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If you’re playing golf this Saturday, please take a moment to check this website to see if the course is participating in Patriot Golf Day. It’s a $1 donation to a very worthy cause.
Play Golf America - Patriot Golf Day
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A sad day - blogger and golf course architect Jeff Mingay announced that he’s moving on to other things and will no longer update his blog. That’s a real loss to the golf blog community. Jeff only had 29 blogs - the first of which appeared on January 1st of this year - but the [...]

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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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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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Oobgolf.com has a really neat course search tool. The only problem I see is that, at least in my neck of the woods, it’s missing a few courses and a few courses aren’t in their right location. However, as it’s updated, the tool could prove to be fairly useful.
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Tom Clavin pens an interesting piece on a golf course that takes some work to get to, but the effort is well rewarded with a Seth Raynor masterpiece - Fishers Island Golf Club. The article includes the history of the island and insider tidbits - like the fact the island’s only grocery store is open [...]

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Nothing new to report on the golf course that features four holes inside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but USAToday’s Larry Olmsted blogs on the Brickyard Crossing. The Brickyard is hardly the greatest spectacle in golfing, but I felt it necessary to use the Indy 500’s tag line in commemoration of my home state’s biggest event.
It [...]

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Well, not exactly - but sort of. The Country Club of the South is a very exclusive, high-end subdivision in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta. Home of singers, athletes and other well-to-do folks, the subdivision is also the location of a Jack Nicklaus golf course bearing the name, you guessed it, Country Club of the [...]

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From a press release.
Leisure Development Limited, the developer of the new Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club in Machrihanish, Scotland is pleased to announce that Euan Grant, formerly Head Greenkeeper of the Old Course at St. Andrews, has joined Machrihanish Dunes as Keeper of the Green. In this role, Euan will work with David McLay Kidd [...]

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I try and do my best to check my political commentary at the door, so I only offer this as a “tidbit”.
Viewers of Country Music Television were 20 percent more likely to do so, and viewers of the Golf Channel were 31 percent more likely to have said they were Republicans [than the general population].
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