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10 Best Golf Highlights of 2008
telegraph.co.uk — No contest for the number one spot. Tiger Woods's win at the US Open was not just the golfing highlight of 2008, it may well have been the greatest single sporting achievement of all time. Here are 10 more golfing highlights of 2008.More… (Golf)
ScottMcIntyreInvention: Low-error golf balls
newscientist.com — The dimples on a golf ball are more than a pretty pattern - they help a struck ball fly further. But a new patent application says that replacing them with grooves will make for fewer missed putts. A ball's dimples help a golfer in two ways: letting the ball cling onto a cloak of air to reduce turbulence and drag they magnify the effect of lift.More… (Golf)
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Gyroscopic Golf Club: Slicer's Savior or Swinger's Snakeoil?
blog.wired.com — I'm not a golfer, so this post is framed as more of a question to our Pringle-wearing readers: Would this gyroscopic golf club work?More… (Golf)
Woods Disappointed With Steve Williams Outburst
stuff.co.nz — Tiger Woods says he is disappointed by his caddie Steve Williams' disparaging comments about Phil Mickelson and the matter had been "dealt with".More… (Golf)
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Bad Golf Day: Daly loses temper, smashes spectator's camera
sports.espn.go.com — John Daly smashed a spectator's camera into a tree while shooting a 6-over 78 in the first round of the Australian Open on Thursday, making it likely he will miss the cut for the third consecutive week Down Under.More… (Golf)
oboyBallesteros returns home after op
news.bbc.co.uk — Seve Ballesteros has been discharged from hospital after undergoing his fourth brain operation. The 51-year-old had a tumour removed in November, then had a valve inserted to drain fluid from his brain and surgery to repair a bone defect on 2 December. More… (Golf)
The Secret of Golf Balls Revealed: Dimple Dynamics
livescience.com — Why do dimpled golf balls fly farther and straighter? Supercomputer simulation shows the fine details.More… (Golf)
msaleemDanny Lee Tipped To Be Golf's Next Big Thing
stuff.co.nz — Lee is one of the hottest properties in world golf, having overtaken Tiger Woods as the youngest winner of the US amateur title when he triumphed in August this year. Woods was seven months older when he took the first of his three US titles in 1994.More… (Golf)
Golf: The Science Behind the Swing
rpi.edu — Cackett is not alone in the move from aerospace research to golf. He’s part of a trend whose genesis lies in recent political history. The end of the Cold War led to a scaling down during the 1990s of the aerospace defense industry, which had famously powered a large part of Southern California’s economy. In turn, many engineers, scientists, and reMore… (Golf)
rpi22Hit some golfing highs at the loftiest resort around
dailymail.co.uk — If you love a game of golf but are bored of your usual club, this rather unusual 19th hole could be just the thing you've been looking for.Located at the top of Mount Currie in Whistler, Vancouver, the lofty site is situated 8,000ft above its nearest competitor, the Big Sky Golf Club in the Pemberton Valley.More… (Golf)
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Tiger's split with GM an ad warning for athletes
nbcsports.msnbc.com — When Woods ended his nine-year relationship with General Motors Corp. on Monday — a mutual decision between a megawatt celebrity who doesn’t need the work and a teetering corporation that needs every penny — it offered yet another snapshot of how badly the American economy has deteriorated.More… (Golf)
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Caller warns he buried mines at Casio World Golf Open
sports.espn.go.com — TOKYO -- Police are increasing security for the Casio World Open after a caller warned that mines had been buried at the venue and small explosions shattered windows at the clubhouse and building of a corporate sponsor.More… (Golf)
DigSomeMoreFore. Here Comes the Ultimate Golf Ball
livescience.com — When it comes to improving your golf game, you can spend thousands of dollars buying the latest titanium-induced, Tiger-promoted golf clubs; taking private lessons from the local "I used to be on the Tour" pro; or trying every slice-correcting, swing-speed-estimating, GPS-distance-guessing gadget. More… (Golf)
Hak breaks record as he makes Euro Tour cut at 14 years old
sports.espn.go.com — A Hong Kong teenager became the youngest player to ever make the cut at an European Tour event on Friday, breaking the record set by current world No. 2 Sergio Garcia.More… (Golf)
starskiiJ.P. Hayes- Most Honest Man in Sports
sports.yahoo.com — J.P. Hayes played a nonconforming ball for a single hole of the second stage of Q School last weekend. He realized it more than a day after the "violation," called it on himself, and thus disqualified himself from Q School ... with some severe, career-altering effects down the line. More… (Golf)
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