Archive for the Golf History Category


Pro Golfers Use Twitter To Tweet To Their Golf Fans

Pro golfers twitter their way into fans’ hearts. Professional golfers are going back to the people thanks to technology. In the old days of pro golf, the big-name players were mostly happy to rub shoulders with ordinary folks off the course. Modern golf doesn’t allow for such intimacy, with the increased money involved, television coverage, […]

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Annika Sorenstam Announces She’s Preganant

A couple of years ago we figured she was a super hero. Now we know she’s human after all. Annika Sorenstam, former World No. 1 and the most dominate female golfer of the past generation announced Thursday that she and husband Mike McGee, are expecting their first child. The announcement came on her website after […]

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HomeofGolf.TV Goes Live – Watch The First Episode

From: Andy Brown Currently enjoying a shot of Lagavulin after a sunny day filming in the Home of Golf St Andrews, Fife Wednesday, 18:21 p.m. Hi there, I have finally launched http://www.HomeofGolf.TV On 24th January I announced my idea in this blog post and on the strength of the 150 favourable comments I have produced […]

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Catch Natalie Gulbis and me chatting about golf

A short but sweet message to say you can catch me discussing golf on Twitter most days. Just sign up in a few seconds and click “follow” to catch my latest golf news and conversations. Recently Natalie Gulbis joined Twitter and I believe many more professional golfers will also join in 2009. I asked Natalie […]

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Tearful Sorenstams ends career with birdie

Even for an ice-cool Swede, the significance of a birdie-putt was too much and the emotion poured forth. Annika Sorenstam has made thousands of birdies in her life, some to win major championships. But this one was different because this was the final birdie of her professional career. Sorenstam birdied the 18th in her final […]

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No More Slumps!

All of us, regardless of our skill level, have at times, swung the golf club very well. And, I imagine all you fortunate readers who’ve completed Andy’s course — The New Four Magic Moves To Winning Golf— swing the golf club exceptionally well at times. But what makes this game so frustrating is not the […]

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Harrington Follows Braid into Record Books

As the challengers fell away on Sunday afternoon it looked like it was going to be a case of last man standing. Then Padraig Harrington reminded us why he is such a great champion. Harrington was four under for the last six holes and that included some of the best golf of the week. And […]

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Download Free 2008 Open Championship Factsheet

Following on from the success of the 2007 Open Championship Factsheet ,the 2008 US Masters Factsheet and the 2008 US Open Factsheet I have produced one for the Open Champioinship at Royal Birkdale. This 2008 Open Championship Factsheet is perfect for bringing you right up to speed for the event starting on Thursday 17th July. […]

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99 Reminders of Maurice Flitcroft

We’ve all dreamed of playing in the Open. For most of us those dreams remain safely in our imaginations. A lucky few live the dream. Others drive themselves demented trying. And the regional qualifying for the Open is a step on the road to those dreams. An obstacle to be overcome as you strive to […]

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Open Returns To Thompson’s Great Stage

Success in sport can be a fickle mistress. Whatever the record books say there is very rarely an undisputed champion. Allan Wells won the 1980 100m gold at the Olympics. But the Americans weren’t there so, for some, it is an achievement forever diminished (that Wells went on to beat them all weeks later is […]

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Armour’s Immortal Memory Sustains Scots

With Alistair Forsyth and Colin Montgomerie slugging it out over the gargantuan Torrey Pines South layout this week it is easy to forget the early dominance Scotland enjoyed as golf developed into a transatlantic obsession. Scottish golfers won 12 of the first 16 US Opens and Willie McFarlane added another in 1925. Perhaps Scotland’s most […]

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Remembering Old Tom Morris

May marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Old Tom Morris. For many Morris is merely a name in the record books. An Open winner in a time when it didn’t really mean that much. But Morris was one of the pioneers that created the idea of a professional golfer as we understand it […]

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Masters Starter Harison Dies at 82

If you’re not going to make it in sport then the next best thing is to have a ringside seat as the drama unfolds. That was certainly true of Phil Harison, one of the most famous voices in golf. Harison, who has died at the age of 82, was the starter at The Masters for […]

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Shark Comes Out of Hiding in Shanghai

In an era before Tiger Woods, there was Greg Norman. Sure, he didn’t win as many majors – two British Open titles to be exact – but that never stopped the Great White Shark from being one of the golfing world’s best drawcards. That was more than a decade ago, though, and the former world […]

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Practice Like You Want to Play

I have spent the last few weeks on the road with some of my students at Futures Tour Events in Florida. These were the first events of the season and as expected, I learned a lot about my student’s games. I always say a golfer has four games or swings: They have their practice range […]

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