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Poll: "Big Break: Mesquite" Championship Match
... and then there were two. After a surprising elimination in Tuesdays seminfinal "tournament," the final two players still alive in "Big Break: Mesquite" are ready for their championship match...
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PGA Tour Doles Out Player Awards ...
... and there are no surprises. Weve known for a while who the Players of the Year were on the PGA Tour, Champions Tour and Nationwide Tour, respectively, todays announcement...
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European Tour clampdown on drugs truants
European Tour players are being told to attend at least one of six drug-education sessions in the first few months of 2008 after poor attendances at classes held this season. Lewine Mair reports.
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Charles Viner really is oldest swinger in town
Britains oldest golfer Charles Viner, for whom the Shropshire Golf Centre held a 100th birthday lunch, has never departed from what he learned in his first golf lesson in 1925, writes Lewine Mair.
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The totally synthetic golf course
Taking a divot may have something of a rarity value in years to come as the Kikuoka Country Club near Luxembourg Airport prepares to open a course featuring artificial greens, writes Lewine Mair.
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Golfs Strangest Rounds: Extraordinary But True Stories from Over a Century of Golfing History
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Usually Im sceptical about compilation books but this was a treasure trove. Id always thought golf was a simple game - after all the ball is tiny and the holes look quite big to me. But not a bit of it - every combination of balls, clubs and holes are here.
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This is a truly superb book, chronicling a defining moment in golf history. This should be required reading for any student of the game. I had a vague awareness of the 1913 U.S. Open and the participants, but Mark Frost brought a inspirational tale to life vividly and illuminated the brilliance of Harry Vardon (truly the Tiger Woods of his time) and the greatness of Francis Ouimet. I am amazed that this book was not shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, because, in its own way, it is as good as Seabiscuit, which is very high praise indeed in my opinion. To anyone reading this review, the message is simple, buy this book, you will not be dissapointed.
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The Greatest Game Ever Played is the story of the 1913 US Open Championship which is attributed to igniting the flames in interest in golf in America.
British legend Harry Vardon was at the peak of his powers at that time, yet found rank outsider Francis Ouimet, a US amateur 23 years his junior, to be his fiercest competitor.
Theirs was one of golfs definitive confrontations, pitting local boy against all-conquering hero and Mark Frosts account looks set to be considered one of the sports conclusive accounts.
Undoubtedly this clash changed world golf forever. We might think now how great it would be if Brits dominated the global game, but the sport would have been much duller without Ouimets win.
A real eye opener on the birth of a phenomenon in America and a book so beautifully put together you dont have to be a golf fan to enjoy it.
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