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In a collapse nobody saw coming, Jason Day didn’t hit a green in regulation over his final six holes and lost the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational to Dustin Johnson.
Book Review: Easier Said Than Done
The other day, one of my co-workers and I were discussing the greatest instructional golf books ever written, the must-reads. After we went back-and-forth naming several of the usual suspects such as Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book, Dr. Bob Rotella’s Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect, and Tiger Woods’ How I Play Golf, he
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The History of the PGA of America
Once you gain access to the Qualifying Level of the PGA Professional Golf Management (PGM) Program, there’s a lot of reading to do. Lesson 1 is a Brief History of the PGA of America followed by a reading assignment online at pgamagazine.com. The following article was first published in April of 2006, the month of the
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Todd Sones: Reading Greens
My teaching career as an Assistant Golf Professional at La Paloma Country Club in Tucson is still very much in its infancy, but one of the most common questions I’ve received in my short time there is “How do you read greens?” Great question! At the Golf Academy, we learned that when it comes to
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Congratulations to Billy Hurley III on his 1st PGA Tour win! The Naval Academy grad made a 27-footer for birdie on the Par 5 16th hole to seal the victory at the Quicken Loans National ten months after losing his father to a self-inflicted gunshot wound.