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British Open Breakthroughs

Some of history's greatest pieces of golf equipment made their mark at an Open Championship.

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EXCLUSIVE: Post cuts, Brewer sees a "more aggressive, authentic and relevant" Callaway

One of the game's equipment giants shed itself off some size as Callaway Golf announced layoffs impacting some 250 employees worldwide (out of a total of 2,100 employees for an approximately 12-percent drop) across a...

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A kid, cancer and your chance to donate to a worthy cause.

Earlier today, Tiger Woods sent this tweet: “Pretty amazing kid, met @ Sherwood.” @TigerWoods was retweeting this note from @KyleLograsso: “10-year-old cancer survivor to play 100 holes of golf in one day: http:/Kylelograsso.org/f4s100/.” Social media doing what...

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Players brace for a challenge at the U.S. Senior Open

While there have been exceptions -- Fred Funk's record winning score of 20-under 268 at Crooked Stick GC in 2009 pops to mind -- the U.S. Senior Open is perennially where golf's 50-and-over crowd faces one of its biggest challenges of the year. "Hit the ball where you're aiming it, make a couple of putts and get out of dodge without making too many mistakes," said U.S. Senior Open defending champion Olin Browne, who triumphed at Inverness Club last summer. Browne's recipe for success holds for the 33rd U.S. Open Senior Open being contested this week at Indianwood G&CC in Lake Orion, Mich., not too far north of Detroit. The Wilfrid Reid/William Connellan design, which opened in 1925, will measure 6,862 yards and play to par 70. There are only two par 5s, lots of elevated greens, fairways rewarding precise tee shots and plenty of rough awaiting those who miss. "The fairways are narrow and there is a lot of rough out there," was how Michael Allen, a two-time winner on the Champions Tour this season, appraised Indianwood. "I've never seen so much rough for any event I played on the Champions Tour. I think it's going to be a real challenge." Related: The most grueling U.S. Opens Tom Watson, who at 62 is still chasing his first U.S. Senior Open title, didn't mince words about what will be essential this week. "If you don't drive the ball well, you have no chance," Watson said. "Absolutely no chance. None. Zero. The rough is so deep, so penal, and the fairways are pretty narrow." Indianwood's USGA history goes back a couple of decades, when it was the site of the U.S. Women's Open in 1989 and 1994. Those championships were captured by two of the best players of their generation, Betsy King and Patty Sheehan, which makes it seem likely that the winner this week could be a familiar force on the Champions Tour as opposed to upstart winners such as Roger Chapman, who won the Senior PGA Championship earlier this year, and Joe Daley, who won the Senior Players. In between those two events, senior stalwart Tom Lehman prevailed at the Regions Tradition, and Lehman, who threatened so often to win the U.S. Open, certainly should be a player to watch at Indianwood because of his complete game. "It's a typical U.S. Open set-up here, in [that] you can't really get away with too many loose shots," Lehman said. "You're going to get punished for some wayward play out there. So you get here and you get on the course and realize, 'Ah, ha, yes this is a U.S. Open.' And there's no gimmicks. You gotta play solid golf, put it in the fairway, put it on the green and putt well." Most of Indianwood's greens are on the small side, the mammoth and heaving 18th being -- literally -- a huge exception. "I'm not sure how you would describe that green," said Lehman, who then made an attempt at explaining the severely sloped putting surface, which USGA official Jeff Hall said is 51 yards deep. "There's something [buried] in there," Lehman said. "Volkswagen Bugs, maybe a few General Motors cars and Buicks. Something is in there. I don't know." By the time competitors get to the finishing hole, they will have already tested their patience in familiar ways. "We do want the Senior Open to be very reminiscent of the U.S. Opens of the past these gentlemen have participated in," Hall said. "That said, it's not intended to be the U.S. Open. It can't be. It's a different group of players. But we do want it to be the toughest test in golf that these players encounter each year." Having been through the real thing last month at Olympic Club, Allen and Browne are recently battled tested, not that their peers don't remember the feeling. "In these kinds of tournaments, you know you're going to be frustrated a few times," Allen said. "You're going to hit some shots that don't turn out [that] well. You've got to have a lot of patience out here. You've got to go through it and kind of stay in the ball game." -- Bill Fields Follow @BillFields1(Photo by Hunter Martin/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");

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Chance Manning's Swing-Plane Trainer

Proven method: BogeyPro Golf's Chance Manning demonstrates how taking off your pants helps your swing in this step-by-step video.

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Trump World

From Scotland to Florida to California and beyond, the Donald imprints his image on golf.

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Ping with its own "Anser" for the adjustable driver game

One of the few remaining major holdouts has jumped into the adjustable driver game this week. Ping, which has utilized an adjustable fitting system with interchangeable heads and shafts since 2008, unveiled its first ready-to-purchase...

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Trending: Suzann Pettersen has a nice body

Suzann Pettersen lines up a putt during the second round of the 2012 U.S. Women's Open. Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty ImagesIf you haven't been paying attention lately, professional golfers on both sides of the gender line are getting hotter, and one of the main reasons is the increased emphasis on fitness. So it doesn't surprise us that ESPN the Magazine selected one of the most physically fit women on the LPGA tour in Suzann Pettersen to appear completely naked in the 2012 installment of their Body Issue. Ranked No. 6 in the world, and coming off of a top-10 finish at the U.S. Women's Open, the issue is hitting newsstands while the proverbial iron is hot. The 5' 9", 150 pound Norwegian has a naturally muscular build that lends itself to the notion that golfers are indeed athletes; something ESPN has taken notice of in their annual roster of nude photoshoots. "A lot of the best athletes in the world have done it, and I thought it was great to be asked." Pettersen admitted to USA Today. "I just had to make sure that I was comfortable in doing it. It's as natural as it gets. It's health at its peak. "I'm in great company." Related: Who is the hottest golfer? Pettersen joins fellow LPGA tour players Belen Mozo, Christina Kim, Sandra Gal and Anna Grzebien who have posed in their birthday suit for the Body Issue. And lest we forget the uncomfortable naked spider-pose Camilo Villegas blessed us with in 2010. Alongside the likes of NBA center Tyson Chandler, NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski, recent Home Run Derby runner-up Jose Bautista, soccer forward Abby Wambach and seven players from the U.S. volleyball team, Pettersen knows she's in good company ... just don't expect it to become a regular thing. "There's nothing to be ashamed about. I am honored that they asked me to be with world-class athletes. I won't be posing nude again, but I'm glad I did it." ESPN The Magazine's 2012 Body Issue hits stands July 11. -- 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");

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PGA Tour: Fantasy Fix: John Deere Classic

We discuss a weird week in West Virginia, Stricker's stranglehold on Illinois, Cornhole, and of course, this week's PGA Tour stop.

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Appearance Fees Are Golf's Dirty Little Secret

The recent flap over appearance fees obscures the fact that these sort of deals are rampant in the game.