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Kapalua LPGA Event is Dunzo After One Year
Morgan Pressel will be the only winner of the Kapalua LPGA Classic. The event will not be played this year because of the inability of the resort to find a title sponsor. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports: "We need to have a title sponsor to host the event and unfortunately we were not able to...
The Aging of Golf, Part 1: The Next Generation of Golfers
Golf is a sport that has always had a fairly negative stereotype. It has been long viewed as a sport (by some, not even as a sport) that is played by rich, older, white men. The stereotype of the sport has held the game down in many ways. The data that the golf industry has today, though, seems...
Happy National Golf Day!
Sure, you may think that today is just May 13th. But, my friend, you are dead wrong. IT'S NATIONAL GOLF DAY TODAY! via www.dog-birthday-parties.com (Yup, that's right.) Screw you, Mother's Day. What a waste, Arbor Day! It's National Golf Day. This is the one day per year in which you can...
Tiger Woods: THE American Stimulus Package
Sure, the Federal Reserve Bank has added trillions of dollars to its balance sheet to backstop financial institutions that made insane leverage of their money, bad loans to uninformed consumers, and terrible use of unregulated financial instruments with the unrealistic expectation that housing...
Fred Couples Dropped by Cadillac
Fred Couples has been sponsored by Cadillac for an awfully long time, but that ended when Cadillac - owned by General Motors - informed Couples that they would be dropping their name off of his shirts. This is a bit old, but I hadn't seen it and wanted to link to the Naples Daily News report if...
Sirak: PGA Tour Players Should Take 2% Pay Cut in '09
Hey, it's December. The economy is hurting, the Big Three are likely to go bankrupt in one fashion or another, and we're still not sure when we're going to come out of this financial meltdown that we face. At the same time, the PGA Tour announced a schedule that is basically unchanged from last...
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