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Break The Hook Cycle

Video: To break out of the hook cycle, practice swinging your arms a little slower and turning your body more aggressively to the finish.

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Nov
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Stuff I Like: Stay Wired On Your Next Golf Trip

The best phones, batteries and chargers for golfers on the go.

13

Nov
Tue

A Pro Made Me A Better Doctor: Kevin Glynn

In this month's installment of "Golf Saved My Life," Kevin Glynn recounts how an aging golf pro gave him lessons in the midst of his failing health.

13

Nov
Tue

Money Clip: Fight Club

Seeking alternate solutions to golf's thorniest disputes.

11

Nov
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Beljan and the palpitating heart of a champion

By John Strege It no longer is easy to script a golf tournament, now that the Tiger era of dominance has waned, but who would have seen fit to inject paramedics, an ambulance and a hospital stay into the story line? Or a man concerned with dying on Friday prevailing on Sunday? The tournament still is informally called the Disney, but even Disney's imagineers could not have imagined how the week unfolded at the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic in the shadow of the Happiest Place on Earth, Orlando edition. Charlie Beljan's improbable victory was a feel good story that challenged the notion that interest in professional golf vanished when football season began. Maybe it does, but it emerged from its winter hiatus momentarily to see whether this story had a happy ending. A PGA Tour rookie, Beljan began the tournament fighting for his job, then began wondering whether he was fighting for his life, too. In Friday's second round, he encountered what he described as "maybe an anxiety or panic attack" that brought him to his knees at times, heart palpitations that had him fearing for his life, that saw him strapped to a gurney, wheeled into an ambulance and taken to a hospital, where he spent the night. "Probably the hardest day of my life," he called it. Oh, and he shot 64 and led by three. Thus a tournament about which few cared and a player with whom virtually no one was familiar began playing to a larger audience of those paying attention. Beljan even became a Twitter hashtag, #CharlieBeljan. "Charlie beljan you legend!!! My new favourite golfer top man," one Tweeter wrote. "Whose hotter: Johnny Football or CHARLIE GOLF???" wrote another. Johnny Football, Texas A&M's remarkable freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel who rolled the Tide on Saturday night, gets the nod by a wide margin; football is still king, after all. But it does speak to the impact Beljan had and the popularity of a victory by a man heretofore mired in obscurity. Beljan, 28, is a former U.S. Junior Amateur champion who won seven Gateway Tour events that served more or less to keep the dream from dying. Nearly a year ago, he achieved his goal, PGA Tour membership, by tying for 13th at the tour's qualifying tournament in La Quinta, Calif. Yet he came to this tournament ranked 139th on the money list, his job in jeopardy, pending a strong kick on the final lap of the PGA Tour schedule. Late in his round on Sunday, a three-stroke lead tucked away in his pocket, he turned to the Golf Channel camera, smiled and said, "I can feel my heart pounding." Not what one wants to hear from a man who two days earlier complained of shortness of breath and a racing heart. A few minutes later, however, he was tapping in for a bogey at 18 that enabled him to win by two. "I'm speechless," he said. "This is the greatest feeling ever." It ought to have felt oddly familiar, in fact, so much so that he might have considered recycling his response to surviving Q School late last year. "I never enjoyed a minute of it," he said then. "But I loved the result." Follow @JohnStrege !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

11

Nov
Sun

The Most Memorable Shots Of 2012

A look back at the golf season's brilliant (and not so brilliant) moments.

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Nov
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Pete Bevacqua named PGA of America CEO

By John Strege The PGA of America's search for a successor to retiring chief executive Joe Steranka has culminated with the appointment of former USGA executive Pete Bevacqua. It seemed a natural fit for an organization involved in both the business of golf and operating championship events. Bevacqua was the director of the U.S. Open for the USGA before becoming that organization's first chief business officer in 2007. Steranka announced in April that he would retire at the end of the year, his seventh at the helm of the PGA of America, an organization of 27,000 golf professionals and one that conducts the PGA Championship and the Ryder Cup. Related: How the U.S. lost the Ryder Cup Bevacqua, 41, is a graduate of Notre Dame and earned a law degree from Georgetown. He joined the USGA in 2000 as in-house counsel. He resigned from the organization in March of 2011, three weeks after the USGA appointed Mike Davis as its executive director, a position for which Bevacqua reportedly was a candidate. He also was rumored to have been a candidate for LPGA Commissioner, before the LPGA hired Mike Whan in October of 2009. Bevacqua, who has run the golf division of CAA Sports, a division of Creative Artists Agency, since May of 2011, is an accomplished golfer, carrying a 2.4 handicap index at Manatee Golf Club in Branchburg, N.J., and at Siwanoy Country Club in Bronxville, N.Y. Follow @JohnStrege !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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Nov
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Fitness Friday: The most common gym mistakes

By Ron Kaspriske   The problem with learning to play golf is that there are so many nuances, and the rules are so in depth, it's impossible to show up at a golf course...

09

Nov
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Special Deliveries

The golf postcard was once an affordable, efficient way for golfers to share a place, a time or a memory.

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Nov
Fri

Rick Smith: Recipe for the Fried Egg

Video: How to beat a fried-egg lie from Golf Digest Teaching Professional Rick Smith.