"The end result is a 7,225-yard par-72 layout encompassing five holes from the despised Centenary course, 11 from the King's and two from the Queen's."

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Anticipating the 2014 Ryder Cup disaster that is to be held at the Centennary course at Gleneagles, John Huggan cooks up a composite course at the famed resort as an alternative idea.(Here's the Google aerial if you want to try and follow.)
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Tiger Lumped With Favre In "Doghouse"

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Okay, it's a stretch, but as reader Mark noted the golf connections are tenuous, but Tiger does make an appearance at the end of the latest Taiwanese reenactment video on Brett Favre's saga and well, they've ditched the rugby shirt and got him back in red and black cap. In a doghouse. With what looks like a slimmed down Teddy Roosevelt. Yep, you can't make it up.

“All the boomers are doing is masking what’s really leaking in golf."

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I missed Gene Yasuda's alarming Oct. 4 piece on just how far down the drain golf is headed, but it's loaded with some great stuff and one huge stink-bomb of blame directed at the wrong source of the game's troubles. First, he explains how retiring boomers are masking huge declines in play among 25-44-year-olds.
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I Guess This Rules Out Herb Kohler Buying A Ryder Cup For St. Andrews

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Thanks to the readers who sent in Rick Romell's story on Herb Kohler's "largely in the red" operation in St. Andrews, which likely ends any dreams we might have of him joining the bidding process for a future Ryder Cup. It also can't bode well for Hamilton Hall when another fixer-upper has been such a huge drain.
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