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What Are the Best Exercises for the Golfer?

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With all the talk about the players on tour getting stronger and more flexible, we hear a lot about exercising for golf from television commentators and read about it in the golf publications. But what exactly are the best exercises for the ... Read article

52 Ways To Stop Your Slice

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If there's one thing that haunts most golfers more than missing a 3-foot putt, it has to be slicing the ball off the tee. So this week I have written 2-different articles - the first being 52 Ways to Stop Your Slice and the second being ... Read article

A Golf Fitness Coach Equals Great Golf

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Golf fitness coach. Have you ever considered oneand if so, what exactly were you looking for? There are many general fitness trainers trying to get a piece of the golf fitness and training market that seems to be rapidly gaining exposure both ... Read article

Improving Your Golf Game, the Optimal Recipe

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There are hundreds, probably thousands, of articles about how to improve your golf. Just pick up any weekly or monthly issue of any golf magazine. You will read page after page on how to get better at your driving distance, how to improve your ... Read article

Online Golf Program Features and Benefits

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There are many features and benefits to look for when it comes to choosing an online golf program over a personal golf trainer who charges by the hour or lesson. In this article, I will focus on the most important benefits. I will be discussing ... Read article

Tips For Correcting A Golf Slice

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Correcting a golf slice is the fastest way to shave strokes off of your golf game. Slicing a golf ball is one of the most common errors that an average player makes.Some golfers remain frustrated for years because they never find out why ... Read article

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• LaCrosse, Song Lead Futures Tour's 2010 Grads
  5 Sep 2010 at 8:43pm
  The Duramed Futures Tour wrapped up its 2010 season on Sunday with the Price Chopper Tour Championship, which Cindy LaCrosse won by beating Jennifer Song in a playoff.

  And those are the same two players who ended the year ranked first and second on the tour's money list. The Top 10 on that money list earn their LPGA Tour membership for 2011. Those players are:

  1. Cindy LaCrosse
  2. Jennifer Song
  3. Christine Song
  4. Jenny Shin
  5. Gerina Mendoza
  6. Angela Oh
  7. Ryann O'Toole
  8. Tiffany Joh
  9. Hannah Jun
  10. Pornanong Phatlum

  Being in the Top 5 is what really matters; those from 6-10 receive a lower level of LPGA status. They do get to go straight to LPGA Q-School finals, and they'll need to take advantage of that and upgrade their status if they hope to play much on the LPGA in 2011. As an example, the Nos. 3 and 4 players from 2009, Misun Cho and Samantha Richdale, have each played 11 LPGA events so far in 2010. But the Nos. 6 and 8 players from the 2009 DFT list - Whitney Wade and Christine Song (yes, the same Christine Song who is No. 3 this year) - have each gotten into only one LPGA event in 2010.

  You'll notice there are two Big Breakers on the list above, Mendoza and O'Toole. Shin is only 17 years old, but she turns 18 in October and so won't have to petition the LPGA to waive its minimum-age requirement.

  LaCrosse had partial status on the LPGA in 2010, getting into two tournaments and making the cut in both. She's certainly a promising player after an excellent NCAA career. And LaCrosse was superb on the DFT in 2010, with three wins and 11 Top 10 finishes out of 15 starts.

  The player here with the best chance to be a real breakout presence on the LPGA Tour is Jennifer Song, a U.S. Women's Amateur champ, U.S. Women's Public Links champ, member of the American Curtis Cup team, NCAA All-American who had some strong showings on the LPGA as an amateur and since turning pro. She earned her LPGA card despite getting into only nine DFT tournaments, but she was in the Top 5 in six of those.

  What really bodes well for both Jennifer Song and LaCrosse are their scoring averages. Entering the last tournament, Song led the tour at 69.13 and LaCrosse was second at 69.53. In the last 11 seasons, going back to 2000, only one other player in Futures Tour history has posted a seasonal scoring average below 70: Lorena Ochoa, who averaged 69.267 in 2002.

  So Song beat Ochoa's scoring mark, and LaCrosse also set a new DFT single-season earnings record with $94,578.

  
  
• Jimenez Win Overshadows Youthful Challenge - and Mixed Message for Monty
  5 Sep 2010 at 12:37pm
  Miguel Angel Jimenez, the 46-year-old bon vivant, won the European Masters on Sunday. As someone said on Twitter a couple days ago, golfers the world over are abandoning the fitness ...

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• Another Unusual DQ on PGA Tour
  4 Sep 2010 at 2:16pm
  Yes, another disqualification on the PGA Tour, and like Jim Furyk's DQ for missing his pro-am tee time at last week's Barclays, this one was administrative in nature.

  Chad Campbell forgot to register for the Deutsche Bank Championship.

  PGA Tour players don't just show up and play. They show up, register by signing in, then play the tournament. Campbell got the show up part and the play part - he shot a 72 in the first round - right. He just forgot the "register and sign in" part.

  And, well, you can't finish a tournament that you haven't even registered for. So today, when the PGA Tour realized that Campbell never signed in for the Deutsche Bank, he was disqualified. What's odd about this one is that it took everyone until the second day of tournament play to notice.

  Unfortunately for Campbell, this means his FedEx Cup run is over. He entered the Deutsche Bank at No. 83 in the point standings, and only the Top 70 advance to next week's BMW Championship. So Campbell is out.

  Also unfortunately for Campbell, this isn't the first time he's done something like this. He told PGATour.com that he was once on a flight to Hawaii for the Sony Open when he realized that he had never committed to the tournament. He was flying to Hawaii for a tournament he wouldn't get to play.

  
  
• Woods Lives to Play Another Day
  4 Sep 2010 at 1:22pm
  Tiger Woods kept his tournament - and his season - alive with a second-round 65 in the Deutsche Bank Championship.

  After his first-round 72, Woods found himself near the bottom of the scoreboard. His 65 vaulted him well up the ranks, inside the Top 30 at the time he completed his morning round. He's not challenging the leaders, but he's well above the projected cutline.

  Woods needs to finish somewhere around 57th or higher this week to earn enough FedEx Cup points to advance to next week's BMW Championship. So missing the cut wouldn't just have ended his tournament, but his season. That's not a danger after the 65.

  Defending Deutsche Bank champion Phil Mickelson also had a great second round and, before the afternoon groups tee off, was threatening to crack the Top 10.

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• Nationwide Tour Will Get New Name - in 2013
  3 Sep 2010 at 5:39pm
  For the past eight seasons, the developmental tour of the PGA Tour - the Triple-A American golf tour to the PGA Tour's big leagues - has been called the Nationwide ...

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• NFL Legend John Elway Starts Colorado Senior Open with 72
  1 Sep 2010 at 4:28pm
  Legendary NFL quarterback John Elway carded an even-par 72 in the first round of the HealthOne Colorado Senior Open on Wednesday - the first round of golf for Elway in ...

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• New York Giants' Terrell Thomas Talks Golf
  1 Sep 2010 at 11:56am
  

  Terrell Thomas plays cornerback for the New York Giants, and he's coming off a great 2009 season. But when we had a chance to chat with him, Terrell wanted to talk golf...

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• PGA Tour Suspends Pro-Am DQ Rule
  31 Aug 2010 at 10:58am
  "> It's a week too late to help Jim Furyk, but the PGA Tour announced today it is suspending for the remainder of 2010 its rule requiring disqualification of any player who misses his tee time in the pro-am that precedes tournament play.

  You'll recall that last week at The Barclays, Furyk overslept when his cellphone alarm failed to sound. Upon waking, he rushed to the tournament site and arrived only minutes after his pro-am group teed off. But, since he missed the tee time, he was disqualified from The Barclays.

  The PGA Tour news release stated:

  "Hereafter, should a player be late for his pro-am starting time, the situation will be handled as a matter of unbecoming conduct. Such player will be required to participate in the remainder of the pro-am round and may be required to perform additional sponsor activity. A player who misses his pro-am obligation in its entirety will still be ruled ineligible for the tournament unless he has been excused in accordance with the provisions of the regulations.

  "The Commissioner has asked the Player Advisory Council and Player Directors to evaluate the current pro-am regulations to determine whether alternative measures can effectively ensure that players honor their pro-am obligations without placing them at risk of disqualification. The matter will be discussed at the Policy Board meeting in November."

  Following Furyk's DQ, PGA Tour player Joe Ogilvie tweeted:

  "I was on the policy board when we made the DQ pro-am rule, a mistake. Miss pro-am, should be a day with sponsor on players' dime, no DQ."

  Furyk's DQ for missing the pro-am wasn't the first such DQ of 2010. It happened to Paul Azinger on the Champions Tour a week earlier, and to three players - including a past champion - at the LPGA major Kraft Nabisco Championship several months ago.

  The DQ rule has been in place because most players hate playing the pro-ams. Without a stiff penalty for missing the pro-am, more players would probably come up with excuses not to play.

  But no doubt the DQ rule is very harsh, and it's good to see the tour looking for alternatives. Maybe the LPGA will follow suit.