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Red Zone Tip: The Punisher Club
Golf Take the club you are chipping with, then take another club out of your bag and turn it over and hold the two clubs so the upside down club sticks out beside your left hip. When you chip the ball t...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

PGA Championship Contenders
Golf Who has the the best chance to win at the Atlanta Athletic Club. And yes, Tiger Woods has a shot. ...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf, golf news, Luke Donald, PGA Championship Contenders, Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, Stevie Williams, Tiger Woods

PGA Championship Hole by Hole
Golf ...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf, PGA Championship

Tiger's Former Bag Man Needs Reality Check
Golf   During his tenure as Tiger Woods' caddie, Steve Williams was no ordinary looper. Part enforcer, part bodyguard, part motivator, Williams ran interference for Tiger for a decade-plus of stunn...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Tiger Talk
Golf During his absence from golf, Tiger Woods has lost none of his ability to inspire intensely held opinions. On the occasion of Tiger's comeback round in the WCG-Bridgestone Invitational, we thought ...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf, Charles Barkley, Tiger Woods

Launch Zone Tip: Ball, Tee or Ground?
Golf Golf Tip: You’re standing on the tee with the driver in your hand with the ball teed up nicely. So which one — ball, tee or ground — are you going to hit? I always ask my students which ...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf, Golf Tip

Golf Tip: The Towel Pop
Golf Ball-striking is the term that's commonly used to describe the quality of contact between the clubface and the ball at impact. In pitch shots — and in all shots, for that matter — there'...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf, Golf Tip, Towel Pop

British Open quoteboard
Golf A sample of post-British Open commentary: • “I have 294 messages, and the writing is far too small for me to look at them in this state, so I may look at them tomorrow at some stage and fig...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

The British Open Contenders
Golf Rory McIlroy leads a deep pool of talent at Royal St. Georges ...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf, British Open, Luke Donald, Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, Royal St. Georges

British Open Hole by Hole Breakdown
Golf We take you on a tour of Royal St. Georges. ...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf, British Open, Royal St. Georges

Tiger Tease
Golf Need evidence of Tiger Woods' continuing hold over sports media types, even while he's sidelined with injury? Tiger tantalized us when word of a mysterious announcement leaked via Twitter. Comeback...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Age of Parity
Golf Parity, in the post-Tiger Woods era, is alive and kicking. Not counting the season’s first two majors, 10 straight PGA Tour events have been decided by one shot or in a playoff. The difference be...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf, Tiger Woods

Mastering the Greenside Chip
Golf David Toms is the hottest golfer on the planet at the moment, and we happen to have access to the guy who helped him get there, childhood friend and longtime swing instructor Rob Akins. Over the ye...
1 year ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf, golf tips, greenside chip

Choi Story
Golf   Random thoughts after a compelling Players Championship weekend: • The Tank lived up to his nickname. Players champion K.J. Choi was steady and solid, constantly moving forward, obstac...
2 years ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

The Players Championship: What They're Saying
Golf   Here’s a random sampling of thoughts from players heading into the PGA Tour’s flagship event, The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. Tiger Woods On his current drought: “Iâ€...
2 years ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Golf Loses a Legend
Golf   Maybe we loved him because we could identify with him. We were often hitting out of the woods, from bunkers, from parking lots, just like he was. The difference? Seve Ballesteros would ...
2 years ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Sir Charl
Golf   I pity the poor AP writer who had to bang out a recap of the madness that was this Masters Sunday. At times during the wildest final round in memory, visions of a seven-man playoff were danc...
2 years ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Warning Shot
Golf   Much like the 1,600 azaleas that line the 13th hole at Augusta National, Phil Mickelson’s game is in full bloom just in time for golf’s most prestigious gathering. Lefty went low thi...
2 years ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Monday Musings
Golf   Here’s your amazing stat of the day: Transitions Championship winner Gary Woodland did not miss a putt inside 20 feet on Sunday. He struck 17 such putts, and all 17 found the bottom of the...
2 years ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Monday Musings
Golf   U-S-A! U-S-A! After months of bemoaning the decline of American golf and watching the Euros climb to the top of the world rankings, I’m gratified to report that American golf’s demis...
2 years ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Rory Story
Golf   At times at this weekend’s Honda Classic, as players trudged around the windswept PGA National Champion course, it seemed that a U.S. Open had broken out. The Bear Trap, the Nicklaus-tough...
2 years ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Monday Musings
Golf   Luke Donald had cultivated the reputation of a British Adam Scott — an insanely talented underachiever content to cash the big checks and live the lifestyle but failing when it mattered mo...
2 years ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Monday Musings
Golf   The Northern Trust Open was almost the anti-Daytona 500. Instead of a young unknown shocking the world, a beloved fiftysomething battling the pains of advancing age nearly turned back time, ...
2 years ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Spit Take
Golf   Put me in line behind everyone who has already excoriated Tiger Woods for expectorating on the green at the Dubai Desert Classic. Even given all we know about Tiger, this was a new low. Cur...
2 years ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

Monday Musings
Golf   Conventional wisdom has long held that playing the Pebble Beach Pro-Am with Bill Murray is a recipe for failure. Murray’s on-course shtick is simply too distracting to the task at hand. It...
2 years ago by Rob Doster Tags: Golf

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