Napa Valley Register
Every now and then I'll run into another golfer who will repeat a saying that I first heard around the time that I started playing this game as a teenager many years ago.
After hitting a fairway or green in regulation, getting up and down from a greenside bunker to save par, making a long putt or recovering from trouble somewhere, that player will turn around, and generally with a big smile, say something like: ... (23/06)
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Environmental scientists should spend more time at golf courses examining the brains of players. Because I have noticed that something in the green grass, ...
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Golf is a game of endurance. Walking five miles on a course can be tough especially when it's July in the Quad Cities.
But one avid golf fan is putting ...
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You don't look a typical a lady golfer.
Women golfers aren't what people think any more. There are good-looking women playing golf and a new generation ...
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Angela Park of Brazil led the women's US Open at halfway as Laura Davies's challenge was blown away by a second-round 81. Park is the player who was ...
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A 19-year-old South Korean golfer won the U.S. Women's Open with a 2-under 71 Sunday, becoming the youngest player to win one of the biggest titles in ...
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He was the first of only five players to win the Masters and United States Open in the same year. He was the first player to lose all four majors in extra ...
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A former PGA Tour player turned club pro once told me: "The game of golf is easy. It's the teachers who make it hard."
And to a great extent, he ...
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Rafael Nadal will swap the Wimbledon practice courts for a few days of golf with his friends back home in Spain as he tries to relax ahead of his latest ...
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HIS IS an amazing and unlikely journey. No great player in the long and diverse history of golf has a life story comparable with that of Vijay Singh, a ...
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Professional golf will move into a new era this summer when players on both sides of the Atlantic will be required to supply urine samples as routinely ...
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"I want to thank Tiger for not being there."SERGIO Garcia's first words upon winning the Players Championship in Florida last weekend were uttered not ...
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The Western release of Capcom's We Love Golf! for the Nintendo Wii approaches, and with two exclusive characters in the release, Capcom had to come up ...
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There was no Claret Jug, no green jacket, no major championship trophy presented in Sunday evening's twilight at the TPC Sawgrass. For Sergio Garcia, ...
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Anthony Kim received a $1.152 million check for winning the Wachovia Championship on Sunday, surpassing the $2 million mark in season earnings for the ...
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The instructions are straight from the book on Pebble Beach Golf Links on how to play the sixth hole: "The optimum placement for the tee shot is left ...
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Tom Kite had just sent a drive 300-or-so yards down the fairway, drawing oohs and aahs from his playing partners.
One by one, each had his turn on the ...
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When John Casolo hits a golf ball he usually smacks it straight and true down the middle of a fairway. On the 12th hole at Western Hills last week he used ...
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Cries of "Nice shot!" greet the satisfying ping of club against ball as Takashi Ochiai gets his round off to a perfect start. His opponents' magnanimity ...
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Environmental scientists should spend more time at golf courses examining the brains of players. Because I have noticed that something in the green grass, ...
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Golfers are sometimes described as a fanatical bunch, so it's understandable that no one we found, including Gino Forral and his little son Gavin, were ...
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In the face and on the green, there is no doubt Cheyenne Woods is related to her famous uncle, Tiger. But Cheyenne and Tiger Woods share more than golf.
Tiger ...
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The spread of golf courses threatens Britain's traditional landscapes, a report from the leading conservation authority will warn this week.
The sport's ...
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The drive goes past the silo, off the cliff, across the racetrack, over the waterfall, around the corner, over the trees, up the hill and onto the green.
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Rafael Nadal will swap the Wimbledon practice courts for a few days of golf with his friends back home in Spain as he tries to relax ahead of his latest ...
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I've got to admit I was skeptical. I guess I've gone on too many press trips where something billed as an "eco hike" turns out to basically a walk ...
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The tournament official in a green blazer standing guard outside the clubhouse at Muirfield Village can be excused for not recognizing the guy trying to ...
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They are two of the greatest sand shots in golf history. Paul Azinger has a hard time deciding which was better.
In 1993 at the Memorial, where he will ...
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There was no Claret Jug, no green jacket, no major championship trophy presented in Sunday evening's twilight at the TPC Sawgrass. For Sergio Garcia, ...
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Beep. Beep. Beep.
No, it's not the Roadrunner. Not the horn of a Smartcar either.
It's SAM -- a contraption fastened to my waist which is connected ...
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Leading environmentalists have raised concerns about the rapid construction of golf courses in Dubai after the emirate announced plans to establish itself ...
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The instructions are straight from the book on Pebble Beach Golf Links on how to play the sixth hole: "The optimum placement for the tee shot is left ...
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They are two of the greatest sand shots in golf history. Paul Azinger has a hard time deciding which was better.
In 1993 at the Memorial, where he will ...
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Golf is a game of endurance. Walking five miles on a course can be tough especially when it's July in the Quad Cities.
But one avid golf fan is putting ...
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Please let me teach you the spiritual significance of poa grass. Agronomists call it Poa annua L. Golfers have more profane names for poa when its afternoon ...
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Putting on our Sunday best ...
We may have finally found the man who can end Tiger Woods' reign: Father Time.
I'm not buying into the notion ...
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COLIN Montgomery put his positive start at the Celtic Manor Wales Open down to an unorthodox putting technique he only adopted two days ago, writes Simon ...
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When John Casolo hits a golf ball he usually smacks it straight and true down the middle of a fairway. On the 12th hole at Western Hills last week he used ...
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Another memorable shot, and another victory, for Phil Mickelson's impressive ledger.
Not the 9-foot birdie putt on the final hole that gave him a one-stroke ...
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Being a good miniature golfer can help you in regular golf, or as the professional mini golfers sometimes call it, “big golf.”
“When I play regular ...
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Beep. Beep. Beep.
No, it's not the Roadrunner. Not the horn of a Smartcar either.
It's SAM -- a contraption fastened to my waist which is connected ...
More