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2012 WGC-Accenture Match Play Brackets
It’s one of the greatest weeks on the golf calendar, the World Golf Championships – Accenture Match Play. Who will survive the desert? Don’t forget, it gets underway on Wednesday, 22 February! Here’s your preview/predictions: The World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship is one of four World Golf Championships events which debuted in 1999 (won by Jeff Maggert over Andrew Magee in 38 holes). It is sanctioned and organized by the International Federation of PGA Tours. Eligibility for the Accenture Match...
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Pre-Tournament Media Notes ***Click Here for Tournament Bracket*** Dates: February 20-26, 2012 Where: The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Dove Mountain, Marana, Ariz. Par/Yards: 36-36 – 72/7,791 Field: Top 64 from the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) as of February 13, 2012 Format: Match Play (hole-by-hole competition) Defending Champion: Luke Donald (England) Purse: $8,500,000; Winner’s Share: $1.4 million Accenture Match Play Championship seeding to be based off OWGR as of Monday, Feb. 20. The Accenture Match Play Championship will again...
read moreStop Me if You Have Heard This One
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A Swede, a Columbian and an Irishman walk into a scoring trailer… Never mind, you definitely know the punch line and we’ve all heard this one too often. Peter Hanson was stung by a one-stroke penalty in 2010 at Majorca when a super slow motion camera caught the sole of his wedge double-hit the ball. The evidence was indisputable; only, Hanson didn’t even know it happened as the ball rebounded in the mere fraction of a second off the flange of the wedge. Has this ever happened before? You can by...
read moreFairways of Life – Listener Packages
Fairways of Life Couples Package Available now through February 28, 2013 at The Lodge Package starts at $1000* per night for two people **Two nights luxury accommodations at The Lodge ** One round of golf per person per day ** A choice of one 1-hour golf lesson or one 60-minute Essential massage at The Cloister Spa for each guest **One dinner for two at Colt & Alison ** A welcome amenity *2-night package. Rates are per room, per night; $35 daily resort fee and tax are additional. Reservations for room and activities are based upon...
read moreMizuno MP-59 Ti Muscle Irons
Driven by Atlantic moisture, the morning was strikingly cold, the kind of cold that is difficult to shake, as if it permeates your bones regardless of the layers of clothing uselessly employed to ward it off. The doorbell pierced the gloom, but instead of lifting me from my deep-winter blues, I was annoyed by the intrusion. Whipping the door open I was verbally coiled to strike out against the gutter salesman or soul-saver that had invaded my cosset of self-pity. Standing outside my castle’s gate stood a package delivery man looking...
read more2011 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
ShotLink Keys to Victory for D.A. Points D.A. Points picked up his first career PGA TOUR win at the 2011 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. For the week, Points was solid tee-to-green ranking T-16th for total driving and T-14th for ball striking. D.A. missed 11 fairways for the week (44 of 55) ranking T-7th in the field for driving accuracy. On the greens of Pebble Beach Golf Links he missed just 1 putt inside 10 feet (31 of 32) ranking T-2nd from this distance. He also ranked 5th in the field for putts gained outperforming the field...
read moreThese Guys are good…Tweeters!
These Guys are good…Tweeters! Matt McBreen The following was developed by Matt McBreen, a high school student from Rhode Island. An avid sports and social media fan, Matt spent a week inside the ropes at a FedEx Cup event learning about how PGA TOUR stars use twitter, and what a high school student learns inside the ropes at the 2011 Deutsche Bank Championship. “Although not all players are active Twitter users, the results of my survey at the DBC show that 83% of the DBC field use some form of social media and 75% use it to interact with...
read moreCharlie Sifford Blazes a Trail
Charlie Sifford did not set out to be a trailblazer. Armed with an iron constitution and a profound love for the game of golf, the former caddie persevered through the vilest of human cruelty. Charlie Sifford broke the color barrier in golf, becoming the first African-American to play on tour (and the first to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame). Sifford will turn 90 years old this June. In human years, his has lived to a ripe, old age, but in the span of human evolution, it is frightening to realize that this man was middle aged...
read moreA Golfer’s Resolve Forged in Vietnam
Larry Nelson is one of the most unique and distinctive golfers ever to have graced the pages of the game’s long history. Not only is he the holder of three Major championships, but the stories of his performance in the Ryder Cup (particularly his first two, in 1979 and 1981) are legendary. What many do not know about Larry is that his steely resolve was not the by product of endless summer days of privilege spent perfecting his craft at his parents’ country club. Rather, Larry is a product of a blue collar background...
read moreGood-bye, Seve
Seve Ballesteros was European golf’s Picasso; his brush, a golf club, his canvas, a golf course. He possessed a vision and creativity that we could not comprehend. Time and again, we would marvel at the shots he would create from positions that any other would have conceded to unalterable fate. Many have called him, “the Arnold Palmer of European golf,” and that comparison is not without merit. Palmer won seven Majors and sixty-three events on Tour. Ballesteros won five Majors and fifty European Tour events (First, all-time), and an...
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