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Hole-in-one insurance fraud alleged in Montana ace case. Rickie Fowler ties Tiger's record at Medalist; Dunne and Na are unlikely pals. For the first time in 65 years Oklahoma State fails to qualify for the NCAA final.
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FRANKLIN, TENN.--What a difference a year makes. At the 2011 NCAA Women's Championship, Alabama arrived as a favorite to claim the team title only to be out of the hunt after just 36 holes, the Crimson Tide shooting a 28-over 604 to put them 20 strokes back of the lead after two rounds.
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FRANKLIN, TENN.--If you felt a sudden gust of wind blowing around Vanderbilt Legends Club late Wednesday morning, you have Greg Allen to thank for it.
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FORT WORTH, Texas -- The first time I covered the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial was in 1997 when it was known as the MasterCard Colonial, the best player in the world was Tiger Woods and I was the golf writer for The Associated Press. A lot has changed since then.
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Eleven years ago, a 21-year-old Sergio Garcia was taking the PGA Tour by storm, capturing his first win at Colonial less than two years after nearly taking down Tiger Woods at the 1999 PGA Championship. Remember "El Nino"? That affable, fiery Spanish bundle of energy? I do -- and I miss him.
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Spent a full day learning about some new ideas from Ping, and one of our big discussion topics was driver fitting and just how much fitting matters. Consider this study, shared with us by Brad Schweigert, Ping's director of engineering. The Ping team took a group of 100 average golfers and tested them with a current 10.5 degree driver.
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Fitness Friday: Dustin Johnson's pre-round stretches with Randy Myers Editor's note: Every week my colleague Ron Kaspriske, Golf Digest Fitness Editor, presents Fitness Friday on the Instruction Blog. He gives you a great health and fitness tip or an exercise or stretch to get your body warmed up for the weekend.
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"Slow play" has become golf's most bandied-about expletive in recent months, for good reason. A round of golf is supposed to take no more than four hours, but at many public and resort courses, a weekend 18 can take up to six.
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FRANKLIN, TENN.--What looked like it was going to be an historic day for Virginia at the NCAA Women's Championship turned a little surreal Tuesday afternoon when a scorecard snafu caused the Cavaliers to fall out of first place some three hours after they completed their first round at Vanderbilt Legends Club.
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Matt, Goosebumps. In its 10th year, The Ponce is headed to the Home of Golf: 14 Americans vs. 14 Brits. True Ryder-Cup format. The Ponce de Leon Matches: June 6: CarnoustieJune 7: Old CourseJune 8: Kingsbarns Our opponents are a merry group of Englishmen, most of whom are our age and play out of Royal St.
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FRANKLIN, TENN.--At breakfast Tuesday morning, the first round of the NCAA Women's Championship set to begin at 7:33 a.m., Duke coach Dan Brooks approached Alejandra Cangrejo one last time with the same simple question he had been asking her regularly since the team arrived in Tennessee. How does the wrist feel?
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When Tessio is found to have betrayed the Corleone family in "The Godfather" and is about to be taken for a ride, he says to Tom Hagen, the level-headed consigliere, "Tell Mike it was only business, I always liked him." Hagen replies: "He understands that."
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FRANKLIN, TENN.--Virginia sophomore Portland Rosen calls the newest club in her bag "Batman." It certainly seemed to have superhero powers during the first round of the NCAA Women's Championship Tuesday at Vanderbilt Legends Club.
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Welcome to another edition of Fantasy Fix, where we are all just living in Jason Dufner's world right now. In the past month, the only two weeks he hasn't won he was getting married and then on his honeymoon at TPC Sawgrass (props for pulling that off by the way).
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Every golfer has experienced frustration and embarrassment on some scale, but Ian Baker-Finch was a major-championship winner and one of the best players in the world before he descended into a slump of epic proportions. How bad was it?
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Max Adler and his colleague Jeff Patterson meet up with golf marathoner Dr. Ron Kantner, for a round of speed golf at Oaks Golf Club in Lima, Ohio.
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"Go deep!" shouts a tall, lanky 19-year-old, squeezing a broken brick with both hands as if it were a leather football. "I'm wide open," yells another kid who looks to be about the same age, this one more compact with tousled brown hair. He's running a fly pattern over piles of rubble and shards of glass.
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Every week my colleague Ron Kaspriske, Golf Digest Fitness Editor, presents Fitness Friday on the Instruction Blog. This week he continues his series of his 20-in-20 workout. it will definitely get your golf muscles in shape. Look for Weekend Tip tomorrow, and remember to follow me on Twitter:@RogerSchiffman .
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"Slow play" has become golf's most bandied-about expletive in recent months, for good reason. A round of golf is supposed to take no more than four hours, but at many public and resort courses, a weekend 18 can take up to six.
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Our research project on the effect of clubfitting, which is being conducted in conjunction with Club Champion, is just getting started and already the results are educating us in ways we haven't thought about before.
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Yet the complexion of the course that the 24 schools and six individuals will be facing this week outside of Nashville is different than the one they've played previously, thanks to some subtle changes that may well have an impact on who'll be crowned the national champion.
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As rules "mistakes" go, it's fair to ask whether Morgan Pressel's slow play penalty in the Sybase Match Play Championship even qualifies. Unlike with Roberto de Vicenzo signing an incorrect scorecard at the 1968 Masters, or Dustin Johnson grounding his club in a bunker at the 2010 PGA Championship, Pressel's slow play penalty in her semifinal match against Azahara Munoz was subject to the interpretation of a rules official.
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In 1996, when Tiger Woods declared "Hello World," and the commercial airwaves echoed with children proclaiming "I'm Tiger Woods" ... "I'm Tiger Woods" ... "I'm Tiger Woods," one of them could have been an 11-year-old Korean-American from Los Angeles named Anthony Kim.