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Get A Look at the New Road Hole - Now, With More Road
As we first told you last October, the R&A had been plotting a forty yard extension of the hole by creating a new teeing ground across the hole's actual road namesake. At a press briefing today at St. Andrews, Royal & Ancient chief Peter Dawson officially unveiled the new Road Hole at the...
The Road Hole? Try the Rail Hole: R&A to Lengthen World Famous 17th at St. Andrew's
A few weeks ago, John Hopkins noted in his Spike Bar column that the R&A may well have been floating the notion of lengthening the world famous Road Hole at St. Andrew's just in time for the 2010 Open. Yesterday, it became official. The R&A is lengthening the Road Hole to 490 yards for...
Turnberry May Not Be Ready for the Open Championship
Looking at Twitter this morning, I saw a link posted with a message wondering if Turnberry would be ready to host the Open Championship in July. Last I had paid attention to Peter Dawson was when he had the press conference to announced the 250 yards or so of added length at Turnberry for the...
9 Fascinating Golf Stories of 2008 - #4-1: The Rest of the List
Here at Waggle Room, we're going to do the cliche thing around this time of year and do a countdown of the top such and suches of the year. For us, we're going to do the 9 golf stories from the year that fascinated us. I realized the other day - as the ball was dropping in Times Square (ok, not...
R&A and ESPN Agree to 8 Year Deal
As we reported yesterday, ESPN winning the R&A contract was in the bag after Turner walked away from the table. The winner was announced officially today by the R&A. The R&A and ESPN have reached an eight-year agreement that will place all four rounds of The Open Championship live...
Golf in the Olympics: Presentation Day
Do you remember the day in 4th grade when you had to give your quarterly science project presentation? It was probably about the water cycle or something like that. But, you sat around all period hoping that maybe it would spill over to the next day and you would have JUST ONE MORE DAY to...
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