Monthly Archives: August 2011

Anger Is A Lot Like Love

Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:42 pm by Bill Rand

Think of this post as a companion piece to my May 2011 post, “This Shouldn’t Be Happening!” In that piece, I looked at the things that trigger anger in us until we come to the point in our lives where … Continue reading →

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For Those That Love Irony

Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:04 pm by Bill Rand

Yesterday I wrote about William McGirt’s last minute heroics at The Barclays to get himself inside the top 100 FedExCup points list. And I profiled him, and mini-tour players in general, last week at Greensboro in this post, “Hang Around Long … Continue reading →

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Survivor –The Barclays

Posted on Monday, August 29, 2011 11:25 pm by Bill Rand

Last week, 125 players gathered at The Barclays in Edison, New Jersey to determine which 100 of them was going to survive to fight again in the race for the FedExCup. It is the subtext of these next two PGA … Continue reading →

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Juxtapositions

Posted on Sunday, August 28, 2011 11:50 pm by Bill Rand

When the final round of the Canadian Women’s Open came on the air on Sunday from the Hillsdale Golf and Country Club just outside of Montreal, Canada, I was a little taken aback. The Canadian announce crew said that the … Continue reading →

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Death Threat

Posted on Saturday, August 27, 2011 11:49 pm by Bill Rand

At the 1977 U.S. Open at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hubert Green went into the final round after having led for three days. As he left the 14th green, he was pulled aside by USGA officials and … Continue reading →

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Shootout or Shoot Down?

Posted on Friday, August 26, 2011 11:04 pm by Bill Rand

The lede today at The Barclays in Edison, New Jersey, is not The Barclays. It’s a girl named Irene. Hurricane Irene. In a 100-year event by some estimates, Hurricane Irene is going to bring quantum rains and massive flooding to … Continue reading →

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Hang Around Long Enough

Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:00 pm by Bill Rand

For almost every good player who wants to be a PGA Tour player, the path to their dreams is a long arduous process. I’ve written before about moving through the junior golf and college ranks and into the mini-tour circuits. … Continue reading →

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And So It Begins Again

Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:04 am by Bill Rand

There’s a rhythm to it all. The advance teams of PGA Tour officials arrive the week before and begin to go through the process of determining how the golf course will be played. When I was Monday qualifying on the … Continue reading →

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Final Dartboard Results and Analysis

Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:05 pm by Bill Rand

With the completion of the final regular season tournament of the year, I thought this was a good time to draw a close to the weekly Dartboard experiment. The purpose of the Dartboard Picks was to use random walk theory … Continue reading →

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Ryann O’Toole

Posted on Monday, August 22, 2011 11:44 pm by Bill Rand

The players were announced Sunday evening for this year’s Solheim Cup, the LPGA Tour’s version of the Ryder Cup. This year it will be played in Ireland at Killeen Castle Golf Club, just twenty miles northwest of Dublin. The U.S. … Continue reading →

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