Tag Archives: Golf
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Check Out This Incredible Office Hole-In-One Putt (Video)
Setting up an elaborate mini putt course at the office? Sounds like a great idea for a Friday afternoon when the boss is away. I’m sure it’s been done many times. However, most of the time the employees aren’t going to goof off and then post the footage on YouTube. It’s a sure-fire way to [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 5/9/2013 — Roberto Castro
The $9.5 million prize fund at The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass is the richest of any tournament in pro golf. Moreover, the winner is awarded more points toward the world golf rankings than any tournament outside the majors; a five-year membership in the PGA; three-year invitations to the Masters, British Open, and U.S. Open; [...]
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Three-Legged Gator Interrupts Play During Zurich Classic at TPC Louisiana (Videos)
Think your local golf course has some nasty hazards? Try playing golf in Louisiana and dealing with the alligators. Just two days ago, PGATOUR.com correspondant Fred Albers wrote a nice little piece about the upcoming Zurich Classic golf tournament being held at TPC Louisiana. In that piece, he told a little story about a particular [...]
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Adam Scott’s Masters Winning Putt In Animated GIF Form
Yesterday, Australia’s Adam Scott became the first Australian to win the Masters, and in doing so he didn’t just make his golf-loving country proud. He also erased the bitter memory of last year’s stunning choke job at the British Open, where he bogeyed the last four holes and lost to Ernie Els by a single [...]
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New Evidence Suggests Tiger Woods Shouldn’t Have Been Assessed a Two-Stroke Penalty at the Masters
On Sunday, Adam Scott became the first Australian to win the Masters. It was a deserving victory for a deserving golfer, and he had some nice, heartfelt things to say about what the victory meant to him at the press conference after receiving his green jacket. Unfortunately, the near-disqualification of Tiger Woods on Saturday morning [...]
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Well That Didn’t Take Long: Tiger Woods Drops F-Bomb at The Masters (Video)
Tiger Woods may have the foulest mouth in golf, but we certainly won’t hold that against him. After all, cursing takes place in almost every sport (or, at least in the good ones). Have you ever heard the kind of language that gets tossed around on the ice during a hockey game? Or what is [...]
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11 Things You Might Not Have Known About The Masters
The 2013 Masters gets underway today in Augusta, Georgia, thus marking the real start of the golf year. However, the Masters isn’t just a big deal because it’s the first of the four major tournaments in men’s pro golf. It’s a big deal because no other tournament packs as much tradition and ceremony into five [...]
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Paulina Gretzky, Caroline Wozniacki and the Other WAGs of the 2013 Masters Are Out in Full Force (Gallery)
Every year, on the Wednesday before the Masters actually begins, they have a fun, light-hearted Par 3 Contest. In fact, “of all the traditions at the Masters, none is more endearing than the annual Par 3 Contest,” says the Masters’ official website. So you know it’s good. What makes it so “endearing,” though? Well, you [...]
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Watch Rickie Fowler Skip a Ball Across the Water and Onto the 16th Green at Augusta National (Video)
The start of the 2013 Masters Golf Tournament is less than 24 hours away, and if the video below is any indication, it appears as though Rickie Fowler has never been more prepared to make a run at his first Green Jacket. It features Fowler skipping a ball across the water hazard at the par-3 [...]
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Bubba’s Hover: A Golf Cart Hovercraft (Video)
In six PGA tournament appearances thus far this season, Bubba Watson has accumulated a total of $767,300 in earnings and 356 FedEx Cup Points, ranking him outside the top 35 PGA golfers in each of those categories. So perhaps Bubba should be devoting his off-time to help improve his game, and he has been doing just [...]
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Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer Take on Kung Fu Crime Syndicate in New EA Sports Commercial (Video)
Don’t look now, but it looks like Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods again. By that I mean, of course, that Tiger Woods is starting to look more like the guy he used to be before his predilection for cheating on his wife with porn stars and cocktail waitresses went public, and his golf game went [...]
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Sergio Garcia Shot a Ball Into a Tree, So He Climbed the Tree and Hit the Ball Out (Video)
Spain’s Sergio Garcia was already having a rough day at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill yesterday when he approached the tee on the 10th hole. The guy recorded an embarrassing 9 on the par-5 sixth hole—which sounds a lot like the way I play golf—and was 3-over par on the day and even-par [...]
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Amateur Golfer Swallowed by 18-Foot Sinkhole in Waterloo, Illinois (Video)
This story is going to sound like some ridiculous scenario out of Caddy Shack, but I assure you it is 100% real. I know, because I read it on the internet. Last Friday at the Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo, Illinois, just southeast of St. Louis, a 43-year-old amateur golfer from Missouri was swallowed by [...]
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Watch 9 Golfers Sink 9 Simultaneous Putts Into the Same Hole (Video)
Did you know that you can major in “PGA Golf Management” in college? Well, you can. There are 20 programs at universities across the United States that offer four year degrees accredited by the PGA, mostly run out of business or hospitality management schools. The idea, of course, is to provide specialized management expertise that [...]
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Phil Mickelson Takes a Spill at Pebble Beach (Video)
Just before the Phoenix Open a couple weeks ago, Phil Mickelson made some headlines by complaining about the new tax rates that will soon take effect. You see, old Lefty made somewhere between $45 and $60 million last year, and he’s a little miffed that the federal income tax rate for his bracket is going [...]
