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Dope Testing Soon To Become Reality

PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said at the Travelers Championship that golf tours around the world should work harder to implement anti-doping programmes. It appears that every other governing body has made moves to establish drug testing. The LPGA Tour is to start testing in 2008 and the European Tour is aiming to have its […]

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Raising The Next Tiger Woods

Parents ask me all the time, how to get their children interested in golf. And then once interested, how to make sure their child improves. And then once there’s improvement, how to make sure they reach their full potential. Seems every parent I meet wants their child to be the next Tiger Woods and are […]

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Should Michelle Wie Play With the Guys?

Teenager Michelle Wie, who has been out of the spotlight with a wrist injury, created a stir this week by once again accepting a sponsor invitation to the PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic. The announcement comes on the heels of negative feedback from LPGA players, who disagreed with her inclusion into the lucrative Samsung World […]

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The Tiger Effect

As you probably know, Tiger Woods won his 57th PGA Tour title on Sunday. Tiger’s victory came at the Wachovia Classic, which is fast becoming one of the Tour’s most prestigious events. Still, what first looked like a potentially classic weekend, with both Vijay Singh and Phil Mickelson in the hunt, quickly turned into what […]

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Johnson stokes Masters with maiden Major triumph

Nothing could be more unnerving in golf than sitting on a two-stroke lead with no holes to play and with Tiger Woods bearing down on you. Magnify that when the stage is the season’s first Major tournament. Iowan Zach Johnson can now rest easy with a Green Jacket on his back after his stunning victory […]

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Get To See The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews Trophy Room For Free

It isn’t often you get the chance to spend some time in the Trophy Room and the two main clubrooms at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. Like many I have walked passed it many times, wondering what it is like inside. A few years ago I got the chance to walk […]

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Live From The Swilken Bridge At St Andrews

I took the opportunity yesterday to pop into St Andrews and record a short video for you. As I drove in, I thought when will it ever stop raining! Luckily after a cappuccina and bacon roll at my favourite cafe in St Andrews – namely Janetta’s, I was able to glimpse some blue sky and […]

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Keep Your Head Still – A Golfing Fallacy

I returned to my office this morning from a fantastic 40th birthday weekend party in the Lake District (see photo below) to find the rest of chapter 2 in my in box. All of the golf fallacies are now loud and clear – ready for your attention. This is the “rubbish” you must bin, each and everyone […]

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The New Seventh Course At St Andrews

Well it is getting onto three o’ clock in the morning and I’m trying to get this letter out to you. Things have piled up today and I really should have written this hours ago. You know how it is on the net, distractions everywhere you look! Anyway to cut a long story short I […]

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