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One of the World Golf Championships (WGC) includes the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. The yearly event take place every year in August and the current sponsor, WGC-Bridgestone, is expected to carry its contract to hold the tournament until 2018. Currently about 75 of the world’s best professional golfers are…

2015 Masters Tournament or Championship is scheduled to be played from April 9 through 12 at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. This will be the 79th Masters Tournament and it is one of the four major professional golf championship games. Masters have been held at this location since 1934 when it was…

The infamous Arnold Palmer Invitational is due to take place on March 19 through 22, 2015 at the Bay Hill Club and Lodges in Orlando, Florida. The purse is expected to be $6,300,000. Players to watch at this year’s competition include Jason Day, Adam Scott, Rickie Fowler, Keegan Bradley, Henrik Stenson, Brandt Snedeker, K.J. Choi,…

Started in 1972, the Honda Classic at the PGA National Champion Course is scheduled to take place starting from February 23 through March 1, 2015. Much of the attention is focused on players including Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler and Lee Westwood who are expected to play. However, we like to pay our attention…

A golf course hazard filled with sand is a sand trap or sometimes called sand bunker. Hitting ball where you intend to hit and the clubhead enter the sand behind the ball creating a divot is the best bunker shot that will get you out of the trap. Bunker stance is pretty much standard many…

Two of the most critical words to the game of golf are bogey and par. There is some history behind these words. A score of one over par on a hole is known as bogey. Developed in England in the 19th Century, the word “Bogey” was coined at the Great Yarmouth Club. At the time…

A wedge in a golf setting is an iron designed for use under special situations. They provide the highest loft, shortest shaft, and the heaviest clubhead of all irons. This is why many players use wedges for short distance lob shots as to get the ball on to the green from a hazard such as…

Article written by les métiers de la mer The Ryder Cup held once in every two years between the United States and the Europe pit best players of each against the other. The 2014 Ryder Cup is scheduled at the end of September 2014 in Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, Scotland. The game throws out all…