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07

Aug
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The Train Wrecks We Can't Help But Watch

Choking isn't anything to be ashamed of in golf. If anything, it's inevitable.

06

Aug
Mon

Getting right clubs creates new challenges

This summer, Golf Digest, in cooperation with Club Champion Golf, has embarked on a study on the effects of clubfitting. A group of 10 players of various handicaps agreed to participate in the study, each...

06

Aug
Mon

108 Holes In One Day: Goat Hill Giveth . . .

I’ve been fortunate enough to start a lot of days teeing off as the sun comes up. But on July 16, and for 108 reasons, this day would be unlike any day I’ve ever had...

06

Aug
Mon

PGA, Web.com Tours get closer on settling schedule changes

The Tour Championship is, at last, the final official event of the PGA Tour season -- starting in 2013. Yet many PGA Tour players will have another week of work ahead of them at that time next year. That's because the finale of the proposed three-tournament Web.com Tour series is going to be the following week. Golf World has learned that the playoff series in which Web.com players and PGA Tour players vie for 25 PGA Tour cards is scheduled to end on Sept. 29, the week after the Tour Championship in Atlanta. Furthermore, that "playoff" event has a strong chance of being staged in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., at PGA Tour headquarters. It's all part of evolving developments on the PGA Tour as it gears up for a set of sweeping changes to the sport starting next year, changes that include the commencement of a split-calendar season and the elimination of Q School as a direct route to the PGA Tour. Related: Jaime Diaz's five most historic Q School grads This year's Web.com Tour ends Oct. 28 with the Web.com Tour Championship at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, meaning there's work to be done to rearrange the junior circuit to finish just two weeks before the new PGA Tour season starts Oct. 10 at the Fry's.com Open. "That is one of the real challenges," Bill Calfee, president of the Web.com Tour, said by telephone. "We have to cut the season by a month, which is proving to be difficult. But we're getting there." Tour officials also are making progress in identifying the three sites for the playoff series, each which offers a $1 million purse. Those events will be open to the top 75 on the Web.com Tour and 75 more from the PGA Tour who finish 126-200 on the regular season FedExCup points list. Calfee said five sites are under consideration, and he confirmed that existing events in Columbus, Ohio, and Ponte Vedra Beach are in the mix. The latter currently is the site of the Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open presented by Planters at Dye's Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass. Related: Check out Golf Digest's new course finder "I don't think it would be any surprise that we'd love to have the season-ending event be here at PGA Tour headquarters and home to our sponsor, Web.com," Calfee said. He added that officials of the Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational have approached the tour about hosting the first playoff event in mid-September. The six-year-old tournament is staged at Ohio State University's Scarlet Course. As for the remaining contenders, not all are at existing sites. Web.com Tour sources told Golf World that one site under consideration is the Neediest Kids Championship presented by Under Armour at TPC Potomac at Avenal Farms in Potomac, Md. Geography might dictate the final selections. "There was a push to have at least one event on the west coast, but the logistics are pretty tough," said one player. "The main idea is that you can't have three events all in the same geographic location. You want to give them different kinds of courses, different grasses, etc." Calfee said no decisions on sites have been finalized, but an announcement could come in the next 5-6 weeks. -- Dave Shedloski Follow @AlexMyers3 !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

Aug
Mon

Trending: Michael Phelps, professional golfer?

Photo: Victor Fraile/Getty ImagesAt the risk of using a bad fish-out-of-water cliche, I'm taking the bait. A quick headline-glance at the multitude of Michael Phelps retirement stories hitting the web this weekend is all that's needed to realize his post-swimming days will be filled with plenty of golf and travel. Not too shocking; this is a pretty normal retirement plan for about 75% of the men in this country. Then again, most men aren't world class Olympic athletes retiring at age 27. So of course, the obvious question on everyone's mind is: could Michael Phelps become a professional golfer? Ok, so maybe it was only on Bleacher Report's mind, but considering golf is the only specific activity outside of "diving with sharks" that Phelps could muster throughout all of the post-retirement interviews, it is at least a deserving thought. No one's even sure Phelps has the desire to compete outside of the pool -- another common theme of his retirement interview rounds is the assurance he will not race again because of the rigors of being a professional athlete -- so why do we assume he wants to try his hand at a different professional sport? To his own admission, he is competitive at everything he does, and while he revealed to Bob Costas that he's not a very good golfer now, if he has "a goal of dropping X amount of shots, or working on my short game or putting, those things are going to keep me motivated and fire me up and excite me." Related: Tim Rosaforte: Woods & Phelps -- The Dominators As most of us weekend warriors will tell you, getting motivated on the course is not the hard part. Shaving those few strokes off our game is. And while we may not have the time or resources to devote ourselves completely to the game, even getting near scratch golf -- let alone to a professional caliber -- is a feat for the truly gifted. Though the argument could still be made that Phelps falls into that "truly gifted" category. Back in May, Phelps told Rick Reily he had a desire to play golf that rivaled that of swimming, even suggesting as a youth he considered giving up the sport he now dominates to switch his focus. While he was always coaxed back into the pool by his mother, he still has the desire and wants to "play all the great [golf] courses" in the world. Oh yeah, and he's been getting coaching tips from Hank Haney. Maybe you've heard of him? If I were to use one more cliche, I would say it's not time to stick a fork in Michael Phelps just yet. Maybe his professional swimming days are behind him, but I'm positive we'll be seeing him in a pro tournament sometime soon -- at least in a pro-am. But for any further professional golfing speculation, well, let's just say if he makes it onto a tour not named Champions, he will be worthy of discussion among the greatest athletes of all time.Michael Phelps talks with USA Today after his final race. -- Derek Evers 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

Aug
Mon

Introducing Golf Digest's new Course Finder

Forgive the boastfulness, but we're pretty sure this is a link you'll want to bookmark. Introducing Golf Digest's new, improved Course Finder. We believe it's the best way to search and compare golf courses, whether you want to play 18 holes today or you're planning a multi-round buddies trip to one of the world's top golf destinations. Course Finder combines a database of nearly every course in the U.S. (plus quite a few in Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico) with YOUR input. Think of it as a Trip Advisor or Yelp but devoted entirely to golf. We use reviews from real golfers like you to create our 1- to 5-star Best Places to Play ratings. All public courses are eligible for a rating, so look up the courses you've played lately and start telling us about your experience!We think you'll find the site intuitive and incredibly easy to use. It's powered by Find the Best, a California company at the forefront of search technology. (Here's a recent New York Times article on Find the Best and its founder, Kevin O'Connor.)Click on the "Compare" tab to start your search. Here you can look for courses by name, city, state or country. Refine your search by limiting the results to public and resort courses, say, or those appearing in our 100 Greatest or Best in State rankings. You can even search by green fee. (In the next couple of days, you'll be able to search by Best Places to Play star ratings too.) Click on the Map tab to plot your trip among the courses you've selected. Once the results of your search are displayed, click on "+Compare" to select the courses you want to learn more about. Then click "Compare Now" and you'll see a Side-by-Side comparison of each course you highlighted. At any point, you may click on a course name to visit its Details page. Here you'll find information about its location, the course architect, green fees, yardages and much more, including, in many cases, a box where you can book tee times directly from our site. Perhaps the most valuable info comes by clicking "see user ratings and reviews" on the righthand side of the Details page. This is where you find the true "inside story" -- what other golfers have been saying about the course lately. If YOU'VE played the course recently, please take a moment to rate it and post your comments. We want to hear what you thought of the courses...and so do our other readers! -- Peter Finch Follow @Pete_Finch(Chris Condon/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");

06

Aug
Mon

Video: Furyk's late collapse leads to Bradley's win at Firestone

Early in his career, Keegan Bradley is developing a knack for knocking in pressure putts. Unfortunately for Jim Furyk, lately he's developing a trend of coming up short in big moments. Less than two months after a late meltdown at Olympic cost him his second U.S. Open title, Furyk folded on Firestone's finishing hole to lose the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational by a shot to Bradley. After getting a break when his ball bounced out of a tree and into a fairway, Furyk missed the green with his approach shot and then stunningly missed the green again with his third shot from the greenside rough. Another poor chip and an even poorer putt gave him a closing double bogey. Bradley, meanwhile, didn't play No. 18 well, either. But after his approach plugged in a bunker, he hacked out and made a 15-footer for par. When Furyk missed his bogey putt, Bradley -- the reigning PGA champion -- had his third career PGA Tour win. Here's a look at the highlights from the final round, which also included late charges by Steve Stricker and Louis Oosthuizen and a 66 from Tiger Woods: Bradley will be back in action this week at Kiawah's Ocean Course to defend his PGA Championship title. He was only five when the famed 1991 Ryder Cup -- "The War by the Shore" -- was staged there. Related: Why the PGA Championship is better than you think For Furyk, the loss was especially crushing considering he was in control of the tournament for 71 holes before his late collapse. As John Strege notes, it was another painful close call in a big event that Furyk could have really used to bolster his case for entrance into the World Golf Hall of Fame. On the bright side, he won't have to wait long for another opportunity. -- Alex Myers Follow @AlexMyers3 !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");

05

Aug
Sun

Is Furyk's Hall of Fame quest unraveling?

Jim Furyk's Hall of Fame bid may or may not be hanging by a thread, but it does seem to be unraveling, noticeably and inexplicably on Sunday afternoons. For those who appreciate underdogs carried along to greatness by their competitiveness and grit, this was painful to watch, Furyk frittering away a one-stroke lead at the 72nd hole of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, with a double-bogey that handed victory to Keegan Bradley. "I have no one to blame but myself," Furyk said. "There's no way I should have made worse than five on the last hole and...I should have at worst been in a playoff." Furyk, 43, was attempting to close out a wire-to-wire victory and needed only a par to do so at the par-4 18th. But his calamity began off the tee when the demon hook that helped derail his U.S. Open bid on the 16th hole on Sunday seven weeks ago returned with a vengeance. He received a fortuitous bounce off a tree, but then hit his second deep and behind a bunker, leaving him a precarious downhill pitch that he muffed. His fourth, from green-side rough, was another miscue, leaving him a five-footer for bogey. He missed wide right, "the worst putt of the week," he said. Furyk is coming up on two years since he last won, at the Tour Championship in 2010, and is stuck on 16 victories and one major. There are no official thresholds required to guarantee Hall of Fame induction, but unofficially 20 victories and a major would suffice. So would a couple fewer victories and two majors.

04

Aug
Sat

Weekend Tip: Only 5 minutes till tee time!

In the latest issue of Golf Digest (September, with Alvaro Quiros on the cover), Hank Haney offers some quick advice for players who don't leave themselves much time to warm up (sound familiar?). Here's what...

03

Aug
Fri

Woods struggles on Firestone's greens for second day in a row

AKRON, Ohio -- A cheeseburger, fries and strawberry shake for lunch. Oh, and perhaps a mystery solved to his desultory putting. That's what Tiger Woods had to look forward to Friday after submitting a mundane 2-over-par 72 in the second round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on the South Course at Firestone CC. With a 36-hole total of 2-over 142, Woods trails leader Jim Furyk by 13 strokes at the venue on which Tiger has won seven times -- tied for most in his career with the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club in Orlando. "I hit it good, made nothing," Woods summed up after his second day of struggles on the greens at Firestone. The No. 2 player in the world and the PGA Tour's only three-time winner this season, Woods added 29 putts to the 33 he took on Thursday to rank 65th among the 77 players in the field. His frustrations culminated at the par-3 seventh, where he gave himself a birdie putt of 4 feet, 10 inches and needed three to get down. Related: The Tiger Woods timeline But on the following hole, his 17th of the day, he sank a 14-footer for birdie and a light bulb went off. "I figured something out finally on the 17th hole, but too little, too late," he said before self-deprecatingly adding, "I'm sure it helped on that little one-and-a-half foot tapâ¿¿in on the last hole. "It was more path than anything else," he added. "I had my lines good, but it's just setting my path out. I was trying to marry the two. I was trying to figure it out last night on the putting green and couldn't get comfortable enough on the golf course and finally felt it, and then, boom, made a putt." After being the game's best putter for a number of years -- coinciding, roughly, with his reign at the top of the world rankings -- Woods admitted that times have changed. "Yeah, I get in these little spells where it's hot or cold. Generally I was a decent putter over the years, but lately it's been very streaky, I'm making everything or I make nothing." The last three years at this venue have been a struggle for Woods after posting seven of his 74 career wins here. Starting with the 2010 Bridgestone Invitational, Woods is collectively 21-over par. He was 3-under par through 11 holes of his opening round and has been 5-over par since. Related: Why the PGA Championship is golf's most underrated event If the game isn't clicking, the venue is of little consequence. But Woods insisted that his game is just fine. "Well, I'm playing well, that's the thing. I'm hitting it well. I'm making nothing," he reiterated. "Certainly I didn't hit it good enough to be 11â¿¿under par, but I certainly hit it good enough to be right there in the top 5 going into the weekend, no problem at all. "I just need to get more consistent where I just don't hit a bad putt. As soon as I start doing that, everything will be fine." He was going to get right to work on that, after the strawberry shake, of course. -- Dave Shedloski 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");