Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Feb 5, 2012, 11:42 pm
PAUL Lawrie may have been a tad embarrassed to hear he’d been likened to Nick Faldo in his prime but the Aberdonian certainly produced a final-day performance the six-time major champion would have been proud of in winning the Qatar Masters for a second time yesterday. “If you win that many majo...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Nov 18, 2011, 3:46 am
Thousands of people who enjoy a game of golf this weekend may unwittingly be putting their home at risk. True, the risk is infinitely small, but a £400,000 damages award against a golfer and golf club after another golfer lost an eye in an accident demonstrates the extent of damage awards in an inc...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Oct 3, 2011, 3:27 am
Tiger Woods is no longer officially considered one of golf's top 50 players, ending a streak that extended back 15 years. According to the official World Golf Ranking, the 35-year-old Woods entered the weekend as the sport's 50th best player. But he lost that standing when Louis Oosthuizen finished ...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Jul 21, 2011, 4:16 am
U.S. golfer Tiger Woods said Wednesday he is officially splitting with longtime caddie Steve Williams after 12 years together. In a statement released on his Web site, the former world No. 1 thanked Williams and indicated a replacement has not yet been chosen. "I want to express my deepest gratitude...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Jun 30, 2011, 6:00 am
It seems an unlikely tale. A pro golfer from England uses the golf shafts from a company in Canada to become top-ranked player in the world. Well, it became true at the end of May when Luke Donald won the BMW PGA Championship on the EuropeanTour and ascended to the top of the world rankings. It is q...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Jun 16, 2011, 1:39 am
Joshua Munn loves golf and there's no denying he has the talent that will see him reach his ambition of turning professional in the next three to four years. Winning the Muriwai Open near Auckland last month by one shot with a 12-under-par total, in an event where the amateurs are there to make up t...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Jun 1, 2011, 1:38 am
Keegan Bradley needed some cowbell. As Bradley walked down the 18th fairway during a playoff at the Byron Nelson Championship on Sunday in Dallas, he began to realize he was about to get his first PGA Tour win. That’s when Bradley started getting emotional thinking about the cowbell. The one that ...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - May 3, 2011, 3:39 am
Lee Westwood won for the second straight week and that helped him strengthen his grip atop the latest world golf rankings. Westwood's lead over No. 2 Martin Kaymer moved from 0.13 average points to 0.67 average points. The top two were unchanged from last week as were the next three spots with No. 3...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Apr 19, 2011, 3:02 am
The results of the Valero Texas Open had little effect on the World Golf Rankings as of Monday. The majority of the well known participants faded on the weekend and opened the door for several lesser known competitors to make their way to the top of the leaderboard. In the end, Brendan Steele carded...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Apr 5, 2011, 2:22 am
Lee Westwood can joke about it now, but the world golf number two had a bit of a scare when their private jet from Houston to the Masters made an emergency landing after a fire in the cockpit. The Englishman, a runner-up at last year's Masters to Phil Mickelson, had played the PGA event and was flyi...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Mar 22, 2011, 11:54 pm
The Spa Laterra at World Golf Village recently held reopening festivities. Located adjacent to the King & Bear golf course, the destination day spa offers a full complement of massages, facials, body scrubs, wraps, makeup artistry, hair care and nail services. Spa Laterra was purchased last summer b...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Mar 8, 2011, 12:23 am
In exactly one month from today (April 7, 2011), the 2011 Masters Tournament is set to tee-off at one of the most heralded and recognizable courses in the history of golf: Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, GA. Defending champion Phil Mickelson will join some of the best players in the world to...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Feb 22, 2011, 2:15 am
Golf is not a sport for mathematicians. It doesn’t require a degree in rocket science to be able to add, despite the body of evidence with disqualifications of many players for not adding right. At one time – a distant time – knowing the best player in the game at any one time was easy. It was...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Feb 14, 2011, 2:35 am
Watching Dwight Clark take part in Tuesday's Google Charity Shootout brought me back to 1982 when Clark was catching a memorable pass that helped the San Francisco 49ers reach the Super Bowl. As a kid in college who still believed I was going to be an Olympic sprinter in 1982, I set foot on Pebble B...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Feb 8, 2011, 2:13 am
There are two types of fundamentals that a golfer must learn: (1) Pre-swing and (2) In-swing. The pre-swing fundamentals are those things that happen before any movement occurs. These are static rather than dynamic fundamentals. Fortunately for us, these pre-swing fundamentals have a direct bearing ...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Feb 2, 2011, 12:20 am
Bubba Watson's second PGA Tour win helped him improve 15 spots to No. 18 in this week's world golf rankings. The top three remained the same with Lee Westwood first followed by Martin Kaymer and Tiger Woods. Phil Mickelson took second place behind Watson and moved up two places to No. 4. Graeme McDo...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Jan 27, 2011, 3:00 am
Tiger Woods strolled into Torrey Pines on Wednesday, albeit without the famous limp he used when he won the U.S. Open in thrilling fashion in 2008. Woods and Rocco Mediate had a tantalizing duel in a 19-hole Monday playoff, but Woods is back for the first time since then. We remember that Monday, an...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Jan 18, 2011, 2:22 am
With Phil Mickelson making his season debut in Abu Dhabi this week, and Graeme McDowell already having come tantalizingly close to earning a playoff berth in Kapalua, a significant storyline for the week will be if McDowell can pass the Masters champion for 4th in the Official World Golf Rankings. A...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Jan 10, 2011, 1:02 am
Australia’s top golfers will be bringing their A-game to Kingston Heath Golf Club tomorrow with arguably the most sought after prize in world golf up for grabs- a spot in the 2011 Open Championship at Royal St George’s. A total of three spots in The Open field will be available on Tuesday when I...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Jan 5, 2011, 2:39 am
Site: Kapalua, Hawaii. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: Kapalua Resort, The Plantation Course (7,411 yards, 6,777 meters, par 73). Purse: $5.6 million. Winner's share: $1.12 million. Last year: Australia's Geoff Ogilvy successfully defended his title in the winners-only, season-opening event, clos...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Dec 29, 2010, 2:22 am
Europe claims six top-10 finishers to four from the United States in the year-end Official World Golf Rankings, out Tuesday. As everyone awaits the start of the 2011 season, here are the top 10 of your final 2010 OWGR lineup: * 1. Lee Westwood* 2. Tiger Woods* 3. Martin Kaymer* 4. Phil Mickelson* 5...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Dec 23, 2010, 1:56 am
Based on the final 2010 World Golf Rankings, 13 players have qualified for the 2011 Masters. Among the group are only two Americans, Rickie Fowler and Sean O'Hair. Since there are no more tournaments this year, the final rankings were released Monday. The Masters sends out automatic...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Dec 8, 2010, 4:54 am
2010 Chevron World Challenge wrapped up on Sunday, 5th December at Sherwood Country Club in California. Graeme McDowell seized the trophy of the tournament along with the cheque of $1.25 million and capped the PGA Tour with fourth title. The results went against the predictions. For the ones who mis...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Dec 1, 2010, 2:02 am
Like a tsunami that begins on the other side of the equator, the great comeback has begun. Tiger Woods' final nine of the competitive golf season – at least coming into this week's Chevron World Challenge at Sherwood CC – was a 6-under-par 30. His final round was a 7-under-par 65. His finish was...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Nov 24, 2010, 12:39 am
If you had to pick 20 golf courses that stand at least a half inch taller than others in the category, Best in the World, where would you start? Scotland, Ireland, the US, England, Australia? That’s where most of the world’s existing golf courses are.  Many are exceptional, so much so that the...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Nov 23, 2010, 12:23 am
In the birthplace of golf, I saw a puppy, not a putt. The little dog raced across the Old Course's fine low grass, his mistress behind. Nearby, families posed on the Swilcan Bridge -- the bridge that Jack Nicklaus kissed in 2005 during his final British Open. How is it that the ordinary person can ...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Nov 15, 2010, 3:17 am
In the 1970s, into the 1980s and even through the 1990s, I thought golf had one very strong advantage over tennis. While tennis might have its top three players playing in three different tournaments around the world in a given week, you always knew the top golfers in the world would be playing in t...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Nov 12, 2010, 5:21 am
It has been over five years since the Jammu and Kashmir government conceived a plan to ‘modernize’ the world’s highest Golf Course here in a bid to give fillip to the tourism sector by promoting Gulmarg as a ‘favourite’ Golfing destination. But as on date, the work on the prized turf is st...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Nov 11, 2010, 5:34 am
Tiger Woods opened his Australian Masters title defense with a 2-under par first round that leaves him four shots behind the three leaders. Woods, the world's No. 2-ranked golfer, recovered from an early bogey at the Victoria Golf Club to hit three birdies at the 6,886-yard (6,297 meter) course...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Nov 10, 2010, 5:26 am
Site: Melbourne, Australia. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: Victoria Golf Club (6,886 yards, 6,297 meters, par 71). Purse: $1.52 million. Winner's share: $273,200. Last year: Tiger Woods won at Kingston Heath, closing with a 4-under 68 for the last of his 82 official worldwide victories. Greg...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Nov 9, 2010, 3:10 am
World rankings on Monday (U.S. unless stated, last week's positions in brackets): 1. (1) Lee Westwood (Britain) 8.84 average points 2. (2) Tiger Woods 8.21 3. (3) Martin Kaymer (Germany) 7.96 4. (4) Phil Mickelson 7.73 5. (5) Steve Stricker 7.07 6. (6) Jim Furyk 6.98 7. (7) Pau...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Nov 8, 2010, 3:28 am
US golfer Tiger Woods and Thai golfer Thongchai Jaidee met Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at the Government House on Monday to donate part of proceeds from the ticket sale of a golf tournament to help flood victims. They donated 2.2 million baht to help people affected by flooding in the country....
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Nov 4, 2010, 6:20 am
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to golf fans around the world that American ace Tiger Woods is no longer ranked as the top golfer on the planet. It didn’t come as a shock to Woods himself as he could see it coming based on his mediocre play of late. What it does represent though is a new...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Nov 2, 2010, 3:14 am
Pakistan slumped to 53rd from its pervious ranking of 47 in the world Amateur Golf Team Championship (men) for Eisenhower Trophy which concluded at Buenos Aires on Sunday with France winning the title. The championship was reduced to three rounds as the second round was suspended due to stormy condi...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Nov 1, 2010, 2:59 am
Tiger Woods’s record five-year reign as the world’s top-ranked golfer is over, marking another low point in a torrid 12 months for the 14-time major champion. Lee Westwood took over top spot in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time, becoming the only European player to top the list ...
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Brad C. posted an article on Brads Wonderful World of Golf - Oct 20, 2010, 3:17 am
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