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Davis Love, John Daly's Pants Victims of Second Cut on Wyndham Sunday

FanHouse is fighting the rain at Greensboro's 2009 Wyndham Championship.GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Typically speaking, after two days of PGA golf there is a cut. (This, I hope, is obvious to even the most casual of golfing readers.) But this year's Wyndham was a little different, which seems fitting given the nature of the...

Why 17 at Sawgrass Is So Notorious

It is the most famous golf hole in America, and if not for another famous 17th, the Road Hole at St. Andrews, it would be the top hole in the world. It's the island green at TPC Sawgrass, and with The Players Championship coming up this weekend, it's in full view.The thing is, any golfer's opinion of the 17th is displayed...

U.S. Open Challenge Adds Big Ben

Like Torrey Pines in 2008, this year's U.S. Open is being played at a unique destination: Bethpage. The course is unique for a number of reasons. First, if you have the patience to sleep in your car overnight, you and I could get on Bethpage Black for around $100 and play the same golf course that the pros will be teeing...

2009 Masters Has Makings of a Classic

Sebastian Junger wrote a non-fiction book about a 1991 Halloween Nor'easter that was, as you probably know, known as "The Perfect Storm". Play just started at Augusta National in the 2009 Masters (the gentleman above starts his day at 1:52 PM ET), but the story lines are quickly adding up to what could quickly become a...

Handicapping Augusta: The Sleepers

(Getty Images) For golf fans, this week is March Madness, a really good shoe sale, the NFL playoffs, your birthday, Christmas morning and the day "Star Wars" comes out on DVD, all wrapped into one. It's Masters week, and with it comes tradition, beauty and the first major championship of the year. As a preview of this...