods...
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- Wie withdraws from LPGA Championship
- Michelle Wie, who shot an even-par 72 in the first round of the LPGA Championship, has withdrawn with a lingering ankle injury. She issued this statement: "This tournament, and the support shown from the fans...
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- How's this for an assignment?
- CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Lindsay Knowlton called it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, begging the question, Who's lifetime? Employers don't routinely send employees around the world to play golf; hence Knowlton's partner in this adventure, Josh Sullivan, likened...
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- Thailand 1, Arizona, Florida and Texas (combined) 0
- The LPGA, at least, has stopped the bleeding, with the return of the ShopRite LPGA Classic, but there remain gaping holes in its 2010 schedule, as Ron Sirak of Golf World notes here. What is...
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- Hey, the veep is playing golf, too
- Las Vegas Review-Journal gossip columnist Norm Clarke reported that Vice President Joe Biden played golf at The Golf Club at South Shore, at Lake Las Vegas, on Sunday, though his people initially were told that...
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- The worst year ever?
- There have been some miserable years in professional golf. Recall Ian Baker-Finch in 1995, when he made 18 starts, missed the cut in 14 of them, withdrew from three of them and was disqualified from...
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- Air Sergio
- From a news release on Sergio Garcia's new mode of transportation, a Hawker 4000 business jet: "I couldn't expect to compete at a championship level on the golf course if I didn't have a championship...
- Golf: No Room For Error
- Played in obscurity, the second stage of Q school is often when players have the most at stake
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- Funk has knee-replacement surgery
- Fred Funk knew he was going to require a total right-knee replacement. It was just a matter of when. The time to replace the bad knee -- which was devoid of cartilage and had plagued...
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- Tiger to be inducted into Stanford Hall of Fame
- STANFORD, Calif. - Tiger Woods will be inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday at halftime of the home football game between Stanford and California, otherwise known as the Big Game. The...
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- The best thing to happen to the LPGA in 2009
- News that the ShopRite Classic is returning to the LPGA schedule in 2010 is a reminder that Michelle Wie's victory in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational on Sunday doesn't necessarily have a lock on the best...
