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Masters 2012: Lee Westwood Leads After First Round

Filed: April 5, 2012 7:38 PM CDT by Ryan Wooden
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Allan Henry-US PRESSWIRE

The weather we all expected came on strong late on Thursday afternoon at Augusta National and so did first round leader Lee Westwood. Paired with former Masters champion Vijay Singh and everyone’s favorite ball striker Jim Furyk, Westwood teed off in the 12:58 group and posted five birdies on the front nine, turning in 32. [...]

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Tiger Woods Fights Through a Double-Cross to Card a 72 at The Masters

Filed: April 5, 2012 4:03 PM CDT by Ryan Wooden
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Tiger Woods swing betrayed him today at Augusta National in the first round of The Masters. He trusted it — even loved it — after breaking a 30 month winless drought on the PGA Tour two weeks ago at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, but from his opening tee shot on Tea Olive, Woods was in [...]

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Several Traditions of The Masters Casualties to the Weather

Filed: April 4, 2012 3:27 PM CDT by Ryan Wooden
golfweek.com

You’ve already heard about what an aggressive spring have done to the beautiful flashes of white, pink, and red that the azaleas of Augusta provide, but Mother Nature claimed another tradition of The Masters as a casualty on Wednesday afternoon. The Par 3 contest was cancelled after a storm cell blew in at the beginning [...]

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Rory McIlroy Looks to Rebound at The Masters

Filed: April 4, 2012 1:22 PM CDT by Ryan Wooden
Allan Henry-US PRESSWIRE

Emerging from between the two cabins 50 yards to the left of the 10th tee box at Augusta National, Rory McIlroy’s Masters chances were fading fast. Camelia plays tough enough, but after snap hooking his tee shot off a cluster of pine trees and finding himself wedged in between those two cabins, McIlroy had turned [...]

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Masters 2012: Azaleas Bloom Early at Augusta National

Filed: April 3, 2012 6:38 PM CDT by Ryan Wooden
Darron Cummings

One of the signature sights at Augusta National are the azaleas that bloom and add pops of pink, red and white to the lush green setting of the sprawling bentgrass fairways. With over 1,600 of these bushes lining Hole No. 13 from tee to green, the aptly named Azalea hole is one of the most [...]

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An Ode to The Masters

Filed: April 3, 2012 5:06 PM CDT by Ryan Wooden
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pgatour.com

The grass outside the sliding glass door of the Greenwood, Indiana, home where I remember watching my first Masters paled in contrast to the the colors I was witnessing inside the bulky Panasonic we watched that day. It was long before high-definition, but with real life putting the awe of what I was witnessing in [...]

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Exclusive: Experience Makes Ben Crane a Threat at The Masters

Filed: April 2, 2012 6:19 PM CDT by Ryan Wooden
Allan Henry-US PRESSWIRE

Standing over the first tee shot in his first ever appearance at The Masters in 2006, Ben Crane was nervous. The most meaningfully meaningless tee shot in golf has a way of doing that to a man. “I was standing on the first tee and my mother-in-law, who is a big golfer, was standing just [...]

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Phil Mickelson in Position to Repeat at the Shell Houston Open

Filed: March 31, 2012 9:20 AM CDT by Carl Conrad
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It is becoming evident that Phil Mickelson feels very comfortable at the Redstone Golf Course in Humble, TX.  Mickelson is the defending champion at the Shell Houston Open, which is played annually at Redstone the week before the Masters.  Going into the weekend, “Lefty” has put himself in prime position to repeat, posting a score [...]

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Augusta National Faces an Enormous Dilemma

Filed: March 28, 2012 3:09 PM CDT by Carl Conrad
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Most people are aware that one of the majors on the PGA Tour, The Masters, and its host, Augusta National Golf Club are steeped in tradition.  Augusta National is run more like a skull and bones fraternity than a country club, where its members wear green jackets and the secrecy of annual fees resembles that [...]

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Exclusive: Ben Crane and The Golf Boys Bring Golf to a Younger Crowd

Filed: March 28, 2012 1:06 PM CDT by Ryan Wooden
Allan Henry-US PRESSWIRE

Golf is a game that takes itself very seriously. The sport prides itself on being very quiet and polite, and everyone seems to have an unabashed affection for a nice pair of slacks. It’s a gentleman’s game, and there is a lot that can be learned from that, but this game of honor has been [...]

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