Monthly Archives: November 2010

Ladies First

There are a bunch of good tournaments for golf junkies this week in the rush to the season’s end: –        The six-round, PGA Tour Q-School begins Wednesday in Orlando, Florida –        Tiger Wood’s elite, 18-man field, Chevron World Clallenge begins … Continue reading

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Anger

I saw a video by a sports psychologist on how to deal with anger over a bad shot. Rather than expressing your anger or disgust with a shot and slamming your club back in the bag, his prescription was to … Continue reading

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Taking The Long View

Ian Poulter lost the Dubai World Championship today because of an arcane rule of golf. He had played brilliantly over four days at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, making only three bogeys for the entire week. … Continue reading

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Expectations – Revisited

In yesterday’s post, “Expectations,” I wrote about the power of expecting to play well. At the end of the post I wrote: So as with these great players in Dubai today, players can do more to improve their scores with … Continue reading

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Expectations

You have to see this. It’s a new, very cool feature the European tour has on their leaderboard page. It’s from the second round of today’s Dubai World Championship played at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. … Continue reading

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Golf Thanksgiving

I am thankful for the great game we love, the only game truly worthy of us human beings, a game that tests us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I am thankful for the all the extraordinary topographies on all the … Continue reading

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Golf’s Premier Competition

Or so the banner proclaims on the European Tour’s, Race To Dubai page, announcing their season-ending Dubai World Championship at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in, Dubai, United Arab Emirates and the concurrent Race to Dubai, the year-long money title (Order of … Continue reading

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Tiger’s Coach

When Tiger Woods and Hank Haney, his previous coach of six years, parted company, Tiger decided that he was going to go it alone. He didn’t say this, but being the best golfer on the planet right now and probably … Continue reading

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Fun With Statistics

With the end of the PGA Tour’s regular season, the Tour looks back on the year with ShotLink, the distance measuring system used at all tournaments. It makes for very interesting reading. For example, in Highs and Lows, we see … Continue reading

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The Impetuousness Of Youth

There once was a time when you had to be ready; you had to be old enough. There was so much concern about the timing of young players; had they had enough amateur experience? Enough time playing college golf? Enough … Continue reading

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