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Pros and Cons of Amateurism
Other than maybe Byron Nelson or Gene Sarazen after their 90th birthdays, can you think of a professional golfer with a double-digit handicap index? Well, I know one. Me. Sort of, anyway. It may well...
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Pros and Cons of Amateurism, Part II
In the last Thrash Talk I told you how I won a thousand bucks and a vacation in a mini-golf style putting contest and turned myself into the USGA. While I knew the rule of amateur status and expected...
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Hopes, Dreams, Plans, and Schemes for 2008
As I sit licking those Christmas financial wounds, I'm feeling a bit philosophical about my game. What will 2008 bring? Or, maybe more importantly, what will I bring to my game in 2008? Given the...
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Golf on Ice, 2008
At the risk of alienating those readers from tropical climates (lousy, spoiled, warm-weather wussies playing golf on 70° January days…), I thought this week's Thrash would be a good place to give you...
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Kelly Tilghmangate: A Seventy-Eighth Look
While I'm sure most people would be happy to have heard the last of the Kelly Tilghman Affair, after mulling the situation over for several weeks I've decided I would be remiss not to give it the once...
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Modern Marvels
In his February 8 Globe and Mail Column, virtuoso golf writer Lorne Rubenstein makes an interesting observation about televised golf: there is very little attention paid to architecture. While I am not...
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The Streak is Over, but the Beat(ing) Goes On
As I reckon most of you already know, The Streak (the latest one, anyway) is officially over. Someone beat Tiger Woods, finally, by two whole strokes, at last week's CA Championship at Doral, ending...
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Reid Sheftall’s “Striking it Rich” Book Review
One of the most often-touted explanations for the appeal of golf is that we play the same game, on the same courses, under the same rules, as the greatest players in the world. Is it any surprise,...
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Turning Up My Collar to Honor a Great Champion
As I read my last Thrash Talk it occured to me that maybe it would be interesting to focus on the historical standing of a player other than Tiger Woods… or Jack Nicklaus, or Arnold Palmer, or Ben...
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The Pornification of Golf
One of the most talked about aspects of the last two Masters tournaments has been the effect of the recent, dramatic architectural changes on the nature of the competition. Golf fans, like those of any...
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