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Previewing Ireland: Ballybunion, and much more
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Previewing Ireland: Ballybunion, and much more

A nation famed for links golf courses In a wonderful book “A Course Called Ireland,” author Tom Coyne walks and golfs the entire perimeter of the nation. In one of those ironies of life, a friend gave it to me just over a year ago. Then, I was recovering from open-heart surgery, an unexpected quadruple…

Previewing Wales: Where courses are steeped in history, and beauty
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Previewing Wales: Where courses are steeped in history, and beauty

I’ve actually been here before, sort of. In the early 1970s, as a young sportswriter working for the now-defunct Sacramento Union, I took a vacation to Europe with a backpack, and spent a couple of days hitch-hiking through Wales. I remember staying in a youth hostel, where my job was to sweep the floor before…

Doug DuChateau: A story of heart
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Doug DuChateau: A story of heart

Mostly, Doug DuChateau said, he was fairly stoic that Tuesday in April when his cardiologist told him that the results of the angiogram weren’t good, that he had major blockages in the arteries around his heart and that he needed open-heart surgery, ideally the next day.

Drive, Chip & Putt: Critical elements of the game
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Drive, Chip & Putt: Critical elements of the game

WOODBURN — Poised and confident, 9-year-old Jayla Kucy three times chipped her pink golf ball from 15 yards close enough to a tough pin position on a sloping green to score respectably in that discipline, and then moved to the putting venue, where her first putt, from 6 feet, found nothing but the bottom of the cup.

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