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Nike’s marketing may really pay off in 10-20 years…

Every few days my boy and I jump onto the course where we live and find golf balls. It’s a fun way of doing a father/son bonding thing. Today’s take was 101 golf balls. It’s funny to see how my…

Goodbye Jack, and thank you

I couldn’t hold back the tears as I watched Jack Nicklaus’ last professional competitive round this morning. Above is Jack’s last tee shot on 18 at St. Andrews. He ripped one down the middle 300+. (The ball just goes too…

Category: European Tour, Golf Media, PGA Tour

Virtual tour of St. Andrews

You can get a great virtual and real tour of St. Andrews on the Open Championship’s official site. They have a flash version which is nice and within the same window is the actual video flyby of each hole. Very…

Welcome to British Open Championship Week

Now that it is 12:01am on the Monday of British Open week I’m making my first related post! I’m calling it the British Open because that’s what us Americans call it. Yes I know it should be called “The Open…

Harvey Penick was a blogger, he just didn’t know it

If you don’t know who Harvey Penick is you are missing out. Harvey Penick is probably the most famous golf instructor of all time. For decades he was the instructor at Austin Country Club. Many of the most famous pros…