Archive for September, 2007

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How Will US Golfers Do In Presidents Cup?

The Presidents Cup starts today and as the golf season winds down I got to thinking about how the US team would do this year. Tiger is very hot. Phil gave Tiger a run for his money. And some familiar names had good years in 2007. But will that translate to a strong showing in [...]

27Sep2007 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Is this golfer entitled to a free drop?

Golf Nut, one foot inside a red staked hazard is a permanent fence. The golfer’s ball lays one foot outside this hazard. The golfer wants to take a drop because he says that the fence interferes with his backswing. Is he entitled to the drop or is it only if the obstruction interferes with his [...]

24Sep2007 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Golf Nut Has Been On Vacation

Hello all you golf nuts out there. You have probably noticed that I haven’t published anything in a few days. Well I just returned refreshed and rested from a short vacation.

24Sep2007 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Are Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson making a statement about golf’s Fed Ex Cup?

It’s very interesting that two of the top three golfers in the FedEx Cup points standing heading into this weekend’s Tour Championship have skipped one of the four “playoff” golf tournaments. With this playoff format being new and a level of criticism having been thrown at Commissioner Finchem’s “baby”, I wonder if Tiger and Phil [...]

12Sep2007 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Does a golfer have to look for a lost golf ball?

Dear Golfers, I have gotten a ton of questions on golf rules the last few weeks. I know that the last post was also on a ruling, so just bear with us as I am trying to respond to as many of the questions that come in in the order received. During a match play [...]

10Sep2007 | | 9 comments | Continued
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Golf Nut, I have a golf rules question about your golf ball hitting a golf cart.

Here is the situation: We were playing in a foursome. One of the guys hit his golf ball out of the greenside bunker. The ball went over the green and hit his opponent’s golf cart and bounced about 30 yards past the cart. One of the golfers said that he was entitled to replay the [...]

5Sep2007 | | 2 comments | Continued
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A great golf aid: Step down golf tees

A friend of mine recently gave me some new golf tees. They were different from anything that I had used before. They were called “step down” golf tees, so I decided to give them a try. Let me tell you a little about them, because they are pretty neat little golf tool.

5Sep2007 | | 2 comments | Continued