Monthly Archives: April 2012

Stacy Lewis: Validation

Trying to win a golf tournament at the level of the LPGA Tour is a pretty heroic feat. Like the PGA Tour, sometimes it takes a long time; yesterday’s winner, Jason Dufner, took almost 11 1/2 years. Stacy Lewis didn’t … Continue reading

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Jason Dufner: Standing On The Right Side of His Dream

Jason Dufner finally did it. Twelve years after he turned pro back in 2000, he won his first PGA Tour event, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. And he did it in a fitting way. After playing on the PGA … Continue reading

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Jason Dufner: This Could Be It

Jason Dufner managed to cruise around the TPC Louisiana in 5-under 67 to get to 17-under and into a two-stroke lead after 54 holes of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Dufner went from a player who played to make … Continue reading

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We Can Learn a Lot From Any of Them

My favorite slacker-dude, stoic, Jason Dufner, is in the lead again at another PGA Tour event, this time at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. He’s the guy whose facial expression rarely changes save for an occasional raised eyebrow. Playing … Continue reading

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Being at the Effect of Things

The breezes blew in from the Gulf of Mexico and a whole new week began on the PGA Tour in New Orleans. The first round of the Zurich Classic got underway at the TPC Louisiana, a 7,341-yard, Pete Dye-designed challenge … Continue reading

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Keegan Bradley: Better Practice Your Short Game

Interesting reading in the transcripts tonight from the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Last year’s winner of the PGA Championship, Keegan Bradley, was talking about how he ended up in that event: Q.  Keegan, can you just go through the … Continue reading

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Bubba Watson on Golf Mastery

Bubba Watson has spent quality time with his newly adopted son and his wife, gone on the obligatory media junket and has now come back to the PGA Tour for the first time since his Masters victory. He sat down … Continue reading

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“Never Give a Inch”

“Never Give a Inch.” So says the iconic Henry Stamper, patriarch of the Oregon logging family in Ken Kesey’s seminal novel, “Sometimes a Great Notion.” In those four words he summed up the tenacious spirit that frequently expresses itself in … Continue reading

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Ben Curtis: A Long Time Coming

Ben Curtis first broke into the winner’s circle when he won the 2003 British Open and the five-year exemption that came with it. But he didn’t need all five years because he won two more in 2006, the Booz Allen … Continue reading

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Ai Miyazato: Joy As a Way of Being

This is the face of gentle joy. This is the face of rhythm and grace. This is the face of a champion. Japan’s, Ai Miyazato won the 2012 LPGA Lotte Championship at Ko Olina Golf Club in Kapolei, Oahu, Hawaii. … Continue reading

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