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Oct
Sun

Rosaforte: Gainey a true rags-to-riches story

By Tim Rosaforte Tommy Gainey Sr.--the original Tommy "Two Gloves" Gainey--had to excuse himself and step outside. There was so much noise inside Bishopville CC in South Carolina on Sunday night that he couldn't hear. Up on a TV screen, his son, Tommy Jr., had just won the McGladrey Classic with a final-round 60 to beat three potential Hall of Famers, Davis Love III, Jim Furyk and David Toms. It was an open bar. "I'm telling you right now I'm the proudest papa in the world," Gainey said. "Tommy is such a good boy and for somebody to come from a small town like Bishopville, be a little unorthodox, never went to college and win on the PGA Tour? How hard do you think that is?" Photo by Getty ImagesWhen he was a boy, Tommy and his brother Allen would come to Bishopville CC in their bare feet and hit shag balls while their father played in his two gloves. Working in the factories as a material planner for 41 years, Mr. Gainey didn't have enough money to buy his sons two sets of clubs, so they shared. "I knew the talent Tommy had," his dad said. "He had a special talent ever since he started playing. What I'm so proud of, even though this year hasn't been great to him, is that somehow or another, he can find a 60 inside him last day of a tournament. That is just remarkable." Related: Gainey adds to PGA Tour's Year Of The Comeback What's remarkable is that Gainey started the day seven strokes back, or that he shot the lowest score on the PGA Tour in 2012, or that four years ago, and the Children's Miracle Network Classic, he shot a final-round 64 to finish solo second. It was his best finish on the PGA Tour until Sunday on St. Simons Island, Ga., but he didn't earn enough money to keep his card. The man that beat him that day was Davis Love III. That was the Tommy Gainey that Tommy Gainey saw on the mini-tours, or on the Golf Channel's Big Break, when he learned to play in front of the cameras. "It's tough being a daddy to start with," Gainey Sr. said. "But buddy to have a boy 37 years old out there, never been taught anything about golf, and he beats some of the world's best players, I feel so doggone good it almost hurts." What hurts so good is that this won't change Tommy "Two Gloves" Gainey. During the two-and-a-half-hour wait between when Gainey posted his 60 and Furyk, Tommy Sr. and Tommy Jr. talked on the phone. When Toms hit a drive, Tommy Jr. could hear Tommy Sr. rooting it into a fairway bunker. "He said, 'Dad, you can't pull against these guys," Gainey Sr. said. "I said, 'Tommy, those three guys they have everything, they're Hall of Famers." Related: Furyk has yet another close call in 2012 When it was over, Tommy Sr. headed back to his house in Bishopville so his wife, Judy, could punch the clock for the graveyard shift at the wood plant. He took early retirement when he was 57 but now, at 65, he does consulting work for A.O. Smith, the factory where Tommy Jr. worked as a teenager wrapping insulation around water heaters for $8.25 an hour. That was on the mind of Tommy Sr., and in the conversation with his son on the range at Sea Island Resort, as he hits balls waiting to see what Toms, Love and Furyk would do. "I told him he better hurry up and get home," Gainey Sr. said. "You've got a $2,000 bar bill at the club." Follow @TimRosaforte !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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Oct
Sun

Mike Keiser's going forward with Cabot Cliffs, built by Coore and Crenshaw

Mike Keiser made it official on a flight from Nova Scotia to Chicago last Thursday: There will be a second course at Cabot Links, the Cape Breton Island resort he co-owns with Ben Cowan-Dewar, and...

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Oct
Sun

Furyk: 'Another swing he would like to have back'

By John Strege A good swing need not be identified by its beauty, as the winner of the McGladrey Classic demonstrated on Sunday. Tommy Gainey has an unsightly motion they don't teach at golf school. "Everything about his golf swing is different," Golf Channel's Brandel Chamblee said. All the same, it features the hallmark of any good swing: Its ability to replicate itself with the consistency of a copy machine. Jim Furyk has one of those, too, an eyesore of a swing, homemade, but effective enough to have assembled a Hall of Fame career, at least by induction standards that have been re-defined by Fred Couples' 15 victories, one major. Furyk's numbers are 16 and one, a record achieved by his clubhead inexplicably following an identical circuitous route through to impact, "kind of like going from Philadelphia to New York by the way of Pittsburgh," the late Los Angeles Times columnist Jim Murray wrote. The problem now is that it gets lost en route to New York, at least late in the game, as it did again on Sunday. Furyk again had a chance to win, trailing by a stroke with three holes to play on the Seaside Course at Sea Island, Ga. He played them in one-over par and missed the green left off the tee at 17 and right from the fairway at 18. "Another swing in 2012 that he would like to have back," Chamblee said after his errant delivery at 17. The year can't end soon enough for Furyk, who has not experienced another like it in a PGA Tour career that spans 19 years. He once won tournaments in six straight years and nine of 10, but 2012 has produced only a series of disappointments that are at odds with his renown as a ruthless competitor. A recap shows four 54-hole leads (or a share of the lead, as was the case at the McGladrey) squandered on Sunday this year, including one at the U.S. Open. Then there was the Ryder Cup debacle, when he was one-up on Sergio Garcia with two to play in Sunday singles, finished with consecutive bogeys and lost. There is an upside to his year. It's almost over. Then there's this: Though 42, he has retained the ability to compete with the best players in the world (his eight top 10s ranked him tied for sixth on the PGA Tour. The issue is beating them. A swing that inexplicably made him a star has inexplicably begun to desert him when he has needed it most. 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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Oct
Fri

The Syllabus: Major flavor

By Ryan HerringtonA year ago I pleaded how the powers that be in college golf needed to remedy one of the biggest blights in the sport: the overlap of the U.S. Collegiate Championship and the...

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Oct
Fri

Trip of a lifetime: 'I was hit five times'

By Roger Schiffman Editor's Note: Golf Digest's Roger Schiffman is on a golf trip to Ireland with wounded U.S. veterans. After a long drive -- on the road in a coach bus from Old...

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Oct
Fri

Fitness Friday: Train your backside to stay in balance

By Ron Kaspriske Most amateur golfers have really strong quadricep muscles but their hamstring muscles aren't nearly as strong. The quads (front of the thigh) and hamstrings (back of the thigh) should work together...

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Oct
Thu

Rounds played soars, but with a caveat

By John Strege The National Golf Foundation reported Thursday that through August rounds played are up 7.7 percent over the same period a year ago, an otherwise promising number that is tempered by the unseasonably warm temperatures early in the year. "The real question is separating the weather from any sort of real growth or comeback in rounds," said Mike Hughes, CEO of the National Golf Course Owners Association. "That's the real question to delve into. I'm sure you saw the headlines in the spring, that we had the warmest weather on record. "They were playing golf in places like New York and athe upper midwest in January and February, which is is unheard of. It had a significant effect on the numbers. As far as the industry is concerned, we'll take it any way we can get it. But I wouldn't jump to conclusions that we've clawed back. We've been slow for the [previous] two or three years, slowly leaking rounds in the negative direction." Rounds were up 14.4 percent for the year in the East North Central region, which includes Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. It was up 11.3 percent in West North Central (from Kansas and Missouri up to North Dakota and Minnesota), 12.2 percent in the Mid Atlantic and 5.1 percent in New England. Rounds played on public access courses were up 8.7 percent over a year ago, while rounds on private courses were up 4.1 percent. 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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Oct
Thu

My Weekly Obsession

An editor's roundup of her favorite trends, gear, fitness routines and more.

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Oct
Wed

AJGA names 2012 Rolex players of the year

By Ryan HerringtonA summer's worth of success was rewarded for Matthew NeSmith and Ariya Jutanugarn when the pair got word that they had been named the AJGA's Rolex Boys and Girls players of the year. ...

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Oct
Wed

Groove rule effect: Stats show a return to mid-1990s

By Mike StachuraWhat if the groove rule, that much maligned restriction announced by golf's ruling bodies in 2008 in an effort to diminish the spin producing capacity of certain iron and wedge groove designs, the rule...