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Thoughts on Seve

May 11, 2011 By
Seve Ballesteros’ funeral is today. He died at age 54 of brain cancer. I saw Seve play once, several years ago at the Masters. My plan was to walk the whole course, hole-by-hole, in order. I had just started my ...

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Hendren’s Hyperbole! Episode 19 — Scratch for the beard???

May 10, 2011 By
Welcome back to another installation of Hendren’s Hyperbole! Hopefully everyone’s week is flying by in anticipation of this week’s Players Championship. The Players championship is one of my favorite tournaments of the year and with a $9,500,000 purse every player ...

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Hendren’s Hyperbole! Episode 18 — Best course EVER

May 8, 2011 By
Note from Seth — This was supposed to post last Tuesday, but I dropped the ball on it. Apologies, Hendren! Welcome back to Hendren’s Hyperbole reporting live again from Kansas City. Unfortunately, I had to come back from the Dominican ...

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Surviving the Tuscaloosa tornadoes

May 6, 2011 By
Today I spoke with Gib Fox, golf course superintendent at Ol’ Colony Golf Complex in Tuscaloosa, Ala., about the destruction from the recent tornadoes there. “It was black as night and eerily calm,” he said, describing the scene. “You could ...

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Golfdom team at Grove Park Inn

May 5, 2011 By
We had a great time playing at Grove Park yesterday. Mark Rogers and his team are doing a great job out here in Asheville, N.C. The course picked up 2 inches of rain the night before we played, but still ...

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The goodness that is Golf Day (3 of 3)

May 5, 2011 By
National Golf Day 2011 ReportPart 3 (of 3)By Tim Connolly, assistant superintendent, TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm Lobenstine joined two other Maryland superintendents in the foyer of the Rayburn House Building to help tell their story as stewards of their ...

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