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Brian Davis Shows Class In Loss To Jim Furyk At Harbor Town

By John Duval
Brian Davis hits from the hazard at Harbor Town

Growing up, I was taught that Golf is a gentleman’s game, meaning that it is a game where the players are expected to call rules violations on themselves, and where sportsmanship is the rule, not the exception. Golfers are taught etiquette and proper on-course behavior. While some people certainly don’t always adhere to it, the… »

Saturday Night Live Does The Masters

By John Duval
Saturday Night Live Parody Of The Masters

It’s Sunday at the Masters, and going into the back nine Tiger, Fred Couples, K J Choi, Lee Westwood and Phil Mickelson are all in it. It doesn’t get much better than that. I just wanted to share the following video from Saturday Night Live, in celebration of the… »

The 2010 Masters Tournament – A First Timers Visit

By John Duval
View of the 2nd (left) and 7th greens at Augusta National Golf Club

It is pretty safe to say that most golf fans will go their entire life without ever setting foot on the grounds at Augusta National Golf Club for The Masters. The biggest reason for this is that it’s so hard to get tickets. Tournament badges have not been available to the public since 1972, and… »

Hybrids Aren’t Always the Answer

By John Duval
Photo courtesy Golf.com

This article was originally published on June 29, 2009. I thought it would be a good time to update it with some new links and republish it for people to re-discover in case you had not seen it before. Enjoy! For many, hybrids have changed the way we play golf. I have been experimenting with… »

Tiger Woods’ Wife Elin Nordegren Visits Him in Sex Rehab Clinic

By John Duval

We haven’t written about Mr. Woods and his little personal drama in some time, and frankly it’s been nice. But as the speculation about his whereabouts and return date continue to mount, it seems there has been a newsworthy event recently that we feel obligated to cover. It seems like Tiger’s wife Elin Nordegren, who… »

Ryan Moore Stole My Idea!

By John Duval

Ok, so it wasn’t really my idea, but I’ve thought about doing it for years. People thought I was just nuts, but it makes perfect sense to me. PGA Tour star Ryan Moore seems to think so also. Moore debued a new set of forged irons this week at the SBS Championship that don’t have… »

Is It Time For Tiger To Come Out Of Hiding?

By John Duval

Oh, it seemed like so long ago when Tiger Woods crashed his SUV into a tree on Thanksgiving weekend. Do you remember where you were when you heard the news? OK, so it wasn’t a life changing event – at least not for most people. But for Tiger and what’s left of his family, it… »

Rick Reilly Is Wrong About Tiger

By John Duval
RickReilly

Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly recently came on ESPN to say that Tiger Woods needs to fire most of his entourage, skip the Masters and US Open in 2010, stop throwing clubs and swearing, fix his marriage and become more transparent to the media. I wasn’t sure what to make of these comments at first,… »

Quick Hits – Vol. 5

By John Duval
Tiger & Elin + Photoshop = Tasteless

By now I’m sure everyone is pretty tired of the whole Tiger Woods cheating scandal and the poorly photoshop-ed pictures, and many golf fans wish the whole thing would just go away. I live in Central Florida, so the local coverage is even more annoying, since there isn’t anything else going on. Most of our… »

Quick Hits – Vol. 4

By John Duval
Ryan Moore

Even though this is supposed to be the winding down of the regular season and the off season is looming, there is a lot going on in golf these days! There was the Hall of Fame Induction last week, and Phil and Tiger paired in the final round at the HSBC Champions in China, and… »

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