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GolfBuddy Voice: An audible rangefinder

The competitive rangefinder category continues to expand, making it increasingly more difficult for a company to differentiate itself. GolfBuddy has done so with its latest offering, the GolfBuddy Voice, that with the push of a...

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Stingers: Why golf needs a shot clock

I want to write about slow play but I can't get started.  Wait.  There.  OK, I'm good.  Wait.  Pull the trigger! Here's an idea: How about Commissioner Tim Finchem pulls the trigger? How about the game of golf pulls the trigger? How about we realize that as the world gets faster in every conceivable way, our game -- tour and amateur alike -- plods along at an excruciating pace. We're inching to a stop. We're pathetic. Golf has become not what you do when you hit the ball. Golf is what you do after you toss the grass in the air, look at your yardage book, make sure there's no one within four holes who might make a putt, and rehearse your swing. For the first of four times.  Kevin Na's painful pre-shot routine is a notable example of golf's slow-play problem, but it's not the only one. Photo by Getty ImagesThis is not a plea to speed our game up so that we don't lose players. This is a HOWL to speed play up so we don't lose our game.

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Golf Town to acquire Golfsmith in retail mega-merger

Mergers, acquisitions and consolidation have been a part of the headlines on the golf manufacturing side in recent weeks, but now the golf retail space is getting in on the game and in a big...

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Golf Town buys Golfsmith for $96 million in retail mega-merger

Mergers, acquisitions and consolidation have been a part of the headlines on the golf manufacturing side in recent weeks, but now the golf retail space is getting in on the game and in a big...

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NCAA D-I Women: Next stop, Nashville!

Here's what you need to know from this past weekend's NCAA Women's Regionals and the 24 teams that are advancing to the NCAA Women's Championship May 22-25 at Vanderbilt Legends Club outside of Nashville, Tenn....

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Quick Tips: The Flashlight Drill

PGA Professional Brian Crowell shows a simple way to feel the sensation of swinging on the proper plane.

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Kuchar puts a happy face on a 'slow'-news weekend

It was an odd Sunday at the Players Championship, one in which the final-round focus was bookended by men responsible for the most groans and grins. The winner by a smile was Matt Kuchar, whose two-stroke victory at the TPC Sawgrass buttressed the notion that he is a major champion in training. Kuchar, 33, has become an assembly line mass producing top 10s -- 20 in the previous two seasons (which would explain his grinning year to year) and five already this year. More importantly for the months ahead, four have come in the most important tournaments with the strongest fields to date: the Players (first), the Masters (a tie for third), the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (T-5) and the WGC-Cadillac Championship (T-8). A month from now, Kuchar will be returning to U.S. Open at the Olympic Club outside San Francisco, where as an amateur in 1998 he tied for 14th and was tied for fourth through 36 holes. It doesn't make him a favorite, but he isn't a long shot, either.Kuchar's happy nature, even on a TPC course capable of inflicting so much misery, gave the Players a happy ending that wasn't inevitable in the wake of the negative reaction to the man everyone was lamenting. Related: Players tabbed as the next great American star  Kevin Na dominated the weekend conversation at the showcase event of a tour that steadfastly declines to address the issue of slow play, as do many of the players responsible. Na, for instance, was graciously apologetic on Saturday for the pre-shot twitches that Johnny Miller described as "the heebie jeebies," and insisted he's working on correcting it. Is he? Six months ago, Na posted this on Twitter: "Trying my best to speed up. Working on a new pre shot routine. I am not playing so on purpose. Hope the viewers understand." It's a slow process, apparently. Na, the 54-hole leader, attempted to quell the criticism by picking up the pace on Sunday, which might have contributed to a final-round 76 that left him in a tie for seventh.

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Toms finishes strong in return from difficult loss

A year after one of the toughest losses of his life, David Toms hoped returning to TPC Sawgrass would help jump start his 2012 season and it did. It just took 59 holes to get going. At even par through five holes of his final round at the Players, Toms holed a wedge for eagle from 123 yards on the par-4 sixth. A couple hours later, he'd made the biggest move up the leader board on Sunday, closing with a 65 to jump into the top five at the time of signing his card. "I was so far back, and I was just trying to have a decent finish," Toms said. "So, you know, no reason why I shouldn't shoot at a flag. What's the difference in 44th and 34th? That's the way I was playing out there, and I just happened to play a great round of golf."!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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Ben Curtis continuing his recent revival at TPC Sawgrass

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Playing alongside Rickie Fowler and among a gallery that will surely be a sea of orange, Ben Curtis will probably feel like an invisible man during the final round of the Players. But for a guy who has played most of the past six years in obscurity, that shouldn't be a problem. After nearly six years without a win, Curtis came out of nowhere to win the Valero Texas Open last month. He's proving that performance was no fluke. Since then, the 2003 British Open champion has been on the best stretch of his career with a T-13 in New Orleans, a T-5 at the Wells Fargo and now this effort at the Players, where he'll play in the penultimate pairing. On Saturday, Curtis fired one of two bogey-free rounds (Kevin Na had the other) in the field despite gusty conditions at TPC Sawgrass. He missed a bunch of birdie opportunities, including two from within 10 feet on his final two holes.

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The Players: Final Round Birdies and Bogeys

Who were the winners and losers on Sunday at TPC Sawgrass? It's time to take a closer look with another edition of birdies and bogeys.