Let the playoffs begin. (Birdie93/Flickr)I’VE READ THAT ARNOLD PALMER changed putters (and other clubs) more often than greenskeepers changed pin placements. Well, almost.As the defending champion of The Barclays, Steve Stricker was quizzed Wednesday…

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FIFTY YEARS AGO AFTER A LONG HISTORY as a match-play tournament, the PGA Championship became a stroke-play event. The 1958 PGA Championship was also the first major to be televised (although parts of other majors had been televised).The winner of that …

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LAST MONDAY NEAR THE END of an hour-long phone conversation, a retired West Coast sportswriter who shares my interest in the old-time PGA Tour players said what I often think: They won’t be around forever.Three days later 15-time tour winner Mike Sou…

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Souchak on SI cover.PAULA CREAMER WAS BLAZING HOT yesterday at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic. The Pink Panther fired a course-record 60, including a seven-under 27 on her second nine. Paula birdied nine of her last 11 holes.At the 1955 Texas Ope…

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AS I WATCHED HIM STRIDE UP the 72nd fairway at Royal Birkdale, the thought occurred to me, “Why didn’t he win another major?”I flipped on the Golf Channel last night as they were airing one of their classic highlight programs, the 1976 British Op…

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WHEN IAN O’CONNOR CONTACTED ME in May and offered to do something on his new golf book, Arnie & Jack, I said, “Great.” The book was doing very well and already on my radar. Then the author emails me. Perfect.Besides, growing up, Jack Nicklaus was m…

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Known as a great golfer of all time, Arnold Palmer and his company are in the plans to build a golf course covering 200 hectares and having a 36-hole course, at a new billion-dollar resort development. Plans of course are for Cambodia to receive one of the best golf courses possible for the area.
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MY FAMILY VACATION began yesterday afternoon with a six-hour car trip, so I missed the final round of the U.S. Women’s Open. Between trips to the beach, water park and movies with my kids, I plan to publish a few things this week.One will be a post o…

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AS SOMEONE PUT IT, Tiger won the trophy, but Rocco won the hearts. Cliché? Yep. Sappy? Yep. But hey, it’s right on the mark.

Ever since Rocco Mediate went toe-to-toe with golf’s Goliath, Tiger Woods, and nearly brought down the giant in the U.S. …

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LEGENDARY SPORTS BROADCASTER Jim McKay died this weekend. He was 86. Something I didn’t know: His real name was James McManus, but he legally changed it after hosting a program a CBS executive dubbed “The Real McKay.”Some of us grew up with McKay…

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(Photo: Taylor PR)TUESDAY WAS THE GRAND OPENING of the USGA’s new Arnold Palmer Center for Golf History.“I’ve received a lot of honors, but this may top them all,” Palmer told attendees. The centerpiece of the new center is the Hall of Champions,…

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THEY CALLED HIM FAT JACK. Early in his career, a serious, heavy-set Jack Nicklaus was the villain, an object of open scorn on the PGA Tour, especially at Grand Slam events such as the 1962 U.S. Open at Oakmont.Ten years older and the undisputed king of…

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Davis Love is a plaid man. (Eddie Honeyfield/Flickr)This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Verizon Heritage played at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Arnold Palmer won the first one in 1969. Boo Weekley is the defend…

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What’s that saying? Something about no one remembers who finishes in second?Fifty years ago, in 1958, Arnold Palmer won his first Green Jacket. Palmer’s play and charisma combined with television forever changed professional golf. Arnie went on to …

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Recently a PR person at the Wall Street Journal contacted me. She wanted to alert me to their story about a new Masters book, First Sunday in April: The Masters.They and others made a big stink about the title. (The Masters ends on the second Sunday in…

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(Pocketwiley/Flickr)I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for the Masters. So while I keep an eye on the Zurich Classic and Shell Houston Open, I’m going to kick off my Masters coverage tomorrow. Here’s some of what’s ahead.Q&A: SI’s Jim Go…

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Tiger Woods (C. ONeal/Flickr)ARMCHAIR GOLF caught up with The Field after Tiger’s stunning victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.Q: Thanks for doing this. It must be difficult after such a heartbreaking loss to Tiger Woods. What were you thinking…

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Scratch Ernie Els from the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, where Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will return to action this week.Els won the Honda Classic to start the Florida Swing, snapping an 0-for-47 winless streak on the PGA Tour.“It was …

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(Delores Knowles/Flickr)With four consecutive wins at the Buick Invitational, Tiger Woods owns Torrey Pines in January. But what about June?That’s the question as the golf world marvels at Tiger’s most recent exploits at the famous muni on the Paci…

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The title of this post is actually the title of a book by Lorne Rubenstein and Jeff Neuman that my brother-in-law gave me for my birthday, along with a volume of golf short stories edited by William Hallberg called Perfect Lies.A Disorderly Compendium …

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Ernie Els imploded on the 72nd hole at the Alfred Dunhill Championship.(Flickr photo)Ernie Els had played beautifully all week. On the last hole, a par five, his ball was in the middle of the fairway, 190 yards from the green. A comfortable six iron, h…

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A few weeks ago Skyhorse Publishing sent me a review copy of The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations.Selfishly, I was glad to add it to my golf library. I love quote books, in general, and golf quote books, in particular. This one might just be the grandd…

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(Eric Schweikardt)1967 Masters champion Gay Brewer once said, “If they’ve got an Augusta National in heaven, that’s where I want to go.”Perhaps Brewer, who died last Friday after a bout with lung cancer, is playing Amen Corner today. He was 75.I wa…

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The Peter Alliss baby weight question has been answered. During British Open week I wrote that someone had stopped by the ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG wanting to know “how heavy was Peter Alliss as a baby?”(Central Press/Getty Images)(Alliss, of course, is a…

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(Photo: PGACup.com)It’s Open week and people are scouring the Web for all manner of Open golf-related facts. For example, someone stopped by here this morning wanting to know “how heavy was Peter Alliss as a baby?” (Peter Alliss is a BBC golf com…

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