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		<title>Bay Hill Proves Tough Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arnold Palmer is known to prefer a thorough test of golf.
As host of the invitational that bears his name, Palmer, like Jack Nicklaus at the Memorial, is the guiding influence over the course set up at Bay Hill and he wasn&#8217;t disappointed in giving players a fair dose of what the average hack sees on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.golflink.com/2011/03/28/bay-hill-proves-tough-test/</link>
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		<title>LPGA Getting It Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The LPGA has struggled to make money over the last several years so it decided to do the next logical thing.
Give some away.
Handing cash over to charity is simple when it&#8217;s a tax dodge or when there is plenty of surplus but the real meaning of charitable giving carries a little more impact when it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.golflink.com/2011/03/21/lpga-getting-it-right/</link>
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		<title>Tiger Looks Ready; Phil, Not So Much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The side match that was Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson at face value would seem to indicate a trend.
Woods bested Mickelson by a whopping 12 strokes this past weekend at Doral with Tiger&#8217;s final-round 66 accounting for most of the spread.
While Tiger was making at least a good impression of his former self and Nick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.golflink.com/2011/03/14/tiger-looks-ready-phil-not-so-much/</link>
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		<title>Chirkinian Made Golf Worth Watching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who plays golf for a living, needs to stop and give a quick thanks to Frank Chirkinian.
And the PGA Tour, and the golf manufacturers and even the sponsors who will pay big money to make even bigger money through exposure on golf telecasts.
Their sport is everywhere.
One can find a golf tournament on TV on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.golflink.com/2011/03/07/chirkinian-made-golf-worth-watching/</link>
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		<title>Europe Remains Unified Atop Board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Martin Kaymer scaled to the top of the world golf ranking, but Luke Donald&#8217;s win this weekend made it complete.
The Europeans are in charge.
Kaymer supplanted Lee Westwood in the No. 1 slot of the Official World Golf Ranking by getting to the final of the WGC Match Play event in Tucson.
Parlaying a victory to reach [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.golflink.com/2011/02/28/europe-remains-unified-atop-board/</link>
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		<title>Couples Endures Cruel Reality Of Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. &#8212; Fred Couples will have plenty of opportunities to win.
He&#8217;ll earn a pile of new titles and add to his collection of trophies.
Only problem is, those will most likely be Champions Tour victories.
No shame in that.
The money is good and the play is still highly competitive.
It&#8217;s a fortunate place to keep the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.golflink.com/2011/02/20/couples-endures-cruel-reality-of-time/</link>
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		<title>Final Round At Riviera CC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. &#8212; Aaron Baddeley fired a two-under par 69 on Sunday to win the Northern Trust Open. 
His 12-under total was two strokes clear of runner-up Vijay Singh and earned the Australian his third career victory on the PGA Tour and first since the 2007 FBR Open.
Crowd favorite Fred Couples took the early [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.golflink.com/2011/02/20/final-round-at-riviera-cc/</link>
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		<title>Riviera&#8217;s Book Ends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. &#8212; The finishing hole is one of the great walks in golf, but this week&#8217;s tournament course on the PGA Tour might have the best opening and closing holes in the business.
The first at The Riviera Country Club is a par-5 with a teebox tucked close to the clubhouse that requires a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.golflink.com/2011/02/18/rivieras-book-ends/</link>
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		<title>Couples Leads Old School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. &#8212; He lives in the desert, he&#8217;s 51 and he&#8217;s got a bad back.
Other than that Fred Couples doesn&#8217;t believe he&#8217;s all that interesting, so there is no need for him to enter the social mediasphere.
&#8220;Is it called Twittering or Tweeting?&#8221; Couples asked, when the question was posed if he has a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.golflink.com/2011/02/18/couples-ignoring-the-clock/</link>
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		<title>Tears In His Eyes, I Guess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the end, it wasn&#8217;t in the hole but it didn&#8217;t matter.
Carl Spackler finally put all that practice, swinging at chrysanthemums to use.
His putter did not turn into a garden hose.
McFiddish didn&#8217;t tell him to mow the practice green.
The caddie won.
Bill Murray negotiated 72 holes at the famed Monterey Peninsula in the tournament still wistfully [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.golflink.com/2011/02/14/tears-in-his-eyes-i-guess/</link>
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