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Phil Mickelson played a brilliant final round on Sunday at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am to win the tournament and notch his 40th career PGA Tour victory. The fact that he did it playing alongside Tiger Woods in the final round? Phil’s fans will love that, too. Woods struggled, particularly on the green, and shot a final-round 75, dropping to 15th place. Mickelson, on the other hand, blistered Pebble Beach with a 64, the best round of the day by three strokes. It is Mickelson’s fourth win in this tournament, his previous wins happening in 1998, 2005 and 2007. [...]

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Our latest roundup of new equipment is heavy on the accessories, with a push cart, travel bag, two new golf shoe lines and more. But it leads off with a pair of putters, one by STX and another called the Dead Aim Putter. It uses a double-siteline system to alert the golfer to a poor address position, and also doubles as a training aid. Plus Titleist has updated several of its golf balls along with introducing a new ball. View the gallery MySportNews іѕ a sports news digest publication that compiles real time, on demand sports news, articles, аnd resources. This article was distributed by Syndicated Sports news wire and aggregation service, For more golf news see: [...]

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A quartet of celebrities face off for charity in the next The Haney Project on the Golf Channel, with rockstar – or should that be reality star? – Adam Levine the big name. (Swings like Jagger?) Levine, frontman of Maroon 5 and “coach” on NBC’s smash The Voice, is joined on the series by boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard, celebrity chef Mario Batali and supermodel-turned-actress Angie Everhart. The fourth season of The Haney Project debuts on the Golf Channel at 9 p.m. ET on Feb. 27. The series will follow Hank Haney’s tutelage of the four celebs over eight episodes, [...]

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The Women’s Australian Open is cosanctioned by the LPGA this year, which means that when the tournament tees off on Thursday, so does the 2012 LPGA Tour season. Some of the big names are playing Down Under: Yani Tseng, Cristie Kerr, Morgan Pressel, Brittany Lincicome, Jiyai Shin. Turning-17-year-old pro Lexi Thompson and 14-year-old amateur Lydia Ko. Others are waiting until next week’s Honda LPGA Thailand tourney to tee off their seasons (including Na Yeon Choi, Paula Creamer, I.K. Kim, Ai Miyazato, Suzann Pettersen and Michelle Wie). Regardless of whether the stars begin in Australia or Thailand, they are all chasing [...]

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Tiger Woods believes long putters should be banned, and he’s even talked to the head of the R&A about how do it. Woods dropped that news into a press conference at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Tuesday, immediately sending a ripple across Pebble Beach’s practice putting greens, where more and more tour pros can be seen using long putters – both belly and broomstick – each year. Woods said that he’s a traditionalist when it comes to putting, and believes the putting stroke requires moving both hands and the end of the putter. So Woods’ idea is that anchoring [...]

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The PGA Tour is at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am this week, while the European Tour plays the Omega Dubai Desert Classic. Tiger Woods switched up his early season schedule this year and is playing at Pebble Beach. Some fans might have the impression that Woods loves Pebble Beach Golf Links; it’s an iconic course, he’s won this tournament before, and he dominated the 2000 U.S. Open on this course. But this is the first time since 2002 that Woods is playing the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Scuttlebutt over the years was that Woods hated the bumpy poa annua greens [...]

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Last week at the Farmers Insurance Open, Kyle Stanley – trying for his first PGA Tour victory – suffered a final-hole meltdown. Needing just a double-bogey or better to win, he made a triple-bogey 8, then lost in a playoff. Confidence shattering? Not for Stanley. On Sunday, Stanley got that first PGA Tour victory at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, and he did it with one of the biggest final-round comebacks in tour history. Stanley started the final round in Phoenix eight strokes off the lead, then fired a 65. He finished at 15-under 269, making a short but nervy [...]

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Your clubs will work much better for you if you are swinging clubs with shafts whose flex is appropriate to your swing. And not just your swing speed, but how smooth your swing is, too. What happens if you choose a shaft flex that doesn’t match your swing – a flex that is too stiff or not stiff enough? Check out the effects of using the wrong shaft flex and see if anything sounds familiar. See also: MySportNews іѕ a sports news digest publication that compiles real time, on demand sports news, articles, аnd resources. This article was distributed by Syndicated Sports news wire and aggregation service, For more golf news see: Effects of Using the Wrong [...]

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