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Happy 80th Birthday, Arnold Palmer!

Arnold Palmer turns 80 today.  Today is really the culmination of several months' worth of remembering the life and career of one of this sport's all-time great competitors and people. Jay Busbee...

Should Tour Players Emulate Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson?

The parade of great pieces about the remarkable life and career of Arnold Palmer - soon to turn 80 - keeps rolling.  USA Today has a piece today that profiles Palmer's career around the time when...

A Day in Latrobe, PA: The King and I

During this time of year, the Pittsburgh Steelers are the big name in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.  The Steelers hold their annual summer training camp activities at St. Vincent College in the town.&nb...

If You Could Go to a Golf Tournament for Free, Would You?

This week, the Champions Tour (formerly the Senior PGA Tour - the 50+ guys) are in Minnesota for the 3M Championship.  The tournament is being contested at TPC Twin Cities and features a pretty d...

The Memorial is at Jack's Place, Why Isn't Tiger's National at His?

The One Eyed Golfer made an interesting observation the other day about players or golfing legends that have their own events on Tour.  Those in the more modern era (1960s and onward) has tournam...

Golf And The Power Of The Still Image

by Rob MatreFor Waggle Room Click to enlarge. To accompany Golf Viewing, my current exhibition of golf photographs at The Marietta / Cobb Museum of Art, I began to post daily photos with commentar...

The Hope, The Desert, and Tim Finchem

There has been a lot of ink written about why or why not the Hope will survive despite the rocky waters it has been treading for many years now.  With the exception of the George Lopez years, the...

On What Tier Does the Hope Belong?

Looking at the two fields for the PGA Tour and European Tour stops this week, it seems like the European Tour beat out Finchem in the battle of desert stops.  The Qatar Masters field simply crush...

Are PGA Tour Courses Too Hard ... for PGA Tour Players?

We touched on this a few days ago with a post about the very thick rough at Jack Nicklaus' Muirfield Village Golf Club during The Memorial. Doug Ferguson goes much more in-depth in an article today ab...

The Arnie & Jack Double

Jack Nicklaus has hosted The Memorial since 1976. Arnold Palmer has hosted Bay Hill - what is now the Arnold Palmer Invitational - since 1979. How many golfers have won both the legends' events? Just...


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