I learned a new word recently.Bifurcation1. Division into two forks or branches (viewed either as an action or a state) - according to OED. I came across this word while reading Lawrence Donegan's post on two new golf balls made by Titleist to be made...
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Seve Ballesteros is among 32 former champions who have been invited to take part in a four hole tournament as part of the 150th Open anniversary celebrations on the eve of the Championship proper.
Ballesteros who has made a remarkable recovery from the four operations to remove a brain tumor diagnosed in 2008, stated last...
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Last week on the LET/ALPG, it was Laura Davies who got her 73rd worldwide win in New Zealand; this week, it was Karrie Webb who got her 46th overall and 7th at the ANZ Ladies Masters on the strength of a 64-61 weekend performance that brought her to -2...
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Sun Ju Ahn and Ji-Yai Shin are locked in an asynchronous duel in the final round of the JLPGA's kickoff event in 2010, the Daikin Orchid Ladies, just like they used to be 2 and more years ago on the KLPGA. Shin, going off 5 groups ahead of Ahn, is sho...
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JLPGA veterans Yui Kawahara, Yuko Saitoh, and Junko Omote are showing the tour's young guns a thing or 2 about taking advantage of moving day in the 2nd round of the Daikin Orchid Ladies. Saitoh and Kawahara posted the 1st 69s of the day to move up to...
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I had no idea there was such notoriety to the Classic Club, a former Bob Hope Classic site in Palm Desert. Talk to people around Palm Springs, and you'd think the course, located just off I-10, was actually built in a black hole. The receptionist at&am...
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The leaderboard at the Daikin Orchid Ladies is packed after round 1. Last year's Rookie of the Year Rikako Morita made 3 birdies on each side on her way to a tournament-leading 67, and fellow Young Gun Ritsuko Ryu matched her birdie-for-birdie but end...
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I see where Brazil's Alexandre Rocha, the world's 711th-ranked player, is hot on the heels of Nathan Green and Michael Connell in the Honda Classic after round one on the Champion course at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. To be honest, I don't...
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I wouldn't be surprised if Ai Miyazato's 2-event winning streak comes to an end this week in her 2010 JLPGA debut at the Daikin Orchid Ladies. Not because of fatigue, let-down, the added pressure of playing at home in Okinawa, or the vagaries of 54-ho...
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A crow took my golf ball.I know it did.I'd just come off a birdie and was thinking I had a chance to save a bad round. I nailed a drive straight down the middle of the fairway. It couldn't have been more middle.Then I'm sure a crow took it.I didn't see...
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