"Expectations were high for Lost Farm, and Coore has delivered with a course that is top shelf."

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Darius Oliver files the first review of Lost Farm, the companion course to Tom Doak and Mike Clayton's Barnbougle Dunes, and not surprisingly it sounds like a winner. Thanks to reader Jon for this.

Expectations were high for Lost Farm, and Coore has delivered with a course that is top shelf. It does need a growing season or two before the fescue grasses mature and provide golfers with the sort of firm surfaces ideal for this type of layout, but preview rounds will not disappoint. Golfers who have been putting off a trip to Barnbougle Dunes since it opened in 2004 now have no excuse.

“Tackling everything from Tiger Woods to Brett Favre, the show’s format will be unlike anything we’ve done before and we are very excited to be launching it in 2011.”

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Yesterday we learned from Tom Cunneff's interview with Golf Channel suit Keith Allo that they were developing a morning show. And voila! Today a light-on-detail press release lands announcing "Dawn Patrol," which, incidentally was the name of the scripted drama I was developing centering around a group of renegade cart driving residents of the Villages who flesh out subversives in the flush retirement community. It was sort of Road Warrior meets A-Team in the vein of Splash. 
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"Ms. Evans declined to comment."

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The NY Times' Susanne Craig and Peter Lattman ponder the oddity of the folks who live in the revolving door world of corporate boards somehow retaining their prized place in that incestuous little world even after they've been part of a number of stinkers. One of golf's higher profile personalities from not too long ago was prominently featured for her fine work at Lehman Brothers, but oddly, her support of Brand Lady Bivens during her LPGA Board days was not noted.
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The Worst Thing About The FedEx Cup?

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FedEx Cup groveling seems pointless these days since (A) the PGA Tour will not admit what a convoluted mess they've created, (B) the likeliehood of FedEx returning after 2012 doesn't seem great, and (C) the opportunity to have created something water-cooler worthy seems to be the last thing the risk-averse legion of play-it-safe VP's would ever consider.
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"I fear that his pairing with Foley will lead Woods to fall in love with geometry and lose sight of the fact that golf is about hitting the right shot, not making the perfect swing."

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While most of the media sees signs of Tiger's resurgence in the initial days working with Sean Foley, you won't find much optimism at golf.com. Gary Van Sickle lays out why it was Tiger's worst year by a ton, and Brandel Chamblee suggests he's not sure that Foley's analytical style is working for Woods.
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