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The home of golf is becoming not so sweet for both existing and proposed golf courses. A new golf course and proposed junior golf facility were rejected in Cumbrian, which is in northwest England.
Mr Cullingford said there was “no demonstrable deficiency in the provision of golf courses either in the Lake District National Park or [...]

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Ray Tennenbaum writes an interesting article for Golf Business Magazine on the sorry state of the golf industry, which has joined the residential real estate industry in the toilet. (Welcome - the water’s @&$#!) In any event, the article is an interesting one and spurred a great discussion at GolfClubAtlas.com on the subject. (There’s too [...]

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Nice interview with Nick Faldo at the Times. Although, I have to admit to amusement when the article’s author is amazed that Faldo hasn’t hit the hard drugs. Imagine a person of strong enough will, integrity and intelligence that they can find a release without turning to the crack pipe. Novel!
“EVER tried cocaine?” I ask. [...]

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You may have noticed that the “golf” folder has been dropped from the website. In other words, the site is located at www.earthgolf.com instead of www.earthgolf.com/golf. You shouldn’t have noticed any interruption - in fact, you may not have noticed it at all since a redirection is in place to keep everything running smoothly. But [...]

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A poll taken for what reason? The question: Rate the most difficult course within 100 miles of Pittsburgh. Not sure what the point of the survey was, but what the heck, huh?
Oakmont was the only unanimous choice among tournament sites, but a dozen courses received multiple votes. Laurel Valley Golf Club in Ligonier was [...]

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USA Today with PGA Tour rookie Brandt Snedeker conducted something of a test - Snedeker played consecutive rounds with equipment from the 1980s and modern equipment at Sea Island, Georgia.
He shot 80 with the 1980s era equipment and 75 with modern equipment.
Snedeker broke out in laughter when he saw an age-worn short iron that had [...]

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Golf course architect Jim Engh has spent the majority of his career designing courses out west and dabbled a little in Michigan. Reynolds Plantation had 81 holes of golf from the likes of Cupp, Fazio, Nicklaus and Rees Jones. The first 81 holes are good golf, as you’d expect from those four architects. But Reynolds [...]

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No - not a Running Horse update. I, along with my entire family, have been sick the past couple of weeks and that’s knocked me out of having time to update the site. Finally, we’re on the road to recovery and I’ll be updating the site once again.
How bad has it been? Even our dog [...]

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I admit that I love that headline. Geoff Shackelford has been covering this story at length on Walter Driver’s tenure as USGA president, but I want to throw it in here just for the sake of completeness to my own disgruntled feelings for the USGA’s continued lack of sensible technology control and absurd US Open [...]

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Golf course architect Graham Marsh recently opened a new course in Australia and gave his thoughts on what some of the problems with the game is as related to design.
“There are probably more golf courses closed here in the United States last year than were actually opened. And the reason is we are pitching golf [...]

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