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The Handicap System's Real Flaw Isn't Sandbagging
Walk into any club bar after a Saturday medal and you will eventually hear it: someone accusing someone else, usually with a laugh that does not quite reach the …
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In Praise of Fall Golf
Every golfer has a favourite month, and most of them will tell you it is May or June, when the course is fully in, the light lasts until nine, and the whole …
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Strokes Gained Is a Tool for the Clubhouse, Not the Living Room
Turn on a PGA Tour broadcast on a Sunday afternoon and within the first few groups someone in the booth will mention that a player has gained 1.8 strokes on the …
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In Praise of the Course That Never Asks Who You Are
There is a nine-hole course a short drive from most towns of any size, the kind of place with a pro shop the size of a garden shed, a cart barn that has not …
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In Defense of Golf's Most Hated Format
By the time this week’s BMW Championship finishes at Bellerive, the field will have shrunk from 70 to 50 to 30, and the survivors will head to East Lake …
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In Praise of the Runaway Victory
Every so often a tournament ends the way this week’s did in Memphis, with the leaderboard settled by Friday teatime and Sunday reduced to a procession. …
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Golf's Strangest Rule Is Also Its Best One
Picture almost any other sport and imagine asking the competitors to referee themselves. A footballer waving away a penalty because the contact was actually …
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The Best Drama in Golf This Week Has Nothing to Do With Winning
Nobody outside Greensboro gets especially excited about the Wyndham Championship on the merits of the golf course. Sedgefield is a good, honest Donald Ross …
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In Praise of the Nineteenth Hole
Ask most golfers what they remember about a round played three years ago and the scorecard rarely comes up first. What comes up is the conversation afterwards, …
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In Defence of the 36-Hole Cut
There is a particular Friday afternoon feeling that only exists in professional golf, the one where a player standing over a six-footer on the 18th green is not …