We all love golf course rankings, but there's quite a bias involved, huh? Host a major championship and you're basically guaranteed a spot on the list. What about the average duffer who's more impressed with the beer list than the slope/rating - or prefers friendliness over the fine, imported lotion in the locker room? Where's our list, hackers? Answer: Right here.
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A tradition in Carson City, Nev., the Divine 9 Road Trip is a party on wheels. Participants play nine courses - such as Genoa Lakes Golf Club and Dayton Valley Golf & Country Club - two holes each, all over the course of 11 hours - plus share laughs, stories and spirits along the way.
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I've been slumming it out on cheap public courses my entire life. At one point, aren't I entitled as a lifelong golfer to finally enjoy the fruits of my suffering on a well conditioned, thoughtfully designed private course from one of the game's premier architects?
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In 2009, the FedEx Cup is the last big event-ish-like thing-y that Tiger Woods can win, his final chance to save his season and possibly golf. If Steve Stricker wins, everything Tiger has accomplished in his career is for naught.
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Like many of you out there, I have long been dazzled by the ability and charisma of Sergio Garcia. I fully bought into the idea that Sergio could be the next Seve Ballesteros and provide Tiger Woods with a generation-long challenge. And I, like many others, was terribly, terribly wrong.
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Forget all the lessons you took from golf pros. Forget the straight left arm, proper posture, head still, full shoulder turn, pronate, supinate, belt buckle to target, complete follow through, right elbow in pocket and the zillion other things some guy charged you $40 a half hour to remember. There are only two lessons you'll need in order to be a good golfer.
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Like it or not, folks, when it comes to golf, us old guys rule. The average age of an avid golfer is in the mid-50s, and 78 percent of that group is male. Here are the top 10 reasons why old timers love the game so damn much ...
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George W. Bush doesn't have much longer to figure out his next career move after the Oval Office. BadGolfer.com columnist William K. Wolfrum has preliminary reports that Bush will take up golf course design, starting with a massive project in Saudi Arabia.
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One group is constant in every golf club; their names change but their clothes don't. They are R.O.B. (Rich Old Boys) at my club; they may be the super seniors at yours. They have their own forward tees and they play midweek in the morning. You know these guys, always smiling, having fun. And in every club I know they have one distinct characteristic. They dress REALLY BAD and they don't care.
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Slow play is the pimple on the ass of golf. Everyone hates it, but they don't know how to get rid of it. It's a good thing golfers aren't armed, as it would prove too tempting to pick off the guy in the group in front as he retrieves his fifth ball out of the pond.
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Being young, artistic and heterosexual, Miami photographer and tyro duffer Ray Alonso began to view the golf courses he played, with their sensual curves and mounds, through a different lens. He made his musings manifest via the Bare Essence of Golf calendar.
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I have no problem with dating services. I tried one myself one time, and got lucky - she insisted on cleaning my kitchen before we went out. But meeting for the first time on a golf course strikes me as a bad idea.
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They were graying, they had enough money to live on a golf course and they were in love. They called out Rush Limbaugh's name as he walked down the fairways, pleaded for autographs the way the others in the crowd screamed for the rock stars.
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Vince Coleman may be just about the last athlete you'd expect to be finding happy refuge in the slow, steady rhythm of golf. It's still hard to imagine one of the fastest men in baseball doing anything slow. But now, retired and living in a town that worships golf, Coleman can hold his addiction to the game up with anyone's.
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Charles Barkley has become something of a golf ambassador in his post-playing days. One of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players of All Time might be almost as well known these days for his putrid golf game.
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Get Carson Daly off TV and you'll find one of most polite celebrities anywhere. He didn't just play to the fans at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic while the cameras were on or reporters were watching. He charmed the volunteers, particularly the older women, clearly coming off as the celebrity in the field they'd most like their daughter to date.
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Yankees legend Reggie Jackson was inside the ropes for Tiger Woods' magical U.S. Open win at Torrey Pines. BadGolfer.com caught up with Mr. October to discuss Woods, Jackson's passion for golf, and George Steinbrenner.
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How's Aaron Rodgers, the 24-year-old never-been-an-NFL-starter quarterback set to replace Brett Favre as QB of the Green Bay Packers, handling the pressure? He's golfing. Rodgers played in the American Century Celebrity Championship at Lake Tahoe, where he spoke to BadGolfer.com about Favre, gearing up for the season and his golf game.
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Professional poker player Daniel Negreanu has always wanted to be a real athlete. Now, with the launch of the High Stakes Golf Tour on ESPN, he and other top gamblers can show off their chops in high stakes competition on a Las Vegas golf course.
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