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by GolfIsland:: Wed 30 Sep 2009:: 5:33 am
2009 is coming to a close, and that means the new 2010 models for putters will soon be available, but which is really worth the money?
PutterZone.com has listed the top choices for the best putters in 2010. The contenders, so far, are:
-Robert Bettinardi’s new line of BB Series and Studio B putters
- Slotline’s 600 Series [...]
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by GolfIsland:: Sun 27 Sep 2009:: 8:49 am
Hilton Head Island has long been associated with amazing golf, but when did this start? The first golf course on Hilton Head Island opened in 1961, but this golf island truly began its journey to a treasured golf destination with the 1969 opening of Harbour Town Golf Links.
Harbour Town Golf Links hosted the first Heritage [...]
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by GolfIsland:: Wed 23 Sep 2009:: 8:49 am
Tour Blog Golf recently wrote about a golf outing where a coyote rushed out of the brush, picked up the golf ball and carried it about 40-50 feet away before dropping it again. The ball, which was originally almost to the green, was now in a lousy position.
Tour Blog Golf wiped the ball clean [...]
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by GolfIsland:: Sun 20 Sep 2009:: 9:09 am
After speaking to and interviewing many golfers, Mr. Business Golf has come up with the top 5 things on a golfer’s mind. Read the top 5, then tell us if you ever think of these things while golfing.
1. The Cost – Many of the golfers interviewed were thinking about the cost of playing and learning [...]
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by GolfIsland:: Wed 16 Sep 2009:: 9:09 am
Everyone loves a great golf vacation, but it can quickly fall to ruin if your clubs are broken by a baggage handler. The Travelling Golfer has some tips on how to protect your golf clubs when flying.
Whether you’re traveling domestic or international, you must have a traveling golf case to protect your clubs. There are [...]
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by GolfIsland:: Sat 12 Sep 2009:: 5:29 am
Congratulations to the Arthur Hills Golf Course at Palmetto Dunes, which was named 2009 Golf Course of the Year by the South Carolina Golf Course Owners Association. The Island Packet reports that the Arthur Hills is the first Beaufort County course to receive the honor since the Robert Trent Jones Course at Palmetto Dunes [...]
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by GolfIsland:: Wed 9 Sep 2009:: 5:29 am
Earlier this month, the Lowcountry Golf Course Owners Association named its 2009 employee of the year as Mandas “Sammy” Mulrain. Mulrain, who is 93 years old, has been employed at Palmetto Dunes for nearly 30 years. Over his 30-year career, he has an impressive work record, never arriving late or missing one of his shifts. [...]
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by GolfIsland:: Mon 7 Sep 2009:: 11:30 am
Have you heard of the new Nike 360 Fitting System? Golf.com describes it as a system designed to measure all aspects of your game to give you the perfect, full-bag custom fitting.
During the Nike fitting, they test several aspects of your game, including fairway game, ball spin and control, lie angle irons and launch [...]
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by GolfIsland:: Fri 4 Sep 2009:: 11:30 am
Most golfers practice on a routine basis with the mindset that practice makes perfect. A recent blog post from Life in the Rough notes that practice does not make perfect; it makes permanent!
Practice is great, but if you are practicing the wrong techniques, then you are just making those incorrect techniques permanent.
Here are a [...]
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