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‘A thinking golfer’s championship as well as a shotmaker’s?’

June 17, 2015 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

by Bart Potter UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. – The early line on who will win the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay Golf Course is … Chambers Bay Golf Course. The world’s best players might leave the course in shreds – four days of play will tell – or leave the tournament in tears. Nobody is betting much on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Road Holes, The CraftTagged With: Mike Davis, Phil Mickelson, Robert Trent Jones Jr., Tiger Woods, U.S. Open, USGA

This damn game 8: Dictionary edition

June 1, 2015 By Bart Potter 2 Comments

The United States Golf Association has a different definition of “failure” than most of us. When we golfers experience “success” on a golf course, it means something, in the USGA's eyes, went wrong. By USGA definition, failure is when the golf course lets everybody hit the same shot and land in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: UncategorizedTagged With: Epic fail, Robert Trent Jones Jr., United States Golf Association

Returning to the fore at Southern Oregon’s Eagle Point

January 25, 2014 By Bart Potter 1 Comment

This article appeared first in LocalGolfer.com. by Jack Seybold The development of golf courses in the early-to-mid-’90′s was part of the phenomenon described by Jim Kopenhaver in the September 2013 issue of  The Pelucid Perspective as the “build-a-course-a-day decade.” The supply of golf … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Road HolesTagged With: Eagle Point, Robert Trent Jones Jr., southern Oregon golf

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