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Sep
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Fitness Friday: Warm Up Your Shoulders to Prevent Tendonitis

Every week my colleague Ron Kaspriske, Golf Digest Fitness Editor, presents Fitness Friday on the Instruction Blog. This week he shows you how to prevent elbow--and even shoulder--pain. Look for Weekend Tip tomorrow, and remember...

07

Sep
Fri

Fitness Friday: Warm Up Your Shoulders to Prevent Tendinitis

Every week my colleague Ron Kaspriske, Golf Digest Fitness Editor, presents Fitness Friday on the Instruction Blog. This week he shows you how to prevent elbow--and even shoulder--pain. Look for Weekend Tip tomorrow, and remember...

07

Sep
Fri

Tiger And Friends

A look at some of the "bromances" struck up between Tiger Woods and fellow PGA Tour players through the years.

06

Sep
Thu

GoBe Golf joins hybrid golf shoe fray

By John Strege The movement away from traditional golf shoes (those featuring spikes) to hybrid golf shoes that can be worn on or off the course has a new entrant, GoBe Golf. "We have...

06

Sep
Thu

Busy opening weekend for Men's Top 25

By Ryan HerringtonOn your mark. Get set. Go!Sixteen of the top 25 teams in the Golf World/Nike Golf men's preseason Division I coaches' poll kickoff their 2012-13 seasons this weekend in various tournaments around the...

06

Sep
Thu

When it comes to politics, most tour players lean right

By Sam WeinmanPresident Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte will draw millions of viewers Thursday night. How many of those viewers will be members of the PGA Tour? Probably not many.That golf is believed to skew Republican is nothing new, a stereotype reinforced most memorably by that hardliner Judge Smails of Bushwood Country Club fame. (Sample quote: "I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. . . ") But it's on tour where Democrats are said to be about as popular as Top-Flites.The reasons for this vary. The tour has a strong devout Christian contingent. It also has a number of players who, though not necessarily religious, hail from Southern states that traditionally lean right. And yes, a lot of it has to do with money, a sentiment summed up by the tour player Joe Ogilvie on Twitter. "My vote=Romney," Ogilvie wrote. "I'm a social Democrat & fiscal Republican. Fiscal issues far outweigh the social issues, for now. Obama clueless fiscally."Related: Golf + Politics, A Delicate DanceWhat's important to remember is that this is hardly a new phenomenon. Back in 1993, when there was another golf-loving Democrat in the office, and another Ryder Cup was imminent, a mini-controversy erupted when many players on the U.S. team refused to meet with President Clinton before the matches. The episode was chronicled in John Feinstein's landmark account of the PGA Tour, A Good Walk Spoiled:"There wasn't a single member of the team who had voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. None of them liked the Clinton plan to tax the wealthy one bit. The politics of the team were probably best summed up by U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen, who said, 'Where I grew up you were better off telling people you were a garbage man than a Democrat.' "Related: Golf brings Obama and Clinton togetherIt finally took the intervention of U.S. Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson, who insisted that the team respect Clinton as the country's "First Golfer" for the players to accede to a meeting. But it hardly changed which way the tour leaned.In 2004, Golf Digest polled 34 tour players about who they'd be voting for in the election between George W. Bush and John Kerry. Eight were undecided or didn't want to say. The other 26 said they were going with Bush. Follow @SamWeinman !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");

06

Sep
Thu

Love tabs Michael Jordan as advisor to U.S. Ryder Cup Team

By Derek Evers Michael Jordan watches from the gallery during the 2010 Ryder Cup. Photo: Timothy A. Clary/Getty ImagesMove over Matt Foley, there's a new motivational speaker in town. Michael Jordan will once again be riding along with the U.S., this time at the Ryder Cup, as the American team attempts to win back the Cup in his hometown of Chicago. The 49-year-old, six-time NBA champ served in a similar capacity in 2009 as an assistant captain for Fred Couples at the Presidents Cup, which influenced Love's decision. "I told Michael this a couple weeks ago. One of the neatest things I ever saw in the Ryder Cup was Michael riding in the golf cart with Tom Kite." Love told reporters on Tuesday after announcing his final selections for the 2012 Team. "He came out to watch Freddie and I play and I thought that was one of the coolest things."Related: Michael Jordan's swing sequence "So I want my team, like Fred and I did, to get to see Michael. Rather than him sneaking around in the gallery, I want him to be seen and I want him to be in our team room, be hanging around and be a great influence." While his presence might not have a big impact on their performances, having an athlete of Jordan's caliber in their corner should provide some instant motivation. After all, he can still dunk, and even had an outside chance to actually play on this year's Ryder Team. Follow @derekevers !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");

06

Sep
Thu

Love tabs Michael Jordan as adviser to U.S. Ryder Cup Team

By Derek Evers Michael Jordan watches from the gallery during the 2010 Ryder Cup. Photo: Timothy A. Clary/Getty ImagesMove over Matt Foley, there's a new motivational speaker in town. Michael Jordan will once again be riding along with the U.S., this time at the Ryder Cup, as the American team attempts to win back the Cup in his hometown of Chicago. The 49-year-old, six-time NBA champ served in a similar capacity in 2009 as an assistant captain for Fred Couples at the Presidents Cup, which influenced Love's decision. "I told Michael this a couple weeks ago. One of the neatest things I ever saw in the Ryder Cup was Michael riding in the golf cart with Tom Kite." Love told reporters on Tuesday after announcing his final selections for the 2012 Team. "He came out to watch Freddie and I play and I thought that was one of the coolest things."Related: Michael Jordan's swing sequence "So I want my team, like Fred and I did, to get to see Michael. Rather than him sneaking around in the gallery, I want him to be seen and I want him to be in our team room, be hanging around and be a great influence." While his presence might not have a big impact on their performances, having an athlete of Jordan's caliber in their corner should provide some instant motivation. After all, he can still dunk, and even had an outside chance to actually play on this year's Ryder Team. Follow @derekevers !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");

06

Sep
Thu

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05

Sep
Wed

Ping pong leads to Ryder Cup rivalry

By Dave Shedloski CARMEL, Ind. -- Ryder Cup tension already is running high here at the BMW Championship. USA vs. Europe? Nope. Phil Mickelson vs. Matt Kuchar. On Wednesday, in the clubhouse at Crooked Stick GC, the two Americans rejoined their rivalry on the Ping-Pong table, and there may have been more shots fired in the aftermath than during Mickelson's come-from-behind 11-7 victory. Related: A closer look at the U.S. Ryder Cup team Their friendly table-top feud began two years ago at the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor in Wales when Kuchar usurped Mickelson as the top American Ping-Pong player and it continued last year at the Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne in Australia. Wednesday's match was unscheduled, and, according to Mickelson, unwise. "I wasn't prepared to play him until the Ryder Cup. But he forced me to play. He called me out, and I spanked him," Mickelson said. "I think he's reeling a little bit, feeling bad. I can tell it affected him; he had a very poor aura thereafter. It was a monumental day." Kuchar called into question the outcome. Usually they play until the winner reaches 21. This time it was an "Olympic-style" match to 11. "Phil beat me. Not sure it was totally fair and square, but he beat me," Kuchar said. "I'm definitely a little bit irked about it. I am going to make sure that it's not going to happen again. We play at all of the team matches and I have dominated him. But today we just played to 11, and he took the first serve. He said I'm serving first. "At 21 he doesn't stand a chance of beating me." Replied Mickelson: "I don't know if he should really be talking smack right now when I handled him pretty good. But if it makes him feel better, then whatever he wants. I was down 7-3 and won 11-7. I peeled off 8 in a row. I got dialed in, and he had nothing for me." Related: A frame-by-frame look at Kuchar's swing Whether or not there is a rematch later this week remains to be seen, but Kuchar was looking ahead to the Ryder Cup at Medinah CC near Chicago later this month. "He's talking big now, but he'll have to step up at the Ryder Cup," Kuchar said. Stay tuned. Follow @DaveShedloski(Photo by Getty Images) !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");