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The number one ranked player in the Official World Golf Ranking, Tiger Woods, has been questioned after his latest competitions. However, Woods arrives at the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational as a leading candidate for the title. The golf betting entities still have Tiger Woods standing as the favourite even after Woods’ poor performances, which is...
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This week sees the British Open returns to the home of golf, as St. Andrews hosts the 139th British Open Golf Championship.  Last year the British Open Championship was held at Turnberry where veteran Tom Watson surprised everyone apart from himself as he almost lifted the trophy but lost a gripping 4 hole play-off...
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Well, it’s another sweltering day here in the south-east and memories of the long cold winter have all but faded.  I know some keen golfers that played all through the winter months; all the time golf clubs were open, that is.  But I am what is known as a fair-weather golfer and though some...
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Over the past few years there has been a marked increase in amateur golfers heading off to Europe for a weekend of golf whether as a business networking or bonding trip, golf society or simply a few friends using golf as an excuse to get away from the UK.  Spain and Portugal are among...
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Graeme McDowell is the first European golfer to win the US Open Golf Championship in 40 years. He rightly said it was a “career defining” victory and one that will elevate him to a lofty world ranking. Over the past few years the British contingent has become ever stronger with the likes of Ian Poulter,...
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There are around 200 golf courses in Wales but the most talked about course right now is Celtic Manor.  With just over 100 days to go it will be hosting the Ryder Cup 2010 as the best golfers in Europe take on the best from the USA. Two years ago the European Team, captained by...
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Next month the British Open returns to the home of golf, as St. Andrews hosts the 139th British Open Golf Championship.  It is also celebrating 150 years since Willie Park Senior won the very first ‘British Open Championship for Professional Golfers’ over three rounds of twelve holes on the famous links course at Prestwick....
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Belek Golf Club, the first integrated golf and residential community on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, is to become a European Tour Destination. The partnership with The European Tour will result in top-flight professional golf being staged in Turkey on a new José Maria Olazábal designed golf course, construction of which starts this autumn. Belek, 25 kilometres east...
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Straight Down the Middle: Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance, and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Golf Swing to give it its full title is a very amusing book by  journalist and keen amateur golfer Josh Karp. The book is an account of Josh Karp’s quest to achieve inner peace to improve...
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PGA Catalunya Resort near Barcelona in Spain has been ranked among the World’s Top 100 golf courses in a newly published list. The acclaimed 36-hole resort’s Stadium Course, which hosted the 2009 Spanish Open, was ranked 88th in the world by Golf World magazine, making it one of only two golf courses in Spain to...
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