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Palmer, Woods Talk of Support for Ball Rollback
What a firestorm that USGA ball test leak might have caused. First it led to Geoff Shackelford's reporting of participant anecdotes from Canada. We added some crucial details of the history of this and prior tests. Then, in consecutive days, legends of the sport were asked about the subject and...
Jack Nicklaus: Your New Travel Agent and/or Sous Chef
Coming on the heels of draining a 100 foot putt to commemorate the opening of his new MIchigan track, Jack Nicklaus is apparently going the way of Annika Sorenstam and branching out into new and exciting businesses. A couple of e-mails related to the Golden Bear hit my inbox today to share the...
What Stops Me From Writing Off Tiger Woods
Joe Posnanski - one of my favorite storytellers, much less sports writers - reacted to Tiger Woods' T23 at the Open Championship by openly questioning if the Tiger Woods Era is done. Sure, reasonable question. When they aired The Hills finale, I openly wondered if Lauren Conrad might finally...
Rose Finally Wins on the PGA Tour
Justin Rose always knew he had the game to win on the PGA Tour; he just never expected the road to be so arduous after he burst onto the scene at the 1998 British Open as a 17-year-old amateur. Since then his career has taken a number of diabolical turns -- including 21 consecutive missed cuts --...
Jack Nicklaus, Suck It Up and Play the British Open Champions Exhibition
For seemingly months, the greatest golfer of all time has wavered about his participation in a special four-hole exhibition before this summer's 150th anniversary of the Open Championship. Jack Nicklaus said that his playing in the exhibition of all living Open champions was contingent upon what...
Muirfield Village Gets '13 Presidents Cup
As first reported by the AP last week, Muirfield Village will get the 2013 Presidents Cup. The PGA Tour made it official today and a press conference at the Memorial with Jack Nicklaus will detail the move. Muirfield Village held the Ryder Cup in 1987 and Solheim Cup in '98. Muirfield Village...
Elin, Jack, and Butch Harmon All Offer Clues to Tiger's Return
It seems that many of the details of Tiger Woods' private matters are out in public now. The natural progression of speculation will now shift to wondering if and when Woods will return in 2010. Three people very crucial to his career and personal life may well hold some answers. First up is Jack...
Gary Nicklaus Has A Helluva Backup Plan
Gary Nicklaus threw his name in the hat for the first stage of Q-school last weekend in a bid to return to the PGA Tour after a six year hiatus. He didn't get through the first round, so what was the guy to do? Simple. Become the Vice Chairman of your legendary golf dad's companies. From...
Are We Watching Golf's Lost Generation?
The term "Lost Generation" was coined some ninety years ago when Gertrude Stein tried to define an era of American writers that lived and wrote in Europe following World War I. Those writers were part of an era of youth that came to age during and just after the war. Having lost so much from the...
Show Me the Money: Tiger vs. Jack
The One Eyed Golfer must have known that I was going to take him up on his challenge to compare the lifetime earnings of Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus. Basically, he wanted to make a dollar for dollar comparison (in 2009 dollars) of the careers of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods at present. ...
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