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Tommy Gainey: Looking Back at a Masterful Win

Tommy Gainey is the defending champion at this week’s McGladrey Classic in St. Simmons Island, Georgia. They’re playing at the Sea Island Golf Club on the Seaside Course which is a par 70 playing 7,005 yards. A shorter course, to … Continue reading

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The Greenbrier Classic: Crowded at the Top

Danniel Summerhays was first off at 7:00 am Friday morning in the Greenbrier Classic. He shot 3-under to get to 8-under on The Old White TPC, but nobody thought it would hold up. After all, 8-under 62 was what the … Continue reading

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The Greenbrier Classic: The Track Meet

What happens when you give a PGA Tour field the ball-in-hand on an eminently playable golf course? They go crazy, as the Old White TPC found out at the Greenbrier Classic in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The two co-leaders … Continue reading

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Camilo Villegas: Life is Good

It has been a very tough year for Camilo Villegas. So tough, the three-time winner on the PGA Tour (including the 2008 Tour Championship) has fallen all the way to 150th on the Money List. Were he to fall one … Continue reading

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Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey: PGA Tour Winner

Tommy Gainey went from being a Carolina money game hustler, a winner of the Golf Channel’s Big Break and a mini-tour king on a bunch of tours, to the only other thing in the world of golf he wanted more: … Continue reading

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Golf as a Right-Brain Work of Art

As my own golf education has progressed, I have been making the case that the less a player thinks about his swing and the more he things about his target, the better the outcome will be. But this is counterintuitive … Continue reading

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Harbour Town: Anatomy of a Great Course

Harbour Town Golf Links, site of the RBC Heritage, has been on the PGA Tour rota long enough – 43 years – that its idiosyncrasies are very well known to the players. It has evolved in their minds into a … Continue reading

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Can Anybody Beat Yani Tseng?

The PGA Tour is still behind the curve at the Shell Houston Open. They managed to get everybody playing today, but when darkness descended on the course, only half of the field had completed 36 holes. And some started so … Continue reading

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Lost In Space

The inspiration for this post came from three things I came across yesterday. The first was a Paula Creamer tweet, “Had a great practice today. It’s amazing how close you are to something but so far away at the same time. … Continue reading

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Backs Against The Wall

I’ve written about the power of intention before, but then it was just about making putts and hitting shots. Well, there are bunch of guys who’ve come out of nowhere after the first round at the McGladrey Classic in Sea Island, … Continue reading

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