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Backs to the Futures: Running Out of Gas
Last week I was in Albany, NY for the Duramed Futures Tour Championship and met some great people there. I roomed with Ashley Prange - some of you know her from the Big Break. She is a great girl and we had a lot of fun. We played in a small pro-am on Monday and then headed to a welcome dinner for...
LPGA Cards Secured By Futures Tour Top 10
Cindy LaCrosse won her third Futures Tour event of the season on Sunday - putting an exclamation point on her #1 status on that tour - and nine other players joined her in securing LPGA Tour cards for the 2011 season. Jennifer Song, Christine Song, Jenny Shin and Gerina Mendoza completed the Top 5...
Futures Tour Finale
There's no LPGA action this holiday weekend but the Duramed Futures Tour holds its final event of the season, the Price Chopper Tour Championship in Albany, New York. The DFT website will be streaming live video from the 1st tee and the 18th green all three days of the tournament and will provide...
Back to the Futures: Back from Vacation and Onto Q-School
I finally got myself together and made some improvement these last two events! Nothing great, but at least made a few checks and saw some good things. I feel like I have learned so much this year and it has all come to light at once. It was certainly the boost I needed going into our last event...
Futures Tour Experimenting With Web Streaming of Events
Many fans of women's golf complain about the lack of TV hours dedicated to the LPGA Tour - even with their new Golf Channel arrangement - and the Duramed Futures Tour, which has no national television deal. Over the years, a number of fans & writers have wondered if women's golf could grow its...
Back to the Futures: Battling Out of A Slump
Well, this is my fourth missed cut in a row. It doesn’t feel good. I’m frustrated, disappointed and a little mad. But this week is over and so I now have to look on to the next tournament. That is what you have to do as a professional sometimes. Evaluate your performance and make a plan...
Sarah Brown & Futures Tour Settle for Undisclosed Package
On Sarah Brown's Geocities-ish website today, there was a new post indicating that Brown and her father/caddy Keith had reached a settlement with the Futures Tour concerning compensation for the erroneous DQ of Sarah at last weekend's tournament. The post on the site says that there is a...
Thanks to Sarah Brown, Maybe Now We Can Regulate the Golf Ball?
This whole Sarah Brown wedge DQ situation has led to a blamestorming summit of sorts. In the moment, the Duramed Futures Tour officials that pulled Brown off of the course and mistakenly disqualified her were to blame for an arrogant attitude toward a player and the obvious error in judgment. ...
Sarah Brown & Her Dad Are Making Some Hefty Demands of the Futures Tour
There is no disputing that the Duramed Futures Tour and its rules officials Jim Linyard and Kelly Wergin committed a big mistake when they disqualified 18 year old Sarah Brown in the midst of her final round of last weekend's event in New Hampshire. Not only was the wedge in question that...
When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Player Mistakenly DQ'd for Grooves
One of the major challenges that the USGA said they would have in implementing the new groove regulations was enforcement. The organization was struggling with a consistent measuring technique that could be taken on the road and used by the staff of the major tours. Aside from the...
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