Archive for the Golf Media Category


What Golf Needs in 2010…

I’ve refrained from writing about Tiger Woods over the last month for a couple reasons. First, I’m genuinely disappointed with the whole mess and don’t feel ready to share my thoughts until I can see it less emotionally. And second, I don’t think anyone really knows the true story…and won’t until either Tiger or Elin […]

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British amateur launches PowerPlay Golf in India

India hopes to do for golf what they have done for Twenty 20 cricket. The sports-loving Indians may not have invented either game but they have provided the platform to enhance the spectacle thanks to their huge fan base. For instance, T20 cricket, courtesy of the Indian Premier League, is a multi-million dollay industry in […]

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Golf: Going For Gold In 2016

Tiger Woods has just about done it all in the game of golf: 14 major championships, 69 career wins on tour, a record stay at world number one, NCAA, U.S Amateur and Junior titles, Fed-Ex, Ryder, and Presidents Cups. There’s not much else to conquer really. Over the weekend at the Buick Open Sir Nick […]

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7 Up! At Bethpage Black

The People’s Open. That’s what they called it. Seven years ago, for the first time in its history, the United States Open Golf Championship was played on a public course in New York, and I was there. Well, sort of. I was in New York City playing tourist, standing under Empire State Building, wandering blissfully through […]

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The Continuing Maturation Of Sean O’Hair

“I’ll make plenty of money in my career. I want the crystal.” That’s what Sean O’Hair said following his dramatic collapse down the stretch at the 2007 Players at the TPC of Sawgrass. His quadruple bogey 7 on the “Island green” 17th hole, followed by a bogey on the 18th hole saw O’Hair drop from […]

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Pro Golfers Use Twitter To Tweet To Their Golf Fans

Pro golfers twitter their way into fans’ hearts. Professional golfers are going back to the people thanks to technology. In the old days of pro golf, the big-name players were mostly happy to rub shoulders with ordinary folks off the course. Modern golf doesn’t allow for such intimacy, with the increased money involved, television coverage, […]

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Two-legged Tiger brings hope to TV executives

If Tiger Woods is to be believed, many of the 14 majors he has won in his career was achieved with just one leg. Now, with both legs to stand on, Woods believes he is stronger than ever. The world number one returns to competitive golf after eight months out at this week’s Accenture Match […]

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New Golf Hole At Royal Birkdale!

What do you get when you combine the tee at the par 3 12th at Royal Birkdale with the green at the par 3 7th ? Welcome to the newest hole at Royal Birkdale! Fantastic video production by Red Bee Media and direction by Toby Crawford. Post production was done by Concrete. More great YouTube […]

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HomeofGolf.TV Goes Live – Watch The First Episode

From: Andy Brown Currently enjoying a shot of Lagavulin after a sunny day filming in the Home of Golf St Andrews, Fife Wednesday, 18:21 p.m. Hi there, I have finally launched http://www.HomeofGolf.TV On 24th January I announced my idea in this blog post and on the strength of the 150 favourable comments I have produced […]

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Happy Burns Night

From: Andy Brown Enjoying a Cappuccino at – The Rule, 116 South Street, St Andrews Saturday, 13:01 p.m. Dear Friend, I trust you are having an enjoyable Saturday. Firstly I’m sending you a “Happy Burns Night” – a celebration of the life of the great Scottish Poet Robert Burns. Secondly I have an idea, but […]

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Catch Natalie Gulbis and me chatting about golf

A short but sweet message to say you can catch me discussing golf on Twitter most days. Just sign up in a few seconds and click “follow” to catch my latest golf news and conversations. Recently Natalie Gulbis joined Twitter and I believe many more professional golfers will also join in 2009. I asked Natalie […]

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LPGA to Introduce Compulsory English Rule

The language of golf is marketing and, as far as the LPGA Tour is concerned, it is also English. The multi-national and multi-ethnic LPGA Tour is implementing a new rule from 2009 requiring all member players to have a reasonable grasp of spoken English, or face suspension. This also applies to non-native English speakers who […]

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Miller’s Time to Slam Tiger’s Grand Ambitions

Johnny Miller is the American equivalent of Greg Norman in many ways. He was an exciting player, had a shock of blond hair and the crowds loved him. Like Norman, he only won two major titles but his impact on golf during the 70s was bigger than that. He is now transferred his tenacity from […]

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South Africa’s First Star Deserves Respect

South Africa has a new golfing superstar. With many wondering if Ernie Els’ time as force in the majors is now in terminal decline, with Retief Goosen perhaps not the player he was a few years ago, Trevor Immelman’s Masters victory has delivered a new force. Yet one star continues to transcend them all. Immelman’s […]

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BBC Misses Out on Atwal’s Victory

India’s Arjun Atwal won the Malaysian Open for the second time in his career after he beat Sweden’s defending champion Peter Hedblom in a play-off. But before going into Atwal’s victory, I’d like to comment a bit about the BBC website’s treatment of this piece of news. If the BBC consider themselves a parochial news […]

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