Monthly Archives: December 2012

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Well, golf mastery fans, with big-time tournament golf in the doldrums and the Christmas and New Year holidays upon us, this seems to be the perfect time to take a breather from my unrelenting, daily postings. As I said in … Continue reading

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Gary Gilchrist: Catalytic Converter

I saw a post at Golf.com that longtime, next-big-thing on the PGA Tour, Charles Howell III, had changed golf coaches, “Charles Howell III has new confidence after coaching change.” And I must say, I breathed a sigh of relief for … Continue reading

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Jerry Kelly: On Music and the Golf Swing

I came across this today at Golf.com and it was just too quirky to pass up. As a one-time inveterate practicer in my previous incarnation as a Monday qualifier on the Champions Tour, I would hit balls, not by the … Continue reading

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Dottie Pepper: Goodbye to a Master

Dottie Pepper got to the stage in her playing career on the LPGA Tour where the injuries didn’t allow her to play at the level she knew she was capable of. And so she walked away at the ridiculously young … Continue reading

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Luke Donald: The Mental Coach Who Got Him to No. 1

I came across this fine article by Connell Barrett writing at Golf.com. “Mental guru Jim Fannin trains three Average Joes to think like champs, ” is about how the mental coach who took Luke Donald from 130th in the world … Continue reading

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The Education of Davis Love IV

“Dru” Love and his dad, Davis Love III won the PNC Father-Son Challenge at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, Florida. (Dru, short for “quadruple” as in, IV, not quadruple bogey.) Dru made a 10-footer on 18 for birdie to … Continue reading

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PNC Father-Son Challenge: It’s All About Family

First of all, the tournament title has become a misnomer. There are two daughters, a stepson and a grandson playing with their tour pro fathers, stepfather and grandfather. One year, Lee Janzen played with the late Payne Stewart’s son, Aaron, … Continue reading

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Captain Tom Watson: The Correct View

The Ryder Cup is a little less than two years away, but it’s significance in the game of golf can be measured by all the hoopla generated by the naming of Tom Watson as the U.S. captain for the 2014 … Continue reading

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Tom Watson: 2014 Ryder Cup Captain

As you surely know by now, 63-year-old Tom Watson, the 1993 Ryder Cup captain and winner of eight majors, was named as 2014 Ryder Cup captain. So the golf coach at MIT tweeted: I’d like to know why Tom Watson’s … Continue reading

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Here Comes the PGA Tour Again!

It seems that 2012 is hardly over. But if you go to pgatour.com, the next tournament up is the first tournament of 2013, the Hyundai Tournament of Champions. And it begins in just 2½ weeks on December 31st. Fortunately, that … Continue reading

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