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Golf tip: Speeding up your play

Slow play in golf became a big topic of discussion at last week's Players Championship. A professional golfer has an obligation to play faster. Professionals know when someone is playing slow because most of them play fast. A slow player sticks out like a sore thumb. Those players who play slow either have to learn to play faster, or go back to working in the pro shop. So most slow players learn ...

Golf tip: Swing shallower for higher smash factor

When I was 15, my dad took me to the golf course. We did not go there to play golf because I had never hit a golf ball. We went to the driving range. That is where I received my first and only lesson. My dad showed me how to hold the club properly and I sat there holding the club and watching him hit balls.

Tour Report: Tip from Travis: Follow Dufner’s putting

Greenwood/Getty Images Jason Dufner needed only 28 putts in the final round to win the HP Byron Nelson Championship on Sunday. If facial expressions is all we had to determine the outcome of the HP Byron Nelson Championship, then Jason Dufner would’ve had us all fooled. Perhaps the greatest poker game face in golf, Dufner [...]

Afghanistan: Home to 'world's most extreme golf'

"Welcome to the most extreme golf in the world," says the European Union ambassador to Afghanistan, as half-a-dozen heavily armed bodyguards fan out around him and scan the Kabul Golf Club course.

Afghan course home to 'extreme golf'

Welcome to the most extreme golf in the world, says the European Union ambassador to Afghanistan.

Tour Report: Tip from Travis: Kuchar’s takeaway

Lyons/Getty Images Matt Kuchar, despite his tall frame, employs one of the flattest swings on TOUR. Kuuuuuuuuutch!  I’m not sure if there could be a better start to the PGA TOUR season as yet another young American found the winner’s circle.  There was no question Matt Kuchar was the most consistent player over four days [...]