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• Spectator tickets for the #USOpen were first sold in 1922, the same year Gene Sarazen won the championship for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-02-2018 21:22 via twitter.com
  Spectator tickets for the #USOpen were first sold in 1922, the same year Gene Sarazen won the championship for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Copycat: Honda's 17th teeters on edge of good taste

  20-02-2018 21:05
  
  PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – The Honda Classic won’t pack as many fans around its party hole this week as the Phoenix Open does, but there is something more intensely intimate about PGA National’s stadium setup.
  Players feel like the spectators in the bleachers at the tee box at Honda’s 17th hole are right on top of them.
  “If the wind’s wrong at the 17th tee, you can get a vodka cranberry splashed on you,” Graeme McDowell cracked. “They are that clos
  
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• Door officially open for Woods to be playing vice captain

  20-02-2018 20:07
  
  PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Thirteen months ago, when Jim Furyk was named the 2018 U.S. Ryder Cup captain, one of the biggest questions was what would happen if Furyk were to play his way onto his own team.
  It wasn’t that unrealistic. 
  At the time, Furyk was 46 and coming off a season in which he tied for second at the U.S. Open and shot 58 in a PGA Tour event. If anything, accepting the Ryder Cup captaincy seemed premature.
  And now?
  Now, he’s slowly recovering from should
  
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• Furyk tabs Woods, Stricker as Ryder Cup vice captains

  20-02-2018 18:44
  
  U.S. Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk has added Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker to his stable of vice captains to aid in his quest to win on foreign soil for the first time in 25 years.
  Furyk made the announcement Tuesday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., site of this week's Honda Classic. He had previously named Davis Love III as his first vice captain, with a fourth expected to be named before the biennial matches kick off in France this September.
  The addition of Woods and Stricker means that the team
  
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• 1992 U.S. Open Highlights

  20-02-2018 17:33 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Watch: Guy wins $75K boat, $25K cash with 120-foot putt

  20-02-2018 16:32
  
  Making a 120-foot putt in front of a crowd of screaming people would be an award in and of itself for most golfers out there, but one lucky Minnesota man recently got a little something extra for his effort.
  The Minnesota Golf Show at the Minneapolis Convention Center has held a $100,000 putting contest for 28 years, and on Sunday, Paul Shadle, a 49-year-old pilot from Rosemount, Minnesota, became the first person ever to sink the putt, winning a pontoon boat valued at $
  
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• Tiger draws Sneds, Kizzire at Honda Classic

  20-02-2018 16:10
  
  PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Tiger Woods will play alongside Patton Kizzire and Brandt Snedeker for the first two rounds of the Honda Classic.
  The threesome will tee off at 7:45 a.m. ET Thursday off PGA National’s 10th tee, then 12:35 p.m. off the first tee in the second round Friday.
  Woods is making his first start at the Honda, his hometown event, since 2014. He tied for second here in 2012, after a final-round 62.
  Honda Classic: Articles, photos and videosThis is the first time he
  
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• The Social: In perfect harmony?

  20-02-2018 15:35
  
  Bubba Watson re-emerges in the winner's circle but gets exposed on the hardwood, Mark Wahlberg tunes out Tiger Woods and if John Daly wants a drinking partner, he need look no further than ... John Daly?All that and more in this week's edition of The Social.Bubba Watson had himself a week.The two-time Masters champion hung out with Jay Leno and Ellen DeGeneres, caught a taping of "The Big Bang Theory," played in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game and still found some time to notch his first PGA Tou
  
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• Braham calf doing well

  20-02-2018 15:03 via sanwild.site
  For the past two weeks we have been treating a young Brahman calf that was allegedly attacked by a leopard not too far away from SanWild.  In an attempt to mitigate the effects of human/wildlife conflict we have taken it upon ourselves to compensate and assist landowners to help with the protection of leopards and other large predators outside our boundaries.  She is recovering well and we are closely monitoring her progress.  All veterinary fees for this young animal is carried b
  
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• Veteran Golf Journalist Bradley S. Klein Joins Golf Channel Editorial Team

  20-02-2018 13:09
  
  Klein to Lend 30-Plus Years in Golf Architecture, History and Travel Journalism to Golf Advisor, Golf Channel’s Digital Travel and Lifestyle Brand
  Read Klein’s first column here
  Veteran golf travel, history and architecture journalist Bradley S. Klein has joined Golf Channel’s editorial team as senior writer for Golf Advisor, the company’s ever-expanding digital destination for the traveling golfer, featuring more than 700,000 reviews of nearly 15,000 golf courses in 80 c
  
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• Stock Watch: Fans getting louder, rowdier

  20-02-2018 11:15
  
  Each week on GolfChannel.com, we’ll examine which players’ stocks and trends are rising and falling in the world of golf.RISING
  Bubba (+9%): Half of his 10 Tour titles have come at Augusta National and Riviera – that’s pretty stout. Though he can be maddening to cover because of his personality quirks, an in-form Watson is a must-watch.
  Phil (+5%): For the first time in 11 years, Mickelson put together three consecutive top-6 finishes on Tour. Suddenly, another green jack
  
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• USGA, R&A detail World Handicap System

  20-02-2018 10:08
  
  The USGA and the R&A released details Tuesday of a proposed new World Handicap System.
  The WHS takes the six handicapping systems that exist worldwide and aligns them under a new single system.
  The USGA and the R&A will govern the WHS with the six existing handicap authorities administering them locally. A two-year transition will begin to fully implement the new system in 2020.
  The unified alignment is designed to make it easier to obtain and maintain a handicap and to make the handicap
  
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