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The Round Is Over. Your Spoon Is Still Putting.
Tom Kim was glad his gold-medal day was over. At an imaginary clubhouse table, a much smaller round refuses to end.
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The Little Shot That Does Not Need an Audience
A cooling coffee, a greenside dilemma, and a small experiment that gives the unglamorous golf shot a fair hearing.
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The Clubs You Borrow Teach You More Than the Ones You Own
A missing golf bag, a borrowed driver, and the Rafa Cabrera-Bello anecdote that explains why the swing was never really living in the clubhead.
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You Can Be Leading and Still Feel Lost — That's Not a Contradiction
A good front nine, a swing that doesn't feel like yours anymore, and the week a tour pro said the quiet part out loud.
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There's a Ravine on Hole 8 at Splendido Taal, and It Doesn't Care How You Feel About It
A dawn round at Splendido Taal's Greg Norman-designed ridge course, where the signature 200-yard ravine hole forces the same shot-shaping decision Rory McIlroy just found a training trick for.
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LeBron James Just Bought a Golf Channel. What He's Actually Selling Is Attention.
LeBron's new golf YouTube channel isn't competing for swing-tip subscribers. What a Cavite golfer's group-chat videos and a global superstar have in common.
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Everything Bad About My Golf Game Is a Timing Problem
A bad Sunday at Wack-Wack's driving range, a shank that bounced back at my feet, and the only golf tip that actually stuck.
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The Starter at Eagle Ridge Calls Everyone Boss. He's Not Wrong.
A round at Eagle Ridge Golf Club in Cavite, a tree that doesn't care how far you can hit, and a starter who calls everyone boss.
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The Mountain Course That Earns the Drive
Camp John Hay Golf Club sits at 1,100 meters above sea level, inside a former US military base, surrounded by pines. One of the more atmospheric rounds in the country.
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The Fences at the First Tee
Something is changing about who shows up to play golf in the Philippines on a Sunday morning. It's subtle. It's already happened.
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The 10th Tee Is Where the Round Actually Starts
You've already tripled the seventh and the halfway house coffee is cooling. Here's what the walk to the 10th tee actually does for you.
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What Your Caddie Already Knows
In the Philippines, the caddie isn't a service. It's a relationship you didn't know you were signing up for.
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