Billy Paultz Reconsidered

about this is how low the number is. Only four out of 10? Most golfers aren’t having sex once a month anyway.

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Notes on a (triumpant?) return from vacation….

If somebody told you in April that in late June, Freddy Garcia, Brett Myers, Tom Gordon and Jon Lieber would all be on the DL, and Garcia and Lieber likely done for the year, you’d be wondering if the Phillies could catch the Nationals, not the Mets.

Considering their run-prevention […]

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I know it was three days ago, gimme a break, I’m on vacation….

The defense for Jim Furyk hitting a driver on the 17th hole on Sunday is that he’s one of the best golfers in the world, and he certainly knows his own game better than anyone.

It’s a real argument. I’m not dismissing it. The problem is it’s the […]

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It all revolves around Tiger, of course.
There’s a certain type of course and course setup on which he’s not the best player in the world - extreme tests of target golf like Winged Foot, Oakland Hills, South Hills, Oak Hill, Baltusrol.
Almost all of his worst performances in majors have been on such courses. He finished […]

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Three years ago I followed Michelle Wie around Manada Golf Club near Grantville as she played a practice round for the following day’s qualifier for the U.S. Public Links.
Wie, a Hawaiian, spent most of that summer touring the mainland, playing in tournaments and qualifiers, with an entourage that included her parents, a caddie on loan […]

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