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How Annika Sorenstam's Career Almost Never Got Started
At the USGA Museum's photo exhiibit on Annika's USGA career, the Swede talks about how she was almost disqualified from her first US Women's Open win in 1995. It was also her first career LPGA Tour win. Who knows what may have happened were she never able to capture that breakthrough at...
The Club That Made the Shot Heard Around the World
The USGA Museum up in New Jersey has apparently acquired the 4 wood that The Squire Gene Sarazen used to make his double eagle two at The Masters in 1935 - the Shot Heard Around the World. But, as the USGA tells us, verifying that this club was THE club is tough to do. Sarazen died in 1999, ...
An Open Invitation from the USGA
The good folks at the USGA - namely their Senior Technical Director Dick Rugge - contacted me about my question in the Jim Vernon post today about when I could take a Tour of the facilities up in Far Hills, NJ. The answer? Almost anytime I want. And, that the invitation is open to anyone who...
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