Archive for the Nationwide Tour Category


School’s Out

They call it the toughest week in all of golf, which is actually an understatement – It actually runs about a week and a half end to end. After two preliminary stages, six final stage rounds and a total of 252 holes, 25 players earned their PGA Tour playing rights for 2010 on Monday at Bear’s […]

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Ahead Of The Class

Phil Mickelson did it on the PGA Tour. So did Scott Verplank. In recent years Pablo Martin and Danny Lee have done it in Europe. I’m taking, of course, about winning a professional tournament while still an amateur, something Oklahoma State’s Rickie Fowler came oh so close to doing Sunday at the Nationwide Tour’s Children’s Hospital […]

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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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Monday Madness

After doing it’s best impersonation of the European Tour over the past couple of months, The Nationwide Tour has finally back on native shores this week as it travels to Bayou country for the Chitimacha Louisiana Open in Broussard, La. While that means the U.S contingent of Nationwide players gets their first chance to make […]

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A Day In The Life

A couple of weeks ago I was playing a Hooters Tour event in Amelia Island in Florida. The tournament finished on Sunday and as we were so close we decided to make the quick drive down to the TPC at Sawgrass practice there on Monday. Although Sawgrass is a public facility (for those willing to […]

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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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Pro Golfer In Hot Water After Killing Hawk

A professional golfer faces possible consequences after hitting a hawk with a golf shot and killing it at the Grand Cypress Golf Club in Florida. Nationwide Tour player Tripp Isenhour apologised for killing the hawk, which was being noisy as he was filming TV Show “Shoot Like A Pro” in December. Isenhour was charged with […]

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PGA Tour Commisioner For A Day…

Most golf fans would love to be commissioner of the PGA Tour for a day. Then, we could all implement our pet projects for the betterment of the game. I for one would change two things in my one day in office. First, I would do away with Q-School completely. Second, I would make it […]

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Australasia Looking for Asian Solution

The Australiasian Tour is stirring with unease. Despite having a long history and enjoying joint sanction on tournaments with the European Tour, the Aussies are struggling to stay on their own. A footnote in an article in The Age newspaper recently contained strong indications that The Australasian Tour will soon become one with, or at […]

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Deaf Golfer Lee Thrives on Asian Stage

One of the finest sounds a golfer can hear is the sweet ping of a perfectly struck drive off the tee. South Korean Lee Sung has hit many perfect drives in his professional career, but he has never heard the sound once. Lee is deaf. His eyesight, though, is perfect and last week, he was […]

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Watney’s Wait for PGA Glory Ends in New Orleans

Nick Watney’s two-year wait for his first PGA Tour title ended when he triumphed at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans at Avondale. Watney snared an eagle two on the 428-yard par-four fifth hole that not only steadied his nerves but also laid the foundations for a three-stroke victory and a first prize of $1,098,000, […]

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Weekley Celebrates Victory Over Els

Boo Weekley appeared to be doing his best to help Ernie Els end his three-year drought on the PGA Tour. That was until a 36-foot putt on the 18th gave him victory at the Verizon Heritage, which spilled over to Monday because of bad weather. Weekley chipped in over the last two holes at Harbour […]

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