Los Angeles Times
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 was right.
Just a glance at all the books, magazines and DVDs out there peddling one "secret" or another would be sufficient to intimidate most newcomers, and to confuse "average" golfers enough that it's amazing they can even get the ball airborne. (30/06)
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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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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 ...
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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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Occasional golfer Allan Errington, 43, was averaging seven shots a hole while playing at a staff event.
But he hit a perfect shot on the par three 9th ...
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It was the classic golfer's gesture, a natural reaction to the euphoria of winning, but the moment Michael Campbell threw his ball into the crowd at Pinehurst, ...
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A unique golf ball that is more than 150-years-old and stuffed with goose feathers is to be sold at auction - and is expected to go for an staggering ...
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America's golf courses -- especially the ones played by the PGA Tour -- are getting longer and longer. Is the end in sight?
If you haven't noticed ...
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If Jack Nicklaus said it once, he said it 21 times at his recent news conference before the Memorial Tournament that he hosts each year at Muirfield Village, ...
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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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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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I have a confession to make: I've never played golf. But my interest in golf balls was piqued when I read that one had fetched $15,750 at an auction in ...
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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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Camilo Villegas is so ripped, the veins in his forearms bulge when he addresses the ball. His clothes are so hip, tight and colorful, you might figure ...
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The alligator had one thing on its mind when it glided from the shadowy depths of a golf course pond where Dwight Monreal was diving for golf balls Saturday ...
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For the first time since Tiger Woods picked up a golf club, there is no overwhelming favourite for a golf major. Gone, for a few months at least, are the ...
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Eleven of the 18 holes at Haywards Heath Golf Club were mistakenly treated with heavy-duty weedkiller, which has scorched the grass.
The club has apologised ...
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However, as people get less active they are often unable to continue playing the complete game.
With this in mind, Betty Bisdee decided some 10 years ...
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Occasional golfer Allan Errington, 43, was averaging seven shots a hole while playing at a staff event.
But he hit a perfect shot on the par three 9th ...
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I've always tolerated the game of golf. I even learned to enjoy it ... especially once my 21st birthday passed. I play Tiger Woods Golf on my Wii, I own ...
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Scotland's best-known star of the big screen was in the north-east yesterday to publicise a new film that will be used to promote the nation's golfing ...
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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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The golf carts parked outside the Willmar club where Ardel Stiles sometimes goes to dine with her husband gave her an idea: Why not make them legal on ...
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US Sikhs have accused the Golf Digest of slandering their religion by doctoring an image of their fifth guru in an article in the May issue of the magazine. ...
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A former secretary of one of Scotland's most prestigious golf clubs, sacked for improper conduct after he got drunk at a social event, has hit back at ...
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Manchester golfer Ed Kinney plays about 80 rounds a year, most often at Derryfield Country Club, where he's a longtime member. But he typically plays ...
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If that was art, if the 69th Senior PGA Championship was about portraits or landscapes or even bowls of fruit, it belonged not on the other side of some ...
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GOLF AND WAR HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH each other. More golf doesn't mean less war, more war doesn't mean ...
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At clubs throughout the country, the better golfers are suffering from the new edict that in matchplay the lower handicapper must now give the full difference ...
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The U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group (the "Group", comprised of Acushnet Company, Callaway Golf, Cleveland Golf, Nike Golf, ...
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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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Camilo Villegas is so ripped, the veins in his forearms bulge when he addresses the ball. His clothes are so hip, tight and colorful, you might figure ...
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On the third tee, a group of a dozen volunteers, including Gail Price, 88, a World War II veteran, is ignoring the pelting rain and laying new turf.
In ...
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If you receive a call offering to buy your golf club membership at double or even triple its value for a “small” processing fee, be wary. It could be ...
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Occasional golfer Allan Errington, 43, was averaging seven shots a hole while playing at a staff event.
But he hit a perfect shot on the par three 9th ...
More
It was the classic golfer's gesture, a natural reaction to the euphoria of winning, but the moment Michael Campbell threw his ball into the crowd at Pinehurst, ...
More
A unique golf ball that is more than 150-years-old and stuffed with goose feathers is to be sold at auction - and is expected to go for an staggering ...
More
America's golf courses -- especially the ones played by the PGA Tour -- are getting longer and longer. Is the end in sight?
If you haven't noticed ...
More
If Jack Nicklaus said it once, he said it 21 times at his recent news conference before the Memorial Tournament that he hosts each year at Muirfield Village, ...
More
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 ...
More
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 ...
More
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 ...
More
I have a confession to make: I've never played golf. But my interest in golf balls was piqued when I read that one had fetched $15,750 at an auction in ...
More
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 ...
More
Camilo Villegas is so ripped, the veins in his forearms bulge when he addresses the ball. His clothes are so hip, tight and colorful, you might figure ...
More
The alligator had one thing on its mind when it glided from the shadowy depths of a golf course pond where Dwight Monreal was diving for golf balls Saturday ...
Read