Archive for the Jack Nicklaus Category


Masters Imitating U.S. Open?

It has always been the USGA’s mission to protect par in all its championships. To that end, they set up golf courses to play extremely difficult – so difficult in fact, that only once (Tiger Woods in 2000) in its long history, has a player finished a Men’s U.S. Open at -10 or lower. In […]

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Donald Luck? Golf and Superstition Surfaces at Masters

Modern golfers: dedicated to practice, prepared by fitness trainers and sports psychologists, advised by caddies that know the yardage of every water sprinkler and divot. Nothing is left to chance. And yet it seems golfers are as given to superstition as the most hopeless weekend hacker.  From Tiger’s red shirt on Sundays (and yes it […]

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