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Final Word: The Anchored Putter Witch Hunt

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 March 2013 18:13 Tuesday, 19 March 2013 17:44

by Mark Corrigan

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Golf balls go forever, great old courses are becoming irrelevant, we are in the midst of a battle to keep golfers around. Trying to fill courses and feed the machine that is the golf business is hard.

And all the powers that be want to do is chain golfers to the furnace and force a gag ball in their mouth.

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Fit To A Tee - Getting The Most Out Of Your Golf Vacation Experience

Last Updated on Wednesday, 06 March 2013 13:56 Tuesday, 05 March 2013 19:41

by Mark Corrigan

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I played The Links at Crowbush Cove while on holiday with my family this past summer and, being originally from PEI, to play golf back in my old 'stomping grounds' was all that I remembered and more.

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Final Word: Belly Ban Won’t Have Much Impact On Hackers

Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 December 2012 01:00 Wednesday, 05 December 2012 00:42

by Gord Montgomery

altTo twist a phrase, there’s bad news and good news about the recent announcement banning the use of anchored putters in the world of golf.

The bad news is simple: If you’re a pro golfer you can’t use the long-handled implements beginning in a couple of years.

That being said, there is good news as well.

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Final Word: Not At The Point Of A Bayonet

Last Updated on Sunday, 26 August 2012 22:57 Sunday, 26 August 2012 22:47

 by Jeff Sutherland

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Ten years ago then club chairman Hootie Johnson said, "Augusta National might one day have a woman in a green jacket, but not at the point of a bayonet."

An interesting rationalization for doing nothing when just more than a decade previously Augusta National, clearly bowing to public pressure, accepted their first black member.
 
New chairman Billy Payne came on board in 2007 and, according to an unnamed source at the tight-lipped club, immediately started looking for appropriate female members.
 
Five long years later we have Condaleeza Rice donning a green jacket.

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Final Word: Golf’s Big Question – Is Going Farther Better Than Going Lower?

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 March 2012 23:23 Sunday, 11 March 2012 22:33

  by Gord Montgomery

 

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Is “Go big or go home,” the best theory on the golf course?
 
In a quick study of the golf-related magazines scattered about in my office I came to a starling realization that at least nine of the 11 covers were about going deep off the tee.
 
Sure there were other cover stories about curing short game woes, and new equipment, but the overwhelming majority dealt with blasting the ball off the tee.
 
Having heard a number of times that 90 per cent of golf is played within 100-yards of the green, I decided to do an unscientific survey among a few pros at the 2012 PGA of Alberta Golf Show in Edmonton to get their thoughts on what the most important part of the game is – driving, iron play or putting.

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