That’s Wet! a Golf blog in West Palm Beach Florida

I was just watching an NBC segment by Jimmy Roberts about the Tiger Woods - Phil Mickelson rivalry. The piece centered on the somewhat miraculous win that Phil posted last week in The Fedex Cup over Tiger Woods. Phil, playing along side Tiger over three out of four rounds of the Deutsche Bank Championship managed […]

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Golf is a hard game. That’s why we need rules to distract us!
I’m on vacation this week here right at home in beautiful South Florida - golf paradise as far as we’re concerned.
I’m about to partake in round two of golf for the week with my beautiful partner in life and golf - Shannon. Along […]

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Like the rest of you “mad gophers” I read my share of golf instruction in magazines and online in search of swing nirvana. I know it’s pointless, but I enjoy the delusion. But one thing that really pisses me off are some of the training aids these instructors whip out of their ass.
Exhibit one:

“Here’s how […]

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For the love of the game?
My mum recently sent me quite a golf yarn written by The Guardian journalist Lawrence Donegan. As the story goes, Maurice Flitcroft once tried to qualify for The Open (The British Open that is) in 1976 where he posted a score of 121!
“It weren’t a fair reflection of my play,” […]

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More than a few golfers have uttered our favorite golfing refrain as they’ve watched their golf ball drown in Rae’s Creek throught three rounds of The 2007 Masters. That’s Wet! I love this picture of Stuart Appleby that I saw on Golf.com’s home page which was taken by SI photographer John Biever. Today, one […]

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Like most all golfers I’ve been in search of how to create power by lagging the clubhead behind my hands. This looks easy in pictures but it is terribly difficult to know if you are doing it right. Really, you know you’re NOT doing it right because you hit the ball an average distance (my […]

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There is a common thread between charity and sports, and as far as sports go, golf would have to be right up there as a major contributor to various good causes. You may have heard that October is breast cancer awareness month. This a great opportunity to raise awareness and money to save lives. Now […]

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Darren Clarke!
Ireland
Irish Fans
European Fans
Teamwork
Sportsmanship
Amazing
Tom Lehman
I am American and I would have loved the U.S. to win, but I’m happy we didn’t for the fans and people of Ireland and for Darren Clarke and his Irish golfing Mates, Paul McGinley and Padraig Harrington, who later admitted how sad he would have been to have lost […]

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Ryder Cup 2006 - County Kildare - The K Club
Probably like most of you, I have too little time and too many commitments but all the desire in the world to sit in front of the T.V and do NOTHING but watch hours of Ryder Cup coverage. Alas, I’ll record it all on the DVR […]

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The rules of Golf don’t have to be a tired, incomprehensible, worn out bore. Do they? Photo Credit: idiot king (click on the photo to see more of idiot king’s photos on Flickr)
In an effort, once and for all, to understand the rules of the game, I’m launching a new feature called, That’s my ruling. […]

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