Dominican delight – Global Golf Post

Dominican delight – Global Golf Post

LA ROMANA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | It is the last night of a four-night stay at Casa de Campo, and as I savor a rather potent rum drink on the balcony off my second-floor suite in the resort’s new Premier Club, I realize this is the eighth time I have visited this sun-soaked land. That prompts…

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Resetting priorities – Global Golf Post

Resetting priorities – Global Golf Post

Peter Malnati is one of the other guys. That seems to be just fine with him, and it may be invaluable to the PGA Tour. Malnati’s tear-stained interview after his victory in the Valspar Championship on Sunday may have revealed more about the man beneath the bucket hat than his performance down the stretch when…

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Timely and fun – Global Golf Post

Timely and fun – Global Golf Post

There is perhaps no event that represents the history and tradition of golf as well as the Masters, one of the men’s four major championships and the only one held each year in the same location: Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. Though this PGA Tour stop, whose winner gets to wear the coveted green…

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Kim Mulkey threatens lawsuit over rumored Washington Post article

Kim Mulkey threatens lawsuit over rumored Washington Post article

Even before its publication, LSU’s Kim Mulkey is preemptively criticizing an upcoming story about her, as reported by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde. Forde mentioned that the Washington Post is working on a significant piece about Mulkey. In response, Mulkey has vehemently criticized the potential story and the reporter involved, threatening legal action against the outlet…

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Top-tier support – Global Golf Post

Top-tier support – Global Golf Post

Callaway Golf Callaway Golf made a deeper investment in women’s golf by signing a multi-year partnership agreement to supply equipment to the developmental Epson Tour. Callaway, already an official partner of the LPGA Tour, will provide top-tier equipment, gloves and high-performance golf balls for women on the Epson Tour to use in competition and practice….

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‘Constructive’ conversation – Global Golf Post

‘Constructive’ conversation – Global Golf Post

Yasir Al-Rumayyan  Richard Heathcote, Getty Images How much the Monday meeting between PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, the tour’s six player directors and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, did to impact the pace of negotiations between the two sides remains to be seen, but it was a long overdue first step….

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Nordic wave – Global Golf Post

Nordic wave – Global Golf Post

Ken Schofield, executive director of the European Tour from 1975 to 2004, had just the one Swede, a Gunnar Mueller, among his players at the start of his reign. “The rise of the Swedes and the rest of the Scandinavian players who followed them has all happened in the last 50 years, and from a…

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Surgeon’s touch – Global Golf Post

Surgeon’s touch – Global Golf Post

Dr. Lauren Gebauer has some skin in her game. A practicing dermatologist and Mohs skin cancer surgeon based in Orinda, California, the 39-year-old is last year’s Northern California Golf Association’s Women’s Amateur Player of the Year. Her vocation and avocation have a lot in common. “Mohs surgery is a technique that removes high-risk skin cancers,…

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